Galaxy Girl - 20220616 - Readying to Rise - 97.3 wrir

Breakfast Blend w/ Galaxy Girl & Friends presents:

Happy Thursday! This week, in honor of the upcoming Juneteenth holiday, I’ve got music by Esperanza Spalding, Tunde Adebimpe, Chaka Khan, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Judith Hill, Adia Victoria, and much more! I hope you enjoy the show!

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Lynn Ahrens, “Interplanet Janet (ABRIDGED)”

from Best of Schoolhouse Rock

Rhino - 1998

Rhiannon Giddens, “Freedom Highway”

from Freedom Highway

Nonesuch - 2017

Adia Victoria, “Deep Water Blues”

from A Southern Gothic

Atlantic Records - 2021

Esperanza Spalding, “Readying to Rise (Legs)”

from 12 Little Spells (Deluxe Edition)

Concord Records - 2019

Stevie Wonder, “Soul Bongo”

from The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie

UNI/MOTOWN - 2014

Anjimile, “1978 (Reunion) ft. Lomelda”

from Reunion - EP

Alternative - 2021

Charles Bradley, “I Feel a Change (feat. Menahan Street Band)”

from Black Velvet (feat. Menahan Street Band)

Daptone Records - 2018

Dizzy Gillespie, “Matrix”

from Pulp Fusion, Vol. 4: Fully Loaded

Harmless - 1999

Tunde Adebimpe, “OFF YOU”

from Off You - Single

self-released - 2022

Val Jeanty, “Black”

from (via Berklee We Will Rise Summit)

2021

Chaka Khan, “Like Sugar”

from Hello Happiness

Universal-Island Records Ltd. - 2019

Benjamin Booker, “Right On You”

from Witness

ATO Records - 2017

Charlie Parker, “Mango Mangue”

from Sweet Tropical Sounds

Wnts / Believe Digital - 2009

Kenneka Cook, “Brings Me Back (111)”

from Moonchild

American Paradox - 2020

A Tribe Called Quest, “Whateva Will Be”

from We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

Epic - 2016

Free Radicals, “Ring (feat. Michele Thibeaux)”

from White Power Outage, Vol. 1

Rwe - 2020

Quincy Jones, “On the Street Where You Live”

from Big Band Bossa Nova

Verve - 2013

Gil Scott-Heron, “Who'll Pay Reparations on My Soul?”

from Small Talk At 125th and Lenox

Ace Records - 2015

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, “Strange Things Happening Every Day”

from Mothers of Blues - An Introductory Collection of the Most Influential Women of Blues with Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Trixie Smith, Memphis Minnie, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mamie Smith, And More!

Celebration Sounds - 2014

Carlton Jumel Smith, “We're All We Got”

from 1634 Lexington Ave.

Timmion Records - 2019

Jackie Shane, “Stand Up Straight and Tall”

from Any Other Way

Numero Group - 2017

Lonnie Young, Ed Young, & Lonnie Young Jr., “Sittin' On Top Of The World”

from Sounds of the South [Disc 2] : The Blues Roll On

Atlantic - 1960

Jamila Woods, “Assata's Daughters (Interlude)”

from HEAVN

Jagjaguwar - 2017

Jamila Woods, “ZORA”

from LEGACY! LEGACY!

Jagjaguwar - 2019

Algiers, “We Can't Be Found”

from There Is No Year

Matador - 2020

Nina Simone, “Take Care of Business”

from Gold

Verve Reissues - 2003

Jon Batiste, “FREEDOM”

from WE ARE (The Deluxe Edition)

Verve - 2021

The Roots, “Lovely, Love My Family”

from Yo Gabba Gabba! Music Is Awesome

Filter US Recordings - 2009

Judith Hill, “Americana”

from Baby, I'm Hollywood!

Regime Music Group - 2021

Des Demonas, “Liez”

from Des Demonas

In The Red - 2017

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, “Television, the Drug of the Nation”

from Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury

Island Records - 1992

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, “This Land Is Your Land”

from Naturally

Daptone Records - 2005

Amanda Bradshaw, Lea Grace Hicks Swinson, Brandon Harris, Khaleb Roberts, “Lift Every Voice and Sing - A Cappella (Berklee We Will Rise Summit)”

from (via Berklee We Will Rise Summit)

2021