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DANCE AROUND IN YOUR BONES: HALLOWEEN, ALL SAINTS AND ALL SOULS
It’s Halloween night, then Toussaint (All Saints Day) and All Souls Day, also Dia de los Muertos. We mark the season with songs and stories of hauntings, voodoo, and the afterlife in a devout and disruptive mix that honors and humours the dead, past and present. Hear from native New Orleanians Dr. John and Charles Neville about their encounters with the spirit world, and a trip to the local botanica in search of potions and charms to conjure good luck. Then California ofrenda maker Ofelia Esparza reveals the meanings behind her altar work for remembering loved ones on the Day of the Dead. Plus holiday and holy day sounds from Cassandra Wilson, Muddy Waters, Ana Tijoux, Gene Vincent and Santana.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Deorc Sceadu (Dark Shadows) Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Open Up Whatchu Gonna Do For the Rest of Your Life, Sony - Haunted House Lonnie Johnson & Elmer Snowden
Blues and Ballads, Fantasy - The Skeleton in the Closet Louis Armstrong
Lost Halloween, UMG - Tain't No Sin To Take off Your Skin (and Dance Around in Your Bones) Fred Hall
Halloween Classics, Sony - Louisiana Blues Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters, Chess - Run the Voodoo Down Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson--Traveling Miles, Blue Note - Instrumental: Ti-Na-Na Dr. John
Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack The Legendary Sessions V. 1, Clean Cuts - Clip: Charles Neville
Listen - Voodoo Neville Brothers
Yellow Moon, UMG - SEGMENT: F & F Botanica
Listen - Clip: Dr. John
Listen - I've Been Hoodood Dr. John
In the Right Place, Warner - Evil Eye The Sonics
Single, RKO Unique - Evil Eye Charles Jordan and John Gilmore
Blowing in from Chicago--Clifford Gordan and John Gilmore, Blue Note - Instrumental: White Ghost Shivers The New Orleans Owls
Jazz the World Forgot Vol. 2, Yazoo - Spooky Dusty Springfield
Love Songs, Warner - My Man's an Undertaker Dinah Washington
The Fabulous Miss D! The Keynote, Decca And Mercury Singles 1943-1953, Hip-O - Season of the Witch Lou Rawls
Lou Rawls--I Can't Make it on My Own, The Axelrod Years, Capitol - Witchin' Hour Blues Tampa Red
Song Collection, Jazz Experience - End Bed: The Ghoul Jack Marshall
Lost Halloween, UMG
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Algiers Hoodoo Woman Dr. Michael White
Dancing in the Sky, Basin Street Records - I Put a Spell on You Nina Simone
The Best of Nina Simone, Verve - Don't Let the Devil Ride Campbell Brothers and John Medeski
Can You Feel It?, Ropeadope - Race with the Devil Gene Vincent
Dance to the Bop, Capitol - Skeleton Fight Mack Allen Smith
Mack Allen Smith: The Early Years 1962-1967, Fat Possum - Instrumental: La Llorona Mariachi Garibaldi
La Discoteca del Siglo- Historia de la Música Ranchera en el Siglo XX, Vol. 1, Discos Fuentes - SEGMENT: Ofelia Esparza
Listen - Que Me Llevan Canciones La Dinastia De Tuzlantla, Michoacán
Single, El Rancho Music - Hasta La Tumba Flaco Jimenez
Un Mojado Sin Licencia and Other Hits from the 1960s, Arhoolie - Calaveritas Ana Tijoux and Celso Piña
Single, Firebrand Records - Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen Santana
Abraxas, Columbia - Instrumental: Blues on the Moon Raful Neal
YouTube, - Dying Crap Shooter Blues Blind Willie McTell
Atlanta Twelve String, Atlantic - Hades Pleads Parker Millsap
The Very Last Day, Oklahoma Records - See That My Grave is Kept Clean Lightnin Hopkins
Lightnin Hopkins, Smithsonian Folkways - End Bed: Didn't He Ramble/Closer Walk with Thee Dr. John
Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack: The Legendary Sessions, Vol. 2, Clean Cuts
