The music of the Southern churches has always been intertwined with the fight for rights and freedoms in our country and across the world, too. We'll listen to some selections from Mavis Staples, The Golden Gate Quartet, Bernice Johnson Reagon, The McIntosh County Shouters and many more. Freedom is in the air … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

Matt “Guitar” Murphy / “Matt's Guitar Boogie #2” / Way Down South / Antones

Taj Mahal / “Diving Duck Blues” / The Real Thing / Columbia

Mavis Staples / “I'll Take You There” / I'll Take You There / Blackbird

Golden Gate Quartet / “Golden Gate Gospel Train” / Travelin' Shoes / RCA Bluebird

Washington Phillips / “I've Got the Key to the Kingdom” / The Key to the Kingdom / Yazoo

Roy Wilkins / “Speech” / Pioneers in Protest-Dr Martin Luther King, Jr Vol.II / Goldwax

Morehouse Glee Club / “I'm Building Me a Home” / Pioneers in Protest-Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. / Goldwax

Bernice Johnson Reagon / “Freedom in the Air” / Give Your Hands to Struggle / Smithsonian-Folkways

Matt “Guitar” Murphy / “Thump Tyne” / Way Down South / Antones 

The Clara Ward Singers / “Meetin' Tonight-This Little Light of Mine” / Meetin' Tonight / Vanguard

Billie Holliday / “Strange Fruit” / Protest! / Viper

Champion Jack Dupree / “I'm Going to Write the Governor of Georgia” / Classic Protest Songs / Smithsonian Folkways

Fannie Lou Hamer / “Woke Up this Morning” / Songs My Mother Taught Me / Smithsonian Folkways

The McIntosh County Shouters / “Blessed are the Poor in Spirit” / Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast / Smithsonian Folkways

Sonny Treadway / “Amazing Grace” / Sacred Steel / Arhoolie

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways