Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is The Griot by Gaye Adegbalola on the VizzTone label group.
Gaye serves up “topical blues for topical times.” As a griot (gree-oh), she uses her honest vision of the world to record history — as she sees it — in song . . . stories like “(You’re)Flint Water, baby — dirty as you can be;” and I’ve been “Kaepernicked!”— now you are my new Muhammad Ali; and how “I’ll sacrifice my life to stop that FGM” (female genital mutilation); and yet there’s her signature humor in “3 Hour Shoes” and “Liearrhea.”
Artist: Gay Adegbalola
Title: The Griot
1.Nothing’s Changed
2.The Griot
3.Liearrhea
4.FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)
5.Dirty Sheets
6.(You’re) Flint Water [Explicit]
7.Kaepernicked
8.Ain’t Technology Grand? [Explicit]
9.Gon’ Be Alright
10.Don’t Criticize Me [Explicit]
11.Nothing Left
12.(There Is Always) One More Time
13.Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
14.Tea Cake Kind of Love
15.3 Hours Shoes (Stylin’ for the Lord)
16.Sorry, But… No Shame
17.Jelly Bean Blues