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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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I AM (NOT) A DIVA

June 5th, 2019

What comes to mind when you hear the word “Diva”? We’ve found that it’s a word that can go both ways—as praise for an accomplished and magnetic performer, or as a put-down to someone seen as pompous or high-strung. We’re singing divas’ praises while also exploring the term’s various connotations through music and interviews from high-minded women with conflicting views on the word: Bonnie Raitt, the late Abbey Lincoln, Norah Jones, and New Orleans Gospel Diva, Cynthia Girtley. Plus songs from divas and non-divas like Aretha Franklin, Patsy Cline, Lydia Mendoza, and Jessie Mae Hemphill.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Give It Up Or Let Me Go Bonnie Raitt
    Give It Up, Rhino
  • High Hat, Trumpet and Rhythm Valaida Snow
    Valaida Snow 1933-1936, Classics
  • Fever Peggy Lee
    The Best of Miss Peggy Lee, Capitol
  • Mercedes Benz Janis Joplin
    Pearl, Columbia/Legacy
  • Bold Soul Sister Tina Turner
    Bold Soul Sister -- The Best of the Blue Thumb Recordings, Blue Thumb
  • Segment: Cynthia Girtley

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  • Instrumental: Crow Jane Etta Baker
    One Dime Blues, Rounder Records
  • Me and My Chauffeur Blues Memphis Minnie
    Four Women Blues, BMG
  • I'm A Mighty Tight Woman Sippie Wallace
    The Johnny Dodds Collection 1923-29, Acrobat
  • Segment: Bonnie Raitt

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  • Instrumental: Wildwood Flower Bill Frissell
    Ghosttown, Nonesuch
  • I Just Got Wise Hazel & Alice
    Pioneering Women of Bluegrass, Folkways
  • Look For Me (I'll Be Around) Neko Case
    Black Listed, Bloodshot
  • Let The Teardrops Fall Patsy Cline
    The Collection, Decca
  • So Many Beautiful Men Mikki Wilcox
    Memphis Belles: The Women of Sun Records, Bear Family
  • Evil Gal Blues Aretha Franklin
    Queen in Waiting, Columbia/Legacy
  • N.O. Bounce Big Freedia
    Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Closing Bed: Sad Beauty Blues Randy Weston and Melba Liston
    Volcano Blues, Antilles

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Froggy Bottom Mary Lou Williams
    Masters of Classic Jazz: Piano, Soundies
  • Wang Dang Doodle Koko Taylor
    The Great Tomato Blues Package, Tomato
  • Hard Headed Woman Wanda Jackson
    Vintage Collections, Captiol
  • Cielito Lindo Lydia Mendoza
    Las Mas Pegadas, DLV
  • San Antonio Rose The Quebe Sisters
    Texas Fiddlers, CD Baby
  • Squatty Roo Regina Carter & Kenny Barron
    Freefall, Verve
  • SEGMENT: Abbey Lincoln

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  • Instrumental: Shimmy She Wobble Otha Turner and the Afrosippi Allstars
    Otha Turner and the Afrosippi Allstars, Birdman Records
  • Jump Baby Jump Jessie Mae Hemphill
    She-Wolf, HMG
  • Time is on My Side Irma Thomas
    Time is On My Side- The Best of Irma Thomas, EMI
  • Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho Mahalia Jackson
    The Essential Mahalia Jackson, Columbia
  • Up Above My Head Rhiannon Giddens
    Tomorrow is My Turn, Nonesuch
  • Instrumental: Fleurette Africaine (African Flower) Norah Jones
    Day Breaks, Blue Note
  • SEGMENT: Norah Jones

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  • Gospel Train Marian Anderson
    Let Freedom Ring!, JSP
  • Feeling Good Nina Simone
    Verve Unmixed, Verve
  • End Bed: Roll 'Em Mary Lou Williams
    Mary Lou Williams 1952-1971: The First Lady of the Piano, Giants of Jazz

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