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Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand March 22nd, 2023 (Hour 1)
Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand

Country singer Kelsey Waldon grew up in the Ohio River bottoms of Ballard County Kentucky-a place called “Monkey’s Eyebrow” where her family has farmed for generations. She tells us about her journey as a songwriter, and her friendship with another hero of Kentucky, John Prine. Then a live set of New Orleans jazz and its Caribbean cousins with the widely acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, Aurora Nealand and her quartet at Artisound Studios in New Orleans 9th Ward.

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SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING

October 4th, 2000

Visit with Arkansas rockabilly hero Sleepy LaBeef, the human jukebox. Sleepy knows several thousand of songs by heart, but he still loves the Southern gospel numbers of his youth. And we’ll talk with gospel singer and scholar Horace Boyer about the roots of the music.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open bed: Having a Party King Cutis
    Blow, Man, Blow, Bear Family
  • Boogie Woogie on a Saturday Night Steve Gibson & the Red Caps
    The Jive is Jumpin, WestSide
  • One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer Aldus Roger
    Lafayette Saturday Night, Ace
  • Shake it Baby John Lee Hooker
    The Very Best of, Rhino
  • After Midnight JJ Cale
    Anyway the Wind Blows, Mercury
  • Instrumental: Hotwax Beck
    Odelay, DGC
  • INTERVIEW: Sleepy LaBeef

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  • Let's Have A Party Wanda Jackson
    Vintage Collections, Capitol
  • Little Latin Lupe-Lou Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
    Rev Up: The Best Of, Rhino
  • Parties In The USA Jonathan Richman
    I, Jonathan, Rounder
  • Instrumental: Only Good One The Sadies
    Pure Diamond Gold, Bloodshot
  • Steppin' Out With My Baby Tony Bennett
    Steppin' Out, Columbia
  • Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
    The Hottest New Group in Jazz, Columbia/Legacy
  • Good Rockin' Tonight Wynonie Harris
    Blues Masters Vol. 5: Jump Blues Classics, Rhino
  • Dance All Night Boozoo Chavis
    Who Stole My Monkey, Rounder
  • Descarga Cachao Jazz on the Latin Side Allstars
    Jazz on the Latin Side Allstars, Cubop

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Don't Let The Devil Ride Sonny Treadway
    Sacred Steel, Arhoolie
  • Lost Highway Hank Williams
    The Complete, MCA
  • Sinner Don't You Know Robert Pete Williams
    15 Down Home Gospel Classics, Arhoolie
  • Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen Snooks Eaglin
    The Complete Imperial Recordings, Capitol
  • Way Down In the Hole Tom Waits
    Franks Wild Years, Island
  • Instrumental: Amazing Grace Terence Blanchard
    Terence Blanchard, Columbia
  • INTERVIEW: Horace Boyer
  • Take Me to the Water Nina Simone
    Ultimate, Verve
  • Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Cannonball Adderley
    Masters of Jazz Vol.7, Rhino
  • Sinner's Prayer Ray Charles
    The Birth of Soul, Atlantic
  • Guilty Randy Newman
    Guilty: 30 Years Of, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Go Down Moses Grant Green
    Jazz Profile: Grant Green, Blue Note
  • Sweet Little Angel Buddy Guy
    Vanguard Blues Sampler, Vanguard
  • Call Him By His Name Glenn Lee
    Sacred Steel, Arhoolie
  • Sing On Michael White
    Crescent City Serenade, Island
  • Saved LaVern Baker
    Atlantic Rhythm And Blues 1947-1974, Atlantic

THE LATEST STREAMS

  • March 22nd, 2023

    REIMAGINING KENTUCKY COUNTRY MUSIC & NEW ORLEANS JAZZ WITH KELSEY WALDON AND AURORA NEALAND

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