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Songs as Poems; Poems as Songs Songs as Poems; Poems as Songs August 10th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Songs as Poems; Poems as Songs

We listen for poetry in music and music in poetry, songs as poems and poems as songs with Langston Hughes, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Ken Nordine. Plus, a visit to New York’s City Lore with poet-folklorist Steve Zeitlin, who rides the POEMobile to the People’s Poetry Gathering and then back to New Orleans to meet Louisiana’s poet laureate, Mona Lisa Saloy.

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THE OUTLAW POET AND THE CRAWFISH QUEEN: BILLY JOE SHAVER & YVETTE LANDRY

May 27th, 2020

Texas singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver is a prolific composer who draws inspiration from his life experiences: turning horses to working in a sawmill; his relationship with religion and his family. All raw material for honing classic country songs, many of which are anthemic in the Outlaw Country music scene of yore. Then, the former Crawfish Queen of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, Yvette Landry, shares stories of coming to music and song-making later in life, and her work with the “Godfather of Swamp Pop,” Warren Storm. Plus words and music from Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Marcia Ball and Fats Domino.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Road Stop Jimmy Day
    Stars of the Steel Guitar, Gusto Records
  • Honky Tonk Heroes Waylon Jennings
    Honky Tonk Heroes, Sony
  • Heartaches By the Number Ray Price
    The Essential Ray Price: 1951-1962, Sony
  • If You've Got the Money Honey (I've Got the Time) Lefty Frizzell
    The Complete Columbia Recording Sessions, Vol. 1-1950-1951, Sony
  • CLIP: Billy Joe Shaver meets Harlan Howard

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  • Ride Me Down Easy Bobby Bare
    The Essential Bobby Bare, Sony
  • Chicken on the Ground Wanda Jackson
    Tears Will Be the Chaser For Your Wine, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Heartaches By the Number Floyd Cramer
    More Country Classics, Sony
  • CLIP: Growing Up in Corsicana

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  • I've Been to Georgia on a Fast Train Billy Joe Shaver
    The Essential Billy Joe Shaver, Sony
  • CLIP: Writing Poetry

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  • Old Chunk of Coal Billy Joe Shaver
    Billy Joe Shaver: Greatest Hits , Compadre Records
  • CLIP: Becoming a Songwriter

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  • Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me Billy Joe Shaver
    Old Five and Dimers Like Me, Sony
  • CLIP: Nashville on a Cantaloupe Truck

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  • Music City, USA Billy Joe Shaver
    Long in the Tooth, Lightning Rod Records
  • CLIP: Honky Tonk Heroes

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  • Old Five and Dimers (Like Me) Waylon Jennings
    Honky Tonk Heroes, Sony
  • Instrumental: Jukebox Charlie Lloyd Green
    Revisited, Lloyd Green
  • Pick Up the Tempo Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings
    Waylon and Willie, Sony
  • Ain't You Sorry Mance Lipscomb
    Captain, Captain, Arhoolie
  • I Feel A Change Coming On Bob Dylan
    Together Through Life, Sony
  • CLIP: His son, Eddy

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  • Live Forever Shaver
    Tramp on Your Street, BMG
  • CLIP: Advice to Songwriters

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  • Try and Try Again Billy Joe Shaver
    The Real Deal, Compadre Records
  • Closing Bed: Sunday in Dixie Buddy Emmons
    Stars of the Steel Guitar, Gusto Records

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Blue Moon Girl Yvette Landry
    Should Have Known, Yvette Landry
  • Le vieux soulard et sa femme (The Old Drunkard And his Wife) Cleoma Breaux and Joe Falcon
    Anthology of American Folk Music, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Rosa Majeur Queen Ida
    Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Band, GNP Crescendo
  • Le Vieux Dodge a Bill Landry Bonsoir Catin
    Blues a Catin, Bridgetown
  • SEGMENT: Yvette Landry

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  • Instrumental: Ginning-Take 1 Scatman Pattin
    Rockin’ Days in Shreveport, Louisiana, Various Artists, Ram Records, USA Network
  • Prisoner's Song Warren Storm
    Swamp Gold, Jin Records
  • Irene Warren Storm, Willie T & Cypress
    Warren Storm, Willie T & Cypress, Jin Records
  • SEGMENT: Yvette Landry on Warren Storm

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  • Instrumental: Acadian Two-Step Coteau
    Coteau: Highly Seasoned Cajun Music , Rounder
  • Laisser les Cajun danser Belton Richard and the Musical Aces
    Modern Sounds of Cajun Music Vol 2, Swallow
  • Leavin' Louisana in the Broad Daylight Marcia Ball
    Outlaws and Armadillos: The Roaring 70s, Country Music Hall of Fame
  • Just Another Lie Linda Brannon
    Early, Rare Rockabilly and Country (Hillbilly), Ram Records
  • Hole in My Heart Feufollet
    Two Universes, Feufollet
  • Whiskey Heaven Fats Domino
    Sentimental Journey: Fats Domino Live at the University of New Orleans, BMG
  • Heaven is a Honky Tonk The Highwomen
    The Highwomen, Elektra
  • Closing bed: Still of the Night Santo and Johnny
    Santo and Johnny: Volume Secondo, Duck Records

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