Show 19: Women's Legacy in Blues

After three weeks, the Copacetic Communion has finally resumed for its nineteenth episode. Today's theme will focus on the female blues artists whose inspired sounds take hold of any listener in earshot. Up first to start the show is a track by an 83-year-old Alberta Hunter, who sounds just as vivid and fresh as she did in the 1920s. Here's "Darktown Strutters' Ball," released on a comeback album by John Hammond and Columbia Records in 1978. Here it is, what seventy years of singing the blues sounds like.