Blues Edition with Leslie Keros pays homage to Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement with a great program of music by Big Daddy Kinsey, Old Friends with Sunnyland Slim, Big Walter Horton and others, Nina Simone, Josh White, Irma Thomas, Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Ronnie Earl, the North Mississippi Allstars, Mavis Staples, Bob Dylan, Eva Cassidy, Champion Jack Dupree, Billie Holiday, and Otis Taylor.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
FREEDOM TRAIN
BLUES EDITION 03
Leslie Keros, WDCB-FM, Chicago, January 14, 2012 [20884]
Big Daddy Kinsey: I Am the Blues >
Old Friends: Freedom Train
Nina Simone: Old Jim Crow
Josh White: Free and Equal Blues
Irma Thomas: I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry: John Henry
Ronnie Earl: Blues for Martin Luther King
North Mississippi Allstars: Freedom Highway
Mavis Staples: We Shall Not Be Moved
Bob Dylan: No More Auction Block
Eva Cassidy: Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
Champion Jack Dupree: Freedom
Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit
Otis Taylor: Saint Martha Blues
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by Leslie Keros for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced & recorded by Leslie Keros at WDCB-FM, Chicago
Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Steve Pratt
© 2012, 2020 Leslie Keros. Used with permission.
