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JAZZ FEST / WILD MAGNOLIAS
It’s the Crescent City celebration rivaled only by Mardi Gras, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, a magnet of music, food, and folk art embracing Louisiana and beyond. From Louis Armstrong to zydeco, we’ll sample some of the soundscape and the cuisine of the festival. Plus conversations with visiting singer and musical philosopher Oscar Brown Jr., and an in-depth look at the Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras Indian tribe – a New Orleans institution that’s been featured at every single Jazz Fest since 1970.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu Huey 'Piano' Smith
Having A Good Time, West Side - (Somebody Got) Soul, Soul, Soul The Wild Magnolias
The Wild Magnolias, PolyGram - Let the Good Times Roll Earl King
Earl's Pearls, West Side - Going Back to New Orleans Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers
Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty - Cakewalk Into Town Taj Mahal
The Best of Taj Mahal, Columbia/Legacy - Ain't Nothin' But a Party The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Medicated Magic, Rope-A-Dope - Instrumental: New Orleans Blues The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
This Is Jazz: 30, Columbia/Legacy - Frog Legs Lloyd Price
Lawdy!, Specialty - New Suit Wild Magnolias
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras Records - INTERVIEW: Bo Dollis of the Wild Magnolias
Listen - Big Chief Professor Longhair
Ultimate Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras Records - Uninvisible Medeski, Martin & Wood
Uninvisible, Blue Note - Instrumental: Bourbon Street Blues Henry Butler
Blues After Sunset, Black Top - You Talk too Much Joe Jones
Billboard Top Rock 'n' Roll Hits 1960, Rhino - I Know Bonnie Raitt
Give It Up, Warner - Louella Marcia Ball
Presumed Innocent, Alligator - Let the Good Times Roll Buckwheat Zydeco
Buckwheat's Zydeco Party, Rounder
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Honky Tonk King Curtis
The Best of King Curtis, Capitol - Sleep Walk Santo & Johnny
Hot Rod Rock: Back Seat Movers, The Right Stuff - I Fall to Pieces Patsy Cline
Only Country 1960-64, Cema - Deep Well Of Sadness Ralph Stanley & Jim Lauderdale
Lost In the Lonesome Pines, Dualtone - Pipeliner's Blues Hackberry Ramblers
Cajun Boogie, Hot Biscuits - Cajun Twist Lil Band O Gold
Lil Band O Gold, Shanachie - Instrumental: Aw'Some Funk Snooks Eaglin
Soul's Edge, Black Top - Waymore's Blues Waylon Jennings
The Essential, RCA - Fast Train Solomon Burke
Don't Give Up on Me, Anti - Table Top Joe Tom Waits
Alice, Anti - Somebody Buy Me a Drink Oscar Brown, Jr.
Sin & Soul, Sony - INTERVIEW: Oscar Brown, Jr.
Listen - Africa N.O. Los Hombres Calientes
Vol. 3, Basin Street - Adam's Apple Wayne Shorter
The Blue Note Years Vol. 3, Blue Note - You Must Come in at the Bottom Isaac Freeman
Beautiful Stars, Lost Highway - Just a Little While to Stay Here Topsy Chapman
And the Pro's, Jazzology - End Bed: Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans Tuts Washington
New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder
