We'll kick off with smokin' new soul from Mavis Staples, hear a special request for Joan Armatrading, journey into the 80s with Herbie Hancock, Angelo Moore of Fishbone, and Eddy Grant, and hear reggae & dub covers of 60's classics by Jackie Mittoo & King Tubby.
UpFront Soul #2019.27 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
Oghene Kologbo & Afrobeat Academy "Fortunate" from Remember Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Jerry Lawson "Peace Like a River" from Just a Mortal Man on Red Beet Records
Ben Branch & the Operation Breadbasket Orchestra "Nobody Knows" from On the Case
Joy Oladokun "Charleston" from Carry
Billy Lamont & Jimi Hendrix "Sweet Thang" from West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology
Jack McDuff "Talking 'Bout My Woman" from The Pink Panther
Betty Davis "Don't Call Her No Tramp" from They Say I'm Different
Grace Love & the True Loves "Animal" from Grace Love & the True Loves
Tony Allen "Afro Kungfu Beat" from Film of Life on Harmonia Mundi
Rasputin's Stash "Dark Moon" from Hidden Stash on Athens of the North
Pastor TL Barret & the Youth for Christ Choir "Do Not Pass Me By" from Do Not Pass Me By vol. 2
Jimi Hendrix with Rosa Lee Brooks "My Diary" from West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology
Sam Cooke "Chain Gang" from One Night Stand - Sam Cooke Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963
King Tubby & the Aggrovators "Dub of Earl" from Rebel Music 70's Dub
Jackie Mittoo "A Darker Shade of Black" from Essential Jackie Mittoo
Toots & the Maytals "54-46 That's My Number" from Sweet and Dandy
Shafiq Husayn "Mrs Crabtree ft Erykah Badu Ndambe Aset Sosavvy" from The Loop
A Tribe Called Quest "Go Ahead in the Rain" from People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
Eddy Grant "Electric Avenue" from My Momma and My Poppa
Fishbone's Angelo Moore "Our House" from Our House
Herbie Hancock "Rockit" from The Essential Herbie Hancock
Joan Armatrading "Kind Words (And a Real Good Heart)" from Sleight of Hand
Ben E. King "4th of July Asbury Park (Sandy)" from One Step Up, Two Steps Back
King Curtis "Hot Potato (Pipin' Hot)" from King of the Sax
Mavis Staples "Sometime" from We Get By on Anti-
Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night on A&M