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Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté May 18th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté

It’s Blueswomen, Jazzmen, African roots and branches. Chicago blues singer Shemekia Copeland‘s father, the late blues guitarist Johnny Copeland, brought her into his music as a child. As an adult, she found new ways to use blues to express her perspective. We’ll hear from some of Shemekia’s heroes including Etta James, Ruth Brown, Alberta Hunter and Big Mama Thornton. Then a conversation and performance by Boston-based Mandinka balafon player Balla Kouyaté and music inspired by and from the continent of Africa from Randy Weston, Miriam Makeba and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Shemekia Copeland photo by Mike White

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4TH OF JULY

July 1st, 1998

May the Fourth be with you! Music celebrating American cultural independence and inter-dependence. Also a chat with fife player Otha Turner, and Santore fireworks family.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Back in the USA Chuck Berry
    The Chess Box, MCA/Chess
  • Freedom of '76 Ween
    Chocolate and Cheese, Elektra
  • South Street The Orlons
    45rpm, Cameo
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Gil Scott Heron
    Pieces of a Man, Flying Dutchman/RCA
  • Every Man A King Randy Newman
    Good Old Boys, Reprise
  • Stars & Stripes Forever Eubie Blake
    The Eighty-Six Yearts of Eubie Blake, Columbia
  • Brilliant Mistake Elvis Costello
    King of America, Ryko
  • Instrumental: For Your Country and My Country George Gershwin
    The Piano Rolls, Vol. 2, Nonesuch
  • 4th of July Amy Mann
    Whatever, DGC
  • American Tune Paul Simon
    There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Warner Brothers
  • I'm A Yankee Doodle Dandy James Cagney
    Yankee Doodle Dandy Soundtrack, Hollywood Soundstage
  • I Want to Hear a Yankee Doodle Tune George M. Cohan
    Star Spangled Rhythm, Smithsonian Collection
  • Bugle Boy Rag Michael White
    Live on Folk Masters,1992,
  • Instrumental: The Star Spangled Banner 15 1/2" Regina music box
    From Salons to Saloons, IBRC
  • INTERVIEW: Othar Turner
  • Freedom Suite Sonny Rollins
    The Essential Sonny Rollins on Riverside, Riverside
  • Living in America James Brown
    The Greatest Hits of the Fourth Decade, Scotti Brothers

HOUR two

  • Washington Post March Bill Frisell
    Have A Little Faith, Elektra Nonesuch
  • Only in America The Drifters
    Rockin' & Driftin' - the Drifters Box, Rhino
  • America Chita Rivera & Company
    Star Spangled Rhythm - Voices of Broadway and Hollywood, Smithsonian Collection
  • One Time One Night in America Los Lobos
    By the Light of the Moon, Slash/Warner Brothers
  • Marcho Rock & Roll Isidro Lopez
    El Indio, Arhoolie
  • Instrumental: Freedom Sound Skatalites
    Balls of Fire, Island
  • Redemption Song Bob Marley
    Uprising, Tuff Gong
  • I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free Nina Simone
    Silk & Soul, RCA
  • Freedom ReBirth Brass Band
    Rebirth Kickin' It Live!, Rounder
  • INTERVIEW: Santore Family Fireworks
  • Instrumental: Fireworks Louie Armstrong
    The Hot Fives & Hot Sevens Vol. 3, Columbia
  • The Star Spangled Banner Robert McDuffie, solo violin
    Music & the Arts Vol. 1, No. 3,
  • There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere Elton Britt
    Classic Country Music, Smithsonian Collection
  • Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore John Prine
    John Prine, Atlantic
  • The Fourth of July Holidays Symphony, Charles Ives
    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Zinman, Argo
  • America the Beautiful Ray Charles
    Uh-Huh: His Greatest Hits, DCC
  • End Bed: When Johnny Comes Marching Home Jimmy Smith Trio
    The Master, Blue Note

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