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ALL SAINTS

Tune into music dealing with death and rebirth, loss and resolution, for All Saints and All Souls Days, November 1 and 2. Music transcends the world of the living as we listen to a jazz funeral for sax player Harold Dejan in the streets of New Orleans. Plus preacher, mortician, and amazing soul singer Solomon Burke tells his tale, and a visit to a local cemetery to see how the dead are honored this time of year. Includes music in the spirit from Pops Staples, King Oliver, Bob Dylan and Ralph Stanley.

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Episcopal Hymn John Fahey
    Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes, Takoma
  • In My Time of Dying Josh White
    Free and Equal Blues, Smithsonian Folkways
  • In My Hour Of Darkness Gram Parsons
    Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology, Rhino
  • I Wouldn't Mind Dying Dorothy Love Coates
    Get On Board, Specialty
  • Death Letter Cassandra Wilson
    Visions of Jazz: The First Century, Blue Note
  • Glory Glory Pops Staples
    Father Father, Virgin
  • Instrumental: The Saints Boogie Sammy Price
    Rib Joint, Savoy Jazz
  • INTERVIEW: Solomon Burke

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  • Jump for Joy The Campbell Brothers
    None But The Righteous: The Masters of Sacred Steel, Ropeadope
  • (There'll Be) Peace in the Valley (For Me) Elvis Presley
    The Complete 50s Masters, RCA
  • Instrumental: Down In The Valley To Pray / Jesus, Make Up My Dyin' Bed Paul Asbell
    Steel String Americana, Busy Hands
  • Fixin' To Die Dave Van Ronk
    The Bluesville Years Vol.7: Blues Blue, Blues While, Prestige
  • Twelve Gates To The City Reverend Gary Davis
    Rev. Gary Davis and Pink Anderson: Gospel, Blues and Street Songs, Riverside
  • I'm A Man of Constant Sorrow The Stanley Brothers
    Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys: 1949-1952, Bear Family
  • Gates of Eden Bob Dylan
    Bringing It All Back Home, Sony

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: When The Saints Go Marching In Nicholas Payton
    Gumbo Nouveau, Verve
  • Dead Man Blues Jelly Roll Morton
    Birth of the Hot, Bluebird
  • St. James Infirmary King Oliver
    King Oliver and his Orchestra 1929-1930, JSP
  • SEGMENT: All Saints @ St. Louis Cemetery

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  • La Toussaint Steve Riley and Mamou Playboys
    La Toussaint, Rounder
  • Saint Behind the Glass Los Lobos
    El Cancionero: Mas Y Mas, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Streets of Laredo Duane Eddy
    The Twang's The Thang /Songs of our Heritage, Bear Family
  • Rivers of Babylon Steve Earle
    Train A Comin', Winter Harvest
  • Many Rivers To Cross The Blind Boys of Alabama
    Higher Ground, RealWorld
  • God Bless The Children The Heptones
    The Heptones & Friends, Vol. 1 & 2, Trojan
  • Instrumental: The Cat Jimmy Smith
    The Master, Blue Note
  • When the Saints Go Marching In Napoleon Strickland
    Negro Fife and Drum Bands: Traveling Through the Jungle, Testament
  • When the Saints Go Marching In Golden Gate Quartet
    The Kings of Gospel, PMF
  • SEGMENT: Harold Dejan Jazz Funeral

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  • Resolution John Coltrane
    Love Supreme, Impulse
  • End Bed: It's Easy To Remember John Coltrane
    Ballads, Impulse

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