SMALL TOWN TALK: Episode 36

In which Small Town Talk vows to play only the very best of female artists down the years.   1.   Baby Doll - The Del Moroccos 2.   Keep Your Hands On The Plow - Mahalia Jackson 3.   Up Above My Head, I Hear Music Playing - Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Marie Knight 4.   Parchman Farm Blues - Bobbie Gentry   (This month's death song) 5.   Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Patti Smith 6.   Dancing Barefoot - Patti Smith 7.   Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton 8.   I’m So Sorry - Carroll Thompson 9.   I’m So Sorry -Mary Wells 10.  Let Me Down Easy - Paloma Faith 11. Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane 12. Stay Awhile - She & Him 13. People Get Ready - Dionne Warwick 14. I’ll Take You There - The Staple Singers   Theme Tune “Small Town Talk” - Bobby Charles   YOU MADE ME FEEL SO BLUE YEAH, YOU MADE ME WEEP AND MOAN CAUSE YOU AIN’T LOOKIN’ FOR A WOMAN ALL YOUR LOOKIN’, IS FOR A HOME Big Mama Thornton, -  Hound Dog  [written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller]   Over at Bright Lights, Big City, Johnny Corsair is still handing out free Ace CDs. Go listen - he also plays the very best in Blues, Soul and Gospel and while basking in the music, win a brand new album.  BLBC  is at: https://johnnycorsair9.podbean.com/   Sister Rosetta Tharpe knocking your socks of with a guitar solo years ahead of it’s time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ Crazy stuff on the Gospel Train at a disused Manchester Railway Station. It’s the good Sister again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE And check out Yola  as Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Elvis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOEsowxwxSc   And don’t forget to check out Nick Waterhouse: Live signing at Rough Trade East (Friday 28th April 7.00pm): https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/events/east-london   To give feedback and/or get further information and musings on the music email me at: [email protected]   Illustration: Small Town Talk  digs up some antique family photos for Ladies Night