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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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JESSE WINCHESTER, WAYNE & JAYNE HENDERSON

May 31st, 2017

We’ll remember the late singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester, through his music and his own words. Then a visit to Rugby, VA for a close listen into sustainable guitars and ukuleles, made by Jayne and Wayne Henderson, of Henderson Guitars.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Showman's Life Jesse Winchester
    A Touch on the Rainy Side, Rhino
  • God's Own Juke Box Jesse Winchester
    Third Down and 110 to Go, Rhino
  • Shadrack The Fairfield Four
    I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray, Warner Bros.
  • Step by Step Jesse Winchester
    Let the Rough Side Drag, Rhino
  • Evil Angel Ed Bruce
    The Best of Ed Bruce, Varese Sarabande
  • Instrumental: Night and Day Mickey Baker
    The Wildest Guitar, Atlantic
  • SEGMENT: Jesse Winchester

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  • All That We Have is Now Jesse Winchester
    A Reasonable Amount of Trouble, Appleseed
  • Far Side Bank of Jordan Jesse Winchester
    Love Filling Station, Appleseed
  • Instrumental: Fables of Faubus Charles Mingus
    This is Jazz 6, Columbia
  • Stand By Me Ben E. King
    Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974, Atlantic
  • That's a Touch I Like Jerry Garcia
    The Jerry Garcia Collection Vol. 1: Legion of Mary, Rhino
  • Mississippi You're On My Mind Jesse Winchester
    The Best of Jesse Winchester, Rhino
  • A Little Louisiana Jesse Winchester
    A Reasonable Amount of Trouble, Appleseed
  • Brand New Tennessee Waltz Jesse Winchester
    Jesse Winchester Live, Acrobat
  • End Bed: The Tennessee Waltz Bobby Broom
    My Shining Hour, Bobby Broom

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Walkin' in My Sleep Wayne Henderson, Doc Watson and Friends
    American Routes/Nightline original live recording,
  • You and My Old Guitar Jimmie Rodgers
    The Singing Brakeman, Bear Family
  • Grand Slam (Boy Meets Goy) Charlie Christian with Benny Goodman
    The Genius of the Electric Guitar, Columbia
  • Nuages Willie Nelson & Family
    Let's Face the Music and Dance, Sony
  • Just Playing My Axe Buddy Guy
    The Complete Vanguard Recordings, Vanguard
  • Sugarfoot Rag Junior Brown
    Git With It, Curb
  • Instrumental: Lupus #1 Tom Morrell & The Time-Warp Tophands
    How the West Was Swung, Vol. 5: Go Uptown, WR
  • Grandfather's Clock E.C. Ball and Orna
    Through the Years 1937-1975, Copper Creek
  • New River Train Wayne Henderson, Doc Watson & Friends
    American Routes/Nightline original live recording,
  • SEGMENT: Wayne and Jayne Henderson

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  • Instrumental: Let's Dance Jake Shimabukuro
    Gently Weeps, Hitchhike
  • This Old Guitar Neil Young
    Prairie Wind, Reprise
  • Down by the River Puss N Boots
    No Fools, No Fun, Blue Note
  • Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar Delmore Brothers
    Brown's Ferry Blues, County
  • Hope of a Lifetime The Milk Carton Kids
    The Ash & Clay, Anti
  • End Bed: Thunder Road/Sugar Foot Rag Doc Watson
    Docabilly, Sugar Hill

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