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Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté May 18th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté

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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AMERICAN ROUTES LIVE! THE METERS, DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, AND BATON ROUGE BLUES FESTIVAL

April 22nd, 2015

Time for some “Fire on the Bayou” at a rare reunion of New Orleans’ funk jam band and studio wizards, The Meters on stage at the Howlin’ Wolf club. Then Drive-By Truckers, fronted by Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood, bring their poetic and critical style of Southern rock to New Orleans’ historic Civic Theatre. Finally we roll 80 miles upriver to the Baton Rouge Blues Festival, featuring dapper Mississippian Little Freddie King; Louisiana swamp blues guitarist Lil Buck Sinegal; Creole zydeco accordionist Jeffery Broussard; and Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens from New York. Turn on, tune in and chill out!

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HOUR ONE

  • Fire on the Bayou The Meters
    American Routes Live Recording at the Howlin' Wolf,
  • Cissy Strut The Meters
    American Routes Live Recording at the Howlin' Wolf,
  • Hey Pocky Way The Meters
    American Routes Live Recording at the Howlin' Wolf,
  • Instrumental: Potato Hole Booker T. Jones
    Potato Hole, ANTI
  • Made Up English Oceans Drive-By Truckers
    American Routes Live Recording at the Civic Theatre,
  • Marry Me Drive-By Truckers
    American Routes Live Recording at the Civic Theatre,
  • Pauline Hawkins Drive-By Truckers
    American Routes Live Recording at the Civic Theatre,
  • Instrumental: Hey Ya Booker T. Jones
    Potato Hole, ANTI
  • First Air of Autumn Drive-By Truckers
    American Routes Live Recording at the Civic Theatre,
  • SEGMENT: Patterson Hood

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  • When He's Gone Drive-By Truckers
    American Routes Live Recording at the Civic Theatre,
  • Natural Light Drive-By Truckers
    American Routes Live Recording at the Civic Theatre,
  • Self Destructive Zones Drive-By Truckers
    American Routes Live Recording at the Civic Theatre,
  • T-Bone Shuffle Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
    Play the Blues, ATCO

HOUR two

  • Hot Pants Little Freddie King
    American Routes Live Recording at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival,
  • Walk the Walk Little Freddie King
    American Routes Live Recording at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival,
  • LA Train Little Freddie King
    American Routes Live Recording at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival,
  • Down the Road I Go Lil' Buck Sinegal
    American Routes Live Recording at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival,
  • Instrumental: Dust My Broom Henry Gray
    Watch Yourself, Lucky Cat
  • I Got Loaded Lil' Buck Sinegal
    American Routes Live Recording at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival,
  • Heading for Home Lil' Buck Sinegal
    American Routes Live Recording at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival,
  • Allons a Lafayette Jeffrey Broussard
    American Routes Live Recording at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival,
  • Promised Land Jeffrey Broussard
    American Routes Live Recording at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival,
  • Petite ou la Grosse Jeffrey Broussard
    American Routes Live Recording at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival,
  • Instrumental: Amazing Grace The Campbell Brothers
    Can You Feel It?, Rope a Dope
  • Lift Me Up Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
    American Routes Live Recording at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival,
  • Everybody Knows (River Song) Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
    American Routes Live Recording at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival,
  • What More Can I Do Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
    American Routes Live Recording at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival,
  • I Ain't No Stranger Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
    American Routes Live Recording at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival,
  • Instrumental Naomi Shelton
    American Routes Live Recording at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival,

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