Some more women musicians, with and without some men (who explain later): Saturday Music Club in Mountain Time

A Tribe Called Red and Northern Voice: "Sisters"


Fanny: "Summer Song"


Strawberry Parfait: "Bulldog", "The Fugitive" and "The House of the Rising Sun"


Samantha Fish Band: "Cowtown"; "Need You More"; "Don't Say You Love Me"; "Daughters"; "American Dream"


Rising Appalachia: "Swoon"


Carion: "Six Bagatelles" (composer: Györgi Ligeti)


Barbara Hannigan and the Gothenburg Symphony Chamber Orchestra: "Mysteries of the Macabre" (composer: Györgi Ligeti; arrangement: Elgar Howarth)

1991 composition or, at least, arrangement: "Mysteries of the Macabre" is an arrangement by Elgar Howarth of the 3 arias sung by the Gepopo character in György Ligeti’s opera, Le Grand Macabre (1974-77).

The Maria Schneider Orchestra: "Choro Dancado"


The International Sweethearts of Rhythm: "She's Crazy with the Heat"; "That Man of Mine"; "Jump Children"; unidentified instrumental piece; "How About That Jive"; "I Left My Man"; unidentified instrumental excerpt; "Don't Get It Twisted"; "Just the Thing"


The International Sweethearts of Rhythm: "Lady Be Good"


Jelly Roll Morton: "Improving Spanish Tempos/Creepy Feelings" (Library of Congress Recordings)


Maria Schneider at the Library of Congress


Ian MacKaye at the Library of Congress

Dorothy Disney, a pioneering marriage advice columnist as at least one obit claims (notably for THE LADIES HOME JOURNAL's "Can This Marriage Be Saved?"), was Ian MacKaye's grandmother. Fun fact revealed here (at least new to me).

Chris Hillman at the Library of Congress


Fanny: "Hey, Bulldog" (live in Philadelphia, 1973)


The Beatles: "Hey, Bulldog"

Happy belated birthday, Richard Starkey...

Some singers, mostly the songs of others (some more covers): Saturday Music Club on Sunday

Miriam Makeba: "Come to Glory"


Fontella Bass: "Talking About Freedom"

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: "Jackie"


Monday Michiru: "Zanzibar"


Olivia Ong: "Ain't No Sunshine"


Melody Gardot: "Ain't No Sunshine"


Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings: "Your Long Journey"


Boa: "Duvet"


The Go! Team: "Catch Me on the Rebound"


The Go! Team: "Grip Like a Vice"

Not solely spoken words: strands joined in/by rap and since: Saturday Music Club on Wednesday

from art-song recitative through gospel singing speech and on through other spoken rhythms to music explorations and traditions, a slice through some of the strands that were drawn upon when rap began to take its own shape in the latest 1960s/earliest 1970s in the work of Gil Scott-Heron and the Last Poets...and then beyond.






Marti Newland (with Artis Wodehouse): Rain Song (composed by Will Marion Cook, 1912)


Rev. W. A. Donaldson and Congregation: "Baptizing Scene"
Marion Williams: "Didn't It Rain"


The Memphis Jug Band: "On the Road Again"


Chris Bouchillon: "Talking Blues"
Woody Guthrie: "Talking Blues"

Pete Seeger (of the Almanac Singers): "Talking Union"

King Pleasure (with Blossom Dearie and James Moody et al.): "Moody's Mood for Love"
Langston Hughes: "The Weary Blues"

Lord Buckley: "The Nazz"
Ken Nordine: "White"

Champion Jack Dupree: "[Going Down to] Big Leg Emma's"
Willie Dixon: "Walking the Blues"


Halim El-Dabh: "Leiyla and the Poet" (1959)

Steve Reich: "It's Gonna Rain" (1965)

The Last Poets: Made in Amerikkka (excerpt) (NSFW language at points)


Gil Scott-Heron: "Brother"

Gil Scott-Heron Band: "Johannesburg" (live, British tv, 1976)

Gil Scott-Heron: "Comment #1 (Who Will Survive in America?)"  (NSFW language at points)

Gil Scott-Heron Band: 1984 German concert

U Roy: "Natty Rebel"


Salt N Pepa: "You Showed Me"


Public Enemy: "She Watch Channel Zero"


Beatnigs (later Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy): "Fight Fire with Fire"

The Go! Team: "Keys to the City" and more

Ana Tijoux and Shadia Mansour: "Somos Sur"


Zedbazi: "Zamin Safe"