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TODAY, on The Vinyl Experience

paul WFUVJust some of the artists we’re playing on The Vinyl Experience Vol 189, at 9a/3p/9p ET and 3a Monday:

John Coltrane Quartet: Alabama
Neil Young: Alabama
Bob Marley
The Clash
Tears For Fears
Aretha Franklin
Little Green Cars
Walker Brothers
Gaslight Anthem
Merl Saunders/Jerry Garcia
Bruce Springsten
The Band
Brook Benton

“Alabama” is a composition written by John Coltrane that appears on his album Live at Birdland (1963). It was written in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963, an attack by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four girls.[1][2]

Coltrane’s Quartet performed this piece on television for an episode of Jazz Casual in 1963.