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ROLLING THE STONES WITH CHUCK LEAVELL & BERNARD FOWLER... PLUS ROCKABILLY GENTLEMAN, NARVEL FELTS
The Rolling Stones have been around for over five decades and touring almost as long. This week we listen back to Stones songs about working people, the band’s sources in blues, country and gospel, and speak with two of their sidemen who share their tales of working with the group. Pianist and Rolling Stones music director, Chuck Leavell got a fateful call to join the band in 1982 while working on his family’s Georgia tree plantation, but before that he played with the Allman Brothers. Singer and percussionist Bernard Fowler was touring with Herbie Hancock before he got the call to come work with the Stones. He recently made a spoken word recording of their songs as social commentary. Then a conversation with Missouri’s own Narvel Felts, who tells us about his journey from the cotton fields to the famed studios of Sun and Mercury Records as a rockabilly singer, and later adventures in country and pop. Narvel is a marvel—a maker of some of the best rock n roll songs you’ve never heard.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: We Got a Good thing Goin' The Rolling Stones
The BBC Tapes 1963/66, Youtube - Catfish Blues Muddy Waters
American Folk Blues Festival '62-'65, Evidence - Lost Highway Hank Williams
The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury - Faraway Eyes The Rolling Stones
Some Girld, Virgin - Salt of the Earth The Rolling Stones
Beggars Banquet, Decca - Factory Girl The Rolling Stones
Beggar's Banquet, Decca - Instrumental: Evening Train Chuck Leavell
Back to the Woods, Crosscut Records - SEGMENT: Chuck Leavell
Listen - Baby Please Don't Go Mississippi Fred McDowell
I Do Not Play No Rock 'n Roll: The Complete Sessions , Capitol - You Gotta Move The Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers, Virgin - Instrumental: Ventilator Blues Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
Paint It, Blues , House of Blues - Painted Black Live The Rolling Stones
Live in 2006, Youtube - Don't Let the Devil Ride Campbell Brothers
Can You Feel It?, Ropeadope - SEGMENT: Bernard Fowler
Listen - Closing Bed: I Can't Get No (Satisfaction) Jr. Wells
Paint It, Blues, House of Blues
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Rocket Ride Narvel Felts
Narvel Felts Rocks, Bear Family - Rock House Roy Orbison
At the Rock House, Sun - Everybody's Movin Glen Glenn
Glen Rocks, Bear Family - My Many Hurried Southern Trips Porter Wagoner
Wagonmaster, Anti - 3000 Miles Narvel Felts
Through The Years Volume 1: 1956-1959, Legacy Series - Reconsider Me Maggie Lewis Warwick
Shreveport Stomp, vol.1: Ram Records, Ace - Reconsider Me Johnny Adams
Johnny Adams Reconsider Me: A Golden Classics Edition, Collectables - Instrumental: Honky Tonk King Curtis
Blow Man, Blow!, Bear Family - SEGMENT: Narvel Felts
Listen - Pink and Black Days Narvel Felts
Narvel Felts Rocks, Bear Family - Reconsider Me Narvel Felts
Drift Away: The Best of Narvel Felts 1973-1979, Bear Family - Instrumental:Boogie Woogie Country Gal Linda Gail Lewis and Robbie Fulks
Wild! Wild! Wild! Linda Gail Lewis and Robbie Fulks, Bloodshot - I Want a Lavender Cadillac Maurice King & His Wolverines w/ Bea Baker
OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957 , Epic / OKeh / Legacy - If I Can't Have You Jackie Wilson
He's So Fine , Brunswick - Rocket 88 Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats w/ Ike Turner
The Best of Chess Rock N' Roll Vol. 1 , MCA/Chess - Down the Line Buddy Holly
Down the Line Rarities , Geffen - Beat It On Down the Line Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead , Warner Brothers - I'm Headin' Home Narvel Felts
Super Songs Narvelized, Cone - Closing Bed: Rocket 88 Boogie Pete Johnston
Arhoolie Piano Blues and Boogie Classics, Arhoolie