The Edge of Americana/Time Again Radio presents:
Blues and Rags & Revolution
Feeling a little skewed, so here’s a bunch of blues and rags, plus an excerpt from MLKs amazing sermon, “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution,” delivered on March 31, 1968 that includes, among many other worthwhile and enraging sentiments, the following:
It is an unhappy truth that racism is a way of life for the vast majority of white Americans, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle—the disease of racism permeates and poisons a whole body politic. And I can see nothing more urgent than for America to work passionately and unrelentingly—to get rid of the disease of racism.
In an era when forces who would serve to deny voting rights and opportunities to Black Americans are attempting to cherry pick MLKs words to forward their cause, it is important that we all remember his radical nature and interest in true equity.
JB
Show Archive
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Carroll County Revelers, “Georgia Wobble Blues”
from Georgia Stringbands Vol. 1 (1927-1930)
Document Records
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Chris Coole, Sam Allison, Adrian Gross, Mark Kilianski & John Showman, “Evening Prayer Blues”
from Adeline
Chris Coole - 2021
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Larry Sigmon & Barbara Poole, “Aggravating Blues”
from Aggravating Blues & Cricket On The Hearth (Unique Sound Of The Mountains #5)
self-released
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Ashley's Melody Men, “Bath House Blues”
from Echoes Of The Ozarks Volume I (Arkansas String Bands 1927-1930)
County - 1977
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Louie Bluie, “State Street Rag”
from Times Ain't Like They Used To Be: Early American Rural Music, Vol. 1
Yazoo - 2005
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Papa Charlie Jackson, “Airy Man Blues”
from The Complete Recorded Works 1924-1934
Master Classics Records - 2011
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Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three, “Weedwacker Rag”
from Middle of Everywhere
Continental Song City - 2011
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Alice Gerrard & Hazel Dickens, “Coal Miner's Blues”
from Pioneering Women of Bluegrass
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1996
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Henry Thomas, “The Fox and the Hounds”
from Texas Worried Blues: Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929
Yazoo - 1989
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Charley Patton, “Banty Rooster Blues”
from Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order, Vol. 1
Third Man - 2013
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Danny Knicely & Will Lee, “Watson's Blues”
from Murders, Drownings and Lost Loves: The Roots of Country
Mapleshade - 2006
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Dot Edwards and Katie Golden, “Columbus Stockade Blues”
from Galax, Virginia Old Fiddler's Convention
Folkways Records - 2004
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Dock Boggs, “Down South Blues”
from Dock Boggs
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
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Mississippi Sheiks, “Bootlegger's Blues”
from Missississippi Sheiks, Vol 1 (1929-1930)
Document Records - 1991
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Chris Thile & Michael Daves, “Tennessee Blues”
from Sleep With One Eye Open (Deluxe Version)
Nonesuch - 2011
joshbearman The Edge of Americana/Time Again Radio January 17th, 2022
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