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BUSTIN' LOOSE: GO-GO AND ZYDECO WITH CHUCK BROWN AND JEFFREY BROUSSARD
Come meet us at the club as we jump into two distinct American musics: go-go and zydeco. From the Nation’s Capital, we’ll visit with the “Godfather of Go-Go,” funk and jazz guