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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
MAKING NEW ORLEANS MUSIC
It’s a two-hour walk through streets of the city as we dive into two great eras of New Orleans music. First, it’s the 1940s and 50s R&B hit factory with studio man Cosimo Matassa, producer, arranger, trumpet player Dave Bartholomew who passed away recently, drummer Earl Palmer and more. We also chat with The>Meters—Art Neville, George Porter, Leo Nocentelli and Zigaboo Modeliste—and we get to the bottom of the bottom, find out what’s in the pocket and get a definition of funk from the four men who continue to dish it out.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Rockin' at Cosimo's Lee Allen
The Cosimo Matassa Story, Proper - I'm in Love Again Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Ain't That a Shame Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Clip: The Beginning
- Country Boy Dave Bartholomew
1947-50, Jazz Classics - Clip: Stardust
- Startdust Dave Bartholomew
1947-50, Jazz Classics - Clip: The Studio Band
- 3x7=21 Jewel King
The Genius of Dave Bartholomew, EMI - Instrumental: Dreaming Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Clip: The Fat Man
- The Fat Man Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Slippin' and Slidin' Little Richard
The Specialty Sessions Box, Specialty - Clip: Beat
- Rip It Up Little Richard
The Specialty Sessions Box, Specialty - Clip: I'm Walkin'
- I'm Walkin' Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Clip: Sound
- Let the Four Winds Blow Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Instrumental: Blueberry Hill Mose Allison
Back Country Suite, Prestige - Clip: Blueberry Hill
- Blueberry Hill Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - I'm Gonna be a Wheel Someday Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Down the Road Smiley Lewis
Shame, Shame, Shame, Bear Family - Clip: on Smiley Lewis & Professor Longhair
- One Night Elvis Presley
1950s Masters, RCA - In the Night Professor Longhair
New Orleans Piano, Atlantic - Clip: Fats Success/Live
- Blue Monday Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Closing Bed: Rockin' at Cosimo's Lee Allen
The Cosimo Matassa Story, Proper
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Chicken Strut The Meters
Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino - Fiyo on the Bayou The Meters
Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino - A Message From the Meters The Meters
Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino - Clip: Beginnings
- Ease Back The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed - Clip: House Band
- Fortune Teller Benny Spellman
Fortune Teller - Golden Classics, Collectables - Working In a Coal Mine Lee Dorsey
Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection, Arista - Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky From Now On Lee Dorsey
Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection, Arista - Instrumental: Cissy Strut Rod Piazza
Bluesman, LMI - Clip: Funk
- I Been Hoodood Dr. John
In The Right Place, ATCO - Sophisticated Cissy The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed - Clip: Cissy Strut
- Cissy Strut The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed - Clip: Look-Ka-Py-Py
- Look-Ka-Py-Py The Meters
Look-Ka-Py-Py, Sundazed - Clip: They All Asked For You
- They All Asked for You The Meters
Funkify Your Life Vol. 2, Rhino - Instrumental: Drums on Fire Donald Harrison Jr.
Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. presents The New Sounds of Mardi Gras, FOMP - Clip: Mardi Gras Indians / Hey Pocky Way
- Hey Pocky Way The Meters
Rejuvenation, Sundazed - Here Dey Come Wild Tchoupitoulas
Wild Tchoupitoulas, Island - Clip: The Rolling Stones / Paul McCartney
- Africa The Meters
Uptown Rulers! Live on the Queen Mary, Rhino - Clip: Breakup
- Stormy The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed - Clip: Today / Reunions
- Closing Bed: Cissy Strut (Live) The Meters
Live Recording from 2005 New Orleans Jazz Fest,