A short tribute to Martin Luther King and an extended feature that traces through Bob Dylan's MusicCares speech from 2015 (with a shorter examination of his Nobel Prize for Literature speech from 2017, to accept his 2016 award).
The Road Goes On Forever Robert Earl Keen, Jr. - West Textures - Sugar Hill (1989) |
Killer Tumbleweeds Ridley Bent and the Killer Tumbleweeds - Ridley Bent and the Killer Tumbleweeds - Independent (2018) |
Funny How Time Slips Away Billy Walker - Billy Walker's Greatest Hits - Columbia (1963; single from 1961) |
One I Love is Gone High Bar Gang - Someday the Heart Will Trouble the Mind - True North Records (2016) |
Dance Around The Barrel Boys - Cold Spring - Independent (2017) |
When I Get to the Bottom Robbie Fulks - Gone Away Backward - Bloodshot Records (2013) |
Cost So Much The LYNNeS - Heartbreak Songs for the Radio - The LYNNeS |
The Boat Jillian Kerr - Downtown - Independent (2017) |
Can't Cut Loose Erin Rae - Putting On Airs - Single Lock Records (June 2018) |
Stars Streak Across the Sky Megan Jerome Together Ensemble - Ooh Aah - Independent (2017) |
Bullet Holes in the Sky Mary Gauthier - Rifles and Rosary Beads - Thirty Tigers (2018) |
My Name is Emmett Till Emmylou Harris - Hard Bargain - Nonesuch (2011) |
To Be Young, Gifted and Black Donny Hathaway - Everything Is Everything - ATCO Records (1971) |
Excerpt from the I've Been to the Mountaintop Speech - April 3, 1968 Martin Luther King - Excerpt |
I Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round The Freedom Singers - Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966 - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (1997; 2 CD set) |
Excerpt from the I've Been to the Mountain top Speech - April 3, 1968 Martin Luther King - Excerpt |
Free at Last Ethel Davenport - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records (Originally: Nashboro 1968) |
When Will We Be Paid? The Staple Singers - We'll Get Over - Stax Records (1970) |
Extended feature |
Blowing in the Wind Peter, Paul and Mary - In the Wind - Warner Bros. (1963) |
Masters of War The Staple Singers - This Little Light - Riverside Records |
The Ballad of Hollis Brown Nina Simone - Let it all Out - Verve (1966) |
Five Feet High and Rising (How High's the Water, Mama?) Johnny Cash - The Essential Johnny Cash |
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Bob Dylan - Brining It All Back Home |
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Joan Baez - Farewell Angelina - Vanguard (1965) |
Key to the Highway Big Bill Broonzy - Trouble in Mind - Smithsonian/Folkways (2000) |
Highway 61 Revisted Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted - Columbia (1965) |
The Times Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan - The Times Are A-Changin' - Columbia (1964) |
Pretty Boy Floyd Woody Guthrie - This Machine Kills Facists - Hallmark Recordings |
The Old Chislholm Trail Tex Ritter - x |
I Love Ton T. Hall - Greatest Hits |
Sunday Morning Coming Down Kris Kristofferson - x |
The Ballad of a Thin Man Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted |
Ballad in Plain D Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan - Columbia |
Red Hot Billy Ray Riley - 7" Single - Sun Records |
A powerful tribute to Dr. King. Thank you for that.
8:21 AM, March 31st, 2018