Welcome back, Teardrops! Feels good to have you all here. Adobe & Teardrops will now be a bi-monthly (every 2 weeks) podcast, and I’m so honored to have Lilli Lewis with me to re-inaugurate the show. Lewis is a veteran of the New Orleans music world and her new album, Americana, draws a line in the sand for anyone who think Black artists don’t belong in Americana music. We discuss whether or not genres even need to matter, anyway, and we spin a list of empowering songs by Black women.

1. Lilli Lewis - “A Healing Inside” (Americana)
2. Sweet Honey in the Rock - Sitting On Top of the World (B’lieve I’ll Run On...See What the End’s Gonna Be)
3. Songs of Our Native Daughters -- "Music and Joy" (Songs Of Our Native Daughters)
4. Toshi Reagon - Mountain Top (Toshi)
5. Roberta Lea -- “Sunshine” (Single)
6. Ruthie Foster - Death Came A-Knockin (Travelin' Shoes)
7. Crys Matthews -- “Hope Revolution” (Changemakers)
8. Nina Simone - Sinnerman (Nina at the Village Gate)

Thank you so much to The Lost Church Radio for having us on their internet waves. You can catch Adobe & Teardrops on the 1st Sunday of every month at 1 PM Eastern/10 AM PST, and the third Thursday of the month at 9 EST/6 PM PST.

You can support Adobe & Teardrops by buying merch or hitting the ol’ Patreon or Ko-fi links! Please tell your friends to like and subscribe to this podcast. Thanks to Alma Contra for making the introduction.