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Blues--The Universal Solvent & Little Freddie King Live Blues--The Universal Solvent & Little Freddie King Live November 29th, 2023 (Hour 1)
Blues--The Universal Solvent & Little Freddie King Live

Blues…it’s a universal solvent in music. There’s blues in jazz, R & B, roots rock and soul, country, Cajun, Latin, funk, hip-hop, rock and pop… It’s everywhere! We’ll hear from all corners of the musical map including Bessie Smith, Buddy Guy, Freddy Fender and Clifton Chenier and more. Then an hour with Octogenarian electric country blues man Little Freddie King live from Marigny Studios in New Orleans.

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MARCIA BALL

June 3rd, 1998

Blues from piano queen Marcia Ball and talk about her life in the Louisiana-Texas borderlands.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: She Made Me Lose My Blues Paul Siebel
    Paul Siebel, Philo
  • Lay Down Sally The Seldom Scene
    After Midnight, Sugar Hill
  • Barefootin Robert Parker
    Barefootin - Golden Classics, Collectables
  • Chicken Strut Meters
    Bar-B-Que Soul-A-Bration, Rhino
  • Chicken-Shack Boogie Amos Milburn
    Blues, Barrelhous & Boogie Woogie: 1946-1955, Capitol
  • Instrumental: Watermelon Man Mongo Santamaria Band
    Bar-B-Que Soul-A-Bration, Rhino
  • The Ghetto Part 1 Donny Hathaway
    Atlantic Ultimate '70s R & B Smashes, Atlantic
  • El Barrio Los Hombres Calientes w/Cyril Neville
    Los Hombres Calientes, Basin Street
  • Born on the Bayou Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Creedence Gold, Fantasy
  • Laisse-moi connetre Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
    Bayou Ruler, Rounder
  • Instrumental: Buddy's Boogie Buddy Guy
    Chess Blues Guitar - Two Decades of Killer Fretwork, MCA/Chess
  • INTERVIEW: Marcia Ball
  • That's Enough of That Stuff Marcia Ball
    Hot Tamale Baby, Rounder
  • A Thousand Times Marcia Ball
    Soulful Dress, Rounder
  • Leavin' Louisiana Marcia Ball
    Circuit Queen, Capitol
  • Crawfishin' Marcia Ball
    Let Me Play With Your Poodle, Rounder
  • Route 90 Clarence 'Bon Ton' Garlow
    Texas Rhythm and Blues, Ace
  • So Many Roads, So Many Trains Otis Rush
    Chess Blues Classics, Chess/MCA
  • Ol' ‘55 Tom Waits
    Closing Time, Elektra
  • Pipeliner Blues Moon Mullican
    I'll Sail My Ship Alone, Nashville
  • Texas Boogie Dale Watson
    Cheatin' Heart Attack, Hightone

HOUR two

  • Jumpin' With Symphony Sid Lester Young
    The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Lester Young, Blue Note
  • Turn Your Radio On Rose Maddox
    A Beautiful Bouquet, Arhoolie
  • You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Joni Mitchell
    Hits, Reprise
  • Caravan Van Morrison
    Moondance, Warner Brothers
  • Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio The Ramones
    Ramones Mania, Sire
  • Instrumental: Queen of the Dub Cornell Campbell & the Eternals
    Dub Specialist - 17 Dub Shots from Studio One, Heartbeat
  • Kinky Reggae Bob Marley & The Wailers
    Catch A Fire, Capitol
  • Ninety-nine and One-Half (Won't Do) Wilson Pickett
    Greatest Hits, Atlantic
  • Moose the Mooche Dirty Dozen Brass Band w/Branford Marsalis
    Voodoo, Columbia
  • Barres de la Prison Bois Sec Ardoin & Canray Fontenot
    La Musique Creole, Arhoolie
  • Moonlight and Skies Jimmie Rodgers
    Riding High, 1929-1930, Rounder
  • I'm A Lonesome Fugitive Merle Haggard
    Greatest Hits Volume 1, Curb
  • Vigilante Man Bruce Springtsteen & the E Street Band
    Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Peter Gunn Henry Mancini
    Spy Magazine Presents, Vol. 1: Spy Music, Rhino
  • Killer Diller Blues Memphis Minnie
    Queen of the Blues, Columbia/Legacy
  • Zydeco Shuffle Sonny Landreth
    Almost Everybody Slides, Ryko
  • Boogie Woogie Country Girl Big Joe Turner & Orchestra w/Van 'Piano Man' Walls
    Blues Masters, Volume 14: More Jump Blues, Rhino
  • Good Night Irene James Booker
    Junco Partner, Ryko
  • End Bed: Mini Skirt Esquivel
    Cabaret Mañana, RCA

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