AMERICAN ROUTES
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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J.J. CALE & CEDRIC WATSON

September 1st, 2010

J.J. Cale came up in the clubs of Tulsa, Oklahoma playing everything from Western Swing to Rock n’ Roll. He even wrote songs that became hits for his friend Eric Clapton. But it was in the recording studio where he found his true calling. We’ll talk with J.J. about his career as a guitar man, songwriter and studio wizard. Then we visit with up and coming Creole fiddler and accordionist Cedric Watson and learn about his journey within the world of French and Caribbean music.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Call Me the Breeze J.J. Cale
    Anyway the Wind Blows: The Anthology, Mercury
  • All Aboard for Oklahoma Spade Cooley
    Swingin' the Devil's Dream, Proper
  • Okie Boogie Jack Guthrie
    Swing West! Vol.3: Western Swing, Razor & Tie
  • Okie Dokie Stomp Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
    The Original Peacock Recordings, Rounder
  • Squabblin' Walter Page's Blue Devils
    Count Basie, vol. 3: 1929-1937, Masters of Jazz
  • Oklahoma Blues Patti Page
    Greetings From Oklahoma, Bear Family
  • Tulsa Straight Ahead Leon McAuliffe
    Leon McAuliffe: Tulsa Straight Ahead, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Tulsa Twist Dickie McBride & The Village Boys
    Heroes of Country Music: Legends of Western Swing, Rhino
  • One Evening Jimmy Rushing
    Rushing Lullabies, Columbia
  • How Many More Years Freddie King
    Texas Cannonball, Shelter
  • In the Jailhouse Now Leon Russell
    Hank Wilson's Back, Capitol
  • Rock and Roll Records J.J. Cale
    J.J. Cale Anyway the Wind Blows,
  • Instrumental: Low Society Lowell Fulson
    Complete Chess Masters, MCA
  • SEGMENT: J.J. Cale

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  • Tulsa Telephone Book Calexico
    Real: The Tom T. Hall Project, Sire
  • I Ain't Got No Home in this Land Anymore Bruce Springsteen
    Folkways: A Vision Shared, Columbia
  • Dust Bowl Blues Woody Guthrie
    Dust Bowl Ballads, Buddha
  • Oklahoma Hills Johnny Bond
    Country and Western: Johnny Bond, Bloodshot
  • End Bed: Tipitina Allen Tousaint
    American Routes Original Recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Walking Through the Streets of the City Paul Barbarain
    Atlantic New Orleans Jazz Sessions, Atlantic
  • What's Wrong James 'Sugar Boy' Crawford
    The Chronological "Sugar Boy" Crawford: 1953-1954, Classics
  • Used 'Ta Could Christian McBride & Inside Straight
    Kind of Brown, Mack Avenue
  • Get Behind the Mule John Hammond
    Wicked Grin, Virgin
  • Je Suis En Recolteur (I'm a Farmer) Clifton Chenier
    Bogalusa Boogie, Arhoolie
  • Instrumental: Ooh Wee Sugar Davell Crawford
    The B-3 and Me, Bullseye
  • There Must Be A Way Uncle Lionel Batiste
    Lars Edegran Presents Uncle Lionel, GHB
  • One With The Sun Shelby Lynne
    Identity Crisis, Capitol
  • Sunny Bobby Hebb
    Night Train To Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues 1945-1970, CMF
  • At Sundown The New Orleans Cotton Mouth Kings
    The New Orleans Cotton Mouth Kings, self-release
  • Blu-Lu-Lup Lord Fly with Dan Williams & His Orchestra
    Mento Madness: Motta’s Jamaican Mento: 1951-1956, V2 Music
  • Zydeco Paradise Cedric Watson et Bijou Creole
    L'Esprit Créole, Valcour
  • Instrumental: TexaCreole Twostep Cedric Watson
    Cedric Watson, Valcour
  • SEGMENT: Cedric Watson

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  • Walking to New Orleans Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • That Lucky Old Sun Jerry Lee Lewis
    Classic, Bear Family
  • End Bed: Tee Nah Nah Tuts Wasington
    New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder

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