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Big Guitars from Texas | Bulldoggin' Boogie | Since the 1980s, when I began at WFMU, I have used songs from Big Guitars from Texas as my theme. I rotate a bunch of them. | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) |
Jimmy McCracklin | The Walk | McCracklin was a long-time feature of the Bay Area R&B scene. This song was a big national hit in 1958. The year before a new dance craze-- "The Stroll"-- hit the scene; I remember people dancing the stroll to "The Walk." | 0:02:09 (Pop-up) |
Gus Cannon | Walk Right In | With Will Shade & Milton Roby. Is the the Jug Stompers? This version from 1963; originally from the 1930s. | 0:05:02 (Pop-up) |
Freddy Cannon | Buzz Buzz A Diddle-It | Freddy Cannon, formerly Picariello, is (sort of) from my home town of Revere, Massachusetts. His cousin Mike was president of my senior class at RHS. But Freddy moved to Lynn. Still... | 0:07:46 (Pop-up) |
James Luther Dickinson | Oh How She Dances | Dickinson lists this song as traditional. What a story it must be; let's see if we can track down the origin of this tune. Please share any info. | 0:10:10 (Pop-up) |
Skatalites | Rock Fort Rock | These Jamaican ska masters recorded this tune a number of times, sometimes with a slightly different title ("Ska Fort Rock") and every version rocks. | 0:13:01 (Pop-up) |
Booker T Featuring Poncho Sanchez and Sheila E. | 66 Impala | From a 2003 album-- "Sound the Alarm"-- with lots of duets. | 0:17:01 (Pop-up) |
Joe Henderson | Blue Bossa | Recorded live in Japan, summer of 1971. Released on Milestone. | 0:21:01 (Pop-up) |
Jane Birken | Couleur Cafe | Recorded at a concert in Paris in 2002, after a meeting between JB & the group Djam and Fam, from Algeria. Most of the songs written by Serge Gainsbourg. From "Arabesque" (Capitol, 2002) | 0:29:08 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Joe Henderson |
Junk Blues |
0:38:58 (Pop-up) |
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Mel Torme | Comin' Home Baby | Great song but check out the YouTube video of an obnoxious vavavoom Mel with his chicks-in-furs-on-motorcycles! https://www.bing.com/search?q=mel%20torme%20i%27m%20comin%20home%20baby&pc=cosp&ptag=G6C999N1700ACC4A5BF80C&form=CONBNT&conlogo=CT3210127 | 0:39:13 (Pop-up) |
Booker T & the MGs | Comin' Home Baby | Isn't it amazing how these guys could take any song and make something new out of it!? Esp liked Steve Cropper guitar. | 0:42:43 (Pop-up) |
Herbie Mann | Comin' Home Baby | The original hit version, from 1961. Bob Dorough added lyrics and gave it to Mel Torme. | 0:45:43 (Pop-up) |
Henry Butler & Steven Bernstein & The Hot Nine | Viper's Drag | RIP Henry Butler. Classy New Orleans piano master. This is the title cut to a great album these guys did a few years ago on Impulse. | 0:53:38 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Henry Butler & Steven Bernstein & The Hot Nine |
Dixie Walker |
I recently read Michael Ondaatje's "Coming Through the Slaughter" (1976)-- a novel about the life of Buddy Bolden, the talented and troubled trumpet player from the early 20th Century. That, among other things, inspired this trip to New Orleans. |
1:04:57 (Pop-up) |
Danny Barker | Miche Banjo | The only place that African music was legal in the U.S. was New Orleans; this Creole banjo tune celebrates that fact. The song is part of a project-- "Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music"-- spearheaded by Harry Belafonte. It includes a book and four CDs. | 1:05:08 (Pop-up) |
Danny Barker | Creole Blues | With Muggsy Spanier, Wild Bill Davidson, Albert Nicholas, Baby Dodds. Recorded in NYC in 1947. That's Danny on banjo. | 1:07:07 (Pop-up) |
Crescent City Gold | Hang Tough | A New Orleans super group, with Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebennack, Earl Palmer, Alvin Red Tyler, Lee Allen and more. From 1994, on Windham Hill. | 1:13:27 (Pop-up) |
Galactic | Century City | From "Late for the Future" (Capricorn, 2000). These guys are playing the Beachcomber in Wellfleet, on Cape Cod, in August-- and probably lots of other places. | 1:18:14 (Pop-up) |
