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CLUB HOPPING IN NEW ORLEANS
Jazz/blues pianist/songwriter Mose Allison, who migrated from the Mississippi village of Tippo to Greenwich Village, is a mellow post-Thanksgiving verbal and musical presence as we club-hop across New Orleans from Snug Harbor to the Saturn Bar.
HOUR ONE
- Saturday Night Fish Fry # 1 & 2 Louis Jordan
Let The Good Times Roll (1938-1954), Bear Family - Shine, Shave & Shower (It's Saturday) Lefty Frizzell
Look What Thoughts Will Do, Columbia - Gamblin' Bar Room Blues John Mellencamp
The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers (A Tribute), Egyptian Records - St. James Infirmary Billy & DeDe Pierce
Blues & Tonks from the Delta, Fantasy - Instrumental: Phat City Coolbone
Brass-Hop, Hollywood - SEGMENT: Donna's Bar and Grill / Bob French
- We Come to Party Rebirth Brass Band
We Come to Party, Shanachie - Dance to the Music Sly & the Family Stone
Greatest Hits, Epic - I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar Jonathan Richman
I, Jonathan, Rounder - Sister's Coming Home Willie Nelson
Phases and Stages, Atlantic - Instrumental: Saturday Mose Allison
Back Country Suite, Prestige - SEGMENT: Snug Harbor / Mose Allison
Listen - One O'Clock Jump Delta Rhythm Boys
The Jive Is Jumpin', Westside - Hey Bartender Floyd Dixon
Marshall Texas Is My Home, Specialty - Steppin' out with my baby Dinah Shore
Carry My Blues Away, Sony
HOUR two
- Open bed: Hung over King Curtis
The Capitol Years, 1962-1965, Bear Family - Basin Street/Sleepy Time Down South Louis Prima
Louis Prima & Keely Smith, Capitol - Drinkin' Wine Sticks McGhee
Atlanta R &B 1947-74 Vol 1, - Let Me Go Home Whiskey Amos Milburn
Down The Road Apiece, EMI - Let me Go Home Whiskey Asleep At The Wheel
Texas Gold, Capitol - Instrumental: Ramble Link Wray and the Wraymen
Walkin' With Link, Epic/Legacy - SEGMENT: Shim Sham / Link Wray
- La Banda Esta Borracha Freddie Fender
Canciones de Mi Barrio, Arhoolie - Tequila Beau Jocque
Check It In, Lock It out, Rounder - One Mint Julep The Clovers
Atlantic R &B 1947-74 Vol 1, - Instrumental: Tequila King Curtis
Blow Man, Blow, Bear Family - Drifter In the Dark Ween
Chocolate & Cheese, Elektra - Walking after Midnight Patsy Cline
Walkin' Dreams, Rhino - Sophisticated Lady Billie Holiday
The Essential Billie Holiday: Songs of Lost Love, Verve - Every Time I Get To Drinkin' Sunnyland Slim
Slim's Shout, Prestige/Bluesville - Alabama Song Marianne Faithful
The Seven Deadly Sins, RCA - Piano Has Been Drinking (not me) Tom Waits
Small Change, Elektra - End Bed: Goodnight Irene Kelley Joe Phellps
Shine Eyed Mister Zen, Rykodisc
