We'll meditate on Independence Day with soulful songs on the state of the union with Allen Toussaint, Paul Robeson, and Jon Batiste, plus not one, but two renderings of what is known as the Black National Anthem (Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing) by Kim Weston and Dorothy Donegan.
UpFront Soul #2018.27 Playlist Hour 1 Joan Armatrading / Back to the Night / Back to the Night / A&M Ben E. King / 4th of July Asbury Park (Sandy) / One Step Up/Two Steps Back: The Songs of Bruce Springsteen / Allen Toussaint / American Tune / American Tunes / Nonesuch Jimi Hendrix Experience / Star Spangled Banner (Live) / Star Spangled Banner (Live) / Kim Weston / Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing / Black Power: Music of a Revolution / Shout Factory Jon Batiste & Stay Human / Star Spangled Banner / Social Music / razor & tie Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings / This Land is Your Land / Naturally / Dap-Tone Jerry Lawson / Peace Like a River / Just a Mortal Man / Red Beet Records Dorothy Donegan / Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing / The Many Faces Of Dorothy Donegan / Paul Robeson / The House I Live In / The House I Live In / Funkadelic / One Nation Under A Groove / Young Soul Rebels / Marvin Gaye / What's Going On / What's Going On / Tamla Hour 2 Aretha Franklin / Take a Good Look / The Queen in Waiting: The Columbia Years 1960-1965 Disc 2 / Sony Mahalia Jackson / He Was Alone / Mahalia Jackson In Concert Easter Sunday, 1967 / Sony Richard Berry / Pretty Brown Eyes [*] / Get Out of the Car / ACE The Suffers / Stay / Make Some Room - EP / Rhyme and Reason Records Butcher Brown / Knock One Back (For SG and Iggy Francs) / GrownFolk / Samm Henshaw / Autonomy (Slave) / The Sound Experiment - EP / Nina Simone / Let It Be Me / Emergency Ward / Abbey Lincoln / Long As You're Living / abbey is blue / Riverside Records JC Davis / Coconut Brown / A New Day! The Complete Mus-I-Col Recordings of JC Davis / The Jack Moves / Doublin' Down / The Jack Moves / Wax Poetics Ola Onabule / Dark Matter / It's the Peace That Deafens / Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigators / Where Are You Now / Happiness in Every Style / Timmion Little Jackie / LOL / The Stoop / S-curve El Rego / Hessa / El Rego / Daptone The Incredible Rock City Band / Invasion of the Rock-o-Mites / Invasion of the Rock-o-Mites / Bob James / Night Crawler / Heads / CBS Sam Cooke / Havin' a Party / Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 / RCA