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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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ROLLING THE STONES WITH CHUCK LEAVELL & BERNARD FOWLER...PLUS ROCKABILLY GENTLEMAN, NARVEL FELTS

June 24th, 2020

The Rolling Stones have been around for over five decades and touring almost as long. This week we listen back to Stones songs about working people, the band’s sources in blues, country and gospel, and speak with two of their sidemen who share their tales of working with the group. Pianist and Rolling Stones music director, Chuck Leavell got a fateful call to join the band in 1982 while working on his family’s Georgia tree plantation, but before that he played with the Allman Brothers. Singer and percussionist Bernard Fowler was touring with Herbie Hancock before he got the call to come work with the Stones. He recently made a spoken word recording of their songs as social commentary. Then a conversation with Missouri’s own Narvel Felts, who tells us about his journey from the cotton fields to the famed studios of Sun and Mercury Records as a rockabilly singer, and later adventures in country and pop. Narvel is a marvel—a maker of some of the best rock n roll songs you’ve never heard.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: We Got a Good thing Goin' The Rolling Stones
    The BBC Tapes 1963/66, Youtube
  • Catfish Blues Muddy Waters
    American Folk Blues Festival ‘62-’65, Evidence
  • Lost Highway Hank Williams
    The Complete Hank Williams , Mercury
  • Faraway Eyes The Rolling Stones
    Some Girls , Virgin
  • Salt of the Earth The Rolling Stones
    Beggars Banquet, Decca
  • Factory Girl The Rolling Stones
    Beggar’s Banquet, Decca
  • Instrumental: Evening Train Chuck Leavell
    Back to the Woods, Crosscut Records
  • SEGMENT: Chuck Leavell

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  • Baby Please Don't Go Mississippi Fred McDowell
    I Do Not Play No Rock ‘n Roll: The Complete Sessions, Capitol
  • You Gotta Move The Rolling Stones
    Sticky Fingers , Virgin
  • Instrumental: Ventilator Blues Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
    Paint It, Blues, House of Blues
  • Painted Black Live The Rolling Stones
    Live in 2006, Youtube
  • Don't Let the Devil Ride Campbell Brothers
    Can You Feel It?, Ropeadope
  • SEGMENT: Bernard Fowler

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  • Closing Bed: I Can't Get No (Satisfaction) Junior Wells
    Paint It, Blues, House of Blues

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Rocket Ride Narvel Felts
    Narvel Felts Rocks, Bear Family
  • Rock House Roy Orbison
    At the Rock House, Sun
  • Everybody's Movin Glen Glenn
    Glen Rocks, Bear Family
  • My Many Hurried Southern Trips Porter Wagoner
    Wagonmaster, Anti
  • 3000 Miles Narvel Felts
    Through The Years Volume 1: 1956-1959, Legacy Series
  • Reconsider Me Maggie Lewis Warwick
    Shreveport Stomp, vol.1: Ram Records, Ace
  • Reconsider Me Johnny Adams
    Johnny Adams Reconsider Me: A Golden Classics Edition, Collectables
  • Instrumental: Honky Tonk King Curtis
    Blow Man, Blow!, Bear Family
  • SEGMENT: Narvel Felts

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  • Pink and Black Days Narvel Felts
    Narvel Felts Rocks, Bear Family
  • Reconsider Me Narvel Felts
    Drift Away: The Best of Narvel Felts 1973-1979, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Boogie Woogie Country Gal Linda Gail Lewis and Robbie Fulks
    Wild! Wild! Wild! Linda Gail Lewis and Robbie Fulks, Bloodshot
  • I Want a Lavender Cadillac Maurice King & His Wolverines w/ Bea Baker
    OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957, Epic / OKeh / Legacy
  • If I Can't Have You Jackie Wilson
    He's So Fine, Brunswick
  • Rocket 88 Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats
    The Best of Chess Rock N' Roll Vol. 1 , MCA/Chess
  • Down the Line Buddy Holly
    Down the Line Rarities, Geffen
  • Beat It On Down the Line Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers
  • I'm Headin' Home Narvel Felts
    Super Songs Narvelized, Cone
  • Closing Bed: Rocket 88 Boogie Pete Johnston
    Arhoolie Piano Blues and Boogie Classics, Arhoolie

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