Tuesday Breakfast Blend presents:
Auntie Georgie is roundin’ out the end of African Heritage Month with the songs of her people. My people. She people.. I am…. Groot? Third person is strange.
Featured art: S. Ross Browne, Quintessential Funk LP
Curtis Mayfield, “We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue”
from Curtis (Expanded Edition)
Rhino - 2000
Nikki Giovanni, “The Rose That Grew from Concrete”
from The Rose That Grew from Concrete, Vol. 1
Amaru - 2000
The Ishmael Reed Quintet, “Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise”
from For All We Know
Konch Records - 2007
Lauryn Hill, “To Zion (feat. Carlos Santana)”
from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Ruffhouse/Columbia - 1998
Sonia Sanchez, “City Songs”
from A Sun Lady for All Seasons Reads Her Poetry
Folkways Records - 1971
Lead Belly, “Black Betty”
from Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2015
Lightnin' Hopkins, “Sinner's Prayer”
from The Complete Prestige / Bluesville Recordings
Prestige - 1991
Akeylah Simone, “Black Is Beautiful; Letter to My Country”
from Black Is Beautiful; Letter to My Country - Single
self released - 2021
Georgia Anne Muldrow, “Baroque Ditty Thang”
from oLIGARCHY sUCKS!
SomeOthaShip Connect / Foreseen Entertainment - 2015
Mabel King, “Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News”
from The Wiz (Original Cast Recording)
Rhino Atlantic - 2005
The Ishmael Reed Quintet, “If I'm a Welfare Queen Where Are My Jewels and Furs”
from For All We Know
Konch Records - 2007
Margaret Walker, “Harlem”
from Margaret Walker Reads Margaret Walker and Langston Hughes
Folkways Records - 1975
Gladys Knight & The Pips, “Bourgie' Bourgie'”
from About Love (Expanded Edition)
Columbia/Legacy - 1980
Parliament, “Bop Gun (Endangered Species)”
from Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome
Mercury Records - 1977
Your Auntie Georgie Tuesday Breakfast Blend February 23rd, 2021
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