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Mr. Soul: A Tribute to Sam Cooke Mr. Soul: A Tribute to Sam Cooke February 24th, 2021 (Hour 1)
Mr. Soul: A Tribute to Sam Cooke

Tune in for a tribute to the man who melded gospel, soul and pop in music and life, Sam Cooke. We’ll follow the singer from Clarksdale to Chicago and from the church to the Copa as he revolutionized gospel music with the Soul Stirrers and then secular music with self-penned hits “You Send Me,” “Change is Gonna Come,” and more. Plus an hour of the musical roots and branches of Sam Cooke.

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GATEMOUTH BROWN

May 4th, 2005

Guitarist, fiddler, vocalist and swingster Gatemouth Brown hails from the rich musical territory along the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. A genre-bending, oil-patch bluesman who loves country and Cajun music as much as jazz, he offers his tart opinions of life and art between puffs on that pungent pipe of his. Non-smokers have no fear, the show is not offered with “smellaround sound,” but it does come with a music mix well-suited to Gatemouth’s eclectic sartorial taste for Hawai’an shirts and cowboy hats.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Flyin’ Home Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
    Gate Swings, Verve
  • A Message From the Meters The Meters
    Anthology, Rhino
  • Close Together Jimmy Reed
    18 Greatest Hits, Motown
  • Tongue Tied Jill Charlie Feathers
    Get With It, Revenant
  • My Mumblin Baby Rudy Green
    The Excello Story, Vol.2, Hip-O
  • Instrumental: Jambalaya Tuts Washington
    New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder
  • Grand Texas Wallace "Cheese" Reed
    Cajun House Party, Arhoolie
  • Jambalaya (On The Bayou) Hank Williams
    The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury
  • Jambalaya Professor Longhair
    Mardi Gras in Baton Rouge, Rhino
  • The Kid from Red Bank Count Basie
    The Complete Atomic Basie, Blue Note
  • INTERVIEW: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

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  • Zydeco Shuffle Sonny Landreth
    (Almost) Everybody Slides, Rykodisc
  • Evil Hearted Woman T-Bone Walker
    The Complete Imperial Recordings, 1950-1954, EMI
  • Fever Peggy Lee
    The Best of Miss Peggy Lee, Capitol
  • Almost Blue Chet Baker
    Songs of Elvis Costello, Rhino
  • Almost Blue Elvis Costello
    Girls, Girls, Girls, Demon

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Cold Sweat Mongo Santamaria
    Anthology, Rhino
  • Oye Como Va Tito Puente
    50 Years of Swing, RMM
  • Begin the Beguine Sammy Davis Jr.
    The Wham of Sam, Warner
  • Moin Aime Doudou Moin Rico's Creole Band
    Rico's Creole Band, FA007
  • Groovin'High Charlie Parker
    Yardbird Suite, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Lupus #1 Tom Morrell and the Time-warp Tophands
    Go Uptown: How The West Was Swung, vol V, WR Records
  • I'm Alabama Bound Louis Jordan
    Let The Good Times Roll -1938-1954, Bear Family
  • That's What I Like About the South Bob Wills
    The King of Western Swing, ASV
  • Postcard: Woody Simmons
  • Instrumental: Exactly Like You Django Reinhardt
    Nuages, Arkadia
  • Things Ain't What They Used To Be Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
    The Hottest New Group In Jazz, Sony
  • Things Ain't What They Used To Be Richard 'Groove' Holmes
    Blue Groove, Fantasy
  • Things I Used to Do Guitar Slim
  • Trouble in Mind Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Sings The Blues, Columbia
  • Troubled, Lord I'm Troubled Bill Landford & the Landfordaires
    The Okeh Post-War Gospel Story, Sony
  • Place in the Sun David Isaacs
    Tighten Up, Trojan
  • Sunny The John Schroeder Orchestra
    Space Age Soul, Sequel

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