We'll celebrate Juneteenth in style this week (we do celebrate Juneteenth every year on UpFront Soul) with music from Roberta Flack, The Nat Turner Rebellion, and Aretha Franklin, plus Gil Scott-Heron, Joan Armatrading, and Sweet Honey in the Rock, and we'll also hear powerful words from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
UpFront Soul Playlist #2021.26
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 1 Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA
Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA Charles Earland "Message from a Black Man" from Living Black! The Winstons "Amen Brother" Anthony Joseph "The Gift" from The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives The Winstons "Color Him Father" Aretha Franklin "Amazing Grace" from Amazing Grace Ben Branch and The Operation Breadbasket Orchestra "Precious Lord Take My Hand" from The Last Request on Chess Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "We Shall Overcome" 1968 Featuring Rasheed Ali "Black Power Revolution" from 1968: Soul Power Eddie Harris "Exodus" from Artist's Choice Curtis Mayfield "We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue" from Curtis The Voices Of East Harlem "Right On Be Free (Remastered Album Version)" from Right On Be Free Nancy Dupree "What Do I Have" from Ghetto Reality The Freedom Singers "Calypso Freedom" from Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966 Disc 1 Sweet Honey In the Rock "Ella's Song" from Breaths Joan Armatrading "The Messenger" from The Messenger Olodum Brazilian "Nkosi Sikilel I-Africa" on 1989 South African Freedom Committee "Mandela" Hugh Masekela "Mandela Bring Him Home" from Hope Gil Scott-Heron "Johannesburg" Nat Turner Rebellion "Tribute to a Slave" Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln "Freedom Day" from 1960 - 2010: Candid 50th Anniversary Roberta Flack "Go Up Moses" from Quiet Fire Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night on A&M