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VIRTUOSIC JOURNEYS WITH HERBIE HANCOCK AND RHONDA VINCENT
Jazz pianist Herbie Hancock has made a career of being a musical explorer, playing across genres from soul and funk to folk and rock and breaking down musical barriers along the way. Then we visit with mandolin virtuoso Rhonda Vincent, who shares tales of traveling with the family bluegrass band and now playing at the Grand Ol Opry with her own band, the Rage. Plus music from Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Hugh Masekela and Waylon Jennings.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock
Maiden Voyage, Blue Note - Watermelon Man Johnnie Taylor
Wanted: One Soul Singer, Atlantic - Cantaloupe Island Hugh Masekela
The Lasting Impression of Ooga Booga, Verve - Born to Be Blue George Shearing Quintet with Nancy Wilson
The Swinging's Mutual, Capitol Jazz - Blue Cat Power
Jukebox, Matador - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Joni Mitchell
Mingus, Asylum - Instrumental: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Pentangle
Light Flight - The Anthology, Sanctuary Records - A Sailboat in the Moonlight Billie Holiday
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944, Columbia - How Deep is the Ocean Lonnie Johnson
The Complete Folkways Recordings, Smithsonian Folkways - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea George Harrison
Brainwashed, Capitol - I'll Sail My Ship Alone Jerry Lee Lewis
Classic, Bear Family - Instrumental: Both Sides Now Herbie Hancock
River: The Joni Letters, Blue Note - Segment: Herbie Hancock
Listen - Lay Lady Lay Cassandra Wilson
Glamoured, Blue Note - Big Yellow Taxi Bob Dylan
Dylan, Columbia - End Bed: Both Sides Now Randy Scruggs
Crown of the Jewels, Reprise
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Watson's Blues Doc Watson and Bill Monroe
Live Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record Volume 2, Smithsonian Folkways - Key to the Highway Brownie McGhee
Blues is Truth, Labor Records - That Lonesome Road Rhiannon Giddens
Factory Girl, Nonesuch - I'm A Ramblin' Man Waylon Jennings
The Essential Waylon, Sony - Rambling Boy Charlie Haden with Vince Gill
Rambling Boy, Decca - Ramblin' Charles Lloyd and the Marvels
Tone Poem, Blue Note - Instrumental: Farewell Blues Jim & Jesse
Hats Off! The Bluegrass Tribute To Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, CMH Records - Mama's Opry Iris Dement
Infamous Angel, Yep Roc - Just Rehearsing Louvin Brothers
The Family Who Prays, Capitol - This Train Sister Rosetta Tharp
Sister Rosetta Tharp—The Decca Singles, Decca - I'm a Honky Tonk Girl Loretta Lynn
Still Woman Enough, Loretta Lynn Enterprises - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Lucinda Williams
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Mercury - Instrumental: Help Me Rhonda Pickin' on the Beach Boys
YouTube, - Salty Dog Blues The Bluegrass Champs
YouTube, - Kentucky Borderline Rhonda Vincent
Rhonda Vincent—One Step Ahead, Rounder - Segment: Rhonda Vincent
Listen - End Bed: Son Drop In Rhonda Vincent and the Rage Live