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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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ROCK 'N' ROUTES

July 23rd, 2003

The sound of rock continues to dominate the musical spirit of America. Loud and anthemic, many artists eventually come to and pass through rock ‘n’ roll from country, folk, R&B, even gospel. American Routes takes a look at three roots musicians who rock: Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna veteran Jorma Kaukonen talks about his recent acoustic work; Texas trio The Flatlanders (Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock and Joe Ely) strum a few tunes in the studio; and New Orleans’ own Lloyd Price shows how his R&B roots helped give birth to rock ‘n’ roll.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Guitar Slim Guitar Slim
    Sufferin' Mind, Specialty
  • Rock & Roll Music Chuck Berry
    His Best, MCA
  • Promised Land The Band
    Moondog Matinee, Capitol
  • Rockin' Chair Daddy Harmonia Frank
    The Great Original Recordings of Harmonica Frank, Puritan LP
  • So Lets Rock Bob Wills
    Country Music Hall of Fame Series: Bob Wills, MCA
  • Instrumental: Tall Cool One The Wailers
    Hot Rod Rock: Big Boss Instrumentals, Right Stuff
  • Rock My Soul Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
    The Very Best of The Golden Gate Quartet, World Pacific
  • Rock With It Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
    RCA Victor Blues and Rhythm Review, RCA
  • In the Night Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
  • Saturday Night Fish Fry Louis Jordan
    Let the Good Times Roll box, Bear Family
  • INTERVIEW: Lloyd Price

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  • Instrumental: Greedy G Brentford All Stars
    100% Dynamite!, Soul Jazz
  • Rock Steady The Marvels
    100% Dynamite!, Soul Jazz
  • Funky Mama Lou Donaldson
    Blue 45s, Blue Note
  • None of Us are Free Solomon Burke
    Don't Give Up on Me, Epitaph
  • I Never Picked Cotton Johnny Cash
    Unchained, American

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Wavin' My Heart Goodbye The Flatlanders
    Live on American Routes,
  • Wild Wild Young Men Ruth Brown
    Blues Masters Vol 14: More Jump Blues, Rhino
  • Rub Me Baby Cedell Davis & Friends
    When Lightnin' Struck the Pine, fasthorse
  • New, New Minglewood Blues Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead, Warner
  • If I Had My Way Blind Willie Johnson
    Roots of Rap, Yazoo
  • Hear My Train a Comin' Jimi Hendrix
    Blues, MCA
  • Smokestack Lightnin' Howlin' Wolf
    His Best 1955-1962, MCA
  • Jimi Hendrix
    Electric Ladyland, MCA
  • SEGMENT: Jorma Kaukonen

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  • I Wanna Sing That Rock n Roll Gillian Welch
    Time (The Revelator), Acony
  • Honky-Tonk Man Johnny Horton
    The Essential, Sony
  • Instrumental: Grinding Gears Biller & Wakefield
    The Hot Guitars of Biller & Wakefield, HMG
  • SEGMENT: The Flatlanders

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  • Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land Vol.1, Folkways
  • Hesitating Beauty Wilco
    Mermaid Avenue, Elektra
  • End Bed: Radar Link Wray & the Wraymen
    Walkin' With Link, Epic

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