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Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand March 22nd, 2023 (Hour 1)
Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand

Country singer Kelsey Waldon grew up in the Ohio River bottoms of Ballard County Kentucky-a place called “Monkey’s Eyebrow” where her family has farmed for generations. She tells us about her journey as a songwriter, and her friendship with another hero of Kentucky, John Prine. Then a live set of New Orleans jazz and its Caribbean cousins with the widely acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, Aurora Nealand and her quartet at Artisound Studios in New Orleans 9th Ward.

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DOLLY PARTON

March 10th, 2004

Dolly Parton talks about her musical and family roots in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee where she first broke into song, performed on the radio, and admired the fashion of the local trollop. With Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors” and hear music from across the American spectrum. Also, we’ll talk with historian Charles Wolfe about the ballads and songs of the Appalachian South.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Tennesse Rag Chet Atkins and Doc Watson
    The Essential Chet Atkins, RCA
  • Hello, Dolly! Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & Quincy Jones
    It Might as Well be Swing, Capitol
  • She's Dynamite Piano Red
    The Doctor's In, Bear Family
  • Tennessee Waltz King Curtis
    Blow, Man, Blow, Bear Family
  • Tennessee Waltz Les Paul & Mary Ford
    All-Time Greatest Hits, Capitol
  • My Tennessee Mountain Home Dolly Parton
    The RCA Years, RCA
  • Instrumental: Tennessee Waltz Pee Wee King
    Classic Country Music: Volume II, Smithsonian
  • INTERVIEW: Dolly Parton (Part 1) Dolly Parton
  • Coat of Many Colors Dolly Parton
    The RCA Years, RCA
  • Dark End of the Street James Carr
    The Essential, Razor & Tie
  • Blues Back Art Blakey and McCoy Tyner
    A Jazz Message,
  • Instrumental: One Dime Blues Etta Baker
    Hills of Home, Rounder
  • Yodelling Fiddling Blues Mississippi Sheiks
    From Where I Stand, Warner
  • Water Tank Furry Lewis
    Blues Magician, Rounder
  • Big Boy Now Super Chikan
    What You See, Fat Possum
  • Chicken Grease D'Angelo
    Voodoo, Virgin
  • Froglegs Lloyd Price
    Creole Kings of New Orleans,
  • Joy Spring Clifford Brown
    The Best of Clifford Brown, Blue Note

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Old Jellico Bela Fleck
    The Bluegrass Sessions, Warner
  • New Mule Skinner Blues Bill Monroe
    1950-58, Bear Family
  • Better Move It On Home Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner
    The Essential Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner, RCA
  • Side By Side Ray Charles and Betty Carter
    Ray Charles and Betty Carter, Castle
  • You've Got the Power James Brown & Vicki Anderson
    Duets, Polydor
  • You Win Again Fats Domino
    From Where I Stand, Warner
  • Crazy Arms Jerry Lee Lewis
    Classic Jerry Lee Lewis, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Dixie Jerry Lee Lewis
    Classic Jerry Lee Lewis, Bear Family
  • INTERVIEW: Dolly Parton (Part 2) Dolly Parton

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  • Knoxville Girl The Louvin Brothers
    When I Stop Dreaming, Razor & Tie
  • Instrumental: A Tribute to Peador O'Donnell Jerry Douglas
    Restless on the Farm, Sugar Hill
  • SEGMENT: Charles Wolfe Charles Wolfe
  • Barbara Allen Maxine Sullivan with John Kirby Sextet
    John Kirby Sextet, Sony
  • I Can't Get No Satisfaction Cat Power
    The Covers Record, Matador
  • House of the Rising Sun Doc Watson
    Third Generation Blues, Sugar Hill
  • Lighten Up Sonny Jones
    Funky, Funky New Orleans, Funky Delicasies
  • Happy Feet Blues Wynton Marsalis Septet
    Live at the Village Vanguard, Columbia
  • End Bed: Blues for Wynton Chris Barber's Jazz Band
    Copulatin' Jazz, Great Southern

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