Scott Barretta features music fromThe Great Debate soundtrack in this week’s episode of Highway 61, including numbers by Alvin Youngblood Hart, Sharon Jones, and the Carolina Chocolate Drops, plus original versions by Booker White, Clara Smith, the Mississippi Sheiks, Bessie Smith, Rev. Utah Smith, Blind Willie Johnson, and Blind Boy Fuller.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
THE GREAT DEBATE
HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 35
Scott Barretta, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, March 8, 2008 [18215]
Alvin Youngblood Hart: Change My Clothes
Booker White: Change My Clothes
Sharon Jones: It’s Tight Like That
Clara Smith: It’s Tight Like That
Mississippi Sheiks: I’ve Got Blood In My Eyes
Alvin Youngblood Hart & Carolina Chocolate Drops: Blood In My Eyes
Bessie Smith: I’m Wild About That Thing
Sharon Jones: Wild About That Thing
Rev. U. Utah Smith: I Got Two Wings
Alvin Youngblood Hart: Two Wings
Blind Willie Johnson: I’m Gonna Run to the City of Refuge
Alvin Youngblood Hart & Carolina Chocolate Drops: City of Refuge
Alvin Youngblood Hart & Carolina Chocolate Drops: Step It Up and Go
Blind Boy Fuller: Step It Up and Go
Alvin Youngblood Hart: Busy Bootin’
Alvin Youngblood Hart: My Soul Is A Witness
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by Scott Barretta for Radio Free Amstredam
Produced & recorded by Joe Yorke at the University of Mississippi
Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Steve Pratt
© 2008, 2018 Scott Barretta. Used with permission.