We'll celebrate Women's History Month in the first hour with new music from Joy Harjo, plus powerful songs from Mavis Staples, The Pointer Sisters, Solange, and Lauryn Hill, then move into a 60 minute funkdown, kicking off with Japanese funk from Endrecheri, plus Johnny Guitar Watson, Melvin Van Peebles, & Joan Armatrading.
UpFront Soul #2021.12 Playlist PLEASE NOTE: Due to the vagaries of Spinitron, these songs are listed in reverse order. (i.e., Joan Armatrading Back to the Night is song 1, hour 1Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA Charles Earland "Message from a Black Man" from Living Black! Black Sugar "The Dawn of My Madness" from Black Sugar II Richard "Groove" Holmes "Oklahoma Toad" from Welcome Home! Soul Jazz Masters Rasputin's Stash "Boogie" from Hidden Stash on Athens of the North Curtis Mayfield "Power To The People (Demo)" from Curtis [Remastered] Cal's Tricks "Who's Gonna Take The Weight" on Secant Billy Ball & The Upsetters "Tighten Up Tighter" from The Funky 16 Corners Charles Leonard "Funky Driver on a Funky Bus" from Bay Area Funk on Luv 'n' Haight Slim and the Soulful Saints "Fish Head" from Funky 16 Corners Johnny Guitar Watson "Tarzan" from The Funk Anthology Andre Williams "It's Gonna Be Fine in '69" on Chess Dirty Dozen Brass Band "Gemini Rising" from This is Jazz 30: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Melvin Van Peebles "Don't Play Us Cheap (Radio Mix)" from Don't Play Us Cheap Joan Armatrading "Join the Boys" from Joan Armatrading Nik West "Wait a Minute" ENDRECHERI "Funk Tron" from Naralien Michele Thomas "Higher Ground" from Messenger The Pointer Sisters "Yes, We Can, Can" from Sesame Street: The Stars Come Out On Sesame Street Dorothy Donegan "Lift Every Voice And Sing" from The Many Faces Of Dorothy Donegan Mavis Staples "You Are Not Alone" from You Are Not Alone Lizzo & Caroline Smith "Let 'em Say" Solange "Interlude: This Moment" from A Seat at the Table Solange "Don't Touch My Hair" from A Seat at the Table Lauryn Hill "Everything is Everything" from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Nina Simone "To Be Young Gifted and Black" from The Essential Nina Simone Bobbi Humphrey "Homemade Jam" from Freestyle Aretha Franklin "Almighty Fire" from Almighty Fire Martha Redbone "Medicine Man" from Skintalk Buffy Sainte-Marie "Starwalker" Joy Harjo "I Pray For My Enemies" from I Pray For My Enemies Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night on A&M