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EASTER WITH DONALD HARRISON, JR. AND THE HOLMES BROTHERS
Easter weekend is a time for reflection and family, and our guests certainly fit the bill. Donald Harrison, Jr. is a saxophone player and New Orleans native now based in New York. Harrison’s ties to New Orleans run deep, musically and culturally. His work has long echoed strains of Mardi Gras Indian chants and street beats… not surprisingly as his late father was Big Chief of the Guardians of the Flame tribe, a position Donald Jr. has since assumed. Wendell and Sherman Holmes, plus longtime friend Popsy Dixon make up the Holmes Brothers, a vocal group best known for putting their personal stamp on blues, gospel, country, pop and more. The brothers join us to talk about the transition from Christ Church, Virginia to New York and back again to home and family.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: I'll Fly Away The Holmes Brothers
Jubilation , Real World - Easter Bunny Boogie Willie Brown
Jumpin' the Blues , Ace - Jesus on the Main Line (Tell Him What You Want) The New Birth Brass Band
D-Boy, NYNO - Old Rugged Cross Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Does Your House Have Lions, Rhino/Atlantic - Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go Marion Williams
Born to Sing the Gospel, Shanachie - Were You There? Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers
Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers, Specialty - You Gotta Move Sam Cooke
Night Beat , RCA - Instrumental: Will The Circle Be Unbroken Lonnie 'Big Ben' Bennett
Sacred Steel Instrumentals , Arhoolie - Life's Railway to Heaven Johnny Cash
Personal File , Columbia/Legacy - Gospel Ship The Carter Family
In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain , Bear Family - Christian Automobile Sons of Andros
The Bahamas: Islands of Song , Smithsonian Folkways - Move Along Train Marty Stuart with Mavis Staples
Soul's Chapel , Superlatone - Instrumental: My Last Date King Curtis
The Capitol Years, 1962-1965, Bear Family - SEGMENT: Holmes Brothers
Listen - How I Got Over Aretha Franklin
Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings , Rhino/Atlantic - When the Saints Go Marching In Kings of Harmony
Saints' Paradise: Trombone Shout Bands from the United House of Prayer , Smithsonian Folkways - Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes Original Recording,
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Spirits of Congo Square Donald Harrison
Spirits of Congo Square , Candid - Up Jumped Spring Art Blakey
Jazz Profile: Art Blakey , Blue Note - April in My Heart Billie Holiday
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933 - 1944, Columbia/Legacy - (I've Got) Spring Fever Little Willie John
All 15 of His Chart Hits , King - Easter Parade Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans , Bear Family - Instrumental: Echoes of Spring Tom McDermott
The Crave , STR - SEGMENT: Donald Harrison
Listen - I'm Puttin' All of My Eggs in One Basket Ella & Louis
The Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve , Verve - San Antonio Rose Willie Nelson & Ray Price
San Antonio Rose , Columbia - Instrumental: Texas Blues Vassar Clements, Doug Jernigan, Michael Melford
Hillbilly Jazz , Flying Fish - Will the Roses Bloom Flatt & Scruggs
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs: 1948 - 1959 , Bear Family - When the Roses Bloom Again Laura Cantrell
When the Roses Bloom Again , Diesel Only - Dress Blues Drive-By Truckers
Live Performance from Minnesota Public Radio's The Current, - Down by the Riverside Cowboy Roy Brown
Street Singer , Delmark - Down by the Riverside Don Vappie
Pappa Don's New Orleans Jazz Band , Vapielle - End Bed: Amazing Grace Donald Harrison
Nouveau Swing , Impulse
