Women Who Rock We Salute You

Ok, so all the Grammy hype has quieted down. But does anyone really care anymore? Really?

Does anyone really care about the darlings and celebrities of Billboard's Top 200?

Do you care?

We don't.

And the majority of the artists in music today who we care about don't care about it either.

What we do care about is Rock N Roll, which is all but completely unrepresented in popular media today, ESPECIALLY at the Grammys.

You know what else is underrepresented? In Rock N Roll?

All the tremendously influential WOMEN who helped build it and shape it into the art form it has become.

Today's show WOMEN! ROCK! gives credit where credit's due.

Do you know who was the first musician to consistently utilize distortion?

Do you know the powerful, uncompromising woman who's song Hound Dog was stolen by Elvis Presley?

Do you know who the first two all female rock band's were?

Do you know who Rock Royalty's First Lady of The Blues is?

YOU WILL!

After listening to the latest episode of The GXO Podcast, your trusted, insider source for all things music, pop culture and current affairs!

In today's show you're going to hear nothing but THE FINEST Rock N Roll has to offer...

THE MUSIC:

American Requiem https://music.apple.com/ca/album/ameriican-requiem/1738363766?i=1738363767 from Beyonce Knowles' Cowboy Carter album, winner of the Grammy Award for Album of the Year as well as Best Country album. She is the first African American woman to win the Grammy for Best Country album

Master Delta Blues musician, vocalist and songwriter Son House classic Death Letter https://music.apple.com/ca/album/death-letter/724061643?i=724061697 newly realized by Cassandra Wilson on her Blue Note Records jazz album New Moon Daughter

The Monkees classic Last Train To Clarksville https://music.apple.com/ca/album/last-train-to-clarksville/724061643?i=724061719 reinvented by Casandra Wilson on her Blue Note Records jazz album New Moon Daughter

Referencing John Lennon and Yoko Ono's attendance at his October 15, 1971 concert in New York City at Madison Square Garden, Rick Nelson shot back at the booing crowd with this Number One song from 1972, his final Top 40 hit, Garden Party https://music.apple.com/ca/album/garden-party/1443878582?i=1443878951 from the album of the same name, the 20th studio album of his career

The Shaggs Sweet Thing https://music.apple.com/ca/album/sweet-thing/1790539349?i=1790539672 from 1969 and their one and only studio album Philosophy Of The World, possibly the first in what has become known as the genre labeled Outsider music

The Frank Zappa produced I Have A Paint Brush In My Hand To Color A Triangle by GTO (girls together outrageously) from the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Hollywood Hills. From their one and only album Permanent Damage released in 1969 (at present not "officially" available digitally) - check YouTube 

Sister Rosetta Tharpe's iconic Didn't It Rain performance recorded live May 7, 1964, at the Wilbraham Road Railway Station in Manchester, England. The performance was filmed for the Granada Television program The Blues And Gospel Train featuring Sister Rosetta emerging from a horse drawn carriage in the rain to play her Gibson SG electric guitar (again, check YouTube)

The one. The only. The originator. Herself. Big Mama Thornton and her song Hound Dog https://music.apple.com/ca/album/hound-dog/1444120044?i=1444120215 inspired by and written specifically for her by the then twentysomething songwriting duo Leiber & Stoller

The Empress Of The Blues. Queen. King. Pharaoh. Caesar. Tsar. None other than Bessie Smith herself and one of her many signature songs Gimme A Pigfoot (And A Bottle Of Beer) https://music.apple.com/ca/album/gimme-a-pigfoot-and-a-bottle-of-beer/650927116?i=650927376 recorded in New York City, November 24, 1933, in what was to be the final recording session before her tragic, untimely death in 1937 at the age of 45

Radiator from the debut album Beauty Pageant https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/the-bobby-lees/1340751343 by the Sam Quartin led Woodstock, New York based rockers The Bobby Lees 

Regina Spektor and her definitive version of John Lennon's song Real Love https://music.apple.com/ca/album/real-love/302516167?i=302516362 from the fundraiser Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign To Save Darfur. While a two disc physical copy of the album containing 23 John Lennon covers was released, the vastly expanded 60 track version is available as a download only 

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