We at JC HQ acknowledge the massive debt we owe to Black Music artists; virtually all modern popular music can be traced to Black Music. This week, we’re devoting all three hours to Black artists performing songs of protest, civil rights, and social commentary. It’s a great lineup- everyone from the Staple Singers to Marian Anderson to Bad Brains to Max Roach to KRS-One, and tons more.
- The Staple Singers- Long Walk to D.C.
- Lee Fields and Sugarman & Co.- Stand Up
- Run the Jewels- Walking in the Snow
- Miriam Makeba- For What It’s Worth
- Jimi Hendrix- Freedom
- Lee Dorsey- Who’s Gonna Help Brother Get Further?
- New Birth Brass Band- A.P. Touro
- John Boutté- Southern Man
- Delroy Wilson- I Want Justice
- Bob Marley & the Wailers- 400 Years
- Peter Tosh- Equal Rights
- Solomon Burke- I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)
- Makaya McCraven/Gil Scott-Heron- Running
- Fela Kuti & Africa ‘70- Black Man’s Cry
- James Brown & the James Brown Orchestra- I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)
- Nina Simone- Backlash Blues
- Aretha Franklin- Young, Gifted and Black
- Black Haze Express- Won’t Nobody Listen
- Billy Paul- Compared to What
- Abbey Lincoln- Retribution
- Max Roach- Members Don’t Git Weary
- Kamasi Washington- Malcolm’s Theme
- Steel Pulse- Babylon Makes the Rules
- Linton Kwesi Johnson- Sonny’s Lettah (Anti-SUS Poem)
- Don Cherry- Utopia and Visions
- Dionne Farris- Blackbird
- Public Enemy- Fight The Power
- KRS-One- Sound of da Police
- Jamal-Ski- African Border (Skeffington Mix)
- Ben Harper- I’ll Rise
- Marian Anderson- Trampin’ (Live at the Lincoln Memorial)
- Curtis Mayfield- We’re A Winner (live)
- Baby Huey & the Baby Sitters- A Change Is Gonna Come
- Living Colour- Funny Vibe
- Bad Brains- Big Take Over
- The Voices of East Harlem- Oxford Town
- Richie Havens- The Times They Are a-Changin’
- John Coltrane Quartet- A Love Supreme, Pt. I - Acknowledgment/Pt. II - Resolution
Join Tod Weidner on Thursday, 8-11pm for The Jewel Case, a weekly celebration of all manner of musical goodness: Deep cuts. Old favorites. New favorites. Future favorites. All genres, all eras- it’s all fair game, from everywhere and everywhen, for everyone.