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THANKSGIVING 2023: WORDS AND MUSIC OF INSPIRATION AND SOLACE IN TROUBLED TIMES
These are contentious times of conflicting emotions surrounding war and peace. This holiday weekend we bring songs and sounds for your consideration, concern, and hopefully solace. We’ll hear words and music from Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Mavis Staples and Charles Lloyd. Plus Sacred Steel guitar live at the 2023 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival from the Campbell Brothers.
HOUR ONE
- Simple Song of Freedom Tim Hardin
Simple Songs of Freedom: The Tim Hardin Collection, Sony - How Many Miles Must We March? Ben Harper
Welcome to the Cruel World, Virgin - Blowin' in The Wind Stevie Wonder
Uptight, Motown/Tamla - Masters of War Charles Lloyd and the Marvels
I Long to See You, Blue Note - Instrumental: Blowing in the Wind Lou Donaldson
Blowing in the Wind, Cadet - If I Had a Hammer Toussaint McCall
Nothing Takes the Place of You, Ronn Records - Yes We Can Can Allen Toussaint
Our New Orleans 2005–A Benefit Album, Warner Brothers - Give Peace a Chance Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong and His Friends, Ace - Gimme Peace Tom T. Hall
New Train Same Rider/Places I’ve Done Time, Morello - Instrumental: Let My People Go Darondo
Let My People Go , Ubiquity - Let My People Go Roosevelt Charles
Angola Prison Spirituals, Smithsonian Folkways - Nobody Knows the Trouble I See Dixie Hummingbirds
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best of the Dixie Hummingbirds, Geffen - Israelites Desmond Dekker and the Aces
Trojan Classics, Trojan - Moses Smote the Water The Golden Gate Quartet
Jubilee Gospels, Suncoast - It's Gonna Rain Birmingham Sunlights
Folk Masters-Great Performances Recorded Live at the Barns of Wolf Trap, Smithsonian Folkways - A Change Is Gonna Come Neville Brothers
Yellow Moon, A&M - Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Staple Singers
Freedom Highway, Sony - Closing Bed: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Dr. Michael White
Blue Crescent, Basin Street
HOUR two
- Devils & Dust Bruce Springsteen
Devils & Dust, Columbia Records - With God On Our Side Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A-Changin', Columbia - Instrumental: Steal Away Courtney Bryan
This Little Light of Mine, Courtney Bryan - For What It's Worth Keb' Mo'
Peace...Back By Popular Demand, Sony - What's Goin' On Marvin Gaye
What's Goin' On, Motown/Tamla - The Garden of Love Martha Redbone Roots Project
The Garden of Love (Songs of William Blake), Blackfeet Productions LLC - The Creator has a Master Plan Leon Thomas
Spirits Known and Unknown, Ace - (There Will Be) Peace in the Valley (For Me) Little Richard
The King of the Gospel Singers, Mercury - Instrumental: Don't Let the Devil Ride Sonny Treadway
Sacred Steel: Traditional Sacred African-American Steel Guitar Music in Florida, Arhoolie - Segment: The Campbell Brothers
Listen - Closing bed: Joyful Sounds Glenn Lee
Sacred Steel: Traditional Sacred African-American Steel Guitar Music in Florida, Arhoolie
