This week we celebrate Women’s History Month the way we know best — by following the music. For more than a century, women have shaped the sound of America’s story. They didn’t just sing the songs — they wrote them, bent them, electrified them, sanctified them, and sometimes had to fight just to be heard over them. From the tent shows and juke joints of the 1920s to arena stages and global spotlights, women have carried rhythm, blues, gospel, country, rock, pop — and the truth — on their shoulders. Tune in this coming Friday morning for a journey that begins at the foundation. Before rock and roll. Before crossover radio. When the blues was still carving its name into shellac and history. We’ll then make our way into the genres of jazz, country, rock, and gospel where women’ influenced the deeper roots of American music and you find their fingerprints everywhere — in the blues phrasing, in the gospel shout, in the country confession, in the pop hook, in the rock-and-roll roar.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ma Rainey | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Ma Rainey |  |
| 2 | Keb' Mo' Featuring Rosanne Cash | Put A Woman In Charge | Put A Woman In Charge | |
| 3 | Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong | St. Louis Blues | I Heard It On NPR: Shake These Blues | |
| 4 | Memphis Minnie | Me And My Chauffeur Blues | Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 2] | |
| 5 | Ethel Waters | Heat Wave | Ethel Waters 1929 -1939 (feat. Duke Ellington & Benny Goodman) | |
| 6 | Billie Holiday | God Bless The Child | Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia 1933-1944 [Disc 10] | |
| 7 | Ella Fitzgerald | Goody, Goody | 75th Birthday Celebration [Disc 2] | |
| 8 | Dinah Washington | What a Diff'rence a Day Makes | The Essential Dinah Washington: The Great Songs | |
| 9 | Jimmie Grier | The Object Of My Affection | 50 #1 Hits Of The '20s & '30s | |
| 10 | Ivie Anderson | It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) | An Introduction To Ivie Anderson | |
| 11 | Tommy Dorsey, The Pied Pipers, Jo Stafford | Embraceable You | I Got Rhythm: The Music of George Gershwin | |
| 12 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe | Rock Me | Oxford American 10th Anniversary Southern Music CD [Disc 2] "Past Masters" [2008] | |
| 13 | Mahalia Jackson | Move On Up A Little Higher, Pt. 1 | Good News (Vol 3) Get Away Jordan | |
| 14 | Nina Simone | See Line Women | The Ultimate Nina Simone | |
| 15 | Betty Carter | Open the Door | American Beauty | |
| 16 | Judy Garland | Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart | Your Hit Parade – 1943 | |
| 17 | Sarah Vaughan | I Feel So Smoochie | September Song | |
| 18 | Kay Starr | Rock and Roll Waltz | Your Hit Parade – 1956 | |
| 19 | Peggy Lee | Sugar (That Sugar Baby O' Mine) | The Capitol Collector's Series | |
| 20 | Katie Shore | You're From Texas | It's All Her Fault: A Tribute To Cindy Walker | |
| 21 | Mother Maybelle Carter | Keep on the Sunny Side | Ash Grove (Live April 20, 1963) | |
| 22 | Patsy Cline | Why Can't He Be You | The Patsy Cline Collection | |
| 23 | Kitty Wells | It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels | American Roots Music (Disc One-Country) | |
| 24 | Dolly Parton | Jolene | Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns – The Soundtrack [Disc 2] | |
| 25 | Loretta Lynn | She's Got You | Classic Country 1975-1979 [Disc 2] | |
| 26 | Wanda Jackson | Funnel Of Love | Queen Of Rockabilly | |
| 27 | Etta James | Come What May | The Complete Modern & Kent Recordings 1 | |
| 28 | Aretha Franklin | Think | 30 Greatest Hits [Disc 1] | |
| 29 | Ruth Brown | Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean | Ruth Brown: The Definitive Soul Collection [[Disc 1]] | |
| 30 | The Crystals | Da Doo Ron Ron | The Best Of The Crystals | |
| 31 | LaVern Baker | Jim Dandy (Japan 2012 Remaster) | Atlantic Rock & Roll | |
| 32 | Carole King | I Feel the Earth Move | A Natural Woman: The Ode Collection (1968-1976) (1 of 2) | |
| 33 | Joni Mitchell | Chelsea Morning | Hits | |
| 34 | Joan Baez | Farewell, Angelina | Baez Sings Dylan | |
| 35 | Emmylou Harris | If I Could Only Win Your Love | Fifty Years Of Hits – Vol 5 | |