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January 23, 2016: The Name of the Place is I Like It Like That: A Tribute to New Orleans
Went to New Orleans last weekend and heard lots of great music. So what a nice piece of serendipity to get to do this fill-in. Can you handle it? Three hours of New Orleans music-- including tributes to two of the best: Allen Toussaint & Danny Barker. Let me know if you hear anything you like: stevek@wfmu.org
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Big Guitars from Texas | High Tide in Hub City | Big Guitars is a CD that combines two albums of Austin pickers. I've been using tunes from it for my intro since the 1980s | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Sonny Landreth | Zydeco Shuffle | Excellent slide guitarist, now lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. | 0:05:06 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Allen Toussaint | Blue Drag | With Marc Ribot | 0:06:52 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Danny Barker | Rampart Street Boogie | 0:10:59 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
Onward Brass Band w/ Louis Cottrell | Paul Barbarin's Second Line | From a 1976 Jazz & Heritage Festival collection | 0:13:07 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Dirty Dozen Brass Band | Milenberg Joys | From "Jelly"-- their tribute to Jelly Roll Morton-- on Sony (1993) | 0:19:10 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Kermit Ruffins | Drop Me Off in New Orleans | 0:29:53 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
James Booker | Three Keys | 0:33:39 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
Lee Allen & His Band | Walkin' with Mr. Lee | Produced by Allen Toussaint. | 0:37:01 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Fernest and the Thunders | Interstate '10' Zig Zag | Zydeco from St. Mary's Parish, deep in the swamps. I saw these guys back in the 80s at a club in the woods. | 0:39:23 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Radiators | Solid Ground | 0:43:04 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
Willie Deville | Even While I Sleep | Willie moved to New Orleans, to clean up, and made some of his best music there. This tune is from a nice album: "Backstreets of Desire" (FNAC, 1992). Dr. John, Zachary Richard and others help out. | 0:49:23 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Maria Muldaur | Second Line | Another Yankee who moved to NOLA; her 1992 CD-- "Louisiana Love Call"-- swings. Aaron Neville in the background on this tune. | 0:53:20 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Allen Toussaint | Everything I Do Goin' Be Funky | 0:57:34 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
Delbert McClinton | Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette) | Here's a bunch of Allen Toussaint covers, starting with a great version of the Bennie Spellman hit from 1962. | 1:06:22 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Little Feat | On Your Way Down | 1:10:18 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
Bonnie Raitt | What Is Success | 1:15:42 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
Paul Butterfield Blues Band | Get Out My Life Woman | 1:19:17 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint | Freedom For The Stallion | From a terrific duet album: "The River in Reverse"-- a post-Katrina collaboration. | 1:22:22 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Chris Kenner | I Like It Like That | Written by Chris Kenner, produced by Allen Toussaint. The song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1961. | ||||||||
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint | The River in Reverse | Written by EC, angry about how New Orleans was treated after the storm. | 1:27:55 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Danny Barker & His Creole Cats | Tootie Ma is a Big Fine Thing | 1:37:25 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
Louis Nelson and his Palm Court Jazz Band | Eh La Bas | Danny Barker on banjo & vocals, from 1989. | 1:40:38 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Muggsy Spanier/Wild Bill Davidson | Squeeze Me | Danny Barker on guitar | 1:46:12 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Louis Nelson's New Orleans All Stars | Bill Bailey | Danny Barker on guitar & vocals; recorded in Japan in 1987. | 1:50:51 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Rebirth Brass Band featuring Kermit Ruffins | If You's A Viper | My favorite pot song, done New Orleans style | 1:55:18 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Allen Toussaint | St. James Infirmary | 2:04:16 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
Bennie Wallace | Saint Expedito | Bennie is a sax player; he has Dr John & Stevie Ray Vaughn as sidemen! | 2:08:18 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Professor Longhair | Red Beans | 2:13:59 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
David Torkanowsky | Professor Longhair is Passing By | This guy is a cool WWOZ DJ, does an afternoon blues show. And plays pretty good piano as well. | 2:18:00 (Pop-up) | |||||||
(not) Jelly Roll Morton | The Pearls | An imposter named David Thomas Roberts. I thought it was Morton when I played it, although it did sound like a more modern recording. The way the album is titled and the way it was filed at the station fooled me. Sorry. Nice tune though. | 2:22:51 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Louis Prima | Jump, Jive an' Wail | New Orleans best known Italian | 2:29:00 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Gary US Bonds | New Orleans | This was a hot number when I was a kid-- I'm old-- and still rocks. | 2:29:44 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Los Lobos | The Fat Man | From that great Fats Domino tribute | 2:35:09 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Cubanismo w/ John Boutte | Mother-In-Law | Cuba visits NOLA. "Mardi Gras Mambo" came out in 2000 on Hannibal. It's great. | 2:44:20 (Pop-up) | |||||||
John Boutte | Showing Up for the Party | A few years ago, this CD-- "Good Neighbor"-- was mentioned by almost every DJ on WWOZ's of end-of-year list. | 2:49:16 (Pop-up) | |||||||
John Boutte | Good Neighbor | Title cut, clever lyrics, killer vocals. | 2:52:23 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin | In New Orleans (Rising Sun Blues) | These brothers know how to make this music swing. From "Lost Time" (Yep Roc, 2015) | 2:54:45 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Chris Ardoin & Double Clutchin' | Chris's Trail Ride | MORNING SHOW OVER; NOW FILL-IN FOR BOB BRAINEN. TOO MUCH SNOW. This tune is hot zydeco swamp rock from "Best Kept Secret" (Rounder, 2000) | 3:02:05 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Joe Hughes | The Rains Came | Produced by Huey Meaux, the Crazy Cajun, in 1967. | 3:05:49 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Arthur Alexander | A Shot of Rhythm and Blues | From "Soul for Dancers"-- a Northern Soul collection (over 60 tunes) from the 60s | 3:08:46 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Don Covay | See About Me | Also from the "Soul for Dancers" collection | 3:10:29 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Buddy Miller with Lee Ann Womack | After the Fire Is Gone | Lotsa duets on "Cayamo Sessions at Sea" (New West, 2016) | 3:13:41 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Lionel Loueke | Aziza Dance | From a nice new album on Blue Notes: "Gaia" (2015) | 3:16:32 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Tinariwen | Tamatant Tiley | Recorded live in Paris, 2014 | 3:21:49 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Tinariwen | Azawad | Started out as bed music, while I talked, but so good that I let it play out. Wasn't that a good idea? | 3:30:13 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Esther Phillips | Into the Mystic | From a 1977 album: "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" on Mercury | 3:32:38 (Pop-up) | |||||||
David Rawlings Machine w/ Gillian Welch | Candy | CD is "Nashville Obsolete" on Acony (2015) | 3:37:04 (Pop-up) | |||||||
D L Menard | The Back Door | I've hard people call this guy the Cajun Hank Williams; that's a little much. But he was good. | 3:40:49 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Zachary Richard | Down on Second Street | I interviewed Zack, at the old Lone Star Cafe, back in the 80s. He told how he was beaten for speaking French in school; tough to be Cajun back then. | 3:43:12 (Pop-up) |
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