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Breaking Out: British Blues To New Orleans Bounce Breaking Out: British Blues To New Orleans Bounce May 11th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Breaking Out: British Blues To New Orleans Bounce

From Great Britain to the Big Easy, we explore the sounds of musical and social breakouts. First, we hear how British blues pioneer John Mayall broke out of England with his band the Bluesbreakers, bringing British blues to a larger audience. We’ll hear some of Mayall’s sources and contemporaries, like Big Maceo and Eric Clapton. Then, it’s butt shakes and backbeats with Big Freedia, the Queen Diva of New Orleans Bounce, a rhythmic dance music with sources in hip hop and rap, as well as much earlier jazz and R&B. We’ll explore some of those sources, and strut with Kermit Ruffins and Sam Morgan, head “Down Yonder” with Smiley Lewis, and “Take it to the Street” with Rebirth Brass Band.

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September 8th, 1999

American ethnic and regional “roots” music in the ears of the Bay Area’s Chris Strachwitz. Strachwitz is the founder of Arhoolie Records, a legendary collection of field recordings and re-issues of artists ranging from bluesman Lightning Hopkins and zydeco king Clifton Chenier, to Freddie Fender (in Spanish) and Western swingstress Rose Maddox. Popular artists from Dylan to the Rolling Stones drew extensively on Arhoolie recordings.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: American Music Violent Femmes
    Add It Up 1981-1993, Slash
  • That'll Be the Day Buddy Holly
    Greatest Hits, MCA
  • Dirty Willie Mongo Santamaria
    Skin On Skin 1958-1995, Rhino
  • Jumpin' With Symphony Sid King Pleasure
    King Pleasure Sings, Fantasy
  • Instrumental: Jumpin' With Symphony Sid Lester Young
    The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Lester Young, Blue Note
  • INTERVIEW: Chris Strachwitz

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  • Murmullo Buena Vista Social Club
    Buena Vista Social Club, Nonesuch
  • Complainin Lucky Roberts
    Lucky & Lion: Harlem Piano, Fantasy
  • But Not for Me Kermit Ruffins
    Swing This, Basin Street
  • Instrumental: Crawfishin' Marcia Ball
    Let Me Play With Your Poodle, Rounder
  • I Know That's Right Katie Webster
    I Know That's Right, Arhoolie
  • Take Me Back to Tulsa Bob Wills
    Hall Of Fame, United Artists
  • This Should Go On Forever Rod Bernard
    Swamp Pop, Jin
  • Lake Charles Lucinda Williams
    Car Wheels On a Gravel Road, Mercury

HOUR two

  • Promised Land Mose Allison
    Back Country Suite, Prestige
  • Moses Smote the Water Golden Gate
    Swing Down Chariot, Columbia
  • Hora Atik Paradox Trio
    The Jewish Alternative Movement, Knitting Factory
  • INTERVIEW: Peter Sokolow
  • Ot Azoy Klezmer Plus
    The Soul of Klezmer, Network
  • Instrumental: Bucket's Got A Hole In It Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers
    New Orleans: The Living Legends, Riverside
  • It's Time to Make a Change Lively Stones
    Saints Paradise, Folkways
  • Just a Closer Walk with Thee Treme Brass Band
    Gimme My Money Back, Arhoolie
  • My God is Real Al Green
    Livin' for You, Hi Records
  • Match Box Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson
    Blind Lemon Jefferson, Fantasy
  • Matchbox Ike Turner
    Oxford American 1999,
  • Matchbox Carl Perkins
    The Classics, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Water Boy Link Wray
    Guitar Preacher: The Polydor Years, Polydor
  • Many Rivers to Cross Jimmy Cliff
    The Harder They Come, Island
  • Take Me Home, Country Roads Toots & the Maytals
    Time Tough, Island
  • One More Mile to Go Otis Spann & James Cotton
    The Blues Never Die, Fantasy
  • Somewhere Over the Rainbow Jerry Lee Lewis
    Oxford American 1999,
  • End Bed: Somewhere Over the Rainbow Art Tatum
    The Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces, Pablo

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