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WILLIE NELSON / JOHN JACKSON

This week one of America’s great traveling troubadors Willie Nelson pulls his tour bus into New Orleans. Willie chats and the Nelson family band plays a live set, including the old favorite, Angel Flying too Close to the Ground and the title track of his 2000 record, Milk Cow Blues. Also, we pay tribute to the late Piedmont bluesman John Jackson who played his brand of country blues from the Eastern Seaboard.

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Outskirts of Town Willie Nelson and Keb' Mo
    Milk Cow Blues, Island
  • I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town Louis Jordan
    Let the Good Times Roll Box, Bear Family
  • Sweet Georgia Brown Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelly w/the Quintet of the Hot Club of France
    Souvenirs, London
  • Ida Red Likes to Boogie Bob Wills
    Hall of Fame LP, MCA
  • INTERVIEW: Willie Nelson

    Listen
  • Pick Up the Tempo Willie Nelson
    live,
  • Milk Cow Blues Willie Nelson
    live,
  • Instrumental: Willie in studio tuning Willie Nelson
    live,
  • INTERVIEW: Willie Nelson
  • Angel Flying too Close to the Ground Willie Nelson
    live,
  • Let's Get Lost Chet Baker
    The Best of Chet Baker Sings, Pacific Jazz
  • Instrumental: The Best Thing for You Chet Baker
    Two a Day, Dreyfus
  • Tarde Pa' Arrepentirnos Isidro Lopez
    El Indio, Arhoolie
  • Theme and Pearl Beer commercial / "You Can't Break My Heart" Adolph Hofner
    South Texas Swing, Arhoolie
  • Remington Ride Freddy King
    Hide Away: The Best of, Rhino
  • T for Texas Dwight Yoakum
    The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers, Columbia

HOUR two

  • Road Runner Bo Didley
    The Chess Box, MCA
  • Stop Breakin' Down Lucinda Williams
    Ramblin', Folkways
  • What's It? Jimmie Rodgers
    The Singing Brakeman Box, Bear Family
  • Your Feet's Too Big The Ink Spots
    The Anthology, MCA/Decca
  • Diddy Wa Diddy John Jackson
    Country Blues & Ditties, Arhoolie
  • Instrumental: Rainbow Doc Watson
    Foundation, Sugar Hill
  • INTERVIEW: John Jackson

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  • John Henry John Jackson
    live,
  • John Henry Paul Robeson
    The Power & the Glory, Sony
  • St. Louis Blues McCoy Tyner
    Jazz Roots, Telarc
  • Instrumental: Hale-Bopp, Hip-Hop Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter
    1 + 1, Verve
  • I Left My Baby Kevin Mahogany et. al
    Kansas City soundtrack, Verve
  • (Everytime I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone Roy Montrell
    Earl Palmer Backbeat, Ace
  • Alligator Boogaloo Lou Donaldson
    Blue 45s, Blue Note
  • Alligator Boogaloo A La Carte Brass & Percussion
    Go-Go and Gumbo, Satchmo ‘N' Soul, Wildchild
  • I'm Coming Home (To See My Mother) Clifton Chenier
    King of the Bayous, Arhoolie

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