We'll kick off with smoking new Afrobeat from Kaleta & Super Yamba Band, hear a new track by Rasheed Ali, sample new Ghanaian highlife from Sir Frank Karikari & the Polyversal Souls, and check out Gnawa fusion beats from Gan Gah.
UpFront Soul #2019.36 Playlist
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the vagaries of Spinitron, these songs are listed in reverse order. (i.e., Joan Armatrading Back to the Night is song 1, hour 1.
Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA
Richard "Groove" Holmes "Flyjack" from Night Glider
Lady Leshurr feat. Mr. Eazi "Black Madonna"
Laura Mvula "Phenomenal Woman" from The Dreaming Room
Bernard Purdie "Jimmy's Back" from Soul Drums
Myles Sanko "So Hard to Stop" from Born in Black & White
Black Sugar "Understanding" from Black Sugar
The Headhunters "Rima" from Survival Of The Fittest
Raphael Saadiq "Movin' Down The Line" from Stone Rollin'
The Seven Brothers "Crying in the Streets" from Crying in the Street
Miles Davis "Summer Night" from Quiet Nights
Syl Johnson "Is It Because I'm Black?" from The Complete Twinight Singles on Numero
Wisdom "Let the Lord Come Into Your Life" from Greg Belson's Divine Disco Vol 2
Curtis Harding "Lead Me On" from Resistance Radio: The Man in the High Castle Album
Leyla McCalla "Heavy as Lead" from The Capitalist Blues
Blackalicious "Ego Tripping by Nikki Giovanni" from Nia on Quannum Projects
Abdullah Ibrahim "Jabula" from The Balance
The Garifuna Collective "Aganba (Listen)" from Ayo
Bobby Rush "Good Stuff" from Sitting On Top Of the Blues
The Pazant Brothers "Skunk Juice" from Skunk Juice: Dirty Funk from the Big Apple
Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson "Pickin' Wild Mountain Berries" from Lover's Holiday
Bro David "Experience" from Modern Music from Belize on Cultures of Soul
Eek-A-Mouse "Peeni Walli" from The Very Best of Eek-A-Mouse
JoJo & the Fugitives "Chips Chicken Banana Split" from Jamaica To Toronto: Soul Funk & Reggae 1967-1974
S-Tone Inc "Odoya feat. Toco"
Gan Gah "Sawt Al Mashreq (Video Edit)" from Habibitronics
Sir Frank Karikari & The Polyversal Souls; "Siakwaa - Nana Agyei (Medley)" on Philopon
Rasheed Ali "Will You Stand Up for Me?" from 1968: The Other Side of Town
The JB's "Soul Power"
Kaleta & Super Yamba Band "Medaho" from Medaho on Ubiquity
Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night on A&M