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Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté May 18th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté

It’s Blueswomen, Jazzmen, African roots and branches. Chicago blues singer Shemekia Copeland‘s father, the late blues guitarist Johnny Copeland, brought her into his music as a child. As an adult, she found new ways to use blues to express her perspective. We’ll hear from some of Shemekia’s heroes including Etta James, Ruth Brown, Alberta Hunter and Big Mama Thornton. Then a conversation and performance by Boston-based Mandinka balafon player Balla Kouyaté and music inspired by and from the continent of Africa from Randy Weston, Miriam Makeba and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Shemekia Copeland photo by Mike White

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WHILE I'M LIVING: TANYA TUCKER & WARREN STORM

January 26th, 2022

Singer Tanya Tucker got her start as a very young singer in Nashville. At age 13, she had her first hit with “Delta Dawn.” Since then, she’s seen a lot of the world of Country Music but still kept her landmark sound. We’ll talk about her recent Grammy-winning record and her love of cutting horses in the Desert West. Then the late King of Swamp Pop, Warren Storm brings us back to Louisiana where he took the world by storm with a new recording of classic songs.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Delta Dawn Tanya Tucker
    Delta Dawn, Columbia
  • Blood Red and Going Down Tanya Tucker
    What's Your Mama's Name, Columbia
  • Rainy Night in Georgia Tony Joe White
    Continued, Monument
  • Baby Dottie West
    Suffer Time, RCA
  • Taint Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do Little Milton
    Blues 'n Soul, Stax
  • Instrumental: Cannonball Rag Bill Frisell
    Guitar in the Space Age!, Okeh
  • There's Another Place I Can't Go Charlie Rich
    The Essential Charlie Rich, Sony
  • Walk Through Fire Yola
    Walk Through Fire, Easy Eye Sound
  • Heart Over Mind Mel Tillis
    The Best of Mel Tillis, Sony
  • SEGMENT: Tanya Tucker

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  • Instrumental: Down Yonder Willie and Bobbie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Tanya Tucker Pt. 2

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  • She Loves to Ride Horses Guy Clark
    The Dark, Sugar Hill
  • Tennessee Stud Johnny Cash
    American Recordings, American Recordings
  • Tennessee Stud Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed
    Me and Jerry, RCA
  • End Bed: Bandera Willie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger, Columbia

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Lonely, Lonely Nights Warren Storm
    Taking the World By Storm, APO Records
  • Mama Mama Mama Warren Storn and Yvette Landry
    Taking the World By Storm, APO Records
  • I'm Leaving It All Up to You Dale & Grace
    Swamp Gold Volume 1, Jin Records
  • Let the Four Winds Blow Fats Domino
    The Call Me the Fat Man: The Legendary Imperial Recordings, EMI Imperial
  • Those Lonely, Lonely Nights Earl King
    Earl's Pearls, West Side
  • Une Autre Soir D'Ennui Belton Richard
    The Essential Belton Richard, Swallow
  • Doggin' Around Jean Knight
    South Texas Rhythm 'n' Soul Revue, Demon
  • Dog Hill Boozoo Chavis
    Boozoo Chavis, Nonesuch
  • Mathilda Cookie and the Cupcakes
    Cookie and the Cupcakes: Kings of Swamp Pop, Ace
  • Instrumental: Up the Creek Allen Toussaint
    The Wild Sounds of New Orleans, Jazz Work Records
  • Let's Do the Cajun Twist Randy and the Rockets
    Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues, American Made Music
  • This Should Go On Forever Rod Bernard
    Chess New Orleans, UMG
  • Time Will Tell Bobby Charles
    Chess New Orleans, UMG
  • Walk That Walk Eddie Bo
    Chess New Orleans, UMG
  • Strollin' Champion Jack Dupree
    Blues from the Gutter, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Cajun Steel Guitar The Buckaroos
    The Best of the Buckaroos, Sundazed
  • SEGMENT: Warren Storm

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  • End Bed: Cajun Waltz David Doucet
    1957: Solo Cajun Guitar, Rounder Select

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