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EASTER PARADE & PASSOVER: MUSIC FOR HOLY DAYS AND HOLIDAYS
For Easter: a live bluegrass set from Del McCoury from the National Folk Festival and a conversation with Chicago gospel giants The Highway Q.C.‘s. We’ll give the chocolate rabbits, colored eggs, Jesus and believers their due in songs by Woody Guthrie, the Staple Singers, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Bob Dylan. Plus Passover themes from the Caribbean to New York. Join us for that and our Easter Parade of holiday and holy day hits.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: The Bunny Hop The Champs
Great Dance Hits, PnR - Honey Bop Wanda Jackson
20 Rock 'n Roll Hits, Capitol - Easter Bunny Boogie Willie Brown
Easter Bunny Boogie, Aladdin Records - I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
Ella and Louis Again, Verve - I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket Bob Wills
Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 6, Rhino - Big Eyed Rabbit 2016 Kilby New Year's Eve Jam
YouTube, - SEGMENT: Rabbit Blues
Listen - Instrumental: Easter Parade Oscar Peterson
The Complete Mercury/Clef Recordings, Verve - Rabbit Blues Charley Booker
Original Folk Blues: Mississippi Blues, United - Easter Parade Fats Domino
Miss You So, Imperial - When the Saints Go Marching In Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet-Runnin' Wild (with Wild Bill Davidson), Blue Note - Feast of the Passover The Congos
Arkology, Island - The Israelites Desmond Dekker and the Aces
Desmond Dekker-The Definitive Collection, Trojan - Der Twistin Sher Lou Klayman & His Orchestra
Twistin' the Freilach, Essential World Masters - Christian Automobile Sons of Andros
The Bahamas-Islands of Song, Smithsonian Folkways - Loves Me Like a Rock The Dixie Hummingbirds
We Love You Like a Rock, Peacock - Jesus is On the Mainline Mississippi Fred McDowell
Mississippi Fred MacDowell-I Do Not Play No Rock 'N' Roll The Complete Sessions, Capitol - Instrumental: In Christ there is no East or West John Fahey
The Legend of Blind Joe Death, Takoma - Jesus Christ Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land-The Asch Recordings Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways - Blowin' in the Wind Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Columbia - Don't Knock The Staple Singer
The Staple Singer-Legacy Gospel, Sonorous Records - Gotta Serve Somebody Bob Dylan
Slow Train Coming, Columbia - End Bed: Gospel Interlude Billy Preston
Hymns Speak from the Organ, Exodus Records
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Gospel in My Soul
The Complete Vee-Jay Recordings, Concord - Straight Street The Pilgrim Travelers
The Best of the Pilgrim Travelers, Speciality - Put A Little Love in Your Heart Albertina Walker and the Caravans
One of These Days, Sonorus Records - Just the One I've Been Looking For Johnnie Taylor
Wanted: One Soul Singer, Atlantic - SEGMENT: Highway Q.C.'s
Listen - Instrumental: Swing Low Sweet Chariot Hank Jones and Charlie Haden
Steal Away-Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs, Jazz Heritage - Backwoods Preacher Man Tony Joe White
Homemade Ice Cream, Warner - Why Me Lord Johnny Cash
Cash, American Recordings - Over in the Glory Land The Stanley Brothers
16 Gospel Hits, Gusto - I'll Fly Away Gillian Welch and Allison Krauss
Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Mercury - SEGMENT: Del McCoury
Listen - Instrumental: Fiddle Tune Del McCoury Bluegrass Band
Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD, - Dark Hollow Del McCoury Bluegrass Band
Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD, - High on the Mountain Del McCoury Bluegrass Band
Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD, - Vincent Black Lightning Del McCoury Bluegrass Band
Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD, - All Aboard Del McCoury Bluegrass Band
Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD, - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Del McCoury Bluegrass Band
Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD, - End Bed: Wildwood Flower David Grisman and Tony Rice
David Grisman, Tony Rice-Tone Poems, Acoustic Disc
