We’ll call today Jessica Care Moore day on In The Groove as Detroit’s poet laureate shares new music from her excellent album, “The House That Poems Built,” which is out now (buy directly through Bandcamp to support the artist!). It’s a remarkable project that blends Moore’s signature lyrical poetry with techno and house tracks.

She has an exhibition of the same name opening at the RED Children’s Art Museum & Gallery. Presented by Live Coal, the immersive exhibition brings together original broadsides, archival materials, photography and other multimedia elements from Moore’s career and life.

On top of all that action, we’ve got new music from Jess Williamson to kick off the show.

Check the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the player above.

In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlist for October 21, 2026

• “Hum of the City” — Jess Williamson
• “Keep It To Yourself” — Love Spells
• “Alberto Balsalm (Aquarium Drunkard’s Lagniappe Session)” — Dungen
• “You Know You Know” — Mahavishnu Orchestra
• “Red Clay” — Jack Wilkins
• “Black Ego” — Digable Planets
• “Four On Six (feat. Tommy Flanagan, Percy Heath & Albert Heath)” — Wes Montgomery
• “Desire” — Cleo Sol
• “Far Cry” — Resavoir
• “O Tempo (Foi O Meu Mestre)” — Fabiano do Nascimento & Vittor Santos e Orquestra
• “Acid and Honey” — Babe Rainbow
• “Rainmaker” — John Carroll Kirby
• “It’s My House” — Diana Ross
• “The House That Poems Built (feat. Nobuko Miyamoto, Kai Alce, Byron Blaylock & Javonntte)” — Jessica Care Moore
• “DHS Poem #7 (feat. Rimarkable)” — Jessica Care Moore
• “Yeah Yeah” — Will Sessions
• “Light My Fire” — Africa
• “Nome de Deus” — Sessa
• “La torre (feat. Devendra Banhart)” — Gabriel Rios
• “God Gave Me Feet For Dancing (feat. Yazmin Lacey)” — Ezra Collective
• “Time (You and I) (Put a Smile on DJ’s Face Mix)” — Khruangbin & Felix Dickinson
• “Lady Day & John Coltrane (feat. Rahsaan Patterson) [12” version]” — Brian Jackson, Kenny Dope & Louie Vega
• “What It Gave Me” — Jordan Rakei & Jalen Ngonda
• “Constellation” — The Circling Sun
• “Lansana’s Priestess” — Donald Byrd

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