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CLUB HOPPING IN NEW ORLEANS
Our September tour of musical cities comes back home, to local watering holes like the Saturn Bar, Snug Harbor and Donna’s Bar and Grill. We’ll talk with singer, pianist and songwriter Mose Allison and rock-n-roller Link Wray.
HOUR ONE
- Saturday Night Fish Fry # 1 & 2 Louis Jordan
Let The Good Times Roll (1938-1954), Bear Family - Shine, Shave & Shower (It's Saturday) Lefty Frizzell
Look What Thoughts Will Do, Columbia - Gamblin' Bar Room Blues John Mellencamp
The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers (A Tribute), Egyptian Records - St. James Infirmary Billy & DeDe Pierce
Blues & Tonks from the Delta, Fantasy - Instrumental: Phat City Coolbone
Brass-Hop, Hollywood - SEGMENT: Donna's Bar and Grill / Bob French
- We Come to Party Rebirth Brass Band
We Come to Party, Shanachie - Dance to the Music Sly & the Family Stone
Greatest Hits, Epic - I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar Jonathan Richman
I, Jonathan, Rounder - Sister's Coming Home Willie Nelson
Phases and Stages, Atlantic - Instrumental: Saturday Mose Allison
Back Country Suite, Prestige - SEGMENT: Snug Harbor / Mose Allison
Listen - One O'Clock Jump Delta Rhythm Boys
The Jive Is Jumpin', Westside - Hey Bartender Floyd Dixon
Marshall Texas Is My Home, Specialty - Steppin' out with my baby Dinah Shore
Carry My Blues Away, Sony
HOUR two
- Open bed: Hung over King Curtis
The Capitol Years, 1962-1965, Bear Family - Basin Street/Sleepy Time Down South Louis Prima
Louis Prima & Keely Smith, Capitol - Drinkin' Wine Sticks McGhee
Atlanta R &B 1947-74 Vol 1, - Let Me Go Home Whiskey Amos Milburn
Down The Road Apiece, EMI - Let me Go Home Whiskey Asleep At The Wheel
Texas Gold, Capitol - Instrumental: Ramble Link Wray and the Wraymen
Walkin' With Link, Epic/Legacy - SEGMENT: Shim Sham / Link Wray
- La Banda Esta Borracha Freddie Fender
Canciones de Mi Barrio, Arhoolie - Tequila Beau Jocque
Check It In, Lock It out, Rounder - One Mint Julep The Clovers
Atlantic R &B 1947-74 Vol 1, - Instrumental: Tequila King Curtis
Blow Man, Blow, Bear Family - Drifter In the Dark Ween
Chocolate & Cheese, Elektra - Walking after Midnight Patsy Cline
Walkin' Dreams, Rhino - Sophisticated Lady Billie Holiday
The Essential Billie Holiday: Songs of Lost Love, Verve - Every Time I Get To Drinkin' Sunnyland Slim
Slim's Shout, Prestige/Bluesville - Alabama Song Marianne Faithful
The Seven Deadly Sins, RCA - Piano Has Been Drinking (not me) Tom Waits
Small Change, Elektra - End Bed: Goodnight Irene Kelley Joe Phellps
Shine Eyed Mister Zen, Rykodisc
