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Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland and Balla Koutaté Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland and Balla Koutaté June 7th, 2023 (Hour 1)
Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland and Balla Koutaté

It’s Blueswomen, Jazzmen, African roots and branches. Chicago blues singer Shemekia Copeland‘s father, the late blues guitarist Johnny Copeland, brought her into his music as a child. As an adult, she found new ways to use blues to express her perspective. We’ll hear from some of Shemekia’s heroes including Etta James, Ruth Brown, Alberta Hunter and Big Mama Thornton. Then a conversation and performance by Boston-based Mandinka balafon player Balla Kouyaté and music inspired by and from the continent of Africa from Randy Weston, Miriam Makeba and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Shemekia Copeland photo by Mike White

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DR. JOHN

March 3rd, 1999

Dr. John trips by the studios to play piano, talk hoodoo and walk on gilded splinters. Also music from honky-tonker Charlie Feathers, jazz clarinetist Don Byron’s interpretation of Hendrix, and monkey shines from Big Maybelle.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Rock Island Line Johnny Cash
    The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983, Columbia
  • Golden Gate Gospel Train Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
    Train 45: Railroad Songs of the Early 1900s, Rounder
  • Night Train James Brown
    Star Time, Polydor
  • Locomotion John Coltrane
    Blue Train, Blue Note
  • Instrumental: Pan American Blues DeFord Bailey
    From Where I Stand, Warner
  • Southern Can Is Mine Blind Willie McTell
    The Definitive Blind Willie McTell, Columbia/Legacy
  • Pony Boy Allman Brothers
    Brothers and Sisters, Capricorn
  • Rogaciano El Huapangero Linda Ronstadt
    Canciones de Mi Padre, Asylum
  • Soul Sauce Cal Tjader
    Jazz Masters 39: Cal Tjader, Verve
  • Instrumental: The Fix (One Naughty Flat) Dr. John
    More Gumbo Stew, Ace
  • INTERVIEW: Dr. John
  • Such a Night Dr. John
    Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology, Rhino
  • Travelin' Mood Dr. John
    Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology, Rhino
  • Anutha Zone Dr. John
    Anutha Zone, Virgin
  • Roll Over Beethoven Charlie Feathers
    Honky Tonk Man, New Rose
  • Rollin' Tumblin' R.L. Burnside
    Come On In, Fat Possum

HOUR two

  • Monkey Chase
    Walt Disney's The Jungle Book, Walt Disney
  • Mickey's Monkey Smokey Robinson
    The Best of Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Motown
  • One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Big Maybelle
    The OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957, Epic/OKeh/Legacy
  • You're Bound to Look Like A Monkey Milton Brown
    The Complete Recordings of the Father of Western Swing, Texas Rose
  • Straighten Up and Fly Right Nat King Cole
    The Best of The Nat King Cole Trio: The Vocal Classics 1942-46, Capitol
  • The Monkey Dirty Dozen Brass Band
    This is Jazz #30, Sony
  • Instrumental: Dockside Boogie Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
    Long Way Home, Verve
  • Hungry For Love Patsy Cline
    The Essential Patsy Cline, RCA
  • Reconsider Baby Lowell Fulson
    Chess Blues Guitar: Two Decades of Killer Fretwork, MCA/Chess
  • If 6 Was 9 Don Byron
    Nu Blaxploitation, Blue Note
  • Slavery Days Burning Spear
    Revolutionary Sounds, Shanachie
  • Instrumental: Looking Dread The Upsetters
    Upsetters A Go Go, Heart Beat
  • Minor Swing Django Reinhardt
    The Best of Django Reinhardt, Blue Note
  • Let's Have a Party Martin, Bogan & Armstrong
    That Old Gang of Mine, Flying Fish
  • Swinging Party The Replacements
    Tim, Sire
  • Party Lights Jr. Brown
    Guit With It, Curb
  • Party Lights Claudine Clark
    The Best of the Girl Groups, Rhino
  • Gilton Boozoo Chavis
    Boozoo Chavis, Elektra/Nonesuch
  • End Bed: Memories of Prof. Longhair Dr. John
    Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology, Rhino

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