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MEDICINE SHOW
Step right up! It’s a sonic tonic for the mid-Winter blues as we turn to the healing power of music ranging from “Hadacol Boogie” to “Dr. Jazz.” Plus a visit with folk medicine practitioners and the music of New Orleans piano man Eddie Bo, who also offers advice in the healing arts.
HOUR ONE
- Fever Little Willie John
All 15 of his Chart Hits, King - Fever The Three Suns
Cocktail Mix Vol.1, Rhino - Fever Thrill Rosie Ledet
Zesty Zydeco, Maison de Soul - High Fever Blues Corey Harris
Fish Ain't Bitin', Alligator - High Blood Pressure Huey Smith
The Very Best Of Vol.1, West Side - Rockin' Pneumonia, Boogie Woogie Flu Funky Meters
Get You a Healin', New Orleans Musicians Clinic - Instrumental: Live It Up Eddie Bo
The Hook and Sling, Tuff City - INTERVIEW: Eddie Bo
Listen - Got My Mojo Workin' Jimmy Smith
Got My Mojo Workin', Verve - Instrumental: Got My Mojo Workin' Clarence ‘Gatemouth' Brown
Standing My Ground, - Bop Pills Macy Skipper
The Very Best of Sun Rockabilly, Charly - Snake Oil Steve Earle
Ain't Never Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection, Hip-o - Hadacol Boogie Bill Nettles
Fonville Winans Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press - Dr. Jazz Jelly Roll Morton
Birth of the Hot, RCA
HOUR two
- Great Medical Menagerist Harmonica Frank
Harmonica Frank, Puritan - The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show The Band
Across the Great Divide, Capitol - Pneumonia Blues Lightnin' Hopkins
The Complete Prestige/Bluesville, - Pneumonia Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson, Fantasy - Cocaine Habit Blues Memphis Jugband
Rukus Juice and Chittlins Vol.1, Shanachie - Jug Band Music Lovin' Spoonful
Anthology, Rhino - Instrumental: Jesus is a Dying Bedmaker 2 John Fahey
America, Takoma - Them Bones Mitchell's Christian Singers
The Gospel Tradition, Sony - Them Bones Eddie Kirk
Stax Volt Singles, Atlantic - Your Molecular Structure Mose Allison
Atlantic Vocal Jazz Classics, Rhino - I've Got You Under My Skin Louis Prima and Keely Smith
Capitol Collectors Series, Capitol - Instrumental: Big Shoe Bill Frisell
Good Dog Happy Man, Nonesuch - SEGMENT: Pharmacy Museum
- Love Potion #9 The Clovers
The Best Of The Clovers, EMI - Spoonful Howlin' Wolf
His Best, MCA - Spoonful Gil Evans Orchestra
Cool Talkin' Verve, Verve - Dr. Feelgood Aretha Franklin
Aretha's Blues, Rhino
