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BOTH SIDES NOW: WOMEN IN AMERICAN MUSIC
This week we focus on some of the great women in music. The 83-year old jazz diva Anita O’Day talks about her rebound from years of drug abuse, and rockabilly shouter Wanda Jackson recounts her 50 years in the male-dominated music business. We’ll also pay a visit to soul queen Betty Wright, and listen to many other female voices that have helped shape the American musical soundscape.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Play It Momma Mary Lou Williams
Zoning, Smithsonian Folkways - I'm A Woman Peggy Lee
The Best of Miss Peggy Lee, Capitol - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free Nina Simone
The Very Best: Sugar In My Bowl, RCA - CLIP: Nina Simone on "Sugar In My Bowl"
- Kitchen Man Bessie Smith
The Essential, Sony - Me And My Chauffeur Blues Memphis Minnie
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.: A Century Of Women In Music, - Pretty Polly Coon Creek Girls
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.: A Century Of Women In Music, - Pretty Polly Kristin Hersh
Murder, Misery & Goodnight, 4AD - Instrumental: Spark Catcher The Sadies
Pure Diamond Gold, Bloodshot - INTERVIEW: Wanda Jackson
Listen - Reconsider Me Maggie Lewis w/Grace Tennessee & Her Guitar
Lonesome Bluebird, Ace - Stand By Your Man Lyle Lovett
And His Large Band, MCA - Instrumental: Froggy Bottom The Mary Lou Williams Trio
Roll 'Em, Solo Art - Boogie Misterioso Mary Lou Williams' Girl Stars
Mary Lou Williams 1945-1947, Classics - Aretha Franklin
Queen of Soul, Rhino - INTERVIEW: Betty Wright
Listen - Soul Shoutin' Shirley Scott w/husband Stanley Turrentine
Soul Shoutin', Fantasy - I Ain't Gonna Let You In Paul Gayten & Annie Laurie
Paul Gayten & Annie Laurie, Specialty
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Digging Dyke The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Forty Years of Women In Jazz, Jass - Man Smart, Woman Smarter Gerald Clark & his Original Calypsos feat. Macbeth the Great
Don't Stop the Carnival, Flapper - How Strong is a Woman Ann Peebles
St. Louis Woman/ Memphis Soul, Hi - Sweet Georgia Brown International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Forty Years Of Women In Jazz, Jass - That's All Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Great Gospel Women Vol.2, Shanachie - It's a Mean Old man's World Dinah Washington
Back to the Blues, Roulette - Instrumental: 9:20 Special Zoot Sims Quartet
That Old Feeling, Chess - INTERVIEW: Anita O'Day
Listen - La Adivinanza Celia Cruz
Son Con Guaguanco, Demon Music - Sin Querer Lydia Mendoza w/ Conjunto Narciso Martinez
First Queen of Tejano Music, Arhoolie - Easy Come, Easy Go Rosie Ledet
Sweet Brown Sugar, Maison de Soul - O Ma Cherie 'Tite Fille Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy
Evangeline Made, Vanguard - Instrumental: Beaumont Rag Alison Krauss and Union Station
Two Highways, Rounder - Lulu Walls (that aggravating beauty) Carter Family
In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family - Mama's Opry Iris Dement
Infamous Angel, Rounder - One's on the Way Loretta Lynn
The Millennium Collection, MCA - Cold Cold Heart Norah Jones
Come Away With Me, Blue Note - You Turn Me On I'm A Radio Joni Mitchell
Hits, Geffen - End Bed: Respect The Ventures
1,000,000 Weekend, One-Way
