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Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins July 6th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins

New Orleans’ own Basin Street Records is a homegrown record label featuring superstars of the local sound like the Rebirth Brass Band, Davell Crawford, Jason Marsalis and Kermit Ruffins. The label got its start with a live recording of Kermit’s band at the Uptown club Tipitina’s in 1997. Now, over two decades later and several Grammy Awards under its belt, Basin Street Records still holds true to the sounds of New Orleans. We talk with Basin Street founder Mark Samuels about the label’s history. We listen in on the artists who call it home, including Jon Cleary, whose “Quarantini Sessions” streamed live from his Funk Headquarters in the 9th Ward and helped us get through these challenging times. Then, a live concert and conversation with Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers from Esplanade Studios in the Historic Treme neighborhood of New Orleans.

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GUILTY PLEASURES: MUSIC WE LOVE MORE THAN WE CAN SAY

February 28th, 2018

We take a deep dive into the memory vaults to spin the tunes that we shamelessly love. From guilty pleasures, including a disco dance number, to confessional ballads like James Carr’s “Dark End of the Street” and songs of redemption ala Bobby Hebb’s “Sunny,” we shine a light on our heart’s true delights. Plus, we explore social protest anthems including Mavis Staples’ “Long Walk to D.C.,” Simon & Garfunkel’s “Richard Cory,” and a standout R&B version of Pete Seeger’s “If I Had a Hammer” sung by Shreveport’s Toussaint McCall.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Do Whatcha Wanna Rebirth Brass Band
    Do Whatcha Wanna, Mardi Gras Records
  • Sweet Soul Music Arthur Conley
    Muscle Shoals Sounds, Rhino
  • I Love the Nightlife (Disco Round) Alicia Bridges
    Say it Sister, A Bridges
  • Night Life Willie Nelson
    Milk Cow Blues , UMG Recordings
  • Guilty Randy Newman
    Good Old Boys, Warner Brothers
  • It's a Mean Old World Sam Cooke
    Nightbeat, RCA
  • Instrumental: Bandera Willie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
  • When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland Carter Family
    The Carter Family: In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family Records
  • Dead Flowers Rolling Stones
    Sticky Fingers, Rolling Stones Records
  • That's How I Got to Memphis Solomon Burke
    Nashville, Anti-
  • Dark End of the Street James Carr
    The Essential James Carr, Razor and Tie Music
  • Barroom Girls Gillian Welch
    Revival, Almo Sounds
  • Instrumental: Detour Duane Eddy
    Have 'Twangy' Guitar, Will Travel, Jamie Records
  • Pancho and Lefty Delbert McClinton
    Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt, Free Falls Entertainment
  • Big Iron Marty Robbins
    Gun Fighter Ballads, Sony Legacy
  • Don't Take Your Gun to Town Johnny Cash
    Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983, Columbia/Legacy
  • Johnny Too Bad The Slickers
    The Harder They Come, Island
  • Tighten Up Archie Bell and the Drells
    Tightening it Up: The Best of Archie Bell & the Drells, Rhino
  • Bon Ton Roulet Clarence Garlow
    Crescent City Soul: The Sound of New Orleans 1947-1974, EMI
  • End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes original recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Don't Let the Devil Ride Sonny Treadway
    Sacred Steel Instrumentals , Arhoolie
  • In the Heat of the Night Ray Charles
    The Definitive Ray Charles, Atlantic
  • Living for the City Stevie Wonder
    Innervisions, Motown
  • Blowing in the Wind Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder Greatest Hits, Motown
  • John Henry John Cephas and Phil Wiggins
    Richmond Blues, Smithsonian Folkways
  • If I Had a Hammer Toussaint McCall
    Nothing Takes the Place of You: The Ronn Recordings, Fuel 2000 Recordings
  • Long Walk to DC Staple Singers
    Soul Folk in Action, Stax
  • Instrumental: Bookends Theme Simon and Garfunkel
    Bookends, Columbia
  • Richard Cory Simon and Garfunkel
    Sounds of Silence, Columbia
  • Beat it on Down the Line Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers
  • I Fought the Law Bobby Fuller Four
    Hot Rod Rebels, The Right Stuff
  • Mama Tried Merle Haggard
    Mama Tried, Capitol Records
  • Follow Your Heart Joe Farrell Quartet
    Joe Farrell Quartet, CTI
  • Rainy Day Dream Away Jimi Hendrix
    Electric Ladyland, Reprise
  • I Can't Stand the Rain Ann Peebles
    Hi Times: The Hi Records R&B Years, Hi Records
  • Instrumental: Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet
    The Best of Sidney Bechet, Blue Note Records
  • Blue Skies Cassandra Wilson
    Blue Skies, Polydor
  • Sunny Bobby Hebb
    Night Train to Nashville, Lost Highway
  • Here Comes the Sun Richie Havens
    Meet the Covers! A Tribute to the Beatles, Hip-O Records
  • Closing Bed: On the Sunny Side of the Street Tuts Washington
    Tuts Washington: New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder

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