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AFTER THE STORM III: WE KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS
This week we continue to look eastward from our refuge in Acadiana back to New Orleans, the land of dreams, as south Louisiana continues to rebuild in sound and spirit. Join us as members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band share their thoughts on rebuilding the city; plus learn what it means to Check Your Bucket with a live set by piano professor and carpenter Eddie Bo.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans Tuts Washington
New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder - Just Walkin' in the Rain The Prisonaires
Sun Records: The 50th Anniversary Collection, BMG Heritage - Rain Shower Olu Dara
In the World: From Natchez to New York, Atlantic - High Water Everywhere, Part I Charley Patton
Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The World of Charley Patton, Revenant - High Water (For Charley Patton) Bob Dylan
Love and Theft, Columbia - I Can't Help From Cryin' Sometime Staples Singers
Great Day, Milestone - Instrumental: Requiem for John Hurt John Fahey
Requia, Vanguard - Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) Kermit Ruffins
Kermit Ruffins, Putumayo - Do You Know What it Means To Miss New Orleans Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward) Tom Waits
Small Change, Asylum - Instrumental: The Lost Souls (Of Southern Louisiana) The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
This Is Jazz: 30, Columbia - INTERVIEW: Roger Lewis and Gregory Davis of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Listen - Ninth Ward Blues Irvin Mayfield
Irvin Mayfield, Basin Street - Mean Old World Sam Cooke
Night Beat, RCA - The House of the Rising Sun The Animals
The Complete Animals, EMI - Amazing Grace The Blind Boys of Alabama
Spirit of the Century, Real World - Minor Tipitina Allen Toussaint
Our New Orleans, Nonesuch
HOUR two
- Open Bed: When the Saints Go Marching In Jimmy Smith
Prayer Meetin', Blue Note - Come On In My Kitchen Cassandra Wilson
Blue Light 'Til Dawn, Blue Note - Feel Like Going Home Muddy Waters
Folk Singer, MCA/Chess - Okie Dokie Stomp Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
The Original Peacock Recordings, Peacock - Folks Back Home Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Down South in the Bayou Country, Barclay - Instrumental: Tous Les Deux Pour La Meme Richard Fontenot
Cajun Country Guitar, Smithsonian/Folkways - Acadian Two-Step Coteau
Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder - Crescent City Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams, Koch - Les Tete Fille Lafayette Happy Fats and His Rayne-Bo Ramblers
Harry Choates: Devil In the Bayou, Bear Family - Stay A Little Longer Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
San Antonio Rose, Bear Family - Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans Louis Armstrong with Jack Teagarden
What a Wonderful World, Project 3 - Basin Street Blues Duke Ellington
The Complete Capitol Recordings of Duke Ellington, Mosaic - Instrumental: Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans Don Vappie
Papa Don's New Orleans Jazz Band, Vapielle - INTERVIEW: Eddie Bo
Listen - You Are My Sunshine Eddie Bo
live at American Routes, - Check Your Bucket Eddie Bo
live at American Routes, - When the Saints Go Marching In Eddie Bo
live at American Routes, - When the Saints Go Marching In Nicholas Payton
Gumbo Nouveau, Verve
