Aretha Franklin's Gospel Blues

Music in this episode

Aretha Franklin - “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” (1972)

Tennessee Ernie Ford - “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” (1958)

Elizabeth Cotten - “In The Sweet Bye and Bye/What a Friend We Have in Jesus” (1958)

Willie and Bobbie Nelson - “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” (1996)

The Campbell Brothers with Katie Jackson - “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” (1997)

Mahalia Jackson - “Dark Was the Night and Cold the Ground” (1957)

Aretha Franklin - “Precious Lord, Take My Hand/You’ve Got a Friend” (1972)

John Lee Hooker - “Burnin’ Hell” (1959)

John Lee Hooker - “Ezekiel Saw The Wheel” (1949) (thank you to Wenatchee the Hatchet for pointing me to this recording)

References

James Cone - The Spirituals and the Blues

Angela Davis - Blues Legacies and Black Feminism

Adam Gussow - Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition

Carly Jensen - “What They Sang: The Religious Roots of Spirituals and Blues”