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#181 [Aired 05-02-25, 05-04-25]
Ohio Players: Love Rollercoaster
The O’Jays: I Love Music
WAR: All Day Music
Soul Saints Orchestra: Bag of Soul
Quincy Jones/Sonic Funk Foundry: Soul Saga
Stevie Wonder: Have a Talk with God
Solomon Burke: Cry to Me
Prince: When Doves Cry
Herbie Hancock: Chameleon
Sade: Hang On to Your Love
Ultra Nate: How Long
Mos Def/Marvin Gaye: I Want You ‘Til the Summertime
Gramatik: The Prophet
#180 [Aired 04-25-25, 04-27-25]
Curtis Mayfield: Superfly
Ann Peebles: Come To Mama
James Brown: There It Is
Q-Tip: Barely in Love
The Meters: The Hand Clapping Song
The Mighty Imperials: Jody’s Walk
Money Mark: Push the Button
Digable Planets: Jettin’
Anderson Paak w/ Smokey Robinson: Make It Better
Smokey Robinson: Cruisin’
Sonic Funk Foundry: Funky Jorge
Donna Summer: I Feel Love
Prince: Kiss
Stevie Wonder: Superstition
Robert Glasper w/ Erykah Badu: Afro Blue
#179 [Aired 04-18-25, 04-20-25]
Earth, Wind & Fire: Boogie Wonderland
Kool & The Gang: Jungle Boogie
Roy Ayers: Boogie Down
Cheryl Lynn: Got To Be Real
Beastie Boys: Sabrosa
Labelle: Are You Lonely?
Al Green: Tired of Being Alone
Kentavius Jones: Telephone
Macy Gray: Why Didn’t You Call Me
The Three Degrees: When Will I See You Again
Menahan Street Band: Make the Road by Walking
The Crusaders w/ Randy Crawford: Street Life
Soul II Soul: Feel Free
Caron Wheeler: UK Blak
Soul II Soul: Back to Life
Bugseed: dalila
#178 [Aired 04-11-25, 04-13-25]
Kool & The Gang: Funky Stuff
Edwin Starr: Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On
Brothers Johnson: Ain’t We Funkin’ Now
Parliament: Give Up the Funk
Society’s Bag: Let It Crawl
The Pointer Sisters: Going Down Slowly
Labelle: Lady Marmalade
Tina Turner: Baby, I’m a Star
Prince: Mountains
Sarah, The Illstrumentalist: Firmament
SAULT: Masterpiece
Ese & The Vooduu People: Tainted Love
Bill Withers: Use Me
Lafayette Afro Rock Band: Congo
#177 [Aired 04-04-25, 04-06-25]
Aretha Franklin: Rock Steady
Eddie Kendricks: Keep On Truckin’
Bohannon: Truck Stop
R.L. Burnside: It’s Bad You Know
Booker T. & The MG’s
Sly & The Family Stone: Thankful n’ Thoughtful
Erykah Badu: Gone Baby, Don’t Be Long
Roberta Flack: Feel Like Makin’ Love
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway: The Close I Get to You
Beastie Boys: Sabrosa
SAULT: Up All Night
Angie Stone: Everyday
Jill Scott: One Is the Magic #
Khruangbin: Lady and Man
The Budos Band: Up from the South
#176 [Aired 03-28-25, 03-30-25]
The Temptations: Shakey Ground
Otis Redding: Scratch My Back
The O’Jays: Back Stabbers
Chocolate Genius: My Endless Fall
WAR: Low Rider
WAR: River Niger
Musiq: Religious
Al Green: Belle
Gil Scott-Heron: I Think I’ll Call It Morning
Leo’s Sunship: Give Me the Sunshine
James Brown: The Payback
Isaac Hayes: The Look of Love
Lauryn Hill: Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You
Hannah Williams: Late Nights & Heartbreak
The Whitefield Brothers: Safari Strut
#175 [Aired 03-21-25, 03-23-25]
The Bar-Kays: I’ll Dance
Kool & The Gang: Get Down on It
The Jacksons: Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)
George Clinton: Atomic Dog
The Mighty Continentals: Sticky Sticky Sock-A-Poo
The Pointer Sisters: You Gotta Believe
Nikka Costa: Everybody Got Their Something
Amy Winehouse: The Girl from Ipanema
Crystal Waters: The Boy from Ipanema
Indeep: Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Manu Dibango: Pata Piya
Herbie Hancock: Rockit
Contact-U: Inside You
Farid: Pit Stop
#174 [Aired 03-14-25, 03-16-25]
Chic: I Want Your Love (Live)
Earth, Wind & Fire: Can’t Hide Love
Bill Withers: Kissing My Love
Al Green: You’ve Got the Love I Need
Gladys Knight & The Pips: Midnight Train to Georgia
Thelma Houston: Don’t Leave Me This Way
Janet Jackson: When I Think of You
The Jackson 5: I Want You Back
Bobby Byrd: If You Got a Love
Maceo & All the King’s Men: Better Half
D’Angelo: Betray My Heart
Donny Hathaway: A Song for You
Stevie Wonder: As
#173 [Aired 03-07-25, 03-09-25]
Brothers Johnson: Strawberry Letter 23
Shuggie Otis: Inspiration Information
Ohio Players: Fopp
Prince: Pink Cashmere
Rufus w/ Chaka Khan: Sweet Thing
Erykah Badu: 20 Feet Tall
Roberta Flack: Feel Like Makin’ Love
Marvin Gaye: Let’s Get It On
Diana Ross: Love Hangover
James Brown: King Heroin (instrumental)
Meshell Ndegeocello: God Shiva
Hiatus Kaiyote: Shaolin Monk Motherfunk
Brand New Heavies: Back to Love
St. Germain: Land Of…
#172 [Aired 02-28-25, 03-02-25]
The Bar-Kays: Too Hot to Stop
Sly & Robbie: Fire
Ohio Players: Who’d She Coo?
WAR: Low Rider
Carla Thomas: To Love Somebody
Thievery Corporation: Until the Morning Comes
Valerie June w/ Carla Thomas: Friendship
Donny Hathaway: You’ve Got a Friend
The Meters: Wichita Lineman
The Meters: Britches
Incognito: Water to Drink
El Michels Affair: Shimmy Shimmy Ya
Ronny Jordan: So What
George Benson: This Masquerade
Chuck Brown: Harlem Nocturne
#171 [Aired 02-21-25, 02-23-25]
Stargard: Which Way Is Up
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings: Got a Think on My Mind
James Brown: Soul Power
Yarbrough & Peoples: Can’t Stop the Music
The Dramatics: Get Up and Get Down
Lauryn Hill: Lost Ones
Vernon Reid: Uptown Drifter
Marvin Gaye: Mercy Mercy Me
Yasiin Gaye: There Is a Way
Gramatik: The Prophet
Cassette Heads: Chè Ja Vu
Macy Gray: A Moment to Myself
Bugseed: Dalila
Weldon Irvine: Music Is the Key
#170 [02-14-25, 02-16-25]
Outkast: Happy Valentine’s Day
The Emotions: Best of My Love
The O’Jays: Love Train
Aretha Franklin: Baby I Love You
Al Green: Look What You Done for Me
Gramatik: Doin’ It
Mary J. Blige: You Bring Me Joy
Anita Baker: Sweet Love
Gladys Knight: Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
Prince: Forever in My Life
Prince: I Would Die 4 U
D’Angelo: Feel Like Makin’ Love
D’Angelo: Cruisin’
D’Angelo: Lady
D’Angelo: Unitled (How Does It Feel) Instrumental
#169 [Aired 02-07-25, 02-09-25]
James Brown: Talkin’ Loud and Sayin’ Nothing
Billy Preston: Will It Go Round in Circles
Aretha Franklin: Spirit in the Dark
Average White Band: Pick Up the Pieces
The Bar-Kays: In the Hole
Gramatik: Don’t Get Weary
Bronze Connection: Love Uprising
James Blood Ulmer: Show Me Your Love, America
Chuck Brown: We the People
Sarah, The Illstrumentalist: Nephilim
Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove
L’Orange: What Am I Gonna Do
Daft Punk w/ Pharrell: Lose Yourself to Dance
The Brand New Heavies: Keep Together
Sugar Loaf: Soul Walk
#168 [Aired 01-31-25, 02-02-25]
Speedometer: The Shakedown
Solange: Where Do We Go
The Staple Singers: If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me)
Sam & Dave: Hold On I’m Coming
Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground
Rufus & Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good
Rare Earth: I Just Want to Celebrate
Sly & The Family Stone: Poet
Prince & The New Power Generation: 7
Gramatik: The Prophet
Lexsoul Dancemachine: Beef Grinder
Lea Roberts: All Right Now (Wonderlove Re-Edit)
Sade: By Your Side (Cottonbelly Mix)
Thundercat: Lava Lamp
Thievery Corporation: Sleeper Car
#167 [Aired 01-24-25, 01-26-25]
James Brown: Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved
Isaac Hayes: Do Your Thing
The Isley Brothers: It’s a New Thing
Parliament: Flash Light
Gil Scott-Heron: I Think I’ll Call It Morning
Bill Withers: I Don’t Know
Nina Simone: Everything Must Change
Mavis Staples: Keep On Pushing
Chuck Brown: People Make the World Go Round
Society’s Bag: Let It Crawl
Neneh Cherry: Move With Me
Soul II Soul: Keep On Movin’
Nuyorican Soul w/ Jocelyn Brown: It’s Alright, I Feel It!
St. Germain: Land Of
#166 [Aired 01-17-25, 01-19-25]
B.T. Express: Do It (‘Til You’re Satisfied)
Beastie Boys: Pow
The Nite-Liters: Afro Strut
Brick: Dazz
Curtis Mayfield: If There’s a Hell Below (instrumental)
Ben E. King: Supernatural Thing
Con Funk Shun: Ffun
Lakeside: Fantastic Voyage
War: River Niger
D’Angelo: Another Life
Erykah Badu: My Life
Fugees: Killing Me Softly
Amerigo Gazaway: The Jam
#165 [Aired 01-10-25, 01-12-25]
Earth, Wind & Fire: Gratitude
Brothers Johnson: I’ll Be Good to You
Carl Carlton: Everlasting Love
Commodores: Sweet Love
Bobby Caldwell: What You Won’t Do For Love
Chic: Good Times
Diana Ross: Upside Down
The Jacksons: Enjoy Yourself
Sister Sledge: We Are Family
The Gap Band: Outstanding
Gramatik: Itz Over
Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up
Macy Gray: I Try
Jill Scott: It’s Love
D’Angelo: Feel Like Makin’ Love
#164 [Aired 01-03-25, 01-05-25]
The Staple Singers: I’ll Take You There
Amy Winehouse: He Can Only Hold Her
Stevie Wonder: I Was Made to Love Her
Smokey Robinson: The Tears of a Clown
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: I’m Not Gonna Cry
The Gaturs: Gatur Bait
Trouble Funk: Let’s Get Hot
Soul II Soul: Keep On Movin’
The Crusaders: Street Life
Heatwave: Boogie Nights
The Avalanches: Stay Another Season
The Avalanches: Since I Left You
Beyoncé: Break My Soul
Sylvester: I Need Somebody to Love Tonight
#163 [Aired 12-27-24, 12-29-24]
Earth, Wind & Fire: Sing a Song
Earth, Wind & Fire: Let’s Groove
Earth, Wind & Fire: Serpentine Fire
Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star
Bugseed: Sun Goddess
The Bar-Kays: Shine
Al Green: L-O-V-E
Kentavius Jones: Luckiest Man
Stevie Wonder: Have a Talk with God
Isley Brothers: Caravan of Love
A Forest Mighty Black: Rebirth
The Pointer Sisters: Yes We Can Can
The Neville Brothers: Fly Like an Eagle
The Stylistics: People Make the World Go Round
African Head Charge: Hymn
Christmas Special [Aired 12-20-24, 12-22-24]
Booker T. & The MG’s: Jingle Bells
Amerigo Gazaway: Lil’ Funky Drummer Boy
James Brown: Christmas Is Love
Solomon Burke: Presents for Christmas
Mack Rice: Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’
Otis Redding: Merry Christmas Baby
Booker T. & The MG’s: Winter Wonderland
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Just Another Christmas Song (This Time I’ll Sing Along)
The Huck-A-Bucks: Silver Bells
Alicia Keys: Little Drummer Girl
Aloe Blacc: I Got Your Christmas Right Here
Karen Meets Roots Radics: A Dub Reggae Christmas with The Carpenters
Shawn Lee: Jingle Bells
Cutmaster DC: The Night Before Christmas
Al Green: Feels Like Christmas
Chuck Brown: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
The Temptations: Silent Night
Booker T. & The MG’s: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Christmas Special [Aired 12-13-24, 12-15-24]
Booker T. & The MG’s: Jingle Bells
James Brown: Soulful Christmas
Rufus Thomas: I’ll Be Your Santa Baby
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Funky Little Drummer Boy
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: God Rest Ye Merry Gents
Donny Hathaway: This Christmas
Shawn Lee: Do You Hear What I Hear
Coldcut: Christmas Break
Aloe Blacc: Tell Your Mama
Chuck Brown: Merry Christmas Baby
Isaac Hayes: The Mistletoe and Me
Booker T. & The MG’s: The Christmas Song
Electric Jungle: Funky Funky Christmas
Rare Essence: Give Love on Christmas Day
The Temptations: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Adam Neely: Christmas Time Is Here
Carla Thomas: Gee Whiz, It’s Christmas
The Sweet Inspirations: Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday
Booker T. & The MG’s: We Wish You a Merry Christmas
#162 [Aired 12-06-24, 12-08-24]
Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters: Funk Hunter
Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color
Tina Turner: I Can’t Stand the Rain
Stevie Wonder: Boogie On Reggae Woman
Anita Baker: Sweet Love
Robert Glasper w/ Erykah Badu: Afro Blue
Diana Ross: Love Hangover
Galactic w/ Irma Thomas: Heart of Steel
Poets of Rhythm: Discern Define
The Brand New Heavies: Mind Trips
D’Angelo: The Line
Fertile Ground: Live in the Light
The Budos Band: Up From the South
#161 [Aired 11-29-24, 12-01-24]
Leo’s Sunshipp: Give Me the Sunshine
Stevie Wonder: You Are the Sunshine of My Life
The Bar-Kays: Shine
Ramsey Lewis: Sun Goddess
Al Green: Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
Ann Peebles: Come to Mama
D’Angelo: Cruisin’
Macy Gray: I Can’t Wait to Meetchu
Diana Ross: Upside Down
Prince: Betcha By Golly Wow
Erykah Badu: Didn’t Cha Know
Sade: No Ordinary Love
#160 [Aired 11-22-24, 11-24-24]
The Mighty Imperials: Cold Sweat
Sugarman 3: Down to It
Quincy Jones: Sanford and Son
The Dap-Kings: Nervous Like Me
The Whitefield Brothers: Thunderbird
Herbie Hancoack: Watermelon Man
The Meters: Tippi-Toes
Philip Catherine: Give It Up or Turn It Aloose
Booker T. & The MG’s: Day Tripper
Beastie Boys: Son of Neckbone
Sarah, The Illstrumentalist: Firmament
Gramatik: Just Chillin’
The Budos Band: Up From the South
Prince: I Wanna Be Your Lover (instrumental)
Quantic: Conspirator
Stevie Wonder: I Wish (instrumental)
Bugseed: dalila
#159 [Aired 11-15-24, 11-17-24]
The Isley Brothers: Take Me To the Next Phase
Lauryn Hill: Everything Is Everything
Bill Withers: Sometimes a Song
The Poets of Rhythm: Smilin’ (While You’re Crying)
The Temptations: Shakey Ground
Mel & Tim: Starting All Over Again
Q-Tip: Believe
Bob Marley: Lively Up Yourself
Amy Winehouse: Our Day Will Come
Hardy’s Jet Band: Selected Sound
The Neville Brothers: Sitting In Limbo
The Bar-Kays: Shine
Gil Scott-Heron: I Think I’ll Call It Morning
Meshell Ndegeocello: Satisfy
Millennial Territory Orchestra: Thank You For Talkin’ To Me Africa
#158 [Aired 11-08-24, 11-10-24]
Bill Withers: Heartbreak Road
James Brown: Soul Power
Bobby Byrd: I Need Help (I Can’t Do It Alone)
Four Tops: Reach Out I’ll Be There
Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground
The Blackbyrds: Walking In Rhythm
Neneh Cherry: Move With Me
Soul II Soul: Keep On Movin’
Chuck Brown: Think
Angie Stone: Visions
Prince: Emancipation
Brand New Heavies: Brother Sister
Weldon Irvine: We Gettin’ Down
#157 [Aired 11-01-24, 11-03-24]
The Pointer Sisters: Yes We Can Can
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Got a Thing on My Mind
Aretha Franklin: Respect
Quantic Soul Orchestra w/ Alice Russell: Pushin’ On
The Staple Singers: If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me)
Sarah, The Illstrumentalist: Keep Pushin’
Sly & The Family Stone: Stand!
