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GIMME MORE HOPE: RESILIENCE AND IMPROVISATION IN MUSIC, FOOD & DRINK
We’re seeking out hope in a cold, dark season with warm conversation and music. We check in on the places in New Orleans that keep us connected, even in these isolating times, from Li’l Dizzy’s Cafe in Treme to Pete’s Out in the Cold Lounge in the Irish Channel to see how they’re faring. Then a round with Joe Krown at the 88s…on wheels, the Piano on a Truck. Plus songs by Bob Dylan, Bessie Smith, Otis Redding, and Dolly Parton.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Gonna Be All Right Robert Randolph & the Family Band
Got Soul, Dare Records - Everything's Gonna Be Alright PJ Morton
PJ Morton Gumbo, Morton Records - If I Had Wings Dolly Parton
Blue Smoke, Masterworks - Grandma's Hands Willie Nelson and Mavis Staples
Willie Nelson—To All the Girls, Legacy Recordings - Quarantine Together Drive-by Truckers
YouTube, - Stand By Me Otis Redding
Pain in My Heart, Atlantic - Instrumental: Blue Monk Hank Jones
Bop Redux / Groovin' High, Savoy Jazz - Segment: Pete's Out in the Cold Bartender Kevin Lee
Listen - Hey Bartender Floyd Dixon
A-Z: Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, The Roots of Rock 'n' Roll, Sunday Best - Instrumental: Sleepwalk Ann Farina, John S. Farina, Santo A. Farina, Santo & Johnny
Hearts in Atlantis - Motion Picture Soundtrack, Universal Classics Group - Lake Charles Lucinda Williams
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Mercury - Mathilda Cookie and the Cupcakes
Legends of Swamp Pop—By Request—Cookie & the Cupcakes, Jin Records - When I was Young Eric Burden and the Animals
The Animals Retrospective, ABKCO Records - My Back Pages Bob Dylan
Another Side of Bob Dylan, Columbia - Turn Turn Turn Nina Simone
To Love Somebody, RCA - End Bed: Turn, Turn, Turn Bruce Cockburn
Where Have All the Flowers Gone—The Songs of Pete Seeger, Appleseed
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Tipitina Dr. John
Going Back to New Orleans: Deacon John's Jump Blues, Vetter - Goin Back to New Orleans Deacon John
Going Back to New Orleans: Deacon John's Jump Blues, Vetter - Red Beans Professor Longhair
Crawfish Fiesta, Alligator - Shortnin' Bread Lee Dorsey
Lee Dorsey — Ride Your Pony, Arista - Big Butter and Egg Man Kermit Ruffins
The Big Butter and Egg Man, Justice Records - Shrimp and Gumbo Rebirth
Rebirth of New Orleans, Basin Street - Jambalaya Fats Domino
The Fats Domino Jukebox: 20 Greatest Hits the Way You Originally Heard Them, Capitol - Instrumental: Struttin' With Some Barbecue Kermit Ruffins
The Big Butter and Egg Man, Justice Records - Segment: Wayne Baquet, Sr. and Arkesha Baquet of Li'l Dizzy's Cafe
Listen - Blues with Bechet George Baquet and Sidney Bechet
The John Reid Collection from the Arkansas Arts Center, GHB Jazz Foundation - New Orleans Bump Jelly Roll Morton & Red Hot Peppers
Jelly-Roll Morton: Orignial Recordings 1926-1929, Van Up - Instrumental: Blue Drag Allen Toussaint
The Bright Mississippi, Nonesuch - Segment: Joe Krown: Piano on a Truck
Listen - End Bed: Mess Around Joe Krown
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