Category Archives: Music

15 March 2022

Crowded Table – The Highwomen
I Know I Could Fly – Our Native Daughters
Heaven Will Welcome You Dr. King – Big Maybelle
Warrior Heart – Shawnee
State of the World – Janet Jackson
My Lord, What a Morning – Marion Anderson
It Is Well with My Soul – Mahalia Jackson
Fresh Water Salmon – Awkwafina
Stomping Ground – Emily Wurramara
No More Auction Block for Me – Odetta
In Harm’s Way – Amanda Palmer
Until You Came Back to Me – Aretha Franklin
Canbrack Girls – Eileen Ivers
In the Mirror – Yaeji
What We Said – Shakira

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14 March 2022

All songs by Fannie Lou Hamer unless otherwise noted. Thank you for your witness Ms. Hamer.
Precious Lord
On Being a Sharecropper
Run Mourner, Run
City Called Heaven
All the Pretty Little Horses
I’m Gonna Land on the Shore
Oh Lord, You Know Just How I Feel
I’m Going Down to the River of Jordan
Jesus Is My Only Friend
Pick a Bale of Cotton
Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
Walk with Me
This Little Light of Mine
Mass Meeting Speech
Certainly Lord
Woke up This Morning
American Pie – Shawnee
Blueberry Pie – Bette Midler
Pie Jesu ver. On the Rocks – Sera

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13 March 2022

Stretching. Gym in the Apartment
Oremi – Angelique Kidjo
The Greatest – Sia
Mercedes Benz – Janis Joplin
Green Light – Beyonce
Cherokee River – Walela
That’s Alright – Ranky Tanky
Spit of Love – Bonnie Raitt
Following the North Star – Rhiannon Giddens
Seen It All – Shae Diamond
Thought I Knew You – Nicki Minaj
Break Bread Together – Mary Williams
Round the Lake – Stiff Gins
Coming Round Again – Carly Simon
Ebudae – Enya
One – India.Arie
Too Proud – Hikaru Utada

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7 March 2022

Selma Bloody Sunday. 57 years ago.
Woke up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom – Sweet Honey in the Rock
We Shall Not Be Moved – Marchers
This Little Light of Mine/Which Side Are You On? – Workers in Selma at Mass for Jimmie Lee Johnson
Freedom Highway – Rhiannon Giddens
Wade in the Water – Fannie Lou Hamer
God will Take Care of You/Climbing Jacob’s Ladder – Hosea Williams and Marchers
Steal Away/Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen – Hosea Williams and Marchers
Come by Here – Marchers
Berlin Wall – Marchers
Oh, Freedom – Congregation of Brown Chapel
If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize – James Orange and Protesters
Everybody Wants Freedom – Demonstrators at March
Freedom Now Chant – Demonstrators at March
Go Tell it on the Mountain – Demonstrators at March
Oh, Wallace – Band 1
Get on Board – Band 2
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around – Two Little Girls at March
We Shall Overcome – Workers in Selma at Mass for Jimmie Lee Johnson
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round – James Orange and Youth
Which Side Are You On? – James Orange and Youth


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6 March 2022

Hand weights. Stretching. Gym in the apartment.
I Saw a Bird Fly Away – Dar Williams
Watch Your Step – Anita Baker
Four Seasons – Melanie Durrant
Prophecy Song – Joanne Shenandoah
Opening Song for the Maker – Joy Harjo
LOVE – Jhene Aiko
The One Who Really Loves You – Mary Wells
Loving You – Rim Banna feat. Checkpoint 303 & Bugge Wesseltoft
The Chain – The Highwomen
Knife Going In – Tegan & Sara
Dark Truths – Joan Armatrading
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps – Lila Downs
All I Left Behind – Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris
Together Again – Janet Jackson
Suga Mama – Beyonce
Mama’s Opry – Iris DeMent
In the Quiet Morning – John Baez