Robert Palmer: Man Smart, Woman Smarter [Remix]
EU, Black Fire: Hey You
Maxayn: Trying for Days
Stevie Wonder: Boogie On Reggae Woman
Amerigo Gazaway: Step Up
Nuyorican Soul w/ Jocelyn Brown: It’s Alright, I Feel It!
Olu Dara: I See the Light
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
D’Angelo: Greatdayindamornin’
D’Angelo: Untitled (How Does It Feel) [Instrumental]
#156 [Aired 10-25-24, 10-27-24]
WAR: You Got the Power
The Bar-Kays: Holy Ghost
Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground
D’Angelo: Till It’s Done (Tutu)
The Herbaliser: It’s Just for You
Soul II Soul: Feel Free
Terence Trent D’Arby: Wishing Well
Al Green: Just for Me
Angie Stone: Love Junkie
Beastie Boys: Ricky’s Theme
Neville Brothers: With God on Our Side
Mavis Staples: Keep On Pushing
James Blood Ulmer: Show Me Your Love, America
Desmond Williams: For the Trees
#155 [Aired 10-18-24, 10-20-24]
Temptations: Ball of Confusion
Stevie Wonder: Front Line
James Brown: Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved
Chuck Brown: We the People
Bill Withers: Take It All In and Check It All Out
Nina Simone: Ain’t Got No – I Got Life
Chocolate Genius: Safe and Sound
Daft Punk w/ Pharrell: Lose Yourself to Dance
Prince: New Power Generation
Amerigo Gazaway: Step Up
Alabama Shakes: Future People
Frank Ocean: Godspeed
Meshell Ndegeocello: May This Be Love
Earth, Wind & Fire: Can’t Hide Love
Gerardo Frisina: Mystical Funk
#154 [Aired 10-11-24, 10-13-24]
Galactic w/ Irma Thomas: Heart of Steel
Neville Brothers: Voodoo
Neville Brothers: Fire On the Bayou
The Meters: The World Is a Little Bit Under the Weather
The Meters: Cabbage Alley
Curtis Mayfield: Freddie’s Dead
Stevie Wonder: Ordinary Pain
Prince: When Doves Cry
Sonic Funk Foundry: Funk Jorge (Tropical Remix)
Lauryn Hill: When It Hurts So Bad
D’Angelo: Another Life
Roy Ayers: Mystic Voyage
Nuyorican Soul: Nautilus
#153 [Aired 10-04-24, 10-06-24]
The Jackson 5: ABC
The Jacksons: Enjoy Yourself
Chic: Good Times
Diana Ross: Upside Down
Rufus: Tell Me Something Good
Amerigo Gazaway: The Jam
Beyonce: Freedom
Bob Marley: Lively Up Yourself
DJ Shadow: Building Steam With a Grain of Salt
Stevie Wonder: Sir Duke
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes: To Be Free To Be Who We Are
The Five Stairsteps: Ooh Child
Erykah Badu: 4 Leaf Clover
Dr. Rubberfunk w/ Izo FitzRoy: A Little Blahzay
Frootful: Ticking Over
#152 Aired 09-27-24, 09-29-24]
Earth, Wind & Fire: September
Ohio Players: Who’d She Coo?
Stevie Wonder: Maybe Your Baby
Prince: Girls & Boys
Georgia Anne Muldrow: Roses
Bill Withers: Sometimes a Song
Sly & The Family Stone: Poet
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes: Wake Up Everybody
Gramatik: Just Chillin’
ullnevano x God Sense Beats: Ghost of Reggie Lewis
Mos Def: Hip Hop
Mos Def: Umi Says
Erykah Badu: My Life
Nina Simone/Lauryn Hill: Peace of Mind (mash-up)
#151 [Aired 09-20-24, 09-22-24]
Chuck Brown w/ Jill Scott: Love
Al Green: L-O-V-E
Marvin Gaye: Your Precious Love
Earth, Wind & Fire: Can’t Hide Love
Donny Hathaway: What’s Goin’ On
Jill Scott: It’s Love
Isley Brothers: Caravan of Love
Bobby Caldwell: What You Won’t Do for Love
Kool & The Gang: Summer Madness
L.T.D.: Back in Love Again
Lou Rawls: You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
Gladys Knight & The Pips: Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
Isaac Hayes: The Look of Love
Organized Raw Funk: O.R.F. Pts I & II
#150 [Aired 09-13-24, 09-15-24]
Maceo Parker: Blues for Shorty Bill
Bernard Purdie: Cold Sweat
Fred Wesley & The JBs: Doing It to Death
Body & Soul w/ Trouble Funk: Dance to the Drummer’s Beat
Chuck Brown: Block Party
Trouble Funk: Part A (Live)
Jill Scott: A Long Walk (Groove)
The RH Factor: A Place
Meshell Ndegeocello: Who Is He and What Is He to You
Solange: Junie
The Whitefield Brothers: Thunderbird
#149 [Aired 09-06-24, 09-08-24]
The Staple Singers: I’ll Take You There
Amy Winehouse: He Can Only Hold Her
Stevie Wonder: I Was Made to Love Her
Smokey Robinson: The Tears of a Clown
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: I’m Not Gonna Cry
The Gaturs: Gatur Bait
Trouble Funk: Let’s Get Hot
Soul II Soul: Keep On Movin’
The Crusaders: Street Life
Heatwave: Boogie Nights
Mos Def/Marin Gaye: I Want You ‘Til the Summertime
Chuck Brown: People Make the World Go Round
Thundercat: Them Changes
Sly & The Family Stone: You Caught Me Smilin’
Thunderball: On the Sly
#148 [Aired 08-30-24, 09-01-24]
Chuck Brown: Think
James Brown: It’s Too Funky in Here
The J.B.’s Givin’ Up Food for Funk
Lexsoul Dancemachine: Beef Grinder
Solange: Where Do We Go
Roy Ayers: I Just Wanna Give It Up
Sade: Hang On to Your Love
Earth, Wind & Fire: Can’t Hide Love
Poets of Rhythm: Discern Define
Material: Mantra
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics: Blue Nile
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes: Space Lady
James Brown: King Heroin [instrumental]
#147 [Aired 08-23-24, 08-25-24]
Dorothy Moore: Ooh-Wee Baby
Aretha Franklin: Respect
Jean Knight: Mr. Big Stuff
The J.B.’s: Gimme Some More
Eddie Floyd: Knock On Wood
Booker T & The MG’s: Home Grown
The O’Jays: I Love Music
WAR: Low Rider
The Dramatics: Get Up and Get Down
Eddie Kendricks: Keep On Truckin’
Gramatik: Funk It Down
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes: Don’t Leave Me This Way
Donny Hathaway: A Song for You
D’Angelo: Till It’s Done (Tutu)
Dennis Coffey: Never Can Say Goodbye
#146 [Aired 08-16-24, 08-18-24]
Poets of Rhythm: Funky Train
James Brown: There It Is
Linda Lyndell: What a Man
Marvin Gaye: I Want You
The Meters: Wichita Lineman
Booker T & The MGs: Home Grown
Aretha Franklin: Spirit in the Dark
Rufus: Sweet Thing
Sade: Nothing Can Come Between Us
Stevie Wonder: Knocks Me off My Feet
Aloe Blacc: What Now
Erykah Badu: My Life
D’Angelo: The Line
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway: The Closer I Get to You
Grover Washington, Jr. w/ Bill Withers: Just the Two of Us
Amerigo Gazaway: Represent
#145 [Aired 08-02-24, 08-04-24
& 08-09-24, 08-11-24]
Earth, Wind & Fire: Fantasy
Aaron Neville: Everybody Plays the Fool
Neville Brothers: Voodoo (Live)
The Meters: Fire on the Bayou
Beastie Boys: Sabrosa
The Bar-Kays: Move Your Boogie Body
Prince: Shockadelica
Ike & Tina Turner: I Want to Take You Higher
D’Angelo: Higher
Amerigo Gazaway: Blue Mood
Dirty Dozen Brass Band w/ Bettye LaVette: What’s Happening Brother
Curtis Mayfield: Superfly
Chuck Brown: Playing Your Game Baby
Doris: Beatmaker
The Dap-Kings: Nervous Like Me
#144 [Aired 07-26-24, 07-28-24]
Ohio Players: Love Rollercoaster
Al Green: L-O-V-E
The O’Jays: Love Train
The Staple Singers: Funky Love
Isaac Hayes: Theme from Shaft
Jill Scott: A Long Walk (Groove)
Minnie Riperton: Inside My Love
Donna Summer: I Feel Love
The Avalanches: Stay Another Season
Manu Dibango: Pata Piya
Herbie Hancock: Rockit
Contact-U: Inside You
Farid: Pit Stop
#143 [Aired 07-19-24, 07-21-24]
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band: Express Yourself
Chuck Brown: Think
Lyn Collins: Think (About It)
James Brown: Mother Popcorn
Speedometer: The Shakedown
Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love
Funkadelic: Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll)
Sly & Robbie: Fire
Sly & Robbie: Peter Gunn
Meshell Ndegeocello: God Shiva
Hiatus Kaiyote: Shaolin Monk Motherfunk
Brand New Heavies: Back to Love
St. Germain: Land Of…
#142 [Aired 07-12-24, 07-14-24]
The Temptations: Shakey Ground
Otis Redding: Scratch My Back
The O’Jays: Back Stabbers
Chocolate Genius: My Endless Fall
WAR: Low Rider
WAR: River Niger
Robert Glasper w/ Erykah Badu: Afro Blue
Marvin Gaye: I Want You
Labelle: Are You Lonely?
