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PIEDMONT BLUES WITH JONTAVIOUS WILLIS & ANDREW ALLI AND THE STOOGES BRASS BAND LIVE FROM NEW ORLEANS
We’re digging into the Piedmont blues, a rich style that mixes ragtime, old-time country music, jazz, gospel, hollers, and historic popular songs. A conversation and music with two younger players in the tradition: guitarist/singer Jontavious Willis from rural Greenwood, GA and harmonica player Andrew Alli from Richmond, VA. Plus music by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Elizabeth Cotten, Cannonball Adderly and Bob Wills. Then it’s the Stooges Brass Band from New Orleans in a live studio session.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: John's Ragtime John Jackson
Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down, Arhoolie - Gillum's Windy Blues Jazz Gillum
Jazz Gillum: Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1, 1936-1938, Document Records - Take Me Back to Tulsa Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Bob Wills Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys –The Tiffany Transcriptions, Warner - Pick a Bale of Cotton Sonny Terry
Sonny Terry: The Folkways Years, Smithsonian Folkways - Worksong Cannonball Adderley Quintet
Them Dirty Blues, Riverside - I'm a Lover Not a Fighter Lazy Lester
Lester's Stomp: The Lazy Lester Singles Collection, From the Valley - My Babe Little Walter
Little Walter: The Complete Chess Masters, UMG - Instrumental: Brownie's Blues Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Folksongs of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Roulette - Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad Etta Baker
Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians, Tradition Records - Take Me to the Country Jontavious Willis
Spectacular Class, Kind of Blue Music - SEGMENT: Jontavious Willis and Andrew Alli
Listen - So Glad You're Mine Jontavious Willis and Andrew Alli
Live at the 2022 Montana Folk Festival , - Instrumental: John Henry Etta Baker
Etta Baker–One Dime Blues, Rounder - Take This Hammer Odetta
Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, Tradition Records - John Henry Cephas and Wiggins
Blues Routes, Smithsonian Folkways - Freight Train Elizabeth Cotten
Elizabeth Cotten–Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folksongs and Tunes, Smithsonian Folkways - Key to the Highway Warner Williams with Jay Summerhour
Warner Williams Live with Jay Summerhour–Blues Highway, Smithsonian Folkways - End bed: Alligator Shuffle Lazy Lester
Lazy Lester–Harp and Soul, Alligator Records
HOUR two
- Open Bed: One Hundred Percent Cotton The Stooges Brass Band
American Routes Live at Artisound Studios, - Farewell to Storyville Kid Ory
The Complete Kid Ory Columbia Session 1946, American Music Records - Bourbon Street Parade Young Tuxedo Brass Band
Jazz Begins, Atlantic - When the Saints Go Marching In Leroy Jones
New Orleans Brass Band Music–Memories of the Hurricane and Fairview Band, LJ Music - Glory Glory/Jesus on the Mainline Rebirth Brass Band
We Come to Party, Shanachie - Hurricane Season Trombone Shorty
Backatown, Verve - Instrumental: New Orleans Blues Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Jelly, Columbia Records - Wind It Up Like Michael Buck The Stooges Brass Band
American Routes Live at Artisound Studios, - Where You From The Stooges Brass Band
American Routes Live at Artisound Studios, - Instrumental: Just a Closer Walk with Thee Kermit Ruffins, Rebirth Brass Band
Throwback, Basin Street - Why The Stooges Brass Band
American Routes Live at Artisound Studios, - They Like The Stooges Music The Stooges Brass Band
American Routes Live at Artisound Studios, - End bed: Muses The Stooges Brass Band
American Routes Live at Artisound Studios, - SEGMENT: The Stooges Brass Band
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