This week on Three Tune Tuesday, we tip our hats (and rattle some cages) with a theme that’s long overdue: Disobedient Women. From flappers and vaudeville queens to blues legends who lived out loud, we spin three songs that chart a quiet revolution—women stepping out, speaking up, and refusing to…
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Outsiders
This week on Three Tune Tuesday, we turn our ear to the outsiders — the wanderers, the exiled, and the forgotten. From a lonesome American drifter to a Siberian prisoner and a mother mourning her lost son, these early recordings echo with the voices of those who don’t quite…

Rebellious Laughter
Lyrics I Love Me (I’m Wild About Myself) Oh, You’re the one I care for You are the one and therefore I know you care for me When people write their songs of love They write of one another It’s always sis or mom or pa Or even one lone…

Songs that were Co-opted
This week on Three Tune Tuesday: songs that changed sides. From “Yankee Doodle” to “Swing Low” to “Battle Cry of Freedom,” we explore how tunes get twisted, repurposed, and reborn with new meanings—sometimes in ways their creators never imagined. Lyrics Yankee Doodle (the original lyrics) The Farmer and his Son’s…

DEI: Blind Skeleton Style
In response to the U.S. Navy’s recent decision to rename ships originally honoring figures like Harriet Tubman and Harvey Milk, this episode of Three Tune Tuesday—“Erased but Not Forgotten”—features three pre-1925 records that speak louder than silence. With non-English and racially coded titles, La Paloma, The French Trot, and Darktown…