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SPRING AWAKENING
It’s a Spring Awakening, and we’ve got songs about bunny hops, rockin’ robins, and fragrant flowers but also lonely hours, gospel prayers and post apocalyptic dreams. In hopes that the real and surreal can commingle with joy and hope, plus music from Gillian Welch, Stevie Wonder, Bob Wills and Fats Waller.
Mural and image by Ranna Zahra McSwain
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Echo of Spring Willie "The Lion" Smith
The Spirit of Ragtime, ASV - Spring Cleaning Fats Waller
The Centennial Collection, BMG - (Me And My Baby) Doin' The Bunny Hop Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Boot Heel Drag: The MGM Years, Mercury - Bunny Bread Sunpie Barnes
American Routes Original Recording from French Quarter Fest 2019, - Bunny Hop Dance Mary Ann Meanus and Verbena Green
Heartbeat - Voices of First Nations Women, Smithsonian Folkways - Rockin' Robin Bobby Day
Rockin' Robin Bobby Day, Class Records - Instrumental: One Dime Blues Etta Baker
Blues Routes, Smithsonian Folkways - Acony Bell Gillian Welch
Revival, Acony - Hello in There John Prine
John Prine, Atlantic - Give Me the Roses While I Live Ralph Stanley
Old Country Church, Rebel - Sally Go Round the Roses Pentangle
Basket of Light, Transatlantic - Green Garden Laura Mvula
Sing to the Moon, Sony - Light Blue Ellis Marsalis
Open Letter to Thelonious Deluxe Edition, Nu Jazz - Instrumental: Old Time Spiritual Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou's Mass, Smithsonian Folkways - Highlands Bob Dylan
Time Out of Mind, Columbia - End Bed: Appalachia Waltz Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer & Mark O'Connor
Appalachia Waltz, Sony
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Birdsong in Coastal Alabama
American Routes Original Recording, - One of These Days Neil Young
Harvest Moon, Reprise - Blowin' in the Wind Stevie Wonder
Uptight, Tamla - Down By the Riverside Mahalia Jackson
The Essential Mahalia Jackson, Sony - Why Me Kris Kristofferson
Jesus Was a Capricorn, Monument - Old Ship of Zion James Cleveland
The Sould of James Cleveland, Savoy - Instrumental: Blues Walk Lou Donaldson
The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions 1957-60, Blue Note - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Al Green
Al Green—Call Me, Hi - Those Lonely Nights Dr. John
Gumbo, Atlantic - In My Room Beach Boys
Surfer Girl, Capitol - Isolation John Lennon
Plastic Ono Band, EMI - 21st Century USA Drive-By Truckers
The Unraveling, ATO Records - Wooden Ships David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash
Crosy, Still and Nash, Atlantic - All My Trials Charles Lloyd and the Marvels
I Long to See You—Charles Llyod and the Marvels, Blue Note - Instrumental: Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans Ellis Marsalis
Heart of Gold, Sony - Times Like These Jack Johnson
On and On, Universal - Hard Times Come Again No More Emmylou Harris
At the Ryman, Warner - Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans Louis Armstrong
"Sugar"—The Best of the Complete RCA Recordings, RCA - End Bed: Walk Through the Streets of the City Joe Lastie Jr. and The Lastie Family Gospel
Joe Lastie Jr. and The Lastie Family Gospel Singers, Preservation Hall Recordings
