Artist	Song
The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Purple Haze
from Experience Hendrix - The Best of Jimi Hendrix (2010)
Bo Diddley	Bo Diddley
from Bo Diddley: The Chess Box (Box Set) (1990)
Lenny Kravitz	Are You Gonna Go My Way
from Lenny Kravitz: Greatest Hits (2000)
Chuck Berry	Johnny B. Goode
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Blues Rock Songbook (2003)
Prince & The Revolution	Let's Go Crazy
from Purple Rain (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) (2007)
Little Richard	Rip It Up
from The Georgia Peach (2006)
Living Colour	Cult of Personality
from Super Hits: Living Colour (1998)
Ben Harper	Better Way (War Mix)
from Both Sides of the Gun (2006)
The Chambers Brothers	Time Has Come Today
from Time Has Come: The Best of the Chambers Brothers (1996)
Thin Lizzy	The Boys Are Back In Town
from Jailbreak (1990)
Gnarls Barkley	Crazy
from St. Elsewhere (2006)
The Isley Brothers	Live It Up, Pt. 1 & 2
from Live It Up (2004)
Bloc Party	Banquet
from Silent Alarm (2005)
Sly & the Family Stone	Everyday People
from Anthology (1989)
Ike & Tina Turner	Nutbush City Limits
from Proud Mary - The Best of Ike & Tina Turner (1991)
Hootie & The Blowfish	Time
from The Best of Hootie & The Blowfish (1993-2003) (2004)
TV On the Radio	Wolf Like Me
from Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Caldonia
from Louis Jordan: Let the Good Times Roll - The Anthology 1938-1953 (2008)
Fishbone	Party At Ground Zero
from Fishbone - EP (1989)
Screamin' Jay Hawkins	I Put a Spell On You
from Cow Fingers and Mosquito Pie (1991)
Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats	Rocket 88
from Sun Records: The Blues Years 1950-1958 (Disk 1) (2006)
Santigold	L.E.S. Artistes
from Santigold (2008)
Love	Seven and Seven Is
from Da Capo (2005)
The Roots	The Seed (2.0) (feat. Cody Chestnutt)
from Phrenology (Explicit Version) (2011)
Funkadelic	Super Stupid
from Maggot Brain (2005)
Buddy Miles	Them Changes
from Them Changes (2003)
Michael Franti & Spearhead	Yes I Will
from Everyone Deserves Music (2009)
Seal	Crazy
from Seal: Best 1991-2004 (Deluxe Version) (2004)
The Busboys	Cleanin' Up the Town
from Ghostbusters (Original Soundtrack Album) (2006)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Fire
from Experience Hendrix - The Best of Jimi Hendrix (2010)
Mos Def	Blue Black Jack
from The New Danger (2004)
Prince	When Doves Cry (Edit)
from The Very Best of Prince (2005)
Chuck Berry	Roll Over Beethoven
from The Chess Box (Box Set) (1988)
The Negro Problem	Bleed
from Joys and Concerns (2002)
Bad Brains	I Against I
from I Against I (2006)
King's X	Dogman
from Rhino Hi-Five: King's X - EP (2007)
The Roots	Here I Come
from Game Theory (2006)
Gnarls Barkley	Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)
from The Odd Couple (2008)
Love	My Little Red Book
from Love (Bonus Tracks) (2007)
Terence Trent D'Arby	Do You Love Me Like You Say?
from Do You Love Me Like You Say: The Very Best Of Terence Trent D'Arby (2006)
Little Richard	Tutti Frutti
from The Georgia Peach (2006)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience	All Along the Watchtower
from Experience Hendrix - The Best of Jimi Hendrix (2010)
Cody ChesnuTT	Look Good In Leather
from The Headphone Masterpiece (2008)
24-7 Spyz	Face the Day
from Face the Day (2007)
Martin Luther	Daily Bread
from Rebel Soul Music (2004)
Living Colour	Open Letter (To a Landord)
from Vivid (1993)
Bo Diddley	Who Do You Love?
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bo Diddley (2000)
Lenny Kravitz	Fly Away
from Lenny Kravitz: Greatest Hits (2000)
Shuggie Otis	Oxford Gray
from Here Comes Shuggie Otis (2007)
The Isley Brothers	Shout (Pts. 1 & 2)
from Shout - The RCA Sessions (2001)
Wynonie Harris	Good Rockin’ Tonight
from Rhythm & Blues 1945-1951 - Music Sampler Vol. 1 (2006)
OutKast	B.O.B.
from Stankonia (1999)
Noisettes	Don't Give Up
from What's the Time, Mr. Wolf? (2007)
Run-DMC	King of Rock
from Run-DMC: Greatest Hits (2002)
Saul Williams	List of Demands (Reparations)
from The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust (2008)
Fats Domino	I'm Walkin'
from The Fats Domino Jukebox: 20 Greatest Hits (2002)
Body Count	You Don't Know Me (Pain)
from Murder 4 Hire (2006)
Sly & the Family Stone	Dog
from A Whole New Thing (2006)
Stew	Love Like That
from Something Deeper Than These Changes (2003)
Death	Keep On Knocking
from ...For the Whole World to See (2009)
Prince	She's Always In My Hair
from Raspberry Beret / She's Always In My Hair [Digital 45] (2009)
Chocolate Genius	Life
from Black Music (1998)
Esquerita	Rockin' the Joint
from Vintage Voola (2006)
The Dirtbombs	Chains of Love
from Ulltraglide In Black (2001)
Eric Gales	Just Got Paid
from That's What I Am (2001)
Lloyd Price	Stagger Lee
from Lloyd Price Greatest Hits: The Original ABC-Paramount Recordings (1994)
Vernon Reid & Masque	Game Is Rigged
from Other True Self (2006)
Jon Butcher Axis	Red House
from A Stiff Little Breeze (2002)
The Bellrays	Detroit Breakdown
from Have a Little Faith (2006)
Martina Topley-Bird	Too Tough to Die
from Anything (2004)
Big Joe Turner	Shake, Rattle and Roll
from Greatest Hits (2005)
Kenna	Out of Control (State of Emotion)
from Make Sure They See My Face (2007)
Keziah Jones	Don't Forget
from Rhythm Is Love (2004)
Jeffrey Gaines	Hero in Me
from Always Be (2001)
Barry Adamson	Walk On Fire
from Back to the Cat (2008)

Comment:

Let's set one thing straight — African-American rock 'n' rollers have never needed to "take back" the music that got assimilated into the mainstream back in the '50s; it's [i]always[/i] belonged to them, and this playlist is packed to the rafters with people who never forgot that fact. So when the Chambers Brothers throw a psychedelic soul party on "Time Has Come Today," Living Colour unleashes a weapons-grade shredfest on "Cult of Personality," or Thin Lizzy lets loose with the twin-guitar lightning and Springsteen-worthy braggadocio of "The Boys Are Back in Town," they're exercising a [i]birth[/i]right to rock that's as undeniable as a Bo Diddley beat or a Chuck Berry riff. From metal madmen to pop princesses and beyond, we've worked up a weighty batch of world-class black rock 'n' roll Essentials, guaranteed to keep you bopping, banging, swaying, and shouting until you're sore (but satisfied).

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