We'll hear the strong voices of women for Women's History Month, kicking off with Nona Hendryx and rolling on with Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe!
UpFront Soul #2022.03 Playlist Hour 1 Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from "Back to the Night" on A&M Nona Hendryx "Winning" from "Nona Hendryx" on Epic Michele Thomas "Big Brother" from "Messenger" Aretha Franklin "Climbing Higher Mountains" from "Amazing Grace" on Atlantic Recoding Company Nikki Giovanni "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (Poem for Aretha)" from "The Truth Is On The Way" on I AM Alice Coltrane "I Want to See You" from "A Monastic Trio" on MCA Roberta Flack "Go Up Moses" from "Quiet Fire" on Atlantic Sister Sledge "We Are Family" from "Greatest Hits - Live" Blanche Calloway "Just a Crazy Song (Hi Hi Hi)" from "Roots of Jazz Scat Vocals" on Grammercy Nicole Willis, Jimi Tenor & Jonathan Maron "Big Fantasy (For Me)" from "Big Fantasy (For Me)" on Persephone Records Mavis Staples "I Like the Things About Me" from "One True Vine" on Anti Cassandra Wilson "Strange Fruit" from "New Moon Daughter" on Blue Note Hour 2 Mahalia Jackson "Elijah Rock" from "Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting With Mahalia Jackson" on COLUMBIA/LEGACY Fannie Lou Hamer "The Day of Registration" from "Movement Soul 2" Sister Rosetta Tharpe "Come By Here" from "Precious Memories" on Savoy Leontyne Price "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" from "Leontyne Price sings Spirituals" on BMG Joan Armatrading "Barefoot And Pregnant" from "To The Limit" on A&M Dorothy Ashby "Soul Vibrations" from "Afro-Harping" on Verve Diana Ross "When We Grow Up" from "Free to Be? You & Me" on Arista Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves" from "Platinum & Gold Collection" Maya Angelou "Still I Rise" from "Caged Bird Songs" on Smooch Music Shirley Chisolm "First African American Woman Elected To Congress" from "The Ultimate Black History Collection" Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings "This Land Is Your Land" from "Naturally" on Daptone Isis "Get Crazy" from "Breaking Through" Bobbi Humphrey "Blacks and Blues" from "Blacks and Blues" on Blue Note Records Martha Redbone "God Created Woman" from "Skintalk" on Blackfeet Productions LLC Cassandra Wilson "Throw It Away" from "Glamoured" on Blue Note Bob James "Night Crawler" from "Heads" on CBS Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from "Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963" on RCA