Category Archives: Exercise

10 February 2024

Walking. Germantown.
Bye & Bye/Saints – Gregg Stafford & Dr. Michael White
That’s Alright – Ranky Tanky
Once Upon a Time – Mary Wells & Marvin Gaye
Black Is – The Last Poets
Whole World – Bobby McFerrin & Esperanza Spalding
I’m on My Way – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Mama’s Cryin’ Long – Our Native Daughters
Dis Generation – A Tribe Called Quest
People Get Ready – The Impressions
The Lord’s Prayer – Aaron Neville
Down to Zero – Joan Armatrading
Everything – Ben Harper
Agolo – Angelique Kidjo
Rise Up – Audra Day
Maduna – Miriam Makeba
Motownphilly – Boyz II Men

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6 February 2024

Walking. Germantown. Stretching. Gym in the Apartment.
Bob Marley’s birthday.
All songs by Bob Marley & The Wailers unless otherwise noted.
Redemption Song
No Woman No Cry
Three Little Birds
Buffalo Soldier
Get Up Stand Up
Stir It Up
Exodus
Jamming
Put It On – Bob Marley
One Love – Bob Marley
One Love/People Get Ready
Rainbow Country

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5 February 2024

Walking. Louisville. Stretching. Gym in the Apartment.
Trayvon Martin killing anniversary.
Trayvon Martin – Watoto from the Nile
Don’t Believe the Hype – Public Enemy
Renegades of Funk – Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force
Colors – Ice-T
Control – Janet Jackson
Proud to Be Black – Run-DMC
Stand Your Ground – Pharoahe Monch
Super Life – Chaka Khan
Rest in Power – Black Thought
Don’t Tread on Trayvon Martin – Truth on Earth
Everyday I Pray – Kreepa
Trayvon Martin – Big Poppa & BMayneBeatz
Throw on My Hoodie – Cecil Morris

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4 February 2024

Walking. Germantown. Stretching. Gym in the Apartment.
Rosa Parks birthday. Amadou Diallo killing.
Sister Rosa – The Neville Brothers
Rosa Sat – MUSE Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir
Rosa Parks – Outkast
Diallo – Wyclef Jean
American Skin – Bruce Springsteen
A.D. 2000 – Erykah Badu
I Find It Hard to Say – Lauryn Hill
I Know Where I’ve Been – Queen Latifah
Freedom – Joi
That’s Who I Am – Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’
Woke Up This Morning – Fannie Lou Hamer
We’ll Never Turn Back – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Eyes on the Prize – Mavis Staples

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3 February 2024

Walking. Gym in the Apartment.
Superstition – Stevie Wonder
Pearls – Angelique Kidjo, Carlos Santana, Josh Groban
The Guitar Man – Gary Clark, Jr.
Campfire – Wu Tang Clan
I Still Love You – Jennifer Hudson
Sandra’s Smile – Blood Orange
Union – The Black-Eyed Peas
The House I Live In – Paul Robeson
Slippin’ Away – Toshi Reagon
Kids… – A Tribe Called Quest
One Love/People Get Ready – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Save Our Children – Carlos Jones and the PLUS Band
Computer Blues – Prince & The Revolution
Watch Your Step – Joan Armatrading

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2 February 2024

Pata Pata 2000 – Miriam Makeba
Bring the Noise – Public Enemy
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free – Nina Simone
I’m Lucky – Joan Armatrading
Pastime Paradise – Stevie Wonder
Is This Love – Bob Marley & The Wailers
I Can See Clearly Now – Gladys Knight & The Pips
The Girl Can’t Help It – Little Richard
KwaZulu – Hugh Masekela, feat. Themba Mokoena
Take Me Where You Go – Elmore James
Our Side Won – Sweet Honey in the Rock
You Must Be Born Again – Mahalia Jackson
Mr. Highway Man – Howlin’ Wolf
Violet – Seal
Interlude #1 – Earth, Wind & Fire
My Sweet Lord – Aretha Franklin

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1 February 2024

Walking. Apartment. Germantown.
Let America Be America Again – James Earl Jones
Why U Turn On Me – 2Pac
Kindhearted Woman Blues – Robert Johnson
Crescendo in Blue – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
I Guess I’ll Get the Papers – Louis Armstrong
A Single Woman – Nina Simone
Spirit in the Dark – Aretha Franklin
Red River – Lead Belly
All By Myself – Fats Domino
Fading Flower – Yuna
How Sweet It Is – Marvin Gaye
The Bottle – Gil Scott-Heron
Listen to the Lambs – The Howard University Chamber Choir
Use Me – Bill Withers
Lift Every Voice and Sing – The Boys Choir of Harlem

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31 January 2024

Walking. Grove City. Germantown.
Third Movement of the Violin Concero by Aram Khachaturian, arranged for flute – Sean Koenig
Some Girls – Isaac Powell
Roll Me Away – Bob Seger
Miller’s Angels – Counting Crows
Roses – Annale
Baby Step Back – Gordon Lightfoot
Down the Road – Steve Earle
If I Fall You’re Going Down With Me – The Chicks
The Ballad of Harriet Tubman – Magpie
Terry’s Song – Bruce Springsteen
King Harvest – The Band
Wild Cherry Canyon – Paul Horn & R. Carlos Nakai
Grond – The Hammer of the Underworld – The Return of the King
On the Road Again – Willie Nelson & Johnny Cash

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30 January 2024

Walking. Grove City.
WKRP in Cincinnati – Television’s Greatest Hirs Band
Planting the Tree of Peace – Joanne Shenandoah
What Y’all Come to Do – Aretha Franklin & John Legend
Margarita – The Traveling Wilburys
Opening Song for the Maker – Joy Harjo
East Street Dream – Eva Cassidy
Something to See – Tracy Chapman
Stoned Love – The Supremes
Our Very Own – Nanci Griffith
Run On – Moby
Te Ata – J25
Sunday Bloody Sunday – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Domhnach Na Fola – T with the Maggies
Minds Locked Shut – Christy Moore
Bloody Sunday – Cruachan
Sunday Bloody Sunday – The Wolfe Tones
Bloody Sunday – U2

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27 January 2024

Walking. Stretching. Solon.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Liberation VII. Free at Last – Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Duo for Violin & Viola in the Quarter-Tone System: I. Andante – Teng Li & Benjamin Bowman
Duo for Violin & Viola in the Quarter-Tone System: II. Tempo di marcia – Teng Li & Benjamin Bowman
Duo for Violin & Viola in the Quarter-Tone System: III. Maestoso – Teng Li & Benjamin Bowman
Duo for Violin & Viola in the Quarter-Tone System: IV. Allegro – Teng Li & Benjamin Bowman
Shostakovich – Symphony No. 13 in B Flat Minor – Op. 113, “Babi Yar”: II. Yumor – Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Music Written in Terezin by Gideon Klein
Piano Sonata: I. Allegro con fuoco – Jaromir Klepac
Piano Sonata: II. Adagio – Jaromir Klepac
Piano Sonata: III. Allegro vivace – Jaromir Klepac
Trio:  I. Allegro – Czech String Trio
Trio: II. Lento – Variation on Moravian folk song themes – Czech String Trio
Trio: III. Molto vivace – Czech String Trio

Dance – by Hans Krasa – Czech Folk String Trio
Four Songs on Chinese Poetry by Pavel Haas – Karl Prusa & Jiri Pokorny
A Survivor from Warsaw – Simon Joly Chorale, David Wilson-Johnson, Robert Craft & Philharmonia Orchestra

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