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FAMILY GROOVE: REMEMBERING ART NEVILLE
We remember lost heroes of New Orleans music, beginning with Art Neville, founding member of The Meters and the Neville Brothers, who passed away at age 81 on July 22, 2019. We pay tribute to Art by revisiting our interviews with him and his brothers over the years, as the Nevilles tell stories of family life and their adventures in and beyond the city where they learned their craft. Then, we remember the late Fats Domino with our favorite of the New Orleans piano man’s Imperial releases. And we hear the Fat Man’s reflective side in a rare 2007 conversation with him about escaping Hurricane Katrina’s flood waters and how his faith saw him through. Veteran blues harp player Billy “Boy” Arnold tells of South Side Chicago’s early rhythm & blues scene, recording with Bo Diddley, and his view of Fats Domino’s role in pushing black music across the color line.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Fire on the Bayou The Neville Brothers
Fiyo on the Bayou , A&M - Hey Pocky Way The Neville Brothers
Fiyo on the Bayou , A&M - Cow Cow Blues Paul Gayten
The OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957 , Sony - Cha-Dooky-Doo The Hawkettes
New Orleans Party Classics, Rhino - Tell It Like It Is Aaron Neville
The Very Best of Aaron Neville , A&M - Instrumental: Drums On Fire Donald Harrison, Jr.
Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. presents The New Sounds of Mardi Gras , FOMP - Meet De Boys on the Battlefront Wild Tchoupitoulas
Wild Tchoupitoulas , Mango - Brother John Wild Tchoupitoulas
Wild Tchoupitoulas, Mango - Fiyo on the Bayou The Neville Brothers
Fiyo on the Bayou, A&M - Instrumental: Healing Chant The Neville Brothers
Yellow Moon, A&M - Voodoo The Neville Brothers
Yellow Moon, A&M - My Blood The Neville Brothers
Yellow Moon, A&M - Big Chief Cyril and Charles Neville, Allen Toussaint, with Paul Schaefer Orchestra
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans DVD, Rhino - Amazing Grace The Neville Brothers
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans DVD, Rhino - Closing Bed: Saxafunk The Neville Brothers
Family Groove, A&M
HOUR two
- Open Bed:The Fat Man Fats Domino
Detroit City Blues/The Fat Man, Imperial - I'm Walkin' Fats Domino
Here Stands Fats Domino, Imperial - Let the Four Winds Blow Fats Domino
Let the Four Winds Blow, Imperial - Blue Monday Fats Domino
Blue Monday/What’s the Reason I’m Not Pleasing You , Imperial - SEGMENT: Fats Domino
Listen - Walkin' to New Orleans Fats Domino
Walkin’ to New Orleans, Imperial - Instrumental: Dear Old Southland Allen Toussaint
The Bright Mississippi , Nonesuch - Milk Cow Blues Boogie Elvis Presley
A Date With Elvis , RCA Victor - Mystery Train Junior Parker
Mystery Train/Love My Baby , Sun - Rocket 88 Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats
Rocket 88/Come Back Where You Belong , Chess - Sittin' on Top of the World Moses Williams
Drop Down in Florida, 1981, Florida Folklife Program - Rollin' Stone Muddy Waters
Rollin’ Stone/Walkin’ Blues , Chess - Midnight Rambler The Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed, Decca/ABKCO - Instrumental: 39th and Indiana Charlie Musselwhite
Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite’s Southside Band, Vanguard - SEGMENT: Billy Boy Arnold
Listen - Long Tall Sally Little Richard
Here’s Little Richard, Specialty - Maybelline Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry Is On Top , Chess - Blueberry Hill Fats Domino
This is Fats Domino!, Imperial - Closing bed: Barrel House Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family