We'll open up with a powerful track from Rasheed Ali's new album, 1968: The Other Side of Town, and dig deep into Kaleta & Super Yamba Band's smoking debut album, Medaho, for the irresistible Afrobeat groove of "Mr. Diva." We'll hear fantastic new jazz fusion by Neue Grafik Ensemble featuring Nubya Garcia, and a track by newly appointed Polaris artist in residence Tanika Charles.
UpFront Soul #2019.39 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
The Isley Brothers "Cold Bologna" from Givin It Back
Billy Preston "Let Me Know" from Don't Let Me Catch You Crying
Penny Goodwyn "Lady Day and John Coltrane" on Athens of the North
Nerukhi "Black Lives Matter remix"
Main Street "Slipped Disc" from Get Down On It- Funky Soul Music
Fela Kuti "Unnecessary Begging" from The Underground Spiritual Game
Roberta Flack "Go Up Moses" from Quiet Fire
Butcher Brown "Jheri Curl Juice" from Grown Folk
Bobby Hutcherson "Hangin' Out (With You)"
Dionne Warwick "Reach Out for Me" from Make Way for Dionne Warwick
Stevie Wonder "Love's In Need of Love" from Songs in the Key of Life
Sam Cooke "Wonderful World" from The Man Who Invented Soul
Isaac Hayes "Soulsville (Live)" from At Wattstax
Curtis Mayfield "Move On Up" from Curtis
Otis Redding "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" from The Very Best of Otis Redding
Desmond Dekker "Shanty Town" from The Harder They Come
Alpha Blondy "Brigadier sabadi" from Planete Afrique: Le meilleur de la musique Africaine
Bro David "Sunshine" from Modern Music from Belize on Cultures of Soul
Tanika Charles "First & Last" from The Gumption
Neue Grafik Ensemble "Voodoo Rain ft. Nubya Garcia" from Foulden Road
Seba Kaapstad "Africa" from Thina
Kaleta & Super Yamba Band "Mr. Diva" from Medaho on Ubiquity
Mongo Santamaria "Black Dice" from Fania Latin Soul Essentials
Rasheed Ali "I'm Not Your Whipping Boy" from 1968: The Other Side of Town on Digital Rain Factory
Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night on A&M