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Celebrating the National Heritage Fellows Celebrating the National Heritage Fellows May 25th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Celebrating the National Heritage Fellows

Join us this Memorial Day weekend to celebrate the National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellows. Each year, the NEA recognizes traditional artists for their excellence and contributions to our nation’s heritage. It’s the highest award in the traditional arts. This year’s honorees include: Filipino rondalla musician Tagumpay Mendoza De Leon; Osage ribbon worker and ceramicist Anita Fields; documentary filmmaker and preservationist Tom Davenport; Louisiana’s Winnsboro Easter Rock gospel ensemble; Hill Country blues drummer and guitarist Cedric Burnside; Puerto Rican mundillo lace weaver Nellie Vera; Irish flute and whistle maven Joanie Madden; Chicago tap dancer Reginald “Reggio the Hoofer” McLaughlin; and the Mexican American band from East Los Angeles, Los Lobos. Plus music from prior awardees including Del McCoury, Mavis Staples, Dr. Michael White and John Lee Hooker.

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November 19th, 2008

&BIt’s a two-hour walk through streets of the city as we dive into two great eras of New Orleans music. First, it’s the 1940s and 50s R hit factory with studio man Cosimo Matassa; producer, arranger, trumpet player Dave Bartholomew; drummer Earl Palmer and more. There’s also a chat with The Meters — Art Neville, George Porter, Leo Nocentelli and Zigaboo Modeliste — in which we get to the bottom of the bottom, find out what’s in the pocket, and get a definition of funk from the four men who continue to dish it out.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Fats Domino Blues Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • I'm In Love Again Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Clip: The Beginning
  • Country Boy Dave Bartholomew
    1947-50, Jazz Classics
  • Clip: Stardust

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  • Stardust Dave Bartholomew
    1947-50, Jazz Classics
  • Clip: The Studio Band
  • 3x7=21 Jewel King
    Genius of Dave Bartholomew, EMI
  • Instrumental: Dreaming Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Clip: The Fat Man
  • The Fat Man Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Slippin' and Slidin' Little Richard
    The Specialty Sessions Box, Specialty
  • Clip: Beat

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  • Rip It Up Little Richard
    The Specialty Sessions Box, Specialty
  • Clip: I'm Walkin'
  • I'm Walkin' Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Clip: Sound
  • Let the Four Winds Blow Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Blueberry Hill Mose Allison
    Back Country Suite, Prestige
  • Clip: Blueberry Hill
  • Blueberry Hill Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • I'm Gonna be a Wheel Someday Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Down The Road Smiley Lewis
    Shame, Shame, Shame, Bear Family
  • Clip: On Smiley Lewis & Professor Longhair
  • One Night Elvis Presley
    1950s Masters, RCA
  • In the Night Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
  • Clip: Fats Success/Live
  • Blue Monday Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes original recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Chicken Strut The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
  • A Message From the Meters The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
  • Clip: Beginnings

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  • Ease Back The Meters
    The Meters, Sundazed
  • Clip: House Band
  • Fortune Teller Benny Spellman
    Fortune Teller - Golden Classics, Collectables
  • Working In a Coal Mine Lee Dorsey
    Wheelin’ and Dealin’: The Definitive Collection, Arista
  • Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky From Now On Lee Dorsey
    Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collecion, Arista
  • Instrumental: Cissy Strut Rod Piazza
    Bluesman, LMI
  • Clip: Funk
  • I Been Hoodood Dr. John
    In The Right Place, ATCO
  • Sophisticated Cissy The Meters
    The Meters, Sundazed
  • Clip: Cissy Strut
  • Cissy Strut The Meters
    The Meters, Sundazed
  • Clip: Look-Ka-Py-Py
  • Look-Ka-Py-Py The Meters
    Look-Ka-Py-Py, Sundazed
  • Clip: They All Asked For You
  • They All Asked For You The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Vol.2, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Drums on Fire Donald Harrison, Jr.
    Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. presents The New Sounds of Mardi Gras, FOMP
  • Clip: Mardi Gras Indians / "Hey Pocky Way"
  • Hey Pocky Way The Meters
    Rejuvenation, Sundazed
  • Here Dey Come Wild Tchoupitoulas
    Wild Tchoupitoulas, Island
  • Clip: The Rolling Stones / Paul McCartney

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  • Africa The Meters
    Uptown Rulers! Live on the Queen Mary, Rhino
  • Clip: Breakup
  • Stormy The Meters
    The Meters, Sundazed
  • Clip: Today / Reunions
  • Cissy Strut (Live) The Meters
    Live Recording from 2005 New Orleans Jazz Fest,

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