American Routes ~ Sounds in the Spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Loading...		Sounds in the Spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr.

		January 12th, 2005 ~ We celebrate the work and life of Dr. King through the sounds of freedom, including two guests who have added their own voices to that choir. Sixties soul queen Fontella Bass used her gospel background and voice to make freedom statements of her own, such as her biggest hit "Rescue Me." Scholar, critic and hepcat Albert Murray tells us how African-Americans have used blues and jazz as a springboard to a better place--and why Duke Ellington called him the "unsquarest person I know." Plus music from John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, the Staples Singers and more. Listen To Hour 1 Listen To Hour 2 Share This

Hour One		Hour Two		Helpful Links
Open Bed: Change is Gonna Come King Curtis The Best of King Curtis, Capitol Freedom Train James Carr The Essential James Carr, Razor & Tie Change It Kathleen Cleaver Black Power: Music of a Revolution, Shout! Factory Freedom Train Honeyboy Edwards, Floyd Jones, Kansas City Red, Sunnyland Slim & Big Walter Horton Old Friends, Earwig Gospel Train Wright Brothers Gospel Singers Negro Spirituals and Gospel Songs, Blues Encore Song of the Underground Railroad The John Coltrane Quartet The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions, Impulse Instrumental: Lift Every Voice and Sing Reginald R. Robinson Euphonic Sounds, Delmark Why? (Am I Treated So Bad) The Staple Singers The Gospel Sound, Columbia/Legacy Address To Civil Rights Marchers in Washington D.C. Martin Luther King Great Speeches of the 20th Century, Rhino I'm Free At Last Southern Sons Negro Spirituals and Gospel Songs Vol.2, Blues Encore Get Your Rights, Jack CORE Freedom Singers Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966, Folkways INTERVIEW: Fontella Bass Instrumental: Redemption Song Monty Alexander w/ Special Guest Ernest Ranglin Rocksteady, Telarc Cole, Cooke & Redding Wilson Pickett A Man and a Half, Rhino A Change is Gonna Come Otis Redding Otis Blue, ATCO Blowin' in the Wind Sam Cooke At the Copa, ABKCO The Man in Black Johnny Cash The Man in Black, 1963-1969, Bear Family Will the Circle Be Unbroken Jerry Lee Lewis Classic Jerry Lee Lewis, Bear Family		Open Bed: Happy Go Lucky Local Duke Ellington Blues Masters, Vol. 13: New York City Blues, Rhino Ofay and Oxford Gray Louis Jordan The Hoy Hoy Collection: Rock Before Elvis, Stash It Ain’t Necessarily So Mary Lou Williams Black Christ of the Andes, Folkways Straighten Up and Fly Right Nat King Cole Go Down Moses Ebony Three Negro Spirituals & Gospel Songs Vol.1, Blues Encore Joshua Fit the Battle Elvis Presley His Hand in Mine, RCA At The Cross Sonny Treadway Sacred Steel Traditional Sacred Africa-American Steel Guitar Music in Florida, Arhoolie Jim Crow Blues Leadbelly Bourgeois Blues, Folkways When a Black Man’s Blue Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Compete RCA/Victor Recordings 1927-1973, RCA INTERVIEW: Albert Murray Listen Instrumental: We Shall Not Be Moved Just Cause Standards, Water Street Music Uncle Sam Says Josh White Living in the House of Blues: Defiance Blues, HOB Down by the Riverside Snooks Eaglin Country Boy In New Orleans, Arhoolie War No More (AKA Down by the Riverside) The Maytals Presenting the Maytals: Never Grow Old, Heartbeat Martin Luther King Indians of the Nation Indians of the Nation: United We Stand Divided We Fall, Indians of the Nation Down by the Riverside Preservation Hall Jazz Band The Best of the Early Years, Preservation Hall End Bed: Hymn to Freedom Oscar Peterson Night Train, Verve

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