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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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AMERICAN ROUTES LIVE: WITH THE SOUL REBELS, LOST BAYOU RAMBLERS & MORE

October 2nd, 2019

We revel in the live sounds of New Orleans and South Louisiana. First, turn it up for the “New Sound of New Orleans” with the Soul Rebels brass band, live in conversation and performance, joined by “stretch music” trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah and preacher’s kid turned soul powerhouse Tonya Boyd-Cannon. Then, a listen back to favorite performances by the late swamp blues icon Lazy Lester, French blues supergroup Cowboy Stew, R&B hawkers James Hunter Six from England and young rising Kansas City guitarist and singer Samantha Fish—all at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival. Finally, it’s Cajun modernists the Lost Bayou Ramblers live at Preservation Hall in New Orleans’ French Quarter featuring songs from their Grammy winning CD “Kalenda.”

Photo by James Billeaudeau

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HOUR ONE

  • Rebelosis The Soul Rebels
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) The Soul Rebels
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • Can You Feel the Beat? The Soul Rebels
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • Instrumental: Red Clay Freddie Hubbard
    The Best of Freddie Hubbard, Pablo
  • SEGMENT: The Soul Rebels

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  • Let Your Mind Be Free The Soul Rebels
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • Instrumental Christian Scott with the Soul Rebels
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • Instrumental: Strasbourg-St. Denis Soul Rebels and Christian Scott
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • SEGMENT: Christian Scott

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  • Respected Destroyer Christian Scott with the Soul Rebels
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • Happy Tonya Boyd-Cannon with the Soul Rebels
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • SEGMENT: Tonya Boyd-Cannon

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  • You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman Tonya Boyd-Cannon
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • Closing Bed: Caracas Lou Donaldson Good Gracious
    Blue Note,

HOUR two

  • Hip Hug Her Lazy Lester
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes,
  • They Call Me Lazy Lazy Lester
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes,
  • I'll Play the Blues for You
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes, Cowboy Stew
  • Sugar Coated Love Cowboy Stew
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes,
  • Instrumental: Gone For Good Samantha Fish
    Belle of the West, Ruf Records
  • Bony Moronie James Hunter Six
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes,
  • Favors James Hunter Six
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes,
  • Chills and Fever Samantha Fish
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes,
  • Need You More Samantha Fish
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes,
  • Instrumental: Sabine Turnaround Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Live at Preservation Hall,
  • Granny Smith Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Live at Preservation Hall,
  • La valse de Balfa Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Live at Preservation Hall,,
  • Rice Pump Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Live at Preservation Hall,
  • Kalenda Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Live at Preservation Hall,
  • Closing Bed: Aloha Golden Meadow Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Live at Preservation Hall,

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