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"Champagne & Reefer" -
Muddy Waters yourself.”
For folks who require a little bit more than
beer during this seclusion, the King of the
Blues had some ideas. Recorded in 1981
for the **King Bee (Blue Sky) album,
Muddy called for the legalization of mari-
juana and testified to its relaxing powers.
“Well you know there should be no
law/on people that want to smoke a little
dope/well you know there should be no
law/on people that want to smoke a little
dope/well you know it’s good for your
head/and it relax your body don’t you
know.” "Everything Gonna Be Alright" -
Big Mama Thornton
"Heal Yourself" - Ruthie Foster
With so much up in the air about vac-
cines and ways to cure Covid-19, Ruthie
Foster has a few pointers about what to do
in the meantime. This funky track from
2007’s The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster (Blue
Corn) tackles the psychological issues that
helped create the institutional barriers that
have failed so many during this crisis. You
born in the backseat of America/and you
pride yourself in sharing her/taught to
work to please and pray on your
knees/you pay for your cheap grace with
nominal fees/oh, you try to change the
news with your TV remote/you got the
freedom to choose/ but you choose not to
vote/better heal yourself, child, /heal
Ultimately, we just have to believe that
everything will be alright in the end. Big
Mama Thornton supplied a big dose of
grit and belief on this 1967 tune from her
album, The Queen of Monterey with the
Chicago Blues Band (Arhoolie Records).
Never doubt Big mama’s commanding
declaration: “Everything gonna be alright
baby/I know because I feel it in my bones
/everything gonna be alright baby
/because I feel it in my bones/hey pretty
baby/ I don’t want you to leave me
alone.”
"Jesus Just Left Chicago" -
Shemekia Copeland
For an extra dose of faith, Shemekia
delivers a knockout punch on 2015’s
Outskirts of Love (Alligator). With ZZ Top’s
Billy Gibbons supplying haunting guitar
on the group’s original song, Shemekia
assures divine intervention. “Jesus just left
Chicago/bound for New Orleans/work-
ing one end to the other/and all points in
between/ You won’t see him in
person/but he’ll see you just the
same/you don’t have to worry/taking
care of business is his name.”