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With Lady Blackbird in Conversation

Lady Blackbird joins Cerys to share her favourite blues records. Lady Blackbird released her award-winning debut album Black Acid Soul in 2021, her second is due this September.

Lady Blackbird joins Cerys to share her favourite blues records and how blues music has influenced her own sound.

Growing up in a small town in New Mexico, USA Lady Blackbird began singing at a young age. Taking influences from Adele to Tina Turner, Chaka Khan to Billie Holiday, her award-winning debut album Black Acid Soul was released in 2021 and featured her cover of Nina Simone's Blackbird. Her second album Slang Spirituals is due out this autumn.

57 minutes

Music Played

  • Lil' Jimmy Reed

    Early In The Morning

    • Blues In Paradise.
    • Fast Western.
  • Jimmy Reed

    Big Boss Man

    • Found Love.
    • Vee-Jay Records.
  • Grateful Dead

    New Speedway Boogie

    • Workingman's Dead.
    • Grateful Dead/Rhino.
  • Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge

    Tell Me Why U Do That

    • Tell Me Why U Do That.
    • Grace Bowers Music.
  • Lady Blackbird

    Reborn

    • Slang Spirituals.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).
  • Billie Holiday

    Solitude

    • Solitude: The Legendary Billie Holiday.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
  • Robert Johnson

    Hellhound On My Trail

    • King Of The Delta Blues Singers.
    • Columbia/Legacy.
  • Aretha Franklin

    Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning

    • Unforgettable: A Tribute To Dinah Washington (Expanded Edition).
    • OKEH.
  • Lady Blackbird

    Blackbird

    • Black Acid Soul (Deluxe).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited.
  • Toronzo Cannon

    Unlovable

  • James Oliver Band

    Goofin' Around

Broadcast

  • Mon 24 Jun 2024 21:00