Hanif and Grammy award winning artist H.E.R. sit down to talk all about the guitar: H.E.R.’s relationship to the instrument, her many inspirations and the long lineage of Black women who’ve defined popular music and culture before her. They discuss how H.E.R. intuitively found her voice on her latest album Back Of Mind, and they explore what it means to redefine R&B music in the present moment. This week’s show comes with a playlist curated by Hanif of songs by Black women guitar players, and an ode to Sister Rosetta Tharpe. For the playlist of songs curated for this episode, visit https://bit.ly/oos-guitarsheroes.
/Music In This Week's Episode/
H.E.R., Hard To Love
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Strange Things Happening Every Day
Etta Baker, I Get The Blues When It Rains
Brittany Howard, 13th Century Metal
Carline Ray, Lazarus
Elizabeth Cotten, I’m Going Away
Barbara Lynn, Maybe We Can Slip Away
Klymaxx, Fab Attack
/Show Notes/
H.E.R.’s latest album is Back of My Mind.
Check out Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s page in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, here.
Her Instagram show featuring female guitar players, Girls With Guitars, is available to rewatch on Youtube.
She is the first black woman to have a signature guitar, a Fender Stratocaster.
Lyrics from I Can’t Breathe were taken directly from a conversation between H.E.R. and her friend, GRAMMY-award winning singer-songwriter Tiara Thomas.
/Credits/
This show is produced by work by work: Scott Newman, Jemma Rose Brown, Babette Thomas, Mayari Sherina Ong and by Hanif Abdurraqib. The show is mixed by Sam Bair.
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