Prince: I Would Die 4 U
Philip Catherine: Give It Up or Turn It Aloose
James Brown: The Payback
Isaac Hayes: The Look of Love
Lauryn Hill: Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You
Hannah Williams: Late Nights & Heartbreak
The Whitefield Brothers: Safari Strut
#141 [Aired 07-05-24, 07-07-24]
Chic: I Want Your Love (Live)
Earth, Wind & Fire: Can’t Hide Love
Bill Withers: Kissing My Love
Al Green: You’ve Got the Love I Need
Gladys Knight & The Pips: Midnight Train to Georgia
Thelma Houston: Don’t Leave Me This Way
Janet Jackson: When I Think of You
The Jackson 5: I Want You Back
Bobby Byrd: If You Got a Love
Maceo & All the King’s Men: Better Half
Prince: Raspberry Beret
Robert Palmer: You Are in My System
Ultra Naté: How Long
#140 [Aired 06-28-24, 06-30-24]
Average White Band: School Boy Crush
Average White Band: Pick Up the Pieces
The Bar-Kays: Holy Ghost
Chic: Le Freak (Live)
Q-Tip: Barely in Love
Sonic Funk Foundy: Funky Jorge
Isaac Hayes: Theme From Shaft
John C. and Meftah: Full
Khruangbin: Lady and Man
Jill Scott: A Long Walk (Live)
Sade: Smooth Operator (Live)
Smokey Robinson: Cruisin’
The Staple Singers: I’ll Take You There
Sarah, The Illstrumentalist: Firmament
#139 [Aired 06-21-24, 06-23-24]
War: Summer
Kool & The Gang: Summer Madness
Prince: Play in the Sunshine
Sly & The Family Stone: Hot Fun in the Summertime
Amerigo Gazaway: The Jam
Bibi Tanga & The Selenites: Afro Groove
African Head Charge: Orderliness, Godliness, Discipline & Dignity
Jorge Ben: Ponta de Lanca Africano
Sonic Funk Foundry: Berimbao Chant
The Budos Band: Budos Chant
Stevie Wonder: Maybe Your Baby
Weldon Irvine: Walk That Walk, Talk That Talk
St. Germain: What Do You Think About…
#138 [Aired 06-14-24, 06-16-24]
Funkadelic: Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll)
Parliament: Flash Light
Brothers Johnson: Welcome to the Club
Billy Preston: Will It Go Round in Circles
The Dramatics: Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
Bobby Caldwell: What You Won’t Do For Love
Commodores: Sweet Love
D’Angelo: Untitled (How Does It Feel)
The Crusaders w/ Randy Crawford: Street Life
Soul II Soul: Feel Free
Caron Wheeler: UK Blak
Soul II Soul: Back to Life
Bugseed: dalila
#137 [Aired 06-07-24, 06-09-24]
Lakeside: Fantastic Voyage
SOS Band: Just Be Good to Me
Zapp: More Bounce to the Ounce
Trouble Funk: Trouble Funk Express
Prince: Emancipation
The Time: Cool
Tina Turner: Baby, I’m a Star
Sheila E: A Love Bizarre
Chaka Khan: I Feel for You
Prince: I Wanna Be Your Lover (instrumental)
Diana Ross: Upside Down
Prince: Betcha By Golly Wow
Erykah Badu: Didn’t Cha Know
Sade: No Ordinary Love
#136 [Aired 05-31-24, 06-02-24]
Al Green: Let’s Get Married
Bill Withers: Kissing My Love
Nina Simone: I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
Amy Winehouse: He Can Only Hold Her
Betty Davis: Shoo-b-doop and Cop Him
James Brown: I Got You (I Feel Good)
RZA: Funky Theme
Ese & The Voodou People: Tainted Love
Curtis Mayfield: Give Me Your Love
Hiatus Kaiyote: Everything’s Beautiful
Khruangbin: Evan Finds the Third Room
Beastie Boys: In 3’s
Quincy Jones: Soul Saga (Sonic Funk Foundry edit)
Chuck Brown: It Don’t Mean a Thing (Live)
Trouble Funk: Trouble Funk Express
#135 [Aired 05-24-24, 05-26-24]
Shuggie Otis: Inspiration Information
The Meters: People Say
Sly & The Family Stone: You Can Make It If You Try
Robert Palmer: Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley
Amerigo Gazaway: Sneakin’ Around
Queen: Somebody to Love (Carl Rag Remix)
Neville Brothers: Fly Like an Eagle
Lea Roberts: All Right Now (Wonderlove Re-Edit)
The Meters: Come Together
Booker T. & The MGs: Day Tripper
Thundercat: Them Changes
Basehead: Brand New Day
Roy Ayers: Funk in the Hole (DJ Ugeezy edit)
The Brand New Heavies: Mind Trips
#134 [Aired 05-17-24, 05-19-24]
Brides of Funkenstein: Disco to Go
B.T. Express: Do It (‘Til You’re Satisfied)
Brothers Johnson: Ain’t We Funkin Now
Edwin Starr: Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On
Detroit Sex Machines: Rap It Together
Aretha Franklin: Rock Steady (Ghetto Funk All Stars Remix)
Aretha Franklin: Respect
Experience Unlimited: Functus
Bill Withers: Lean on Me
Organized Raw Funk: O.R.F. Pt’s I & II
Diana Ross: Upside Down
Prince: Betcha By Golly Wow
Erykah Badu: Didn’t Cha Know
Sade: No Ordinary Love
#133 [Aired 05-10-24, 05-12-24]
The Bar-Kays: Holy Ghost
Trouble Funk: Pump Me Up
Zapp: More Bounce to the Ounce
Anderson Paak w/ Smokey Robinson: Make It Better
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: The Tears of a Clown
D’Angelo: Cruisin’
The Miracles: Love Machine
Stevie Wonder: I Wish (instrumental)
Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up
Roy Ayers w/ Merry Clayton: I Just Wanna Give It Up
George Benson: Turn Your Love Around
Grover Washington Jr. w/ Bill Withers: Just the Two of Us
Amerigo Gazaway: Blue Mood
#132 [05-03-24, 05-05-24]
Earth, Wind & Fire: Sing a Song
Earth, Wind & Fire: Let’s Groove
Earth, Wind & Fire: Serpentine Fire
Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star
Bugseed: Sun Goddess
Al Green: Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
Ann Peebles: Come to Mama
D’Angelo: Cruisin’
Macy Gray: I Can’t Wait to Meetchu
Weldon Irvine: Music Is the Key
Thievery Corporation: Lebanese Blonde
Zap Mama: Rafiki
Ronny Jordan: Cool and Funky
#131 [Aired 04-26-24, 04-28-24]
Prince: Sometimes It Snows in April
Prince: Play That Funky Music (Live)
Prince: Shockadelica
Prince: U Got the Look
Prince: Let’s Go Crazy
Prince: Starfish and Coffee
Prince: Forever in My Life
Prince: Alphabet St.
Prince: I Would Die 4 U
Prince: Housequake
Prince: 1999
Prince: Mountains
Prince: Nothing Compares 2 U
#130 [Aired 04-19-24, 04-21-24]
Janet Jackson: Rhythm Nation
Michael Jackson: Don’t Stop
Diana Ross: I’m Coming Out
Chic: Good Times
Aretha Franklin: Rock Steady (Parker Remix)
Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground
George Clinton: Atomic Dog (Extended Version)
Average White Band: Pick Up the Pieces
Neneh Cherry: Move with Me
Erykah Badu: Window Seat
R.L. Burnside: Let My Baby Ride
Bohannon: Truck Stop
#129 [Aired 04-12-24, 04-14-24]
Maxwell: The Urban Theme
Maxayn: Trying for Days
Stevie Wonder: Maybe Your Baby
Weldon Irvine: Walk That Walk, Talk That Talk
Solange w/ Q-Tip: Borderline
Thievery Corporation: All That We Perceive
The Whitefield Brothers: Thunderbird
Thundercat: Show You the Way
Ultra Nate: I’m Not Afraid
Beastie Boys: Ricky’s Theme
Chuck Brown: Harlem Nocturne (Live)
Bohannon: Truck Stop
Experience Unlimited: Functus
Booker T. & The MGs: Home Grown
#128 [Aired 04-05-24, 04-07-24]
Edwin Starr: Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On
The Isley Brothers: Take Me to the Next Phase
Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove
James Brown: Get on the Good Foot
D’Angelo: Higher
Al Green: All I Need
Erykah Badu: 20 Feet Tall
Stevie Wonder: No Ordinary Pain
Weldon Irvine: Mr. Clean
DJ Shadow: What Does Your Soul Look Like
Jamie xx: Sleep Sound
Innerzone Orchestra: People Make the World Go ‘Round
#127 [Aired 03-29-24, 03-31-24]
WAR: You Got the Power
The Bar-Kays: Holy Ghost
Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground
D’Angelo: Till It’s Done (Tutu)
The Herbaliser: It’s Just for You
Musiq: Religious
Al Green: Belle
Gil Scott-Heron: I Think I’ll Call It Morning
Leo’s Sunship: Give Me the Sunshine
Fertile Ground: Live in the Light
Me’Shell Ndegeocello: God Shiva
Ramsey Lewis: Sun Goddess
#126 [Aired 03-22-24, 03-24-24]
Earth, Wind & Fire: Boogie Wonderland
Kool & The Gang: Jungle Boogie
Roy Ayers: Boogie Down
Cheryl Lynn: Got To Be Real
Beastie Boys: Sabrosa
Labelle: Are You Lonely?
Al Green: Tired of Being Alone
Kentavius Jones: Telephone
Macy Gray: Why Didn’t You Call Me
The Three Degrees: When Will I See You Again
Menahan Street Band: Make the Road by Walking
The Avalanches: Stay Another Season
The Avalanches: Since I Left You
Beyoncé: Break My Soul
Sylvester: I Need Somebody to Love Tonight
#125 [Aired 03-15-24, 03-17-24]
Chuck Brown: Think
James Brown: It’s Too Funky in Here
The J.B.’s Givin’ Up Food for Funk
Lexsoul Dancemachine: Beef Grinder
Aretha Franklin: Spirit in the Dark
Rufus: Sweet Thing
Sade: Nothing Can Come Between Us
Stevie Wonder: Knocks Me off My Feet
Aloe Blacc: What Now
Material: Mantra
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics: Blue Nile
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes: Space Lady
James Brown: King Heroin [instrumental]
#124 [Aired 03-08-024, 03-10-24]
Stargard: Which Way Is Up
Sly & The Family Stone: Let Me Have It All
Eddie Floyd: Knock on Wood
The Dramatics: Get Up and Get Down
The Bar-Kays: In the Hole
Gramatik: Shaft Funk
Olu Dara: Out on the Rolling Sea
WAR: River Niger
Isleys: Caravan of Love
Sarah, The Illstrumentalist: Firmament
Erykah Badu: My Life
D’Angelo: The Line
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway: The Close I Get to You
Grover Washington, Jr. w/ Bill Withers: Just the Two of Us
Amerigo Gazaway: Represent
#123 [Aired 03-01-24, 03-03-24]
Yarbrough & Peoples: Don’t Stop the Music
Prince: I Feel for You
The Stylistics: Betcha By Golly, Wow
Willie Hutch: Get Ready for the Get Down
Weldon Irvine: We Gettin’ Down
Soul II Soul: Feel Free
Terence Trent D’Arby: Wishing Well
Al Green: Just for Me
Angie Stone: Love Junkie
Beastie Boys: Ricky’s Theme
Chuck Brown: Wind Me Up Chuck/Hoochie Coochie Man
The Dramatics: Get Up and Get Down
Curtis Mayfield: Give Me Your Love
Isaac Hayes: Joy
#122 [Aired 02-23-24, 02-25-24]
Poets of Rhythm: Funky Train
James Brown: There It Is
Linda Lyndell: What a Man
Marvin Gaye: I Want You
The Meters: Wichita Lineman
Booker T & The MGs: Home Grown
Jill Scott: A Long Walk (Groove)
Minnie Riperton: Inside My Love
Donna Summer: I Feel Love
The Avalanches: Stay Another Season
Manu Dibango: Pata Piya
Herbie Hancock: Rockit
Contact-U: Inside You
Farid: Pit Stop
#121 [Aired 02-16-24, 02-18-24]
The Bar-Kays: I’ll Dance
Kool & The Gang: Get Down on It
The Jacksons: Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)
George Clinton: Atomic Dog
The Mighty Continentals: Sticky Sticky Sock-A-Poo
The Pointer Sisters: You Gotta Believe
Nikka Costa: Everybody Got Their Something
Amy Winehouse: The Girl from Ipanema
Crystal Waters: The Boy from Ipanema
Indeep: Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
D’Angelo: Betray My Heart
Donny Hathaway: A Song for You
Stevie Wonder: As
#120 [Aired 02-09-24, 02-11-24]
Sly & The Family Stone: Thank You
Rufus & Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good
Isaac Hayes: Do Your Thing
Kool & The Gang: Hollywood Swinging
Stevie Wonder: Living in the City (Ghetto Funk All Stars remix)
Donny Hathaway: You’ve Got a Friend
Anita Baker: Sweet Love
Lauryn Hill: Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You
Brothers Johnson: I’ll Be Good to You
Gramatik: Sumthin’
Grace Jones: Ring of Fire
Sade: Never As Good As the First Time
Nina Simone: Do I Move You
Aretha Franklin: Baby I Love You
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: How Long Do I Have to Wait for You?
