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SMALL TOWN HIPSTERS: NANCY WILSON & DICKIE LANDRY
This week we’ll hear from folks that started in small towns and made it big, in jazz, blues, country and more. Jazz singer Nancy Wilson called Chillicothe, Ohio home before moving on to become one of the hippest vocalists around. Lafayette, Louisiana is home base for musical polymath Dickie Landry. The saxophone player was a founding member of the Phillip Glass ensemble, works with the swamp pop ensemble Lil’ Band O’ Gold, and continues his own avant-garde musical experiments.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Alligator Boogaloo Lou Donaldson
Blue 45's, The Ultimate Jukebox, Blue Note - Way Down Home on the Farm Percy Mayfield
His Tangerine and Atlantic Sides, Rhino - My Country Man Big Maybelle
The Complete Okeh Sessions, 1952-55, Epic - One Room Country Shack Mose Allison
Back Country Suite, Prestige - Unsquare Dance The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Time Further Out, Columbia - Grey Eagle Alison Krauss
live recording from Folk Masters Concert Series, - Instrumental: When It's Darkness on the Delta Country All Stars
Jazz From the Hills, Bear Family - Love Me Elvis Presley
The King of Rock ‘N' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters, RCA - Black Coffee Peggy Lee
Black Coffee, Verve - I'm Down to My Last Cigarette k.d. lang
Shadowland, Sire - Dayton, Ohio Randy Newman
Sail Away, Reprise - Lazybones Leon Redbone
No Regrets, Sugar Hill - Small Town Boy Louis Jordan
Let the Good Times Roll, Bear Family - Instrumental: Wabash Cannonball Adderley
Compact Jazz: Cannonball Adderley, PolyGram - INTERVIEW: Nancy Wilson
Listen - Trane's Slo Blues John Coltrane
The Prestige Recordings, Prestige - Night Train James Brown
Star Time, Polydor - Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording,
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Sonny Landreth
American Routes original recording, - Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry
His Best, Volume 1, MCA/Chess - On the Road Again Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia - The Natural Facts Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Gospel of the Blues, MCA/Decca - Tear it Up Charlie Feathers
Uh Huh Honey, Norton - Instrumental: Almost Persuaded Lloyd Green
The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green, KOCH - Streets of Baltimore Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris
The Complete Reprise Sessions, Reprise/Rhino - Bright Lights Big City Jimmy Reed
Blues Masters: The Very Best of Jimmy Reed, Rhino - Do Right Woman, Do Right Man Dan Penn
Do Right Man, Sire - Folks Back Home Clarence ‘Gatemouth' Brown
Down South… in the Bayou Country, Barclay - Le Grand Bleu The Bluerunners
Le Grand Bleu, Louisiana Red Hot - INTERVIEW: Dickie Landry
Listen - Instrumental: Bayou Ponpon Richard Fontenot
Cajun Country Guitar, Folkways - Down South Blues Muddy Waters
The Aristocrat of the Blues: the Best of Aristocrat Records, MCA/Chess - Slow Rollin' Low Waylon Jennings
Nashville Rebel, RCA Nashville/Legacy - Green River Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fantasy - Driver 8 R.E.M.
And I Feel Fine… The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982 - 1987, EMI - End Bed: Ramble Link Wray & The Wraymen
Walkin' With Link, Epic
