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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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MUSEUMS OF SOUND

June 16th, 2004

This week we look how music is enshrined at three spots around the country. In Memphis, the Stax Records Museum has opened last spring and we’ll hear stories from artists on the label like Isaac Hayes, the Bar-Kays, the Memphis Horns, and Rufus Thomas. Then we’ll head west and visit the massive Experience Music Project in Seattle with its high-tech focus on rock and roll. Finally, Peggy Bulger of the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center tells us about their Save the Sounds project – preserving 50 of the most important recordings ever made.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Soul Finger Booker T and the MGs
  • Hold On! I'm Comin' Sam & Dave
    The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
  • Memphis Train Rufus Thomas
    The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
  • Mr. Big Stuff Jean Knight
    The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Vol.2 1968-71, Stax
  • SEGMENT: Stax #1 with Rufus & Carla Thomas, Issac Hayes, Memphis Horns, Bar-Kays, Elvis Costello, Deanie Parker, Rob Bowman

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  • These Arms of Mine Otis Redding
    The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
  • Something Is Wrong With My Baby Sam & Dave
    The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
  • Instrumental: I Can't Turn You Loose Memphis Horns
    Memphis Horns, Cotillion
  • SEGMENT: Stax #2

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  • Respect Yourself Staple Singers
    The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Vol.2 1968-71, Stax
  • Instrumental: Big Chief Part 2 Professor Longhair with Earl King
    ‘Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology, Rhino
  • CLIP: Earl King
  • Baby You Can Get Your Gun Earl King
    Earl's Pearls, West Side
  • Trick Bag Earl King
    Spirit of New Orleans: The Genius of Dave Bartholomew, EMI
  • SEGMENT: Experience Music Project with Bob Santelli, Ann Powers

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  • Come On (Let The Good Times Roll) Jimi Hendrix
    Electric Ladyland, MCA

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: One Dime Blues Etta Baker
    Hills of Home: 25 Years of Folk Music on Rounder Records, Rounder
  • Bourgeois Blues Taj Mahal
    Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly, Columbia
  • I Ain't Got No Home Bruce Springsteen
    Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Folkways with Mo Asch, Michael Asch, Ralph Rinzler, Tony Schwartz

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  • Instrumental: Pahko'ola Dance Song Yaqui and Deer Singers
    Wood That Sings: Indian Fiddle Music of the Americas, Folkways
  • Roving Gambler Country Gentlemen
    Country Songs Old and New, Folkways
  • Key to the Highway Memphis Slim
    The Folkways Years: 1959-1973, Folkways
  • SEGMENT: Save Our Sounds project with Peggy Bulger

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  • Instrumental: Now's The Time Charlie Parker
    The Savoy Story Volume One - Jazz, Savoy
  • Tiger Rag The Original Dixieland Five
    Masters of Jazz Vol.1: Traditional Classics, Rhino
  • In a Mellotone Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
    Centennial Edition: Complete RCA Victor Recordings 1927-1973 Box, RCA
  • CLIP: Nina Simone
  • I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl Nina Simone
    The Very Best of Nina Simone: Sugar in My Bowl, RCA
  • Take Me to the Water Nina Simone
    Ultimate Nina Simone, Verve
  • End Bed: Nite Life Mary Lou Williams
    Nite Life, Chiaroscuro

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