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5 March 2022

Stretching. Gym in the Apartment.
Drop Me off in Harlem – Ella Fitzgerald
The One Who Knows – Dar Williams
Cursum Perifico – Enya
Marijuana – Awkwafina
Agbalagba -Angelique Kidjo
The Queen of Connemara – Cherish the Ladies
Nothing Yet – Tracy Chapman
Crowley’s/Jackson’s – Eileen Ivers
Brace – Sara Bareilles
Our Precious Mothers – Bear Fox
She’s Saving Me – Indigo Girls
Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound – Nanci Griffith
Winter Is Cruel – Magdalen Hsu-Li
God Bless the Child – Eva Cassidy

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19 February 2022

Walking. Gym in the Apartment.
Kenji – Fort Minor
Summer of ’42 – Kishi Bashi
Resist – Allegiance
Manzanar – Channel 3
Manzanar – Laurie Lewis
Manzanar – Tom Paxton & Anne Hills
How Can You Go? – Lea Salonga & Telly Leung
Wishes on the Wind – Lea Salonga & Telly Leung
Allegiance – Allegiance
Our Time Now – Allegiance
Stronger Than Before – Lea Salongs & Katie Rose Clark
Still a Chance – Allegiance
Sands of Manzanar – Yukiko Matsuyama & Hirotaka Ogawa
I Remember – Beth DeSombre

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13 February 2022

Walking. Germantown. In solidarity with So Jung Kim and the Boston Winter Walk.
It’s Over Now – Della Reese
Love Blue – Keb’ Mo’
Take the “A” Train – Duke Ellington and HIs Famous Orchestra
Heading Back to New York – Joan Armatrading
Supreme Architecture – RZA
Part of My Life – India.Arie
The Roadie Song – Aaron Neville
Fix Me Jesus – Bobby McFerrin
Mighty River – Mary J. Blige
Stand Up – Cynthia Erivo
O Death – Ranky Tanky
Alberta – Lead Belly
Unforgettable – Nat “King” Cole
Chun-Li – Nicki Minaj
Use Me – Bill WIthers
Everybody Got To Believe In Somebody – Sam & Dave

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22 January 2022

Walking. Germantown. Walking and stretching. Gym in the apartment.
Happy Birthday, So Jung Kim.
It’s My Life – Korean cover
It’s My Life – Sri Lankan cover
Emantha-Papaguneray (Turtle Song) – Emily Wurramara
It’s My Life – Bon Jovi
Follow – Richie Havens
Djigui – Issa Bagayogo
Enough of the Night – Jackson Browne
Daylight – Alison Krause & Union Station
Thieves in the Temple – Prince
The Tide Will Rise – Bruce Hornsby
Walking the Path – Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai
Angels with Dirty Faces – Los Lobos
De sigkrinese – Kelly Kelekidou feat. Nikos Kourkoulis
Victory Song – Frank Waln feat. Kodi DeNoyer
Letter to You – Bruce Springsteen
The Donegal Set – The Chieftains
Hasten Down the Wind – Warren Zevon
My Melancholy Baby – Della Reese

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21 January 2022

Walking. Gym in the Apartment. Germantown.
Rosa Sat – Amy Dixon-Kolar
Growin’ on It – Bonnie Raitt
The Living – Natalie Merchant
Boris Godounov – Symphonic Synthesis By Leopold Stokowski: II. Coronation of Boris – Cleveland Orchestra
Hello My Baby – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
I Don’t Want to Talk About It – Indigo Girls
Fire of Freedom – Black 47
Wide Open Spaces – The Chicks
I’m Not Sleeping – Counting Crows
The Golden Road – Grateful Dead
My Better Years – The Johnson Mountain Boys
Comin’ Around – Steve Earle & Emmylou Harris
Waiting for a Miracle – John McCutcheon
Falling from Sleeves – Calexico
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
I’ll Do Anything for Love – Meat Loaf

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