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MUSIC & MEMORY ON THE MISSISSIPPI: LEWIS FAMILY MUSEUM, HANEY'S BIG HOUSE AND A NOLA JAZZ FUNERAL
This week we start with a tour of the Lewis Family Museum and liquor store in Ferriday, LA, where Jerry Lee Lewis’ sister Frankie Jean shows us around the home where they grew up. Then we visit with the mayor of Ferriday and the people of club/hotel/bus depot/post office Haney’s Big House. Across the river in Natchez, MS, bluesman Hezekiah Early looks back on playing in Haney’s house band. We end in New Orleans, where we talk with Treme Brass Band’s leader and snare drummer Benny Jones and bass drummer Joe Lastie about their late drummer and friend Uncle Lionel Batiste.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Harmonica Shuffle Hezekiah & the Houserockers
Hezekiah & the Houserockers, High Water - Great Balls of Fire Jerry Lee Lewis
The Locust Years..., Bear Family - M.I.S.S.I.S.S.I.P.P.I. Ella Fitzgerald
1950, Classics - Big River Johnny Cash
The Man In Black: 1954-1958, Bear Family - Natchez Shopping Blues Olu Dara
In the World: From Natchez to New York, Atlantic - The Natchez Burnin' Howlin' Wolf
The Chess Box, MCA/ Chess - SEGMENT: Haney's Big House with Charles Bell & Mayor McGlothin
Listen - Instrumental: Jookin' Noble 'Thin Man' Watts with King Curtis
The Fire/ Fury Records Story, Capricorn - SEGMENT: Hezekiah Early
Listen - Meet Me Down in Froggy Bottom Mississippi Fred McDowell
The Best of Mississippi Fred McDowell, Arhoolie - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Big Maybelle
The Complete Okeh Sessions 1952-1955, Epic/ Okeh - SEGMENT: The Lewis Family Museum
Listen - Instrumental: I've Got a Robe, You Got a Robe (Goin' To Shout All Over God's Heav'n) Charlie Haden and Hank Jones
Steal Away, Verve - Precious Memories Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Ladies of Gospel - Women of Gospel: Precious Memories, Peacock/ MCA - Son of a Preacher Man Dusty Springfield
Dusty in Memphis, Rhino - I Remember You Frank Ifield
The Best of the EMI Years, Parlophone - Nothing Takes the Place of You Toussaint McCall
Nothing Takes the Place of You, Fuel - Lake Charles Lucinda Williams
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Mercury - End Bed: La Valse a Howard Hebert Les Freres Michot
Eleves a Pillette, ArZed
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Just a Closer Walk With Thee Treme Brass Band
Gimme My Money Back, Arhoolie - First Air of Autumn Drive-By Truckers
English Oceans, ATO - Big Iron Marty Robbins
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, Columbia - Gregorio Cortez Los Hermanos Banda
Mexican-American Border Music Vol.1 1928-1958, Arhoolie - Pancho and Lefty Delbert McClinton
Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt, Free Falls Entertainment - Me and Paul Willie Nelson
Yesterday's Wine, Justice - Instrumental: Red River Road, Part One Los Cenzontles with David Hidalgo & Pete Sears
Songs of Wood & Steel, Los Cenzontles Mexican - Smokey Joe's Cafe Buddy Holly
Memorial Collection, Geffen - Teddy's Juke Joint Jackie Scott & the Housewreckers
How Much Woman Can You Stand, Jackie Scott - The New San Francisco Bay Blues Hurray for the Riff Raff
Small Town Heroes, ATO - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay Otis Redding
Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding, Rhino/ Atlantic - Instrumental: These Foolish Things Lester Young
The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions of Verve, Universal - Travelin' Light Billie Holiday
The Essential Billie Holiday: Songs of Lost Love, Verve - Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming) Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Columbia - Careless Love Lionel Batiste Sr.
Lars Edegran Presents Uncle Lionel, GHB - SEGMENT: Treme Brass Band
Listen - End Bed: Oh, Didn't He Ramble Kid Ory
1922-1945, Classics
