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