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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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BEAU JACQUE & BRUCE DAIGREPONT

June 10th, 1998

Zydeco giant Beau Jocque and Cajun accordionist Bruce Daigrepont live on the Summer Stage at Wolf Trap… includes interviews.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Let the Good Times Roll Shirley & Lee
    The Aladdin Records Story, EMI
  • Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand Henry Butler
    Blues After Sunset, Black Top
  • Could You Be Loved Bob Marley
    Legend, Island
  • (I Need Ya') Like I Need A Hole In The Head Pearl Bailey
    Lounging at the Nick At Niteclub, 550 Music
  • Hole in My Head Buddy Miller
    Your Love and Other Lies, Hightone
  • Caledonia Louie Jordan
    No Moe! The Greatest Hits, Mercury
  • Hard Headed Woman Wanda Jackson
    Vintage Collections, Capitol
  • Instrumental: Borsalino Chet Atkins
    The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World, Columbia
  • Sleep Walk Santo & Johnny
    Back Seat Movers, The Right Stuff
  • Walkin' After Midnight Patsy Cline
    The Essential Patsy Cline, RCA
  • Walking By Myself Jimmy Rogers
    The Complete Chess Recordings, Chess/MCA
  • The Great Medical Menagerist Harmonica Frank
    The Great Original Recordings of Harmonica Frank 1951-1958, Puritan
  • Wild Man from Borneo James McMurtry
    It Had to Happen, Sugar Hill
  • Back Door Man Howlin' Wolf
    The Chess Box, MCA
  • Spit of Love Bonnie Raitt
    Fundamental, Capitol
  • Instrumental: Bumble Boogie B. Bumble & The Stingers
    Rock Instrumental Classics Volume 2: The Sixties, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Beau Jocque & the Zydeco Hi-Rollers

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HOUR two

  • Follow Your Heart Joe Farrell Quartet
    Joe Farrell Quartet, CTI
  • Time Has Come Today Chambers Brothers
    Time Has Come: The Best of the Chambers Brothers, Columbia/Legacy
  • Nothing But Time Royal Fingerbowl
    Happy Birthday, Sabo, TVT
  • Hearsay The Soul Children
    The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles 1972-1975, Stax
  • Cold Cold Heart Hank Williams
    The Original Singles Collection...Plus, Polydor
  • I Told Her Lies Robbie Fulks
    South Mouth, Bloodshot
  • All Men Are Liars Nick Lowe
    Party of One, Upstart
  • Tainted Love Gloria Jones
    Big Ol' Box of '60s Soul, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Moderna Muchacha Joe Loco
    Ultra-Lounge Volume 17: Bongoland, Capitol
  • Mind If I Make Love To You Frank Sinatra
    The Complete Capitol Singles Collection, Capitol
  • Una Larga Noche (A Long Night) Chabuca Granda
    Afro-Peruvian Classics - The Soul of Black Peru, Luaka Bop/Warner Brothers
  • Ralph's New Blues Eric Dolphy
    The Essential Eric Dolphy on Prestige, Prestige
  • Instrumental: The Four Stoke Reel Phil Cunningham
    Planet Squeezebox, Ellipsis Arts
  • SEGMENT: Bruce Daigrepont
  • Pan American Blues DeFord Bailey
    From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music, Warner Brothers
  • That Train Don't Stop Here Anymore Los Lobos
    Kiko, Slash/Warner Brothers
  • Rock Island Line Little Richard & Fishbone
    Folkways: A Vision Shared, Columbia
  • End Bed: Miss Poopie Jimmy McGriff
    Electric Funk, Blue Note

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