The Blues

Folk Music & Beyond Playlist for December 3, 2022
The Blues

First Set

Asylum Street Spankers, “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground,” God’s Favorite Band, 3:00 Yellow Dog Records

Guy Davis, “Be Ready When I Call You,” Be Ready When I Call You, 5:10 M.C. Records

Geoff Bartley, “Long Way Down to Harlan,” Mercy for the Dispossessed, 3:00 Magic Cow Records

Mavis Staples, “Down in Mississippi,” We’ll Never Turn Back, 4:55 anti-

Second Set

Corey Harris, “Insurrection Blues,” The Insurrection Blues, 3:09 M.C. Records

Peter Mulvey, “Inner City Blues,” Ten Thousand Mornings, 3:10 Signature Sounds

Alvin Youngblood Hart, “Big Mama’s Door,” Big Mama’s Door, 3:46 Okeh/Epic

Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabaté, “Ol’ Georgie Buck,” Kulanian, 4:12 Hannibal/Rykodisc

Third Set

Peter Mulvey, “Sign o’ the Times,” Goodbye Bob, 2:47 Eastern Front

Les Sampou, “Holy Land,” Fall from Grace, 3:54 Philo/Rounder

Bruce Cockburn, “Soul of a Man,” Nothing but a Burning Light, 3:50 Columbia

Fourth Set

Kelly Joe Phelps, “Lead Me On,” Lead Me On, 4:40 Burnside Records

Chris Thomas King, “What Would Jesus Do?” Rise, 4:05 21st Century Blues Records

Allen Toussaint, “Tipitina and Me,” Our New Orleans, 2:48 Nonesuch