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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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GATEMOUTH BROWN

May 10th, 2000

Genre-defying guitarist, fiddler, and vocalist Gatemouth Brown hails from the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast and loves country and Cajun music as much as jazz. He offers his tart opinions of life and art between puffs on that pungent pipe of his.

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HOUR ONE

  • Midnight Hour Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
    Original Peacock Recordings, Rounder
  • A Message From the Meters The Meters
    Anthology, Rhino
  • Close Together Jimmy Reed
    18 Greatest Hits, Motown
  • Tongue Tied Jill Charlie Feathers
    Get With It, Revenant
  • My Mumblin Baby Rudy Green
    The Excello Story, Vol.2, Hip-O
  • Mumbles Clark Terry w/Oscar Peterson
    Oscar Peterson Trio + One, Clark Terry, Mercury
  • Instrumental: Jambalaya Tuts Washington
    New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder
  • Grand Texas Wallace "Cheese" Reed
    Cajun House Party, Arhoolie
  • Jambalaya (On The Bayou) Hank Williams
    The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury
  • Jambalaya Professor Longhair
    Mardi Gras in Baton Rouge, Rhino
  • The Kid from Red Bank Count Basie
    The Complete Atomic Basie, Blue Note
  • INTERVIEW: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

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  • Instrumental: Zydeco Shuffle Sonny Landreth
    (Almost) Everybody Slides, Rykodisc
  • Evil Hearted Woman T-Bone Walker
    The Complete Imperial Recordings, 1950-1954, EMI
  • Fever Peggy Lee
    The Best of Miss Peggy Lee, Capitol
  • Almost Blue Chet Baker
    Songs of Elvis Costello, Rhino
  • Almost Blue Elvis Costello
    Girls, Girls, Girls, Demon

HOUR two

  • Cold Sweat Mongo Santamaria
    Anthology, Rhino
  • Oye Como Va Tito Puente
    50 Years of Swing, RMM
  • Begin the Beguine Sammy Davis Jr.
    The Wham of Sam, Warner
  • Moin Aime Doudou Moin Rico's Creole Band
    Biguine, Valse et Mazurka Créoles, FA007
  • Groovin'High Charlie Parker
    Yardbird Suite, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Lupus #1 Tom Morrell and the Time-warp Tophands
    Go Uptown: How The West Was Swung, vol V, WR Records
  • I'm Alabama Bound Louis Jordan
    Let The Good Times Roll -1938-1954, Bear Family
  • That's What I Like About the South Bob Wills
    The King of Western Swing, ASV
  • Postcard Woody Simmons
  • Instrumental: Exactly Like You Django Reinhardt
    Nuages, Arkadia
  • Things Ain't What They Used To Be Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
    The Hottest New Group In Jazz, Sony
  • Things Ain't What They Used To Be Richard 'Groove' Holmes
    Blue Groove, Fantasy
  • Things I Used to Do Guitar Slim
    Sufferin' Mind, Specialty
  • Trouble in Mind Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Sings The Blues, Columbia
  • Troubled, Lord I'm Troubled Bill Landford & the Landfordaires
    The Okeh Post-War Gospel Story, Sony
  • Place in the Sun David Isaacs
    Tighten Up, Trojan
  • Sunny The John Schroeder Orchestra
    Space Age Soul, Sequel

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