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Show 60: Women's Legacy in Blues, Pt. 2
This second women’s chapter widens the frame and shows how female blues and R&B voices kept carrying the tradition into later decades. It is not just representation. Many of the strongest stylistic turns in the music came through women singers.
Host Narration
I'm your host. For today's 60th episode of the Copacetic Communion Blues Show, we will be reviving the 19th episode's theme where we covered ladies singin' the blues, in honor and anticipation of International Women's Day, which is this Friday the eighth. Up first is a Bessie Smith classic sung by the immaculate LaVern Baker. Here's "Back Water Blues."
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Tracklist
| # | Track | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back Water Blues | LaVern Baker |
| 2 | St. Louis Blues | Lucille Hegamin |
| 3 | Downhearted Blues | Alberta Hunter,Lovie Austin's Blues Serenaders |
| 4 | Got The Blues So Bad | Victoria Spivey |
| 5 | Sloppy Drunk Blues | Lucille Bogan |
| 6 | Memphis Bound Blues | Ma Rainey |
| 7 | Bedroom Blues | Sippie Wallace |
| 8 | Stormy Weather | Lena Horne |
| 9 | Billie's Blues - Take 1 bridge | Billie Holiday |
| 11 | Trouble In Mind (VP-392-D3-MC-465) | Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
| 12 | Men Are Like Street Cars | Rosetta Howard |
| 13 | Black Mountain Blues | Bessie Smith |
| 14 | Crazy Blues | Mamie Smith |
| 15 | If You're A Viper | Rosetta Howard,Harlem Hamfats |
| 16 | Cravin' A Man Blues | Lillian Glinn |
| 17 | I'll Keep Sittin' On It (If I Can't Sell It) bridge | Les Paul,Georgia White |
| 18 | A Good Man Is Hard To Find bridge | Sweet Emma Barrett |
| 19 | Moaning The Blues | Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe |
| 20 | I'm A Little Mixed Up | Betty James |
| 21 | The Memphis Blues (with Shorty Rogers and his Giants) | Eartha Kitt,Shorty Rogers And His Giants |
| 22 | Born Under A Bad Sign | Koko Taylor |
| 23 | Evil Gal Blues | Dinah Washington |
| 24 | Won't Be Long | Aretha Franklin |
| 25 | In the Dark bridge | Nina Simone |
| 26 | Sunshine of Your Love bridge | Ella Fitzgerald,Ernie Heckscher Big Band,Tommy Flanagan |
| 27 | It's A Crying Shame | Etta James,Harvey Fuqua |
| 28 | Didn't It Rain | Mahalia Jackson |
| 29 | How Long Blues | Odetta |
| 30 | Doctor Blues | Alberta Adams |
| 31 | Everything Gonna Be Alright | Big Mama Thornton,Muddy Waters Blues Band |
| 32 | I'm Getting 'Long Alright | Big Maybelle |
| 33 | Blues For Rampart Street | Ida Cox,Coleman Hawkins Quintet |
| 34 | I Ain't In The Mood bridge | Donna Hightower |
| 35 | I'm Gonna Latch On bridge | Marie Adams,The Johnny Otis Big Band |
| 36 | Sit Back Down | Esther Phillips |
| 37 | Miss You So | Lillian Offitt |
| 38 | Three O'Clock Blues | Ike & Tina Turner |
| Jack I'm Mellow | Trixie Smith | |
| Rock Me | Sister Rosetta Tharpe |