Blues & Beyond #185: Music for MLK Day: Mavis Staples, Charles Mingus, Syl Johnson, Eric Bibb,
Series: Blues & Beyond
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Length: 00:59:04
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Piece Description
In this hour of The Blues & Beyond, we'll feature music that ties in with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday, the civil rights movement, and the aspirations that have arisen from it. We'll hear from Mavis Staples, whose family band The Staples Singers sang at many events attended by Dr. King and contributed many of the songs that were associated with the movement. One of their songs included on this show was a favorite of Dr. King's. Other songs come from Syl Johnson and Eric Bibb, godson of Paul Robeson, singer-actor-athlete and civil rights activist. The Canadian blues band Blackburn provides their version of "Sister Rosa" a tribute to Rosa Parks and her courageous refusal to give up a seat on a segregated bus, and we have a song about the ensuing bus boycott from Brother Will Hairston, an obscure, but compelling, singer from Detroit. Also Charles Mingus doesn't mince words about a segregationalist governor on "Original Faubus Fables" -- in 1959 Columbia Records was reluctant to include Mingus's words, and the song appeared as an instrumental "Fables Of Faubus." Later, on the appropriately named Candid label, Mingus gave us the real deal, and now, of course, it is reissued on Columbia. Also, John Coltrane transforms Dizzy Gillespie's "Night In Tunisia" into a visit to Liberia, the nation formed by freed African-American slaves in the mid 19th century.
promo included: promo185
Broadcast History
WXPN-FM Philadelphia 1-17-2010 and 1-18-2010
Transcript
opening theme:
Start: 00:00 Duration: 0:59
Bert Jansch and John Renbourn "No Exit"
Wooded Hill Recordings: Bert And John
© 1996 Wooded Hill Records/Transatlantic Records Ltd
HILLCD8
Start: 1:20 Duration: 4:39
Odetta "This Little Light Of Mine"
M. C.: Gonna Let It Shine
© 2005 M. C. Records
Mc-0055
Start: 6:46 Duration: 4:23
Syl and Jimmy Johnson "If I Were White"
Evidence: 2 Johnsons Are Better Than One
© 2002 Evidence Music, Inc.
ECD-26122-2
Start: 11:09 Duration: 4:02
Eric Bibb "Don't Ever Let Your Spirit Down"
M. C.: An Evening With Eric Bibb
© 2007 M. C. Records
MC-0059
Start: 15:56 Duration: 4:31
Brother Will Hairston "Alabama Bus"
Blues Classics: Detroit Blues: The Early 1950s
© 1970 Blues Classics Records
BC 12
Start: 20:27 Duration: 5:53
Blackburn "Sister Rosa"
Make It Real: Brotherhood
© 2009 Make It Real...
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Timing and Cues
00:00 Billboard: Show opens, opening theme, "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."
00:59 Billboard ends.. "... in this hour of The Blues & Beyond."
01:00 "option" song: "Starting out, this is..."
05:59 "option" song fades
06:00 show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister....."
27:06 end of part 1:
"... after the break, here on The Blues & Beyond."
59-second bed plays
28:05 bed fades
28:06 part 2: show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."
58:32 voice out on part 2 "... thanks for listening to this hour of The Blues & Beyond."
58:59 theme fades end of part 2
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Exit | Bert Jansch and John Renbourn | Bert And John. | Wooded Hill Recordings | 1996 | 00:59 |
| This Little Light Of Mine | Odetta | Gonna Let It Shine. | M. C. | 2005 | 04:39 |
| If I Wuz White | Syl and Jimmy Johnson | 2 Johnsons Are Better Than One. | Evidence | 2002 | 04:23 |
| Don't Ever Let Your Spirit Down | Eric Bibb | An Evening With Eric Bibb. | M. C. | 2007 | 04:02 |
| Alabama Bus | Brother Will Hairston | Detroit Blues: The Early 1950s. | Blues Classics | 1970 | 04:31 |
| Sister Rosa | Blackburn | Brotherhood. | Make It Real | 2009 | 05:53 |
| Fables Of Faubus | Charles Mingus | Mingus Ah Um. | Columbia/Legacy | 1998 | 00:59 |
| Why Am I Treated So Bad? | Mavis Staples | Live: Hope At The Hideout. | Anti | 2008 | 08:04 |
| Freedom Highway | Mavis Staples | Live: Hope At The Hideout. | Anti | 2008 | 04:29 |
| Original Faubus Fables | Charles Mingus | Charles Mingus: Ken Burns Jazz. | Columbia/Legacy | 2000 | 08:48 |
| Liberia | John Coltrane | Coltrane's Sound. | Atlantic | 1964 | 06:35 |
| Forty-Eight | John Renbourn | Sir John A Lot. | Shanachie | 1992 | 00:53 |
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