Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is The Griot by Gaye Adegbalola on the VizzTone label group.

Gaye serves up “topical blues for topical times.” As a griot (gree-oh), she uses her honest vision of the world to record history — as she sees it — in song . . . stories like “(You’re)Flint Water, baby — dirty as you can be;” and I’ve been “Kaepernicked!”— now you are my new Muhammad Ali; and how “I’ll sacrifice my life to stop that FGM” (female genital mutilation); and yet there’s her signature humor in “3 Hour Shoes” and “Liearrhea.”

Artist: Gay Adegbalola

Title: The Griot

1.Nothing’s Changed

2.The Griot

3.Liearrhea

4.FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)

5.Dirty Sheets

6.(You’re) Flint Water [Explicit]

7.Kaepernicked

8.Ain’t Technology Grand? [Explicit]

9.Gon’ Be Alright

10.Don’t Criticize Me [Explicit]

11.Nothing Left

12.(There Is Always) One More Time

13.Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl

14.Tea Cake Kind of Love

15.3 Hours Shoes (Stylin’ for the Lord)

16.Sorry, But… No Shame

17.Jelly Bean Blues