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LABOR DAY LIVE AT THE BATON ROUGE BLUES FESTIVAL
The long-running Baton Rouge Blues Festival draws on the Louisiana capital’s definitive musical legacy. This Labor Day, we play live cuts from BRBF’s 2018 festivities: The late harmonica man and singer Lazy Lester revisits the R&B singles he released on Excello Records in the ’50s and ’60s. Guitarist Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays Bentonia-style blues, which he learned growing up in Mississippi around the family juke joint. Fellow Mississippian Harmonica Bean talks the blues and plays his mouth harp. Cowboy Stew Blues Revue — a supergroup of Lafayette, LA-musicians including blues rocker C.C. Adcock, Cajun accordionist Steve Riley, and guitarist Lil Buck Sinegal of late Zydeco King Clifton Chenier’s band — prove they are more than the sum of their parts. British R&B soul band James Hunter Six roll out club style with great elan. Grammy-winner and son of local legend Tabby Thomas, Chris Thomas King taps into his deep musical roots on blues classics and gospel standards. And younger generation guitarists Troy Turner and Samantha Fish show off their blues chops with inflections of pop and rock.
Click here to view a press release from the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, who sponsored the Baton Rouge Blues Festival and underwrote this episode of American Routes.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Blues Boogie Troy Turner
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Sweet Home Chicago Troy Turner
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - House Without a Home Troy Turner
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - You Got to Help Me Terry "Harmonica" Bean
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Boom Boom Terry "Harmonica" Bean
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Instrumental: Messing with the Blues Terry "Harmonica" Bean
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Da Thrill is Gone from Here Chris Thomas King
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Chris Thomas King
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - John Law Burned Down the Liquor Sto' Chris Thomas King
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Down to the River to Pray Chris Thomas King
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Instrumental: "Instrumental" Cowboy Stew
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Going Down Slow Cowboy Stew
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Woke Up This Morning (My Baby's Gone) Cowboy Stew
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Further Up the Road Cowboy Stew
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Shake Your Hips Cowboy Stew
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Closing Bed: Instrumental Henry Gray
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival ,
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Ponderosa Stomp Lazy Lester
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Lover Not a Fighter Lazy Lester
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Blues Stop Knockin' Lazy Lester
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Rainin' In My Heart Lazy Lester
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Instrumental: "Instrumental" James Hunter Six
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Free Your Mind James Hunter Six
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Baby Don't Do It James Hunter Six
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Believe Me Baby James Hunter Six
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Instrumental: Gone for Good Samantha Fish
Belle of the West, Ruf Records - Long Black Train James "Duck" Holmes
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Gone For Good Samantha Fish
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Cowtown Samantha Fish
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Little Baby Samantha Fish
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Crow Jane Samantha Fish
American Routes recording from the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival , - Closing Bed: Studio Jam Samantha Fish
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