We'll open up with a blistering funkdown from Stevie Wonder, and hear the latest single from Lady Moon and the Eclipse. Well pay tribute to the late Kehinde Lijadu, spin a track from Kaleta & Super Yamba Bands new release, Medaho, celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Buffy Sainte Marie, Pura Fe, and Julian Cote, and get funky with birthday guy Booker T. Jones!
UpFront Soul #2019.46 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 1
Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA
Richard "Groove" Holmes "Flyjack" from Night Glider
John Coltrane "I Love You" from Lush Life
Tony Allen "Koko Dance" from Film of Life on Harmonia Mundi
Lee Fields & the Expressions "Just Can't Win" from Emma Jean
Gil Scott-Heron "Spirits" from Spirits
Ramon Morris "Don't Ask Me" from Sweet Sister Funk
Don Laka "I Wanna Be Myself" from Boogie Breakdown: South African Synth-Disco 1980-1984 on Cultures of Soul
Eek A Mouse "I Love Weed"
King Tubby & the Aggrovators "Dub of Earl" from Rebel Music 70's Dub
The Gaylettes "Son of a Preacherman"
Mel Carter "When a Boy Falls in Love" from The SAR Records Story Disc 2
King Curtis "Linda" from Have Tenor Sax, Will Blow
Sam Cooke "There! I've Said It Again" from The Man Who Invented Soul Disc 1
Pharoah Sanders "Tomoki" from Message from Home
Love Songs & D "Coming Up"
Phil Upchurch "Nothing But the Soul" from You Can't Sit Down
Booker T. "Life is Funky" from Evergreen
Redbone "Already Here (Brujo)" from Already Here
Julian Cote, Pura Fe "Lost Tapes" from Falls Around Her
Buffy Sainte Marie "Starwalker" from Coincidence and Likely Stories
The Lijadu Sisters "Cashing In" from Danger
Kaleta & Super Yamba Band "Jibiti" from Medaho
Lady Moon & the Eclipse "Le Petit Prince" from Journey to the Cosmic Soul
James Brown "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)" from 20 All Time Greatest Hits!
Soul Rebels Brass Band "Living for the City" from Nothing But Love
Stevie Wonder "You Haven't Done Nothin'" from Fulfillingness' First Finale
Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night on A&M