Amerigo Gazaway: Blue Mood
#119 [Aired 02-02-24, 02-04-24]
Ohio Players: Love Rollercoaster
Al Green: L-O-V-E
The O’Jays: Love Train
The Staple Singers: Funky Love
Isaac Hayes: Theme from Shaft
Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love
Funkadelic: Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll)
Sly & Robbie: Fire
Sly & Robbie: Peter Gunn
Diana Ross: Upside Down
Prince: Betcha By Golly Wow
Erykah Badu: Didn’t Cha Know
Sade: No Ordinary Love
#118 [Aired 01-26-24, 01-28-24]
Brides of Funkenstein: Disco to Go
B.T. Express: Do It (‘Til You’re Satisfied)
Brothers Johnson: Ain’t We Funkin Now
Edwin Starr: Funk Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On
Detroit Sex Machines: Rap It Together
Aretha Franklin: Rock Steady (Ghetto Funk All Stars Remix)
Aretha Franklin: Respect
Experience Unlimited: Functus
Bill Withers: Lean on Me
Organized Raw Funk: O.R.F. Pt’s I & II
Meshell Ndegeocello: God Shiva
Hiatus Kaiyote: Shaolin Monk Motherfunk
Brand New Heavies: Back to Love
St. Germain: Land Of…
#117 [Aired 01-19-24, 01-21-23-4]
Lakeside: Fantastic Voyage
SOS Band: Just Be Good to Me
Zapp: More Bounce to the Ounce
Trouble Funk: Trouble Funk Express
Prince: Emancipation
The Time: Cool
Tina Turner: Baby, I’m a Star
Sheila E: A Love Bizarre
Chaka Khan: I Feel for You
Prince: I Wanna Be Your Lover (instrumental)
Weldon Irvine: Music Is the Key
Thievery Corporation: Lebanese Blonde
Zap Mama: Rafiki
Ronny Jordan: Cool and Funky
#116 [Aired 01-12-24, 01-14-24
Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters: Funk Hunter
Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color
Tina Turner: I Can’t Stand the Rain
Stevie Wonder: Boogie On Reggae Woman
Olu Dara: Zora
Otis Redding: Scratch My Back
The Mighty Imperials: Thunder Chicken
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Make It Good to Me
The Poets of Rhythm: Smilin’ (While You’re Crying)
Weldon Irvine: Mr. Clean
DJ Shadow: What Does Your Soul Look Like
Jamie xx: Sleep Sound
Innerzone Orchestra: People Make the World Go ‘Round
#115 [Aired 01-05-24, 01-07-24]
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band: Express Yourself
Chuck Brown: Think
Lyn Collins: Think (About It)
James Brown: Mother Popcorn
Speedometer: The Shakedown
Q-Tip: Breathe & Stop (J. Period Remix)
Hall & Oates: You Make My Dreams (DJ Wood Remix)
Brothers Johnson: Ain’t We Funkin’ Now
Billy Preston: Will It Go Round in Circles
The Isley Brothers: It’s a New Thing (It’s Your Thing)
Lexsoul Dancemachine: Beef Grinder
D’Angelo: Africa
Material: Cucumber Slumber
Thievery Corporation: It Takes a Thief
Thievery Corporation: Sleeper Car
#114 [Aired 12-29-23, 12-31-23]
Earth, Wind & Fire: Sing a Song
Earth, Wind & Fire: Let’s Groove
Earth, Wind & Fire: Serpentine Fire
Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star
Bugseed: Sun Goddess
The Bar-Kays: Shine
Al Green: L-O-V-E
Kentavius Jones: Luckiest Man
Stevie Wonder: Have a Talk with God
Isley Brothers: Caravan of Love
A Forest Mighty Black: Rebirth
The Pointer Sisters: Yes We Can Can
The Neville Brothers: Fly Like an Eagle
The Stylistics: People Make the World Go Round
African Head Charge: Hymn
Christmas Special Five [Aired 12-22-23, 12-24-23]
Booker T & The MG’s: Jingle Bells
Amerigo Gazaway: Lil’ Funky Drummer Boy
James Brown: Christmas Is Love
Solomon Burke: Presents for Christmas
Mack Rice: Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’
Otis Redding: Merry Christmas Baby
Booker T & The MG’s: Winter Wonderland
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Just Another Christmas Song (This Time I’ll Sing Along)
The Huck-A-Bucks: Silver Bells
Alicia Keys: Little Drummer Girl
Aloe Blacc: I Got Your Christmas Right Here
Karen Meets Roots Radics: A Dub Reggae Christmas with The Carpenters
Shawn Lee: Jingle Bells
Cutmaster DC: The Night Before Christmas
Al Green: Feels Like Christmas
Chuck Brown: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
The Temptations: Silent Night
Booker T & The MG’s: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Christmas Special Four [Aired 12-15-23, 12-17-23]
Booker T & The MG’s: Jingle Bells
James Brown: Soulful Christmas
Rufus Thomas: I’ll Be Your Santa Baby
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Funky Little Drummer Boy
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: God Rest Ye Merry Gents
Donny Hathaway: This Christmas
Shawn Lee: Do You Hear What I Hear
Coldcut: Christmas Break
Aloe Blacc: Tell Your Mama
Chuck Brown: Merry Christmas Baby
Isaac Hayes: The Mistletoe and Me
Booker T & The MG’s: The Christmas Song
Electric Jungle: Funky Funky Christmas
Rare Essence: Give Love on Christmas Day
The Temptations: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Adam Neely: Christmas Time Is Here
Carla Thomas: Gee Whiz, It’s Christmas
The Sweet Inspirations: Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday
Booker T & The MG’s: We Wish You a Merry Christmas
#113 [Aired 12-08-23, 12-10-23]
Graham Central Station: Hair
Funkadelic: Good to Your Earhole
Sly & The Family Stone: Fun
Money Mark: Push the Button
Kid Koala and Money Mark: Carpel Tunnel Syndrome
Q-Tip: Barely in Love
Patrice Rushen: Forget Me Nots
Tina Turner: I Can’t Stand the Rain
The Brand New Heavies: Shakedown
The Avalanches: Etoh
Us3: Different Rhythms, Different People
Donald Roland II: Simba’s Theme
The Soft Pink Truth: Trocadero
Herbie Hancock: Hidden Shadows
Thunderball: The Road to Benares
DJ Shadow: Untitled Heavy Beat
Ursula 1000: Mr. Hrundi’s Holiday
#112 [Aired 12-01-23, 12-03-23]
Parliament: Do That Stuff
James Brown: Licking Stick-Licking Stick
Fred Wesley & The JB’s: Doing It to Death
Lyn Collins: Think (About It)
Gramatik: Funk It Down
Solange: Where Do We Go
Roy Ayers: I Just Wanna Give It Up
Sade: Hang On to Your Love
Earth, Wind & Fire: Can’t Hide Love
Poets of Rhythm: Discern Define
Neville Brothers: With God on Our Side
Mavis Staples: Keep On Pushing
James Blood Ulmer: Show Me Your Love, America
Desmond Williams: For the Trees
#111 [Aired 11-24-23, 11-26-23]
Leo’s Sunshipp: Give Me the Sunshine
Stevie Wonder: You Are the Sunshine of My Life
The Bar-Kays: Shine
Earth, Wind & Fire w/ Ramsey Lewis: Sun Goddess
Al Green: Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
Ann Peebles: Come to Mama
D’Angelo: Cruisin’
Macy Gray: I Can’t Wait to Meetchu
Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color
The Soft Pink Truth: Trocadero
Sylvester: I Need Somebody to Love Tonight
Queen: Somebody to Love (Carl Rag 2020 Remix)
Thievery Corporation: Holographic Universe
#110 [Aired 11-17-23, 11-19-23]
Sly Stone: Everybody Is a Star
Sly Stone: Everyday People
Sly Stone: I Want to Take You Higher
Sly Stone: Sing a Simple Song
Sly Stone: Thank You (Faletinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Sly Stone: The Same Thing (Makes You Laugh, Makes You Cry)
Sly Stone: Runnin’ Away
Sly Stone: You Can Make It If You Try
Sly Stone: Dance to the Music
Sly Stone: (You Caught Me) Smilin’
Sly Stone: Family Affair
Sly Stone: Family Affair (Instrumental)
Merry Clayton: Sly Suite
Jeff Buckley: Everyday People
Red Hot Chili Peppers: If You Want Me to Stay
Robert Randolph: Thankful n’ Thoughtful
#109 [Aired 11-10-23, 11-12-23]
Brick: Dazz
Willie Hutch: Party Down
The Meters: Cabbage Alley
The Heavy w/ Dap-Kings Horns: Colleen
The Dap-Kings: Nervous Like Me
Soul II Soul: Feel Free
Terence Trent D’Arby: Wishing Well
Al Green: Just for Me
Angie Stone: Love Junkie
Beastie Boys: Ricky’s Theme
David Bowie: Let’s Dance (Goodgroove Remix)
Brand New Heavies: Have a Good Time
De La Soul: Eye Know
Thundercat: Show You the Way
Desmond Williams: For the Trees
#108 [Aired 11-03-23, 11-05-23]
Brothers Johnson: Strawberry Letter 23
Shuggie Otis: Inspiration Information
Ohio Players: Fopp
Prince: Pink Cashmere
Rufus w/ Chaka Khan: Sweet Thing
Erykah Badu: 20 Feet Tall
Roberta Flack: Feel Like Makin’ Love
Marvin Gaye: Let’s Get It On
Diana Ross: Love Hangover
James Brown: King Heroin (instrumental)
Chuck Brown: We Need Some Money
#107 [Aired 10-27-23, 10-29-23]
The Mighty Imperials: Thunder Chicken
Rufus Thomas: Do the Funky Chicken (Live)
D’Angelo: Chicken Grease
Maceo Parker: Chicken
The Crusaders: Street Life
Chocolate Genius: Safe and Sound
Bob Marley: Lively Up Yourself (Live)
Galactic w/ Big Freedia: Double It
Meshell Ndegeocello: Who Is He and What Is He to You?
Money Mark: Push the Button
Neneh Cherry: Move With Me
Soul II Soul: Feel Free
Nuyorican Soul: Nautilus
#106 [Aired 10-20-23, 10-22-23]
Prince: Sign O’ the Times
Stevie Wonder: Love’s in Need of Love Today
Rare Earth: I Just Want to Celebrate
Chuck Brown: Think
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: The Tears of a Clown
Mos Def: Life in Marvelous Times
Lauryn Hill: Everything Is Everything
Weldon Irvine: Walk That Walk, Talk That Talk
Sade: Hang On To Your Love
Robert Palmer: Every Kind of People
Chocolate Genius: Tomboyrockstar
St. Germain: What Do You Think About…
#105 [Aired 10-13-23, 10-15-23]
Stevie Wonder: Front Line
WAR: Slippin’ Into Darkness
Neville Brothers: Wake Up
Marvin Gaye: Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Georgia Anne Muldrow: Roses
Bill Withers: Sometimes a Song
Sly & The Family Stone: Poet
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes: Wake Up Everybody
Gramatik: Just Chillin’
D’Angelo & The Vanguard: Ain’t That Easy
Whitefield Brothers: Fifty Yards of Soul
The Avalanches: Radio
Innerzone Orchestra: People Make the World Go ‘Round
#104 [Aired 10-06-23, 10-08-23]
The Pointer Sisters: Going Down Slowly
Robert Palmer: Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley
Neville Brothers: Hey Pocky Way
The Meters: Cabbage Alley
Thundercat: Lava Lamp
Chuck Brown: Love Theme from The Godfather
The Staple Singers: If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me)
Madlib: Stepping Into Tomorrow
The Mighty Imperials: Jody’s Walk
Missy Elliott: The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
Angie Stone: No More Rain (In This Cloud)
Stevie Wonder: You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Robert Flack & Donny Hathaway: Back Together Again
Amerigo Gazaway: Represent
#103 [Aired 09-29-23, 10-01-23]
Con Funk Shun: Ffun
The Bar-Kays: Shine
Earth, Wind & Fire: Shine
Ramsey Lewis: Sun Goddess
Fugees: Killing Me Softly
D’Angelo: Cruisin’
Brothers Johnson: I’ll Be Good to You
Aloe Blacc: What Now
Chuck Brown: Harlem Nocturne (Live)
Bohannon: Truck Stop
Experience Unlimited: Functus
Booker T. & The MGs: Home Grown
#102 [Aired 09-22-23, 09-24-23]
Bohannon: Bohannon’s Beat
The Heavy w/ Dap-Kings Horns: Colleen
Curtis Mayfield: Give Me Your Love
Four Tops: Reach Out I’ll Be There
Solange w/ Q-Tip: Borderline
Thievery Corporation: All That We Perceive
The Whitefield Brothers: Thunderbird
Thundercat: Show You the Way
Ultra Nate: I’m Not Afraid
Beastie Boys: Ricky’s Theme
Grace Jones: Ring of Fire
Sade: Never As Good As the First Time
Nina Simone: Do I Move You
Aretha Franklin: Baby I Love You
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: How Long Do I Have to Wait for You?
Amerigo Gazaway: Blue Mood
#101 Aired 09-15-23, 09-17-23]
Earth, Wind & Fire: September
Ohio Players: Who’d She Coo?
Stevie Wonder: Maybe Your Baby
Prince: Girls & Boys
Nikka Costa: Everybody Got Their Something
Ultra Naté: How Long
Shuggie Otis: Aht Uh Mi Hed
Tina Turner: Baby, I’m a Star
Thunderball: On the Sly
ullnevano x God Sense Beats: Ghost of Reggie Lewis
Mos Def: Hip Hop
Mos Def: Umi Says
Erkay Badu: My Life
Nina Simone/Lauryn Hill: Peace of Mind (mash-up)
#100 [Aired 09-08-23, 09-10-23]
Sly & The Family Stone: Thank You
Rufus & Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good
Isaac Hayes: Do Your Thing
Kool & The Gang: Hollywood Swinging
Stevie Wonder: Living in the City (Ghetto Funk All Stars remix)
Donny Hathaway: You’ve Got a Friend
Anita Baker: Sweet Love
Lauryn Hill: Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You
Brothers Johnson: I’ll Be Good to You
Gramatik: Sumthin’
D’Angelo: Africa
Material: Cucumber Slumber
Thievery Corporation: It Takes a Thief
Thievery Corporation: Sleeper Car
#99 [Aired 09-01-23, 09-03-23]
Linda Lyndell: What a Man
The Three Degrees: When Will I See You Again
LCD Soundsystem: Someone Great
Prince: Mountains
Madlib: Song for My Father
D’Angelo: Higher
Al Green: All I Need
Erykah Badu: 20 Feet Tall
Stevie Wonder: No Ordinary Pain
Chuck Brown: Wind Me Up Chuck/Hoochie Coochie Man
The Dramatics: Get Up and Get Down
Curtis Mayfield: Give Me Your Love
Isaac Hayes: Joy
#98 [08-18-23, 08-20-23]
Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters: Funk Hunter
Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color
Tina Turner: I Can’t Stand the Rain
Stevie Wonder: Boogie On Reggae Woman
Angie Stone: No More Rain
D’Angelo: Lady
Amy Winehouse: Our Day Will Come
Anderson Paak w/ Andre 3000: Come Home
Andre 3000: Idlewild Blue
Weldon Irvine: Mr. Clean
DJ Shadow: What Does Your Soul Look Like
Jamie xx: Sleep Sound
Innerzone Orchestra: People Make the World Go ‘Round
#97 [Aired 08-11-23, 08-13-23]
Con Funk Shun: Ffun
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: I’m Not Gonna Cry
The Pointer Sisters: Yes We Can Can
Sly & The Family Stone: I Want to Take You Higher
Robert Glasper w/ Lalah Hathaway: Cherish the Day
Sade: Smooth Operator
Tina Turner: Let’s Stay Together [Live]
Donny Hathaway: A Song for You
The Brand New Heavies: Mind Trips
D’Angelo: The Line
Fertile Ground: Live in the Light
The Budos Band: Up From the South
#96 [Aired 08-04-23, 08-06-23]
The Bar-Kays: Holy Ghost
Trouble Funk: Pump Me Up
Zapp: More Bounce to the Ounce
Anderson Paak w/ Smokey Robinson: Make It Better
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: The Tears of a Clown
D’Angelo: Cruisin’
The Miracles: Love Machine
Stevie Wonder: I Wish (instrumental)
Jill Scott: A Long Walk (Groove)
The RH Factor: A Place
Meshell Ndegeocello: Who Is He and What Is He to You
Solange: Junie
The Whitefield Brothers: Thunderbird
#95 [Aired 07-28-23, 07-30-23]
Brick: Dazz
Stargard: Theme from Which Way Is Up?
The Temptations: Shakey Ground
Barry White: Standing in the Shadows of Love
Olu Dara: Zora
Otis Redding: Scratch My Back
The Mighty Imperials: Thunder Chicken
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Make It Good to Me
The Poets of Rhythm: Smilin’ (While You’re Crying)
Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up
Roy Ayers w/ Merry Clayton: I Just Wanna Give It Up
George Benson: Turn Your Love Around
Grover Washington Jr. w/ Bill Withers: Just the Two of Us
Amerigo Gazaway: Blue Mood
#94 [Aired 07-21-23, 07-23-23]
Edwin Starr: Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On
Chuck Brown w/ DJ Kool: Block Party
Labelle: Lady Marmalade
The Jackson 5: I Want You Back
Earth, Wind & Fire: Sing a Song
Herbie Hancock: Doin’ It
Erykah Badu: 20 Feet Tall
Al Green: Let’s Stay Together
Curtis Mayfield: Give Me Your Love
Macy Gray: Why Didn’t You Call Me
Shuggie Otis: Inspiration Information
Beatie Boys: Groove Holmes
David Bowie: Let’s Dance (Goodgroove Remix)
Brand New Heavies: Have a Good Time
De La Soul: Eye Know
Thundercat: Show You the Way
Desmond Williams: For the Trees
#93 [Aired 07-14-23, 07-16-23]
James Brown: Make It Funky
Sly & The Family Stone: I Want to Take You Higher
Chic: We Are Family (Live)
Prince: Kiss
The Meters: Pungee
Aretha Franklin: Rock Steady (Parker Remix)
Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground
George Clinton: Atomic Dog (Extended Version)
Average White Band: Pick Up the Pieces
WAR: Summer
The Avalanches: Stay Another Season
Ohio Players: Fire
Kentavius Jones: Never Let Me Down
The Bar-Kays: In the Hole
#92 [Aired 07-07-23, 07-09-23]
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band: Express Yourself
Chuck Brown: Think
Lyn Collins: Think (About It)
James Brown: Mother Popcorn
Speedometer: The Shakedown
Q-Tip: Breathe & Stop (J. Period Remix)
Hall & Oates: You Make My Dreams (DJ Wood Remix)
Brotbers Johnson: Ain’t We Funkin’ Now
Billy Preston: Will It Go Round in Circles
The Isley Brothers: It’s a New Thing (It’s Your Thing)
Lexsoul Dancemachine: Beef Grinder
Soul II Soul: Feel Free
Caron Wheeler: UK Blak
D’Angelo: Betray My Heart
Kentavius Jones: Luckiest Man
#91 [Aired 06-30-23, 07-02-23]
Graham Central Station: Hair
Funkadelic: Good to Your Earhole
Sly & The Family Stone: Fun
Money Mark: Push the Button
Kid Koala and Money Mark: Carpel Tunnel Syndrome
Q-Tip: Barely in Love
Patrice Rushen: Forget Me Nots
The Brand New Heavies: Shakedown
Tina Turner: I Can’t Stand the Rain
The Avalanches: Etoh
The Soft Pink Truth: Deeper
RZA: Samurai Theme
Labelle: Are You Lonely?
