Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Radio
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Radio
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Radio
Go Back and Fetch the Rhythm: Baba Súle Greg Wilson on Sankofa, Spirit, and Black Musical Memory
1 hour 30 minutes Posted Jul 13, 2026 at 5:10 pm.
0:00
1:30:36
Download MP3
Show notes

In this episode of Jack Dappa Blues Radio, we welcome Baba Súle Greg Wilson, an American Griot, musician, author, storyteller, educator, and cultural bearer whose work moves through rhythm, Spirit, memory, and Sankofa.Born and raised in Washington, DC, Súle grew up surrounded by street musicians, family stories, global visitors, neighborhood wisdom, and ancestral conversations around the kitchen table. From learning rhythm bones from his father to helping catalyze the Carolina Chocolate Drops and co-directing the historic Black Banjo Gathering, his journey speaks to the deep roots of African and African American musical traditions.Together, we explore Sankofa, rhythm bones, the Black banjo, African spirituality, movement, storytelling, and the body as an archive of memory and healing. This conversation invites listeners to hear rhythm not only as music, but as ancestral wisdom, cultural survival, sacred disruption, and a path toward renewal.for more on Baba Súle Greg Wilsonhttps://sulegregwilson.com/