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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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PHILADELPHIA SOUNDS

November 3rd, 2010

Follow American Routes this week to the City of Brotherly Love, as we hang out on the musical street corners with some of Philadelphia’s finest, including bobby-soxer idol Bobby Rydell, hip-hop drummer and city champion Questlove of the Roots, and the city’s mayor, Michael Nutter, who can also claim fame as a disco DJ. We’ll visit famous operatic cafes and sit in with a neighborhood jazz organ trio. Plus catch a choir rehearsal at one of the city’s historic churches and a conversation with a mother-daughter klezmer duo. And musical postcards from artists who call Philly their hometown.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: The Sermon Jimmy Smith
    Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz, Verve
  • Up Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    The Original Soul Sister, Proper
  • Love Train The O'Jays
    Total Soul Classics: Back Stabbers, Legacy
  • Expressway to Your Heart The Soul Survivors
    Flick Hits Take 2: Classic R&B Hits, The Right Stuff
  • SEGMENT: Mayor Michael Nutter

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  • SEGMENT: Questlove of the Roots

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  • Instrumental: Out of This World John Coltrane
    Coltrane, Impulse
  • CLIP: McCoy Tyner
  • Bessie's Blues John Coltrane Quartet
    Crescent, Impulse
  • Please Hurry Home Patti LaBelle & the Blue Belles
    The Early Years, Ace UK
  • SEGMENT: Budesa Brothers & Lucky Thompson

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  • SEGMENT: Elaine Hoffman Watts and Susan Watts

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  • Pink Elephants Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
    Wild Cats, ASV
  • Can't Get to Heaven on the Frankford El The American Dream
    The American Dream, Ampex
  • SEGMENT: Mummers Parade

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  • Instrumental: Raggin' the Scale Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
    Wild Cats, ASV
  • SEGMENT: Victor Cafe

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  • Deep River Marian Anderson
    Spirituals, BMG
  • Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair Nina Simone
    Anthology: The Colpix Years, Rhino
  • End Bed: Dear Lord John Coltrane
    A John Coltrane Retrospective - the Impulse Years, Impulse

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Detective in the Rain Heath Allen
    Life of Leisure,
  • Fall in Philadelphia Daryl Hall & John Oates
    Whole Oats, Atlantic
  • Storm Warning The Volcanos
    Storm Warning: Philly Original Soul Classics, Vol.1, Jamie/Guyden
  • SEGMENT: Marshall Allen

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  • Ship of the Future Edison Electric Band
    Bless You, Dr. Woodward, Water Music
  • Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
    Greatest Hits, Blackheart
  • Instrumental: TNT Jimmy Smith
    Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz, Verve
  • SEGMENT: R&M Deli

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  • SEGMENT: Bobby Rydell

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  • Dancin the Strand Maureen Gray
    Philly Doo-Wop Classics, Jamie/Guyden
  • Slow Twistin' Chubby Checker with Dee Dee Sharp
    The Best of Chubby Checker: Cameo-Parkway, 1959-1963, Abkco
  • Ain't Nothing But a Houseparty The Showstoppers
    The Northern Soul Generation: Keep the Faith, Castle Music
  • SEGMENT: Jerry Blavat

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  • Instrumental: Bandstand Boogie Les Elgart and His Orchestra
    Television Themes: 16 Most Requested Songs, Columbia/Legacy
  • Be Thankful For What You've Got William DeVaughn
    The Best of the Philly Sound, GNP
  • I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free John Legend & the Roots
    Wake Up, G.O.O.D./Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Solomon Burke

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  • SEGMENT: Monumental Baptist Church

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