Diana Ross: Reach Out and Touch
Blue States: Your Girl
#90 [Aired 06-23-23, 06-25-23]
Yarbrough & Peoples: Don’t Stop the Music
Prince: I Feel for You
The Stylistics: Betcha By Golly, Wow
Willie Hutch: Get Ready for the Get Down
Weldon Irvine: We Gettin’ Down
Anita Baker: Sweet Love
Robert Glasper w/ Erykah Badu: Afro Blue
Diana Ross: Love Hangover
Galactic w/ Irma Thomas: Heart of Steel
Poets of Rhythm: Discern Define
Floetry: Big Ben
Us3: Cantaloop
Brothers in Arts: Pull Up
Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love
Grace Jones: Pull Up to the Bumper
#89 [Aired 06-16-23, 06-18-23]
Con Funk Shun: Ffun
The Bar-Kays: Shine
Earth, Wind & Fire: Shine
Ramsey Lewis: Sun Goddess
Fugees: Killing Me Softly
D’Angelo: Cruisin’
Brothers Johnson: I’ll Be Good to You
Aloe Blacc: What Now
Chuck Brown: Harlem Nocturne (Live)
Bohannon: Truck Stop
Experience Unlimited: Functus
Booker T. & The MGs: Home Grown
#88 [Aired 06-09-23, 06-11-23]
Average White Band: Pick Up the Pieces
Billy Preston: Will It Go Round in Circles
Shuggie Otis: Strawberry Letter 23
Brothers Johnson: I’ll Be Good to You
Beastie Boys: In 3’s
Zapp: More Bounce to the Ounce
Isaac Hayes: Do Your Thing
Lee Dorsey: Yes We Can
Mavis Staples: We Shall Not Be Moved
The Mighty Imperials: Jody’s Walk
Weldon Irvine: Mr. Clean
DJ Shadow: What Does Your Soul Look Like
Jamie xx: Sleep Sound
Innerzone Orchestra: People Make the World Go ‘Round
#87 [Aired 06-02-23, 06-04-23]
The Bar-Kays: Too Hot to Stop
Sly & The Family Stone: Hot Fun in the Summertime
Earth, Wind & Fire: Let’s Groove
War: Summer
Roy Ayers: Everybody Loves the Sunshine
D’Angelo: Africa
Erykah Badu: Back in the Day (Puff)
Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color
Gil Scott-Heron: I Think I’ll Call It Morning
The Brand New Heavies: Back to Love
Amy Winehouse: The Girl from Ipanema
Nina Simone & Lauryn Hill: Feeling Good (Amerigo Gazaway Mix)
Bill Withers: Kissing My Love
#86 [Aired 05-26-23, 05-28-23]
Stevie Wonder: Sir Duke
The Jackson Five: ABC
LTD: Back in Love Again
James Brown: Give It Up Or Turnit Loose
Diana Ross: Upside Down
Gramatik: Funk It Down
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes: Don’t Leave Me This Way
Ann Peebles: I Pity the Fool
Al Green: I Can’t Get Next To You
Musiq: Religious
The Avalanches: Electricity
Grace Jones: Ring of Fire
Sade: Never As Good As the First Time
Nina Simone: Do I Move You
Aretha Franklin: Baby I Love You
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: How Long Do I Have to Wait for You?
Amerigo Gazaway: Blue Mood
#85 [Aired 05-19-3, 05-21-23]
The Bar-Kays: In the Hole
Fred Wesley & The JBs: Doing It to Death
Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up
The Dramatics: Get Up and Get Down
Chuck Brown: The Party Roll
Gramatik: Itz Over
Meshell Ndegeocello: May This Be Love
Macy Gray: I Try
Mos Def: Love
Musiq: Newness
Amerigo Gazaway: Blue Mood
Robert Palmer: You Are in My System
J Dilla: Workinonit
Sylvester: You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Grace Jones: Pull Up to the Bumper
Shuggie Otis: Not Available
#84 [Aired 05-12-23, 05-14-23]
Brick: Dazz
Willie Hutch: Party Down
The Meters: Cabbage Alley
The Heavy w/ Dap-Kings Horns: Colleen
The Dap-Kings: Nervous Like Me
Soul II Soul: Feel Free
Terence Trent D’Arby: Wishing Well
Al Green: Just for Me
Angie Stone: Love Junkie
Beastie Boys: Ricky’s Theme
Digable Planets: Jettin’
ESG: Keep On Moving
Erykah Badu: Window Seat
Blue States: Your Girl
#83 [Aired 05-05-3, 05-07-23]
Public Enemy: Contract on the World Love Jam
Sly & The Family Stone: Poet
James Brown: The Payback
D’Angelo & The Vanguard: Ain’t That Easy
Sarah, The Illstrumentalist: Firmament
Bob Marley & The Wailers: Trenchtown Rock [Live]
Thievery Corporation: Until the Morning Comes
Stevie Wonder: Master Blaster (Jammin’)
Weldon Irvine: Walk That Walk, Talk That Talk
Us3: Different Rhythms, Different People
Donald Roland II: Simba’s Theme
The Soft Pink Truth: Trocadero
Herbie Hancock: Hidden Shadows
Thunderball: The Road to Benares
DJ Shadow: Untitled Heavy Beat
Ursula 1000: Mr. Hrundi’s Holiday
#82 [Aired 04-28-23, 04-30-23]
Earth, Wind & Fire: Gratitude
Al Green: No One Like You
Donny Hathaway: A Song for You
Gladys Knight & The Pips: Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
Poets of Rhythm: Plus Plus
Barry White: Can’t Get Enough of Your Love Baby
The Bar-Kays: Shine
The Brides of Funkenstein: Disco to Go
Billy Preston: Will It Go Round in Circles
Detroit Sex Machines: Rap It Together
Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up
Roy Ayers w/ Merry Clayton: I Just Wanna Give It Up
George Benson: Turn Your Love Around
Grover Washington Jr. w/ Bill Withers: Just the Two of Us
Amerigo Gazaway: Blue Mood
#81 [Aired 04-21-23, 04-23-23]
Prince: Sometimes It Snows in April
Prince: Play That Funky Music (Live)
Prince: Shockadelica
Prince: U Got the Look
Prince: Let’s Go Crazy
Prince: Starfish and Coffee
Prince: Forever in My Life
Prince: Alphabet St.
Prince: I Would Die 4 U
Prince: Housequake
Prince: 1999
Prince: Mountains
Prince: Nothing Compares 2 U
#80 [Aired 04-14-23, 04-16-23]
Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters: Funk Hunter
Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color
Tina Turner: I Can’t Stand the Rain
Stevie Wonder: Boogie On Reggae Woman
Anita Baker: Sweet Love
Robert Glasper w/ Erykah Badu: Afro Blue
Diana Ross: Love Hangover
Galactic w/ Irma Thomas: Heart of Steel
Poets of Rhythm: Discern Define
Roy Ayers: Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Flying Lotus: All In
Erykah Badu: Apple Tree
Carl Craig: As Time Goes By (Sitting Under a Tree)
Gramatick: Just Chillin’
#79 [Aired 04-07-23, 04-09-23]
Maceo Parker: Blues for Shorty Bill
Bernard Purdie: Cold Sweat
Fred Wesley & The JBs: Doing It to Death
Body & Soul w/ Trouble Funk: Dance to the Drummer’s Beat
Chuck Brown: Block Party
Trouble Funk: Part A (Live)
The Brand New Heavies: Mind Trips
D’Angelo: The Line
Fertile Ground: Live in the Light
The Budos Band: Up From the South
#78 [Aired 03-31-23, 04-02-23]
The O’Jays: I Love Music
LCD Soundsystem: Dance Yrself Clean
Grace Jones: Nipple to the Bottle
Smokey Robinson: The Tears of a Clown
Q-Tip: Barely In Love
Money Mark: Push the Button
The Roots: The Next Movement
Erykah Badu: Didn’t Cha Know
J Dilla: Last Donut of the Night
Ronny Jordan: Cool and Funky
Janet Jackson: What Have You Done for Me Lately
Prince: I Feel for You
Sade: Smooth Operator
Amerigo Gazaway: Blue Mood
#77 [Aired 03-24-23, 03-26-23]
Edwin Starr: Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On
The Isley Brothers: Take Me to the Next Phase
Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove
James Brown: Get on the Good Foot
Meshell Ndegeocello: Who Is He and What Is He to You?
Bohannon: Bohannon’s Beat
Alabama Shakes: Future People
Bonobo: Between the Lines (Instrumental)
Burnt Sugar: Chains and Water
Carl Hancock Rux: No Black Male Show
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: Television the Drug of the Nation
Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Arrested Development: United Front
#76 [03-17-23, 03-19-23]
Earth, Wind & Fire: Let’s Groove
The Staple Singers: Respect Yourself
Thelma Houston: Don’t Leave Me This Way
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings: I’m Not Gonna Cry
Sly & The Family Stone: The Same Thing (Makes You Laugh, Makes You Cry )
Madlib: Stepping Into Tomorrow
Fertile Ground: Another Day
Macy Gray: A Moment to Myself
The Avalanches: Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life
Ann Peebles: (I Feel Like) Breaking Up Somebody’s Home
D’Angelo: Higher
Angie Stone: Don’t Wanna Ride Without You
The Internet: Somthing’s Missing
A Forest Mighty Black: Rebirth
#75 [Aired 03-10-23, 03-12-23]
The Jackson 5: I Want You Back
The Neville Brothers: Hey Pocky Way
Angie Stone: Visions
Earth, Wind & Fire: Sun Goddess
Erykah Badu: Back In the Day (Puff)
D’Angelo: Back to the Future
Lou Rawls: You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
Rare Earth: I Just Want to Celebrate
The Avalanches: A Different Feeling
African Head Charge: Hymn
Al Green: Belle
Bill Withers: Grandma’s Hands
The Blind Boys of Alabama: Way Down in the Hole
Mavis Staples: Eyes On the Prize
#74 [Aired 03-03-23, 03-05-23]
Con Funk Shun: Ffun
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: I’m Not Gonna Cry
The Pointer Sisters: Yes We Can Can
Sly & The Family Stone: I Want to Take You Higher
Robert Glasper w/ Lalah Hathaway: Cherish the Day
Sade: Smooth Operator
Tina Turner: Let’s Stay Together [Live]
Donny Hathaway: A Song for You
Stevie Wonder: Master Blaster (Jammin’)
Public Enemy: Brothers Gonna Work It Out
James Brown: Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, Pt 1
Bob Marley & The Wailers: Lively Up Yourself
Thievery Corporation: Until the Morning Comes
#73 [Aired 02-24-23, 02-26-23]
The Bar-Kays: In the Hole
Fred Wesley & The JBs: Doing It to Death
Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up
The Dramatics: Get Up and Get Down
Chuck Brown: The Party Roll
Gramatik: Itz Over
Dorothy Moore: Misty Blue
The Commodores: Sweet Love
Bobby Caldwell: What You Won’t Do for Love
The Stylistics: Betcha By Golly, Wow
Earth, Wind & Fire: Sing a Song
Deon Jamar: North End Funk
King Crimson: Discipline
Up, Bustle & Out: Emerald Alley
Material: Cucumber Slumber
Koushik: None In Mind
Madlib: Painted Pictures
#72 [Aired 02-17-23, 02-19-23]
The Temptations: Shakey Ground
Zapp: More Bounce to the Ounce
Prince: Alphabet St.
Ohio Players: Fire
Beastie Boys: In 3’s
Meshell Ndegeocello: May This Be Love
Macy Gray: I Try
Mos Def: Love
Musiq: Newness
Amerigo Gazaway: Blue Mood
Moodymann: Slow Down
Thundercat: Lava Lamp
Flying Lotus: Zodiac Shit
Innerzone Orchestra: Programmed
Ursula 1000: Mr. Hrundi’s Holiday
Gramatik: Sumthin’
#71 [Aired 02-10-23, 02-12-23]
Outkast: Happy Valentine’s Day
The Emotions: Best of My Love
The O’Jays: Love Train
Aretha Franklin: Baby I Love You
Al Green: Look What You Done for Me
Gramatik: Doin’ It
Mary J. Blige: You Bring Me Joy
Anita Baker: Sweet Love
Gladys Knight: Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
Prince: Forever in My Life
Prince: I Would Die 4 U
D’Angelo: Feel Like Makin’ Love
D’Angelo: Cruisin’
D’Angelo: Lady
D’Angelo: Unitled (How Does It Feel) Instrumental
#70 [Aired 02-03-23, 02-05-23]
Funkadelic: Let’s Take It to the Stage
Bootsy Collins: Stretchin’ Out
Chuck Brown: Midnight Sun
Bohannon: Truck Stop
The Pointer Sisters: You Gotta Believe
Chic: I’m Coming Out (Live)
The Bar-Kays: Too Hot to Stop
The Jacksons: Enjoy Yourself
Labelle: Lady Marmalade
Bugseed: Sun Goddess
Clinton: People Power in the Disco Hour
De La Soul: Eye Know
Vernon Reid: Uptown Drifter
Blue States: Golden Touch
#69 [Aired 01-27-23, 01-29-23]
Parliament: Up for the Down Stroke
The Bar-Kays: I’ll Dance
Trouble Funk: Get On Up
Prince: Alphabet St.
