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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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ROUTES ROCK & CAJUN STARDOM: BOZ SCAGGS & JIMMY C. NEWMAN

February 13th, 2019

We trace stardom back to its source, traversing the roots and routes that led small town musicians to national fame. Pop icon Boz Scaggs and the late Cajun honky-tonk man Jimmy C. Newman took very different paths to the stage but carried with them the sounds they grew up hearing. Boz Scaggs achieved mainstream success with his own platinum records as well as his work with Steve Miller and Duane Allman. We talk to him about his 6+ years performing on the road and how he came into his own by reconnecting with the blues he heard as a kid in “Nowhere, Texas.” Then, we remember the late Jimmy C. Newman, who took the sounds of French Louisiana to the Grand Ole Opry and put Cajun music and culture on the map. Son Gary Newman, producer Joel Savoy and musician Kelli Jones tell of his legacy and their tribute album, Farewell, Alligator Man. Plus, we trace Hank Williams’ “Jambalaya” back to its Cajun origins, served up with tunes from Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and Professor Longhair.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Loan Me a Dime Boz Scaggs
    Boz Scaggs, Warner Brothers
  • Stormy Monday T-Bone Walker
    I Know your Wig Has Gone/Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad), Black & White
  • Instrumental: Here's That Rainy Day Oscar Peterson
    Encore at the Blue Note, Telarc
  • Dry Spell Boz Scaggs
    Memphis, 429 Records
  • I Can't Stand the Rain Ann Peebles
    I Can't Stand the Rain, Hi
  • SEGMENT: Boz Scaggs

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  • Instrumental: Odds and Ends Jimmy Reed
    Blues Masters: The Very Best of Jimmy Reed, Rhino
  • Bright Lights, Big City Jimmy Reed
    Jimmy Reed at Carnegie Hall, Vee-Jay
  • Down in Virginia Boz Scaggs
    Out of the Blues, Concord
  • Hell to Pay Boz Scaggs and Bonnie Raitt
    A Fool to Care, 429 Records
  • I'll Be Long Gone Boz Scaggs
    Boz Scaggs, Warner Brothers
  • Down on the Beach Boz Scaggs
    Out of the Blues, Concord
  • Closing Bed: Blakey's Blues Art Blakey Quintet
    Drums Around the Corner, Blue Note

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Acadian Two-Step Coteau
    Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder
  • Grand Texas Chuck Guillory
    Grand Texas, Arhoolie
  • Jambalaya Hank Williams
    Jambalaya (On the Bayou)/Window Shopping, MGM
  • Austin Special Harry Choates
    Austin Special, Arhoolie
  • Leavin' Louisiana in the Broad Daylight Marcia Ball
    Circuit Queen, Capitol
  • Tangled Up in Blue Bob Dylan
    Blood on the Tracks, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Harry Choates Special Harry Choates
    Fiddle King of Cajun Swing, Arhoolie
  • SEGMENT: Remembering Jimmy C. Newman

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  • Instrumental: Little Martha Allman Brothers
    Eat a Peach, Capricorn
  • Sugarfoot Rag Coteau
    Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder
  • Southbound Allman Brothers
    Brothers and Sisters, Capricorn
  • Jambalaya Clifton Chenier
    Live at Montreaux, Arhoolie
  • Jambalaya Proessor Longhair
    Meet Ya at Tipitina's, Sublime Entertainment
  • Closing Bed: Jambalaya Tuts Washington
    Tuts Washington, New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder

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