Here's the playlist for Womenfolk Radio's Black History Month special that
originally aired on 2/25/26, featuring some of the finest Black artists in
folk, blues, bluegrass and roots music including old classics and new music
from Shemekia Copeland, Queen Esther, Rissi Palmer, Mavis Staples and more.
Plus a conversation with rising Americana star Joy Clark from New Orleans.
It's available on PRX. Enjoy! -Ellen Stanley

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WOMENFOLK RADIO (2-4-26)
Black History Month Special + Joy Clark Interview

HOUR #1 PLAYLIST:
*New Releases
**Womenfolk Theme Song

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson / Hook and Line / What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow / Nonesuch / 1:00 (2025)
Amythyst Kiah / Darlin Corey / Dig / Self / 4:16 (2013)
New Dangerfield / Put No Walls Around Your Garden / Free Dirt Records / 3:12 (2024)
Martha Redbone Roots Project / The Garden of Love / The Garden of Love
(Songs of William Blake) / Blackfeet Productions / 4:12 (2012)
*Queen Esther / Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down / Blackbirding / El Recordings / 5:07 (2026)

[Instrumental Bed]
Jackie Venson / Rollin' On / Rollin' On - Single / Self / 1:00 (2021)

Joy Clark / Shine / Tell It to the Wind / Righteous Babe / 3:19 (2024)

[Interview with Joy Clark]

Joy Clark / Tell It to the Wind / Tell It to the Wind / Righteous Babe / 4:05 (2024)

[Instrumental Bed]
SistaStrings / Deep River / Lift - EP / Magik Family Records / 1:00 (2019)

Mary Cutrufello / Highway 59 (Let It Rain) / When the Night Is Through / Mercury / 4:30 (1998)
Lizzie No / Halfsies / Halfsies / Thirty Tigers / 3:48 (2024)
SistaStrings / Girls Ride Horses / My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall / Oh Boy Records / 3:52 (2024)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe / Didn't It Rain / The Gospel of the Blues (Remastered) / Geffen / 2:34 (2003)
Rhiannon Giddens / Up Above My Head / Tomorrow Is My Turn / Nonesuch / 3:10 (2014)


HOUR #2 PLAYLIST:
*New Releases

Tracy Chapman / Talkin' Bout a Revolution / Tracy Chapman / Elektra / 2:40 (1988)
Crys Matthews / Hope Revolution / Changemakers / Self / 4:09 (2021)
Leyla McCalla / Freedom Is a Constant Struggle / Freedom Is a Constant Struggle / Anti / 3:25 (2023)
Nina Simone / I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free / Sugar in My
Bowl: The Very Best of Nina Simone 1969-1972 / Sony / 3:09 (1998)
Odetta / Hit or Miss / Philadelphia Folk Festival 40th Annviersary / Sliced Bread Records / 3:01 (2001)

[Instrumental Bed]
Elizabeth Cotten / Street Blues / Elizabeth Cotten Vol. 3: When I'm Gone / Smithsonian / 1:00 (1979)

Yasmin Williams / Cliffwalk (feat. Dom Flemons) / Acadia / Nonesuch / 4:44 (2023)
Deidre McCalla / I Do Not Walk This Path Alone / Endless Grace / Self / 5:10 (2022)
*Kyshona / The Echo / Legacy (Live From the Blueroom Studios) / Moraine Music Group / 3:28 (2025)
*Rissi Palmer / Old Southern Black Woman / Perspective - EP / Self / 3:36 (2026)

[Instrumental Bed]
Lilli Lewis / Sittin' on Top of the World / The Henderson Sessions / Louisiana Red Hot Records / 1:00 (2017)

*Joe Banomassa, Slash, Shemekia Copeland & Myles Kennedy / When Love Comes
to Town / B.B. King's Blues Summit 100: Celebrating The King of the Blues / Keeping the Blues Alive Records / 4:11 (2025)
*Mavis Staples / Everybody Needs Love / Sad and Beautiful World / Anti / 4:24 (2025)
Sweet Honey in the Rock / Ella's Song / Breaths / Rounder / 5:50 (1988)
Ruthie Foster / Joy Comes Back / Joy Comes Back / Blue Corn / 4:32 (2017)

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WOMENFOLK, hosted by Ellen Stanley (she/her)
~the best in folk/americana music from women & non-binary artists~

Wed 8-10 am CDT | KFAI 90.3 FM (Minneapolis, MN)
Sat 10 am-12 pm CDT | Folk Music Notebook
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