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Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland and Balla Kouyaté Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland and Balla Kouyaté June 7th, 2023 (Hour 1)
Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland and 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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DAVE ALVIN

June 27th, 2001

This week, singer/songwriter Dave Alvin visits with us at his home in Los Angeles. Plus music from Big Joe Turner, Bill Evans, Rosetta Tharpe, and Philip Glass.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: American Music The Blasters
    American Music, Hightone
  • Good Old Funky Music The Meters
    Funkify Your Life The Meters Anthology, Rhino
  • Please Stop Playing These Blues, Boy Jay McShann & Jimmy Witherspoon
    The Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Story 1945-1955, Mercury
  • Don't Play That Song (You Lied) Aretha Franklin
    Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974, Atlantic
  • Mr. Record Man Willie Nelson
    The Early Years, Liberty Records
  • Instrumental: Night and Day Esquivel
    Cabaret Mañana, RCA
  • Night and Day Lowell Fulson
    Texas Guitar Killers, Capitol
  • Night and Day Frank Sinatra
    Sentimental Journey: Pop Vocal Classics Vol. 1, Rhino
  • String Quartet No. 5: Movt. 3 Philip Glass
    Kronos Quartet - Released 1985-1995, Nonesuch
  • Instrumental: Dockside Boogie Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
    Long Way Home, Gitanes
  • INTERVIEW: Dave Alvin

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  • Laurel Lynn Dave Alvin
    Blackjack David, Hightone
  • Blackjack David Dave Alvin
    Blackjack David, Hightone
  • New Highway Dave Alvin
    Blackjack David, Hightone
  • Dry River Dave Alvin
    Blue Blvd, Hightone
  • Rockin' At Cosmo's Lee Allen
    The Aladdin Records Story, EMI
  • Hollywood Bed Big Joe Turner
    Big, Bad & Blue: The Big Joe Turner Anthology, Rhino
  • My Guitar is My Sweetheart Chet Atkins
    Galloping Guitar - The Early Years, Bear Family
  • Second Fiddle (To An Old Guitar) Jean Shepard
    Only Country 1960-1964, ESX
  • Cowboy Hula Nani Lim Yap & friends
    Songs of the Hawaiian Cowboy, Warner Western
  • Creole Love Call Duke Ellington
    Jazzin' The Blues, Forlane

HOUR two

  • Gossipo Perpetuo Jean Jacques Perrey
    RE/SEARCH: Incredibly Strange Music, Volume 2, Asphodel
  • Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow The Rivingtons
    Alphabet Rock, Warner Brothers
  • Ool-Ya-Koo Dizzy Gillespie
    Masters of Jazz, Vol. 6: Male Vocal Classics, Rhino
  • Blah! Blah! Blah! Sarah Vaughan
    The Great Jazz Vocalist Sing the Gershwin Songbook, Blue Note
  • Talkin' Loud & Sayin' Nothing James Brown
    Star Time, Polydor
  • Instrumental: Bahia Mongo Santamaria
    Skin on Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology 1958-1995, Rhino
  • Granados Bill Evans
    Compact Jazz, Verve
  • El Preso #9 Los Camperos de Nati Cano
    Canciones de Siempre, Peer
  • Summertime Howard Armstrong
    Louie Bluie, Blue Suit
  • In These Times Errol Walker
    Lee Scratch Perry: Arkology, Island
  • Instrumental: Could You Be Loved Monty Alexander
    Stir It Up: The Music of Bob Marley, Telarc
  • Precious Memories Rosetta Tharpe
    Ladies of Gospel: Precious Memories, Peacock
  • Chocolate Jesus Tom Waits
    Mule Variations, Anti/Epitaph
  • Sinner You Better Get Ready The Louvin Brothers
    The Stained Glass Hour: Bluegrass and Old-Timey Gospel Music, Rounder
  • I Used To Love You (But It's All Over Now) Nat King Cole
    The Best of the Nat King Cole Trio 1947-50, Capitol
  • It's All Over Now Bobby Womack
    Paint It, Blue -- Songs of the Rolling Stones, House of Blues
  • End Bed: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction David McCallum
    Ultra-Lounge - On The Rocks, Part Two, Capitol

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