Just as Well, If Not Better

Tue, Mar 26, 2019

This show is the fourth installment of a “Women in Music” month-long celebration of just that. Women have pioneered much of the modern world, music being no no exception. While our calendars may dictate a different meaning for every month, this men-free music month only emphasizes what should’ve been obvious long ago. That all music for all of time has been influenced and shaped by women all along.

Show archive

Playlist

Martha Spencer, “Ruby”

from Martha Spencer

Martha Spencer - 2018

June Drucker, “Going Back to Israel”

from Tumble and Leap

Tin Halo Music - 2003

Ida Cox, “Wild Women Don't Have the Blues”

from Ida Cox Vol. 2 1924-1925

Document Records - 1995

Anne Briggs, “Let No Man Steal Your Thyme”

from A Collection

Topic Records - 1999

Precious Bryant, “The Truth”

from The Truth

Terminus Records - 2004

Sister Gertrude Morgan, “Let Us Make A Record”

from Let's Make A Record

Preservation Hall Recordings - 2004

Bonnie Raitt, “Angel from Montgomery (Live)”

from The Bonnie Raitt Collection

Warner Bros. Records - 1990

Essie Mae Brooks, “Rain In Your Life”

from Rain In Your Life

Music Maker Recordings - 2000

Patsy Montana, “My Poncho Pony”

from Patsy Montana Sings Her Original Hits From The West

Cattle Records - 1980

The Yas Yas Girl (Merline Johnson), “Don't Think I'm Buster Brown”

from Too Late, Too Late Vol. 12 (1917-1948)

Document Records - 1999

Brittany Haas, “Candy Girl”

from Brittany Haas

Ook Records - 2004

Samantha Bumgarner, “Cindy In The Meadows”

from Cindy In The Meadows / John Hardy

Columbia - 1924

Del Rey, “Cemetary Blues”

from Four and Six

Hobemian Records - 2012

Ana Veydó, “El Cimarrón”

from Recio

Cimarrón Producciones - 2002

Mahalia Jackson, “Just A Closer Walk With Thee”

from Mahalia Jackson

CBS

Cora Mae Bryant, “Cold & Rainy Day”

from Born With The Blues

Music Maker Relief Foundation - 2001

The Wailin' Jennys, “Bring Me Li'l Water Silvy (Live)”

from Live at The Mauch Chunk Opera House

Red House Records - 2009

Rosa Henderson, “Barrel House Blues”

from Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 2

Document Records (2) - 1995

The Miller Sisters, “There's No Right Way to Do Me Wrong”

from Got You On My Mind

Charly - 2012

Mississippi Sarah & Daddy Stovepipe, “If You Want Me Baby”

from Wait for Me: Songs of Love, Lust and Discontent from the 1920s and 1930s

East River Records - 2015

Mary Z. Cox, “Old Molly Hare”

from A Secret Life Of Banjo

Not On Label (Mary Z. Cox Self-released)

Rosie Ledet, “Zydeco For A Living (Living The Blues)”

from Show Me Something

Maison De Soul - 2001

Minnie Wallace, “The Old Folks Started It”

from Before the Blues Vol. 2

Yazoo - 2006

Harold & Hazel, “Wait for Me”

from Wait for Me: Songs of Love, Lust and Discontent from the 1920s and 1930s

East River Records - 2015

Edna Hicks, “You've Got Everything a Sweet Mama Needs But Me”

from edna hicks

document

Elizabeth Knight, “Going to the Polls”

from Songs Of The Suffragettes

Folkways Records - 1958

Valerie June, “Workin' Woman Blues”

from Workin' Woman Blues

Concord Records - 2013

Rayna Gellert, “Ducks On The Millpond”

from Ways Of The World

Yodel-Ay-Hee - 2000

Mary Lou Williams, “Baby Dear”

from Mary Lou's Idea

Musica Jazz - 2001

Marcy Marxer, “Angeline the Baker”

from Things Are Coming My Way

Community Music, Inc. - 2013

Hasee Ciaccio, “Omie Wise (feat. Kalia Yeagle)”

from Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition

Great Smoky Mountains Association - 2017