D’Angelo: Playa Playa
Sly & The Family Stone: Poet
Erykah Badu: 20 Feet Tall
Sylvester: I Need Somebody to Love Tonight
Amerigo Gazaway: Get Out
Solange: Cranes in the Sky
Meshell Ndegeocello: Bittersweet
Brothers Johnson: I’ll Be Good to You
Shuggie Otis: Inspiration Information
#68 [Aired 01-20-23, 01-22-23]
All Mighty Senators: Metaphor
James Brown: It’s Too Funky In Here
LTD: Back in Love Again
The O’Jays: Love Train
People’s Choice: Do It Any Way You Wanna
Bill Withers: Sometimes a Song
Mavis Staples: We Shall Not Be Moved
The Staple Singers: If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me)
Stevie Wonder: You Haven’t Done Nothin’
The Meters: Same Old Thing
Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up
Roy Ayers w/ Merry Clayton: I Just Wanna Give It Up
George Benson: Turn Your Love Around
Grover Washington Jr. w/ Bill Withers: Just the Two of Us
Amerigo Gazaway: Blue Mood
#67 [Aired 01-13-23, 01-15-23]
The Pointer Sisters: Going Down Slowly
Ann Peebles: Come to Mama
Al Green: Sha-La-La
Angie Stone: No More Rain
Barry White: Can’t Get Enough of Your Love Baby
The Bar-Kays: Shine
The Brides of Funkenstein: Disco to Go
Billy Preston: Will It Go Round in Circles
Detroit Sex Machines: Rap It Together
Chuck Brown: Wind Me Up Chuck/Hoochie Coochie Man
The Dramatics: Get Up and Get Down
Curtis Mayfield: Give Me Your Love
Isaac Hayes: Joy
#66 [Aired 01-06-23, 01-08-23]
Yarbrough & Peoples: Don’t Stop the Music
Prince: I Feel for You
The Stylistics: Betcha By Golly, Wow
Willie Hutch: Get Ready for the Get Down
Weldon Irvine: We Gettin’ Down
A Tribe Called Quest: Award Tour
Yasiin Gaye: I Want You ‘Til the Summertime
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway: Back Together Again
Tina Turner: Let’s Stay Together
The Whitefield Brothers: Safari Strut
Robert Palmer: You Are in My System
J Dilla: Workinonit
Sylvester: You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Grace Jones: Pull Up to the Bumper
Shuggie Otis: Not Available
#65 [Aired 12-30-22, 01-01-23]
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas: New Year’s Resolution
Experience Unlimited: Functus
Average White Band: Pick Up the Pieces
The Jacksons: Enjoy Yourself
The Brand New Heavies: Have a Good Time
Beyonce w/ James Blake: Forward
Beyonce: Countdown
Big Audio Dynamite: The Globe
Earth, Wind & Fire: Saturday Nite
The Avalanches: Stay Another Season
Soul II Soul: Back to Life
Madlib: Stepping into Tomorrow
Us3: Different Rhythms, Different People
TV On the Radio: Caffeinated Consciousness
Up, Bustle & Out: Emerald Alley
Diana Ross: Love Hangover
D’Angelo: Feel Like Makin’ Love
Christmas Special 3 [Aired 12-23-22, 12-25-22]
Booker T & The MGs: Jingle Bells
The Huck-A-Bucks: Silver Bells
Bootsy Collins: Boot-Off
Chuck Brown: Merry Christmas Baby
James Brown/DJ Catalist: Soulful Christmas Remix
Lauryn Hill: Little Drummer Boy
Rare Essence: Give Love on Christmas Day
Con Funk Shun: Do You Hear What I Hear?
The Sweet Inspirations: Every Day Will Be Like Christmas Day
Solomon Burke: Presents for Christmas
Adam Neely: Christmas Time Is Here
Kurtis Blow: Christmas Rappin’
Marvin Gaye: I Want to Come Home for Christmas
Al Green: I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Anthony Hamilton: Silent Night
Booker T & The MGs: The Christmas Song
Christmas Special 2 [Aired 12-16-22, 12-18-22]
Booker T & The MGs: Jingle Bells
Otis Redding: Merry Christmas Baby
Rufus Thomas: I’ll Be Your Santa Baby
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Funky Little Drummer Boy
Smokey Robinson w/ The Dap-Kings: You’re My Present
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: God Rest Ye Merry Gents
Al Green: Feels Like Christmas
Donny Hathaway: This Christmas
India Arie: Let It Snow
Shawn Lee: Do You Hear What I Hear
Carla Thomas: Gee Whiz It’s Christmas
Amerigo Gazaway: Lil’ Funky Drummer Boy
James Brown: Soulful Christmas
Earth, Wind & Fire: Joy to the World
Stevie Wonder: Someday at Christmas
The Temptations: Silent Night
Booker T & The MGs: We Wish You a Merry Christmas
#64 [Aired 12-09-22, 12-11-22]
Linda Lyndell: What a Man
The Three Degrees: When Will I See You Again
LCD Soundsystem: Someone Great
Prince: Mountains
Madlib: Song for My Father
D’Angelo: Higher
Al Green: All I Need
Erykah Badu: 20 Feet Tall
Stevie Wonder: No Ordinary Pain
Weldon Irvine: Mr. Clean
DJ Shadow: What Does Your Soul Look Like
Jamie xx: Sleep Sound
Innerzone Orchestra: People Make the World Go ‘Round
#63 [Aired 11-25-22, 11-27-22; 12-02-22, 12-04-22]
Earth, Wind & Fire: Gratitude
Al Green: No One Like You
Donny Hathaway: A Song for You
Gladys Knight & The Pips: Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
Poets of Rhythm: Plus Plus
Bill Withers: Heartbreak Road
Macy Gray: A Moment to Myself
Chocolate Genius: The Yes Eye
Alabama Shakes: Hold On
Ann Peebles: Can’t Stand the Rain
Curtis Mayfield: Give Me Your Love
Sade: No Ordinary Love
Mos Def: Love
The Brand New Heavies: Back to Love
The Isleys: Caravan of Love
#62 [Aired 11-18-22, 11-20-22]
Bohannon: Truck Stop
Eddie Kendricks: Keep On Truckin’
R.L. Burnside: Let My Baby Ride
Parliament: Ride On
War: Low Rider
Andre 3000: Life Is Like a Musical
Kid Koala: Stompin’ at the Savoi
Cajmere: U Got Me Up
Common w/ Jill Scott: I Am Music
Mudfoot Jones: Swingin’
Madlib: Offbeat (Groove)
Money Mark: Push the Button
Aloe Blacc: What Now
Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters: Funk Hunter
Beastie Boys: Ricky’s Theme
#61 [Aired 11-11-22, 11-13-22]
D’Angelo: Ain’t That Easy
Stevie Wonder: Have a Talk with God
D’Angelo: The Charade
Stevie Wonder: You Haven’t Done Nothin’
D’Angelo: Devil’s Pie
Stevie Wonder: I Wish
D’Angelo: Back to the Future
Stevie Wonder: Love’s in Need of Love Today
D’Angelo: Back to the Future (Part II)
Stevie Wonder: As
D’Angelo: Betray My Heart
Stevie Wonder: Pastime Paradise
D’Angelo: Till It’s Done (Tutu)
#60 [Aired 11-04-22, 11-06-22]
Maxwell: The Urban Theme
Maxayn: Trying for Days
Stevie Wonder: Maybe Your Baby
Weldon Irvine: Walk That Walk, Talk That Talk
Olu Dara: Zora
Otis Redding: Scratch My Back
The Mighty Imperials: Thunder Chicken
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Make It Good to Me
The Poets of Rhythm: Smilin’ (While You’re Crying)
Q-Tip: Blue Girl
Prince: Shockadelica
RZA: RZA #7
Soul II Soul: Jazzie’s Groove
Thunderball: The Road to Benares
St. Germain: What Do You Think About?
#59 [Aired 10-28-22, 10-30-22]
Bohannon: Bohannon’s Beat
The Heavy w/ Dap-Kings Horns: Colleen
Curtis Mayfield: Give Me Your Love
Four Tops: Reach Out I’ll Be There
D’Angelo: Cruisin’
Anita Baker: You Bring Me Joy
Al Green: Love and Happiness
Moodymann: Do Wrong
Neneh Cherry: Move With Me
Meshell Ndegeocello: Bittersweet
Roots Control: Forward Roots
The Whitefield Brothers: Safari Strut
#58 [Aired 10-21-22, 10-23-22]
Chic: We Are Family (Live)
Roy Ayers: Red Black and Green
Black Star: Astronomy (8th Light)
Sly and The Family Stone: Stand!
Sugarman 3: Down to It
Chuck Brown: People Make the World Go Round
Clinton: People Power in the Disco Hour
All Mighty Senators: Metaphor
George Clinton: Mothership Connection (Fully Equipped Mix)
LCD Soundsystem: Someone Great
Herbie Hancock: Watermelon Man
The O’Jays: For the Love of Money
#57 [Aired 10-14-22, 10-16-22]
Brick: Dazz
Stargard: Theme from Which Way Is Up?
The Temptations: Shakey Ground
Barry White: Standing in the Shadows of Love
Thunderball: Thunder in the Jungle
The Meters: Jungle Man
Herbie Hancock: Doin’ It
Gramatik: Doin’ It
Floetry: Big Ben
Us3: Cantaloop
Brothers in Arms: Pull Up
Grace Jones: Pull Up to the Bumper
Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love
#56 [Aired 10-07-22, 10-09-22]
Average White Band: Pick Up the Pieces
Billy Preston: Will It Go Round in Circles
Shuggie Otis: Strawberry Letter 23
Brothers Johnson: I’ll Be Good to You
Beastie Boys: In 3’s
Mary J. Blige: You Bring Me Joy
Roberta Flack: Killing Me Softly
Beyonce: Countdown
The Freedom Affair: Outta My Mind
The Five Stair Steps: Ooh Child
Roy Ayers: Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Flying Lotus: All In
Erykah Badu: Apple Tree
Carl Craig: As Time Goes By (Sitting Under a Tree)
Gramatik: Just Chillin’
#55 [Aired 09-30-22, 10-02-22]
Quantic Soul Orchestra: Hands of My Love
Q-Tip: Barely in Love
Terence Trent D’Arby: Wishing Well
Ohio Players: Fopp
Angie Stone: Love Junkie
Anita Baker: Sweet Love
Robert Glasper w/ Erykah Badu: Afro Blue
Diana Ross: Love Hangover
Galactic w/ Irma Thomas: Heart of Steel
Poets of Rhythm: Discern Define
Gil Scott-Heron: I Think I’ll Call It Morning
The Brand New Heavies: Back to Love
Amy Winehouse: The Girl from Ipanema
Nina Simone & Lauryn Hill: Feeling Good (Amerigo Gazaway Mix)
Bill Withers: Kissing My Love
#54 [Aired 09-16-22, 09-18-22, 09-23-22, 09-25-22]
Booker T. & The MG’s: Home Grown
The Jackson Five: ABC
Aretha Franklin: Respect
Stevie Wonder: Sir Duke
Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up
James Brown: Soul Power
Bootsy Collins: Stretchin’ Out
Bobby Rush: I Don’t Want Nobody Hanging Around
Solomon Burke: Cry to Me
Otis Redding: Any Ole Way
The Isley Brothers: It’s Your Thing
Chuck Brown: Bustin’ Loose
Outkast: Happy Valentine’s Day
Trouble Funk: Pump Me Up
Tupac: Keep Ya Head Up
#53 [Aired 09-09-22, 09-11-22]
Chic: We Are Family (Live)
Roy Ayers: Red Black and Green
Black Star: Astronomy (8th Light)
Sly and The Family Stone: Stand!
Sugarman 3: Down to It
Bugseed: Sun Goddess
Beyonce: Freedom
DJ Spooky w/ Chuck D: B-Side Wins Again
James Brown: Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved
James Brown: I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing
Bill Withers: Take It All In and Check It All Out
D’Angelo and The Vanguard: The Charade
Dirty Dozen Brass Band w/ Bettey LaVette: What’s Happening Brother
Fertile Ground: A Blues for Me
The Brand New Heavies: Keep Together
#52 [Aired 09-02-22, 09-04-22]
Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters: Funk Hunter
Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color
Tina Turner: I Can’t Stand the Rain
Stevie Wonder: Boogie On Reggae Woman
Chuck Brown: People Make the World Go Round
Clinton: People Power in the Disco Hour
All Mighty Senators: Metaphor
George Clinton: Mothership Connection (Fully Equipped Mix)
Ann Peebles: (I Feel Like) Breaking Up Somebody’s Home
D’Angelo: Higher
Angie Stone: Don’t Wanna Ride Without You
The Internet: Somthing’s Missing
A Forest Mighty Black: Rebirth
#51 [Aired 08-26-22, 08-28-22]
Beyonce: Break My Soul (Queens Remix)
Aretha Franklin: Baby I Love You
Nina Simone: Do I Move You
Roberta Flack: Feel Like Makin’ Love
Diana Ross: Upside Down
Sade: Hang on to Your Love
Erykah Badu: Didn’t Cha Know
Anita Baker: You Bring Me Joy
Lauryn Hill: Superstar
Betty Davis: Shoo-b-doop
Alicia Keys: Girlfriend
Solange: Junie
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Didn’t It Rain
Janet Jackson: Rhythm Nation
#50 [Aired 08-19-22, 08-21-22]
Maxwell: The Urban Theme
Billy Preson: Will It Go Round in Circles
Brothers Johnson: Ain’t We Funkin’ Now
A Tribe Called Quest: Award Tour
Weldon Irvine: We Gettin’ Down
Anita Baker: Sweet Love
Robert Glasper w/ Erykah Badu: Afro Blue
Diana Ross: Love Hangover
Galactic w/ Irma Thomas: Heart of Steel
Poets of Rhythm: Discern Define
LCD Soundsystem: Someone Great
Herbie Hancock: Watermelon Man
The O’Jays: For the Love of Money
#49 [Aired 08-12-22, 08-14-22]
Kentavius Jones: Luckiest Man
Bill Withers: I Don’t Know
Bronze Connection: Love Uprising
Aretha Franklin: Spirit in the Dark
Earth, Wind & Fire: Can’t Hide Love
Sly & The Family Stone: Everyday People
Kentavius Jones: Never Let Me Down
Chocolate Genius: Amazona
Meshell Ndegeocello: Bittersweet
The Isley Brothers: Take Me to the Next Phase
Kentavius Jones: Telephone
Ohio Players: Who’d She Coo?
Shuggie Otis: Strawberry Letter 23
Stevie Wonder: Tuesday Heartbreak
Prince: Hot Think (Dub Version)
#48 [Aired 08-05-22, 08-07-22]
Al Green: You Ought To Be with Me
Al Green: Look What You Done for Me
Al Green: Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
Al Green: Belle
Al Green: Lay It Down
Angie Stone: No More Rain
D’Angelo: Lady
Amy Winehouse: Our Day Will Come
Anderson Paak w/ Andre 3000: Come Home
Andre 3000: Idlewild Blue
Four Tet: No More Mosquitoes
ESG: Moody
Flying Lotus: All In
The Avalanches: Electricity
The Dap-Kings: Nervous Like Me
Budos Band: T.I.B.W.F.
#47 [Aired 07-29-22, 07-31-22]
Quantic Soul Orchestra: Hands of My Love
Q-Tip: Barely in Love
Terence Trent D’Arby: Wishing Well
Ohio Players: Fopp
Angie Stone: Love Junkie
Soul II Soul: Keep on Movin’
St. Germain: Land Of…
Thievery Corporation: Until the Morning
Amerigo Gazaway: Lost Tribe
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics: Mulatu
Olu Dara: Zora
Tinariwen: Matadjem Yinmixan
African Head Charge: Dervish Chant
#46 [Aired 07-22-22, 07-24-22]
The Bar-Kays: Too Hot to Stop
Sly & The Family Stone: Hot Fun in the Summertime
Earth, Wind & Fire: Let’s Groove
WAR: Summer
Roy Ayers: Everybody Loves the Sunshine
D’Angelo: Africa
Erykah Badu: Back in the Day (Puff)
Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color
Gil Scott-Heron: I Think I’ll Call It Morning
The Brand New Heavies: Back to Love
Amy Winehouse: The Girl from Ipanema
Nina Simone & Lauryn Hill: Feeling Good (Amerigo Gazaway Mix)
Bill Withers: Kissing My Love
#45 [07-15-22, 07-17-22]
Parliament: P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)
Parliament: Do That Stuff
Funkadelic: I Wanna Know If It’s Good to You
Parliament: (Gloryhallastoopid) Pin the Tail…
Parliament: Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off)
George Clinton: Atomic Dog (Extended Version)
George Clinton & P-Funk All Stars: Ain’t Nuthin’ but a Jam, Y’all
George Clinton & P-Funk All Stars: Let’s Take It to the Stage (Live)
George Clinton & P-Funk All Stars: Flash Light (Live)
Parliament: Flash Light
George Clinton: Mothership Connection (Fully Equipped Mix)
George Clinton: One Nation Under a Groove (Ice Cube Mix)
#44 [07-08-22, 07-10-22]
Chuck Brown: Bustin’ Loose
Chuck Brown: Blow Your Whistle
Chuck Brown: We the People
Chuck Brown: It’s Don’t Mean a Thing
Chuck Brown: Wind Me Up Chuck/Hoochie Coochie Man
Chuck Brown: Get Your Hands Up/Playing Your Game Baby
Chuck Brown: People Make the World Go Round
Trouble Funk: Pump Me Up
E.U.: Da Butt
Rare Essence: Lock It
#43 [Aired 07-01-22, 07-03-22]
James Brown: There It Is
Little Sister: You’re the One (Pts 1 & 2)
The Staple Singers: Funky Love
Aretha Franklin: Baby I Love You
Donna Summer: Love to Love You Baby
Al Green: L-O-V-E
Isaac Hayes: Joy (Part 1)
D’Angelo: Till It’s Done (Tutu)
Shuggie Otis: Sparkle City
Gramatik: Sumthin’
Fugees: Killing Me Softly (Live)
Isaac Hayes: Do Your Thing
Quantic: Conspirator
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth: Straighten It Out (Remix)
Kentavius Jones: Never Let Me Down
Gramatik: Funk It Down
#42 [Aired 06-24-22, 06-26-22]
Smokey Robinson: Cruisin’
Eddie Kendricks: Keep on Truckin’
War: Low Rider
Isaac Hayes: Theme from Shaft
The Meters: Cissy Strut
Porter Batiste Stoltz: Message from PBS
Lee Fields & The Sugarman 3: Stand Up
Funkadelic: I Wanna Know If It’s Good to You?
Detroit Sex Machines: Rap It Together
The Meters: Hand Clapping Song
Trouble Funk: Pump Me Up
Chuck Brown: Woody Woodpecker
Weldon Irvine: Walk That Walk, Talk That Talk
The Whitefield Brothers: Safari Strut
#41 [Aired 06-17-22, 06-19-22]
Cheryl Lynn: Got to Be Real
The Dramatics: Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
Yarbrough & Peoples: Don’t Stop the Music
Michael Jackson: Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
Money Mark: Push the Button
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth: Straighten It Out (Remix)
Willie Hutch: Get Ready for the Get Down
Maxwell: Welcome
George Benson: This Masquerade
Gramatik: Chillaxin’ by the Sea
Kid Koala: Stompin’ at the Savoi
R.L. Burnside: It’s Bad You Know
Aloe Blacc: What Now
The Poets of Rhythm: Smilin’ (While You’re Crying) instrumental
#40 [Aired 06-10-22, 06-12-22]
Mos Def/Marvin Gaye: I Want You ‘Til the Summertime
Willie Hutch: In and Out
Zapp: More Bounce to the Ounce
6IX: Dynamite
Sly: Just Like a Baby
Solange w/ Q-Tip: Borderline
Thievery Corporation: All That We Perceive
The Whitefield Brothers: Thunderbird
Thundercat: Show You the Way
Ultra Nate: I’m Not Afraid
Beastie Boys: Ricky’s Theme
Soul Sugar: Silver
TV on the Radio: Quartz
Prince: Diamonds and Pearls
Earth, Wind & Fire: Pure Gold
Bronze Connection: Love Uprising
#39 [Aired 06-03-22, 06-05-22]
Stevie Wonder: Master Blaster (Jammin’)
Rufus & Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good
Earth, Wind & Fire: Gratitude
WAR: Summer
David Bowie: Fame
Material: Mantra (Doors of Perception Mix)
Bill Withers: I Don’t Know
Macy Gray: Why Didn’t You Tell Me
Gramatik: In My Hood
Roy Ayers: Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Flying Lotus: All In
Erykah Badu: Apple Tree
Carl Craig: As Time Goes By (Sitting Under a Tree)
Gramatik: Just Chillin’
#38 [Aired 05-27-22, 05-29-22]
Booker T & The MGs: Chinese Checkers
The Soul Children: Hearsay
Linda Lyndell: What a Man
Otis Redding: Chain Gang
The Dramatics: Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
The Staple Singers: If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me)
Sugarman 3: Down to It
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: I’m Not Gonna Cry
Charles Bradley: The World (Is Going Up in Flames)
Lee Fields: Stand Up
Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens: What Have You Done
The Dap-Kings: Nervous Like Me
D’Angelo: The Line
D’Angelo: The Root
D’Angelo: The Charade
D’Angelo & The Vanguard: Betray My Heart
#37 [Aired 05-20-22, 05-22-22]
Arrested Development: Man’s Final Frontier
James Brown: Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (Live)
Zapp: More Bounce to the Ounce
Funkadelic: Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll)
Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love
The Meters: Jungle Man
The Meters: Out in the Country
The Meters: People Say
The Meters: Hey Pocky A-Way
The Meters: Pungee
Fugees: Killing Me Softly (Live)
Isaac Hayes: Do Your Thing
Quantic: Conspirator
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth: Straighten It Out (Remix)
Kentavius Jones: Never Let Me Down
Gramatik: Funk It Down
#36 [Aired 05-13-22, 05-15-22]
Average White Band: Pick Up the Pieces
Billy Preston: Will It Go Round in Circles
Shuggie Otis: Strawberry Letter 23
Brothers Johnson: I’ll Be Good to You
Beastie Boys: In 3’s
The Roots: The Next Movement
Black Star: Astronomy (8th Light)
Guru w/ N’dea Davenport: Trust Me
Lauryn Hill w/ Carlos Santana: To Zion
Beastie Boys: Sabrosa
Moodymann: Slow Down
Jamie XX w/ Roma: Loud Places
John Legend: Give It Up
Kentavius Jones: Luckiest Man
Amerigo Gazaway: Get Out
#35 [Aired, 05-06-22, 05-08-22]
Globe Poster Theme
Al Green: Love and Happiness
Parliament: Flashlight
Aretha Franklin: When the Battle Is Over
Tina Turner: Baby, I’m a Star
James Brown: Give It Up Or Turnit a Loose
Stevie Wonder: I Was Made to Love Her
The Jacksons: Enjoy Yourself
Otis Redding: Scratch My Back
Nina Simone: I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
Bobby Rush: I Don’t Want Nobody Hanging Around
The Bar-Kays: I’ll Dance
Chuck Brown: Blow Your Whistle
Eddie Kendricks: Keep OnTruckin’
Solomon Burke: Cry to Me
Tupac: California Love
James Brown: Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved
#34 [Aired 04-29-22, 05-01-22]
George Duke: Dukey Stick, Pt 1
Bootsy Collins: Stretchin’ Out
Graham Central Station: Water
Edwin Starr: There You Go
Irma Thomas: The Same Love That Made Me Laugh
Sly & The Family Stone: The Same Thing (Makes You Laugh, Makes You Cry)
John Legend: Let’s Get Lifted Again
Outkast: Life Is Like a Musical
Aaron Neville: Everybody Plays the Fool
A Forest Mighty Black: Rebirth
Kentavius Jones: Luckiest Man
Shuggie Otis: Aht Uh Mi Hed
Kentavius Jones: Never Let Me Down
Chocolate Genius: The Yes Eye
Kentavius Jones: Telephone
#33 [Aired 4-22-22, 4-24-22]
Mighty Imperials: Thunder Chicken
George Clinton: Atomic Dog
The Meters: Just Kissed My Baby
D’Angelo: Chicken Grease
Mary J. Blige: You Bring Me Joy
Roberta Flack: Killing Me Softly
Beyonce: Countdown
The Freedom Affair: Outta My Mind
The Five Stair Steps: Ooh Child
Flying Lotus: Melt!
African Head Charge: Free Chant
Thundercat: Lava Lamp
The Avalanches: Electricity
Weldon Irvine: We Gettin’ Down
Gramatik: Fly With Me
#32 [Aired 4-15-22, 4-17-22]
Tribute to Prince
Prince & The Revolution: Sometimes It Snows in April
Prince: Play That Funk Music (Live)
Prince: Hollywood Swinging (Live)
Prince: Fantastic Voyage (Live)
Prince: Everyday People (Live)
Prince: Alphabet Street
Prince & The Revolution: Let’s Go Crazy
Prince & The Revolution: Kiss
Prince: I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
Prince w/ Miles Davis: Funky
Prince: Forever in My Life
Prince: Starfish and Coffee
Prince: Housequake
Prince: Strange Relationship
Prince: It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night
#31 [Aired 04-08-22, 04-10-22]
Tribute to Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye: I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye w/ Tammi Terrell: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Marvin Gaye: Can I Get a Witness
Marvin Gaye: Ain’t That Peculiar
Marvin Gaye: How Sweet It It (To Be Loved by You)
Marvin Gaye w/ Tammi Terrell: Your Precious Love
Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up
Marvin Gaye: Let’s Get It On
Marvin Gaye: I Want You
Marvin Gaye: Sexual Healing
Marvin Gaye: Trouble Man
Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On
Marvin Gaye: What’s Happening Brother
Marvin Gaye: Flyin’ High (In the Friendly Sky)
Marvin Gaye: Save the Children
Marvin Gaye: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Amerigo Gazaway: The Prophet
#30 [Aired 04-01-22, 04-03-22]
Ohio Players: Skin Tight
Commodores: Brick House
The Bar-Kays: Shine
Chic: Good Times
African Music Machine: Tropical
Galactic: Something’s Wrong with This Picture
The Internet: Somthing’s Missing
Stevie Wonder: Tuesday Heartbreak
Roy Ayers: Mystic Voyage
Al Green w/ Anthony Hamilton: You’ve Got the Love I Need
Luther Vandross: Never Too Much
The Brand New Heavies: Ten Ton Take
Guru w/ N’dea Davenport: When You’re Near
Robert Glasper: Ah Yeah
#29 [Aired 03-25-22, 03-27-22]
Summer of Soul Edition
Sly & The Family Stone: Sing a Simple Song (Live)
Sly & The Family Stone: Everyday People (Live)
Sly & The Family Stone: Fun
Sly & The Family Stone: I Want to Take You Higher
Sly & The Family Stone: My Gorilla Is My Butler
Nina Simone: Backlash Blues (Live)
Ray Barretto: Together (Live)
Mongo Santamaría: Watermelon Man (Live)
Gladys Knight & The Pips: I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Live)
Herbie Mann: Hold On, I’m Comin’ (Live)
David Ruffin: My Girl (Live)
Chambers Brothers: Uptown (Live)
The 5th Dimension: Don’t Cha Hear Me Callin’ Ya (Live)
Edwin Hawkins Singers: Oh Happy Day (Live)
#28 [Aired 03-18-22, 03-20-22]
Aretha Franklin: Chain of Fools
War: Slippin’ into Darkness
L’Orange: What Am I Gonna Do?
The Bar-Kays: I’ll Dance
The Isley Brothers: Fight the Power
Beastie Boys: Namaste
Kurtis Blow: Hard Times
Chuck Brown: It Don’t Mean a Thing
Chuck Brown: Midnight Sun
Basehead: Better Days
Chocolate Genius: Safe and Sound
Sarah, The Illstrumentalist: Firmament
RZA: Samurai Theme
Vernon Reid: Mistaken Identity
Miles Davis: Black Satin
Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber: Chains and Water
Herbie Hancock: Chameleon
#27 [Aired 03-11-22, 03-13-22]
James Brown: There It Is
Edwin Starr: Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On
Parliament: Pin the Tail on the Funky
Con Funk Shun: Ffun
Prince: 7
Madlib: Stepping Into Tomorrow
Fertile Ground: Another Day
Macy Gray: A Moment to Myself
The Avalanches: Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life
Sam Cooke: Somebody Have Mercy
Donny Hathaway: You’ve Got a Friend
Tupac: Keep Ya Head Up
Marvin Gaye: Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Gramatik: The Prophet
#26 [Aired 03-04-22, 03-06-22]
Earth, Wind & Fire: Let’s Groove
The Staple Singers: Respect Yourself
Thelma Houston: Don’t Leave Me This Way
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings: I’m Not Gonna Cry
Sly & The Family Stone: The Same Thing (Makes You Laugh, Makes You Cry )
Lee Fields: Stand Up
Neville Brothers: Wake Up
The Freedom Affair: Rise Up
Aretha Franklin: Think
Gil Scott-Heron: I Think I’ll Call It Morning
Erykah Badu w/ Roy Hargrove: Think Twice
Neville Brothers: A Change Is Gonna Come
Neville Brothers: My Blood
Neville Brothers: With God on Our Side
Neville Brothers: Healing Chant
#25 [Aired 02-25-22, 02-27-22]
The Bar-Kays: Holy Ghost
Trouble Funk: Pump Me Up
The Brides of Funkenstein: Disco to Go
Parliament: Mothership Connection
Zapp: More Bounce to the Ounce
Isaac Hayes: Do Your Think
Lee Dorsey: Yes We Can
Mavis Staples: We Shall Not Be Moved
The Mighty Imperials: Jody’s Walk
Roy Hargrove’s RH Factor: A Place
Funkadelic: I Wanna Know If It’s Good to You?
DJ Spooky w/ Chuck D: B-Side Wins Again
Stevie Wonder: You Haven’t Done Nothin’
The Meters: Tippi-Toes
#24 [Aired 02-18-22, 02-20-22]
Kool & The Gang: Hollywood Swinging
The Meters: Cabbage Alley
Curtis Mayfield: Junkie Chase
Stevie Wonder: Superstition
Billy Preston: Outa-Space
Mary J. Blige: You Bring Me Joy
Roberta Flack: Killing Me Softly With His Song
Beyoncé: Countdown
The Freedom Affair: Outta My Mind
The Five Stairsteps: Ooh Child
Me’Shell Ndegéocello: Bittersweet
Chocolate Genius: Tomboyrockstar
Amy Winehouse: Brother
Amy Winehouse: Mr. Magic
#23 [Aired 02-11-22, 02-13-22]
Outkast: Happy Valentine’s Day
Barry White: Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Baby
The Emotions: Best of My Love
Smokey Robinson: Cruisin’
Quantic Soul Orchestra w/ Alice Russell: Hands of My Love
Sylvester: You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Donna Summer: I Feel Love
D’Angelo: Feel Like Makin’ Love
Prince: Forever in My Life
Al Green: Just for Me
Sade: Your Love Is King
Frank Ocean: Thinkin’ Bout You
Jay-Z w/ Beyonce: Bonnie & Clyde
Grover Washington, Jr. w/ Bill Withers: Just the Two of Us
#22 [Aired 02-04-22, 02-06-22]
Cheryl Lynn: Got to Be Real
The Dramatics: Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
Yarbrough & Peoples: Don’t Stop the Music
Michael Jackson: Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
Money Mark: Push the Button
D’Angelo & The Vanguard: Ain’t That Easy
Maxwell: Welcome
George Benson: This Masquerade
Nina Simone: Rich Girl
Bettye LaVette/Dirty Dozen Brass Band: What’s Happening Brother
Moodymann: Slow Down
Sarah, The Illstrumentalist: Kundalini
Madlib: Slim’s Return
Thievery Corporation: Until the Morning
Millennial Territory Orchestra: Thank You for Talkin’ to Me Africa
#21 [Aired 01-28-22, 01-30-22]
Stevie Wonder: Boogie on Reggae Woman
The Isley Brothers: I Wanna Be With You
Ohio Players: Who’d She Coo?
Detroit Sex Machines: Rap It Together
Prince: Pink Cashmere
Curtis Mayfield: Give Me Your Love
Solange: Junie
Mos Def: Love
Shuggie Otis: Not Available
Flying Lotus: Melt!
African Head Charge: Free Chant
Thundercat: Lava Lamp
The Avalanches: Electricity
Weldon Irvine: We Gettin’ Down
Gramatik: Fly Wit Me
#20 [Aired 01-21-22, 01-23-22]
James Brown: Papa Don’t Take No Mess
The Jacksons: Enjoy Yourself
Bill Withers: Kissing My Love
The Meters: Fire on the Bayou
Quantic Soul Orchestra w/ Alice Russell: Pushin’ On
Nina Simone: Baltimore
Marvin Gaye: Anger
Georgia Anne Muldrow: Roses
Chocolate Genius: The Yes Eye
Macy Gray: I Can’t Wait to Meetchu
Galactic w/ Big Freedia: Double It
Rick James: Bustin’ Out
Tina Turner: Hold On I’m Coming (Live)
Chic: We Are Family (Live)
Pete Rock & CL Smooth: Ghettos of the Mind (remix)
#19 [Only first segment Aired 01-14-22, 01-16-22]
The Mighty Imperials: Thunder Chicken
George Clinton: Atomic Dog
The Meters: Just Kissed My Baby
D’Angelo: Chicken Grease
Maxayn: Trying for Days
Labelle: What Can I Do for You?
Sharon Jones: Make It Good to Me
Me’shell Ndegeocello: Satisfy
DJ Shadow: What Does Your Soul Look Like?
ESG: Dance
Rod Lee: Dance My Pain Away
J. Dilla: Workinonit
The Bug: Eliminate the Countdown (Remix)
#18 [Aired 01-07-22, 01-09-22]
The Bar-Kays: Too Hot to Stop
Ohio Players: Fire
The Isley Brothers: Take Me to the Next Phase
Galactic: Tighten Your Wig
Amerigo Gazaway (Yasiin Gaye): Inner City Travellin’ Man
Arrested Development: United Front
Erykah Badu: Woo
Fertile Ground: Changing Woman
Sylvester: I Need Somebody to Love Tonight
Moodymann: Let Me Show You Love
Brand New Heavies: Back to Love
The Poets of Rhythm: Smilin’ (While You’re Crying)
#17 [Aired 12-17-21, 12-19-21]
Earth, Wind, and Fire: Sing a Song
Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground
James Brown: I Got the Feelin’
Tina Turner: Baby, I’m a Star
Prince: Alphabet St.
Al Green: L-O-V-E
Isaac Hayes: Joy (Part 1)
D’Angelo: Till It’s Done (Tutu)
Shuggie Otis: Sparkle City
Gramatik: Sumthin’
Trouble Funk: Pump Me Up
Chuck Brown: Woody Woodpecker
Weldon Irvine: Walk That Walk, Talk That Talk
The Whitefield Brothers: Safari Strut
#16 [Aired 12-10-21, 12-12-21]
James Brown: There It Is
Little Sister: You’re the One (Pts 1 & 2)
The Staple Singers: Funky Love
Aretha Franklin: Baby I Love You
Donna Summer: Love to Love You Baby
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth: Straighten It Out (Remix)
Willie Hutch: Get Ready for the Get Down
Maxwell: Welcome
George Benson: This Masquerade
Gramatik: Chillaxin’ by the Sea
Mos Def: Fear Not of Man
Mos Def: Hip Hop
Tupac: California Love
De La Soul: Eye Know
Digable Planets: K.B.’s Alley
#15 [Aired 12-03-21, 12-05-21]
Tina Turner: Let’s Stay Together
Isaac Hayes: Let’s Stay Together
Al Green: Let’s Stay Together
The Isley Brothers: I Wanna Be with You
Earth, Wind, and Fire: That’s the Way of the World
Chuck Brown: People Make the World Go Round
Kurtis Blow: Party Time
L’Orange: Coffee
L’Orange: Small Towns
Innerzone Orchestra: People Make the World Go Round
Innerzone Orchestra: Bug in the Bass Bin
Poets of Rhythm: Discern Define
#14 [Aired 11-26-21, 11-28-21]
Brothers Johnson: Ain’t We Funkin’ Now
King Floyd: Groove Me
Bill Withers: Lonely Town, Lonely Street
Roy Ayers: We Live in Brooklyn, Baby
The Whitefield Brothers: Thunderbird
Amy Winehouse: You Know I’m No Good
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings feat. Lee Fields: Stranded in Your Love
Roberta Flack: Feel Like Makin’ Love
Fertile Ground: A Blues for Me
Flying Lotus: All In
Sarah, The Illstrumentalist: Curved Water
Sariah, The Illstrumentalist: Gravity
Four Tet: As Serious as Your Life (Remix)
Galactic: Quiet Please
#13 [Aired 11-19-21, 11-21-21]
The Miracles: Love Machine, Pt. 1
The O’Jays: Love Train
Michael Jackson: Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
Chic: I’m Coming Out
Gramatik: Funk It Up
Madlib: Slim’s Return
Georgia Anne Muldrow: Roses
Ultra Nate: How Long
George Benson: On Broadway
Kid Koala: Stompin’ at the Savoi
R.L. Burnside: It’s Bad You Know
Aloe Blacc: What Now
The Poets of Rhythm: Smilin’ (While You’re Crying) instrumental
#12 [Aired 11-12-21, 11-14-21]
Parliament: Flash Light
Ohio Players: Fopp
Prince: Alphabet St.
James Brown: The Payback
Porter Batiste Stoltz: Message from PBS
Lee Fields & The Sugarman 3: Stand Up
Funkadelic: I Wanna Know If It’s Good to You?
Detroit Sex Machines: Rap It Together
The Meters: Hand Clapping Song
Anderson Paak feat. Andre 3000: Come Home
Meshell Ndegeocello: Who Is He and What Is He to You?
Chocolate Genius: Love
Fugees: Killing Me Softly
#11 [Aired 11-05-21, 11-07-21]
Al Green: I Can’t Get Next to You
Ann Peebles: Come to Mama
Stevie Wonder: Tuesday Heartbreak
Otis Redding: Scratch My Back
Amerigo Gazaway (Otis/Outkast): Shutterbugg
Madlib: Offbeat (Groove)
Robert Glasper feat. Erykah Badu: Afro Blue
Solange: Junie
Alicia Keys: Girlfriend
The Avalanches: Electricity
Sarah, The Illstrumentalist: Gravity
St. Germain: What Do You Think About
Jorge Ben: Ponta de Lanca Africano
Tinariwen: Cler Achel
Zap Mama Feat. The Roots: Rafiki
#10 [Aired 10-29-21, 10-31-21]
Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On
Marvin Gaye: What’s Happening Brother
Marvin Gaye: Mercy Mercy Me
Marvin Gaye: Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Marvin Gaye: God Is Love
Sly Stone: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Sly Stone: Thank You for Talkin’ To Me Africa
Sly Stone: Just Like a Baby
Sly Stone: Poet
Sly Stone: Brave & Strong
War: All Day Music
Jean Knight: Mr. Big Stuff
Rare Earth: I Just Want to Celebrate
Chuck Brown: We Need Some Money
#9 [Aired 10-22-21, 10-24-21]
Smokey Robinson: Cruisin’
Eddie Kendricks: Keep on Truckin’
War: Low Rider
Isaac Hayes: Theme from Shaft
The Meters: Cissy Strut
The Jackson Five: I Want You Back
Al Green: Tired of Being Alone
Nina Simone: I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
Aretha Franklin: Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
Marvin Gaye: I Want You
Booker T & The MGs: Behave Yourself
Shuggie Otis: Inspiration Information
Weldon Irvine: Walk That Walk, Talk That Talk
Isley Brothers: Caravan of Love
#8 [Aired 10-15-21, 10-17-21]
Prince: 1999
The Time: 777-9311
Trouble Funk: Let’s Get Hot
Money Mark: Push the Button
Macy Gray: I Try
Galactic/Irma Thomas: Heart of Steel
D’Angelo: Till It’s Done (Tutu)
Lauryn Hill/D’Angelo: Nothing Even Matters
Chuck Brown: People Make the World Go Round
Roy Ayers: Boogie Down
Q-Tip: Barely in Love
Gramatik: Loungin’
#7 [Aired 10-08-21, 10-10-21]
Sharon Jones: I’m Not Gonna Cry
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band: Express Yourself
James Brown: I Got You (I Feel Good)
Sly & The Family Stone: (You Caught Me) Smilin’
Prince: U Got the Look
Terence Trent D’Arby: Wishing Well
The Brand New Heavies: Have a Good Time
Erykah Badu: Apple Tree
Mos Def: Umi Says
Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color
Gramatik: Shaft Funk
Soul II Soul: Jazzie’s Groove
Thievery Corporation: Lebanese Blonde
Material: Mantra
#6 (Memphis) [Aired 10-01-21, 10-03-21]
Booker T. & The MG’s: Home Grown
Al Green: Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
Eddie Floyd: Knock on Wood
The Dramatics: Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
Linda Lyndell: What a Man
Booker T. & The MG’s: Green Onions
The Bar-Kays: Soul Finger
Carla Thomas: B-A-B-Y
The Staple Singers: If You’re Ready (Come Go with Me)
Isaac Hayes: Never Can Say Goodbye
Otis Clay: Trying to Live My Life Without You
Booker T. & The MG’s: Time Is Tight
Ann Peebles: I Can’t Stand the Rain
George Jackson: Aretha Sing One for Me
Aretha Franklin: Spirit in the Dark
Johnnie Taylor: Jody’s Got Your Girl and Gone
Otis Redding: Mr. Pitiful
Willie Mitchell: 20-75
#5 [Aired 09-24-21, 09-26-21]
Curtis Mayfield: Superfly
Prince: Baltimore
Kool & the Gang: Jungle Boogie
Marvin Gaye: Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Parliament: Do That Stuff (Live)
Chic: I Want Your Love (Live)
Sade: Smooth Operator (Live)
Shuggie Otis: Not Available
Clinton: People Power in the Disco Hour
The Avalanches: Radio
J Dilla: Workinonit
D’Angelo & The Vanguard: Sugah Daddy
#4 [Aired 09-17-21, 09-19-21]
James Brown: Make It Funky
Fred Wesley & The JB’s: Doing It to Death
Sly & the Family Stone: I Want to Take You Higher
The Isley Brothers: It’s Your Thing
Average White Band: Pick Up the Pieces
The Jacksons: Enjoy Yourself
Labelle: Lady Marmalade
Stevie Wonder: Boogie on Reggae Woman
Mavis Staples: Eyes on the Prize
Lauryn Hill: Everything Is Everything
Platinum Pied Pipers: After the Worries
King Curtis: Whole Lotta Love
#3 [Aired 09-10-21, 09-12-21]
Aretha Franklin: Baby I Love You
Prince: I Wanna Be Your Lover
The Emotions: Best of My Love
D’Angelo: Feel Like Makin’ Love
Earth, Wind & Fire: September
War: Summer
Sly & The Family Stone: Hot Fun in the Summertime
Donna Summer: I Feel Love
BYOB: Distances
Erykah Badu: 20 Feet Tall
Solange: Cranes in the Sky
Thundercat: Show You the Way
Me’Shell Ndegeocello: Loyalty
#2 [Aired 09-03-21, 09-05-21]
Macy Gray: Why Didn’t You Call Me
Al Green: Call Me
Syl Johnson: Take Me to the River
The Staple Singers: I’ll Take You There
Sharon Jones: How Long Do I Have to Wait for You?
Brothers Johnson: Strawberry Letter 23
Brothers Johnson: I’ll Be Good to You
Rufus & Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good
Ohio Players: Love Rollercoaster
Rare Essence: Lock It
Roy Ayers & Fela: Black Family
The Budos Band: Up from the South
#1 [Aired 08-27-21, 08-29-21]
Parliament: Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)
Janet Jackson: Rhythm Nation
The Dap-Kings: Nervous Like Me
Chic: Good Times
Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground
Prince: Kiss
Shuggie Otis: Strawberry Letter 23
Shuggie Otis: Happy House
Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up
Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers: We the People
D’Angelo: Chicken Grease
Black Star: Astronomy (8th Light)
Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star