We'll hear a new song from Solange, new gospel from Northern Ghana, and we'll hear from just-turned-90-year-old Chuck Berry.
UpFront Soul #2016.43 Playlist Hour 1 Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from "Back to the Night" on A&M Algote Oho & His Sounds of Joy "Yam Minne Wa" from "Yam Minne Wa" on Philopon Bobbye Hall "Voyeur" from "Body Language" Solange "Interlude: Tina Taught Me" from "A Seat at the Table" Solange "Don't Touch My Hair" from "A Seat at the Table" Lucinda Slim "Wrath of My Lawmen" from "Lucinda Slim" King Curtis "Chili" from "Have Tenor Sax, Will Blow" Little Clara & Les Chacals "De Ma Vie" from "Un Pas Apres L'Autre" on Q-Sounds Recordings Rasputin's Stash "Everybody's A Masterpiece" from "Hidden Stash" on Athens of the North Johnny Hammond "Peace Train" from "Wild Horses/Rock Steady" Lijadu Sisters "Orin Aro" from "Mother Africa" on Knitting Factory Little Jackie "LOL" from "The Stoop" on S-curve Butcher Brown "Slippery Earlz" from "GrownFolk" Tony Momrelle "Lay It All Down" from "Keep Pushing" Eddie Harris Trio "Silverplated" from "Eddie Who?" Hour 2 Aretha Franklin "All Night Long" from "Aretha" Sam Cooke "Smoke Rings" from "The Man Who Invented Soul" on RCA Mahalia Jackson "There Is A Balm In Gilead" from "Mahalia Jackson In Concert Easter Sunday, 1967" on Sony Chuck Berry "Memphis Tennessee" from "Memphis Tennessee" Charles Bradley & the Menahan Street Band "The World (Is Going Up in Flames)" from "Daptone Gold" on Daptone Les McCann & Eddie Harris "Cold Duck Time" from "Swiss Movement" on Rhino Atlantic Nina Simone "Come By Here Good Lord" from "It Is Finished" Al Green "Stop and Check Myself" from "Back Up Train" Ben Branch & the Operation Breadbasket Orchestra "Yield Not to Temptation" from "Last Request" on Chess Eddie Floyd "I've Never Found A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)" from "Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration" Cassandra Wilson "Love Is Blind" from "New Moon Daughter" on Blue Note Curtis Mayfield "Only You Babe" from "Superfly (And More) [Musicpro]" Eugene Church "Without Soul" from "Without Soul" Bob James "Night Crawler" from "Heads" on CBS Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from "Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963" on RCA