Monday Music: The Weight

Featuring Ringo Starr and Robbie Robertson | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

From the YouTube site:

Sep 18, 2019

“The Weight,” features Ringo Starr and The Band's original member Robbie Robertson, along with musicians across 5 continents. Great songs can travel everywhere bridging what divides us and inspiring us to see how easily we all get along when the music plays. Special thanks to our partner Cambria® for helping to make this possible and to Robbie Robertson, Ringo Starr and all the musicians for joining us in celebrating 50 years of this classic song.

 

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Monday Music: Queen Bee (Taj Mahal)

From the Playing for Change YouTube site:

“Queen Bee” is a soulful single from Taj Mahal’s 1997 studio album, Señor Blues, which won a GRAMMY for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Enjoy this Song Around The World version, featuring Ben Harper, Rosanne Cash, Paula Fuga and over 20 musicians from six countries.

 

 

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Monday Music: Guantanamera (Playing for Change)

 From the YouTube website:

We invite you to watch and enjoy another Song Around The World ... "Guantanamera". We started the song with Carlos Varela in Havana and it features over 75 Cuban musicians around the world, from Havana and Santiago to Miami, Barcelona and Tokyo. We recorded and produced this track with Jackson Browne, who explains that "traveling with Playing For Change across Cuba was one of the most rewarding and inspiring musical experiences of my life."

 

 

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Monday Music: Peace Train (Playing for Change)

Yusuf / Cat Stevens joins a worldwide chorus of singers performing his 1971 hit, "Peace Train." Playing for Change shows us the song is still an inspiring anthem.

 

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Monday Music: A Change Is Gonna Come (Playing for Change)

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Monday Music: Redemption Song (Bob Marley)

Here is another Playing for Change feature, with artists around the world joining in to perform Bob Marley's "Redemption Song."

Redemption  Song

By Bob Marley

Old pirates, yes, they rob I,

Sold I to the merchant ships,

Minutes after they took I

From the bottomless pit.

But my hand was made strong

By the hand of the Almighty.

We forward in this generation

Triumphantly.

Won't you help to sing

These songs of freedom?

'Cause all I ever have,

Redemption songs,

Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Have no fear for atomic energy,

'Cause none of them can stop the time.

How long shall they kill our prophets,

While we stand aside and look?

Some say it's just a part of it,

We've got to fulfill the book.

Won't you help to sing

These songs of freedom?

'Cause all I ever have,

Redemption songs,

Redemption songs,

Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,

None but ourselves can free our mind.

Have no fear for atomic energy,

'Cause none of them can stop the time.

How long shall they kill our prophets,

While we stand aside and look?

Some say it's just a part of it,

We've got to fulfill the book.

Won't you help to sing,

These songs of freedom?

'Cause all I ever had,

Redemption songs.

All I ever had,

Redemption songs

These songs of freedom

Songs of freedom

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Monday Music: Ripple (Playing for Change)

"Ripple," by The Grateful Dead has been featured before on Monday Music. This version was snatched from Open Culture's website which posted in on July 5, 2015 as The Grateful Dead were preparing for their last performance. The website states, "Playing for Change has released a lovely video featuring an international cast of musicians — some well-known, some not — playing “Ripple” (studio version here), a tune from the great 1970 album American Beauty. The new clip features appearances by Bill Kreutzmann, Jimmy Buffett, David Crosby, David Hidalgo of Los Lobos. Enjoy…."

One World, One Love: Playing for Change

Bob Marley's inspirational words were presented beautifully by singers from around the world in the documentary, Playing for Change: Peace Through Music. This is just one selection from an uplifting film.

For more information about the Playing for Change Foundation, visit their website at http://playingforchange.com/

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