Just as Well, If Not Better

Time Again Radio Show presents:

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.

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