Galactic | Black Eyed Pea | This is the one I meant to play. So nice that New Orleans can still produce good music, 100+ years after Buddy Bolden | 1:23:04 (Pop-up) |
James Booker | Keep on Gwine | From a 1981 album called "James Booker: New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live!" on Rounder. | 1:27:05 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Allen Toussaint |
Bright Mississippi |
Fine cover of a Monk tune, first in the background, then the fore. |
1:33:17 (Pop-up) |
Allen Toussaint | Egyptian Fantasy | One of AT's last album-- "Bright Mississippi"-- where he revisits a bunch of New Orleans jazz classics, with help from Don Byron, Marc Ribot, Nicholas Payten and others. This is a cover of a Sidney Bechet tune. One of the best albums ever! | 1:34:48 (Pop-up) |
Rhiannon Giddens w/ Francesco Turrisi | There Is No Other | Title cut to nice new album (Nonesuch, 2019) | 1:39:19 (Pop-up) |
Rhiannon Giddens w/ Francesco Turrisi | Letter aka Gonna Write Me A Letter | Cover of an Ola Belle Reed song. Reed was an under-appreciated Appalachian banjo player, who died in 2002. | 1:42:04 (Pop-up) |
Ollabelle | Gentle Annie | From "Beautiful Dreamer"-- an excellent tribute album to the work of Stephen Foster. This band took its name in memory of Ola Belle Reed. | 1:45:15 (Pop-up) |
Michelle Shocked & Pete Anderson | Oh! Susanna | "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry..." | 1:49:18 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Henry Kaiser |
Autumn Waltz |
A Stephen Foster instrumental |
1:58:05 (Pop-up) |
Jerry Lee Lewis | Old Black Joe | Can't vouch for Jerry Lee's cred, re racism. But this is a tricky subject to sing about. Good song though. | 1:58:29 (Pop-up) |
Ray Charles | Swannee River Rock | Will I get in trouble if I say that Ray Charles did not see color? Okay, then I won't. | 1:59:54 (Pop-up) |
Squirrel Nut Zippers | Ghost of Stephen Foster | Is this song a deep critique of Stephen Foster? Some think so. Foster-- who died in 1864-- was the first great American songwriter. He was at best naive about slavery. But, as this tune shows, his influence lives on. | 2:02:12 (Pop-up) |
Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers | Anytime | Great music but one problem: Done in blackface! In the early days of the 20th Century, minstrel music was the most popular entertainment in the U.S. | 2:06:28 (Pop-up) |
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Bouchillon | Adam and Eve (Part 2) | Chris Bouchillon is considered the originator of the talking blues. This duo with his wife, Ethel Waters, has four parts, although we only heard one. Time to track down more on Mr. & Mrs. Bouchillon. | 2:09:59 (Pop-up) |
Uncle Dave Macon& Sam McGee | Way Down the Old Plank Road | 2:12:49 (Pop-up) | |
Sister Rosetta Tharpe | Nobody's Fault But Mine | 2:16:05 (Pop-up) | |
Tim Hardin | Don't Make Promises | 2:19:07 (Pop-up) | |
Deke Dickerson & Larry Collins | Jumpin' Bean | 2:21:40 (Pop-up) | |
Deke Dickerson & The Ecco-Fonics | Speedin' on the Keystone | 2:22:44 (Pop-up) | |
The Blues Project | Steve's Song | This was a terrific 60s band, with Al Kooper, Steve Katz, Danny Kalb and more. From "Projections" (Verve/Folkways, 1966) | 2:24:30 (Pop-up) |
Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers | The Messiah Will Come | Former lead guitarist for the Nighthawks, a great DC-based blues band in the 1980s. This is from a 2003 album-- "True Stories"-- on Telarc | 2:30:16 (Pop-up) |
Low Cut Connie | Every Time You Turn Around | 2:38:27 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan |
Goin' Down Slow |
2:46:04 (Pop-up) |
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King Chango | Brujeria | 2:46:42 (Pop-up) | |
Mdou Moctar | Ilana | I had to give away my tickets to see this guy at Monty Hall last week. | 2:50:56 (Pop-up) |
Furry Lewis | Falling Down Blues | 2:55:15 (Pop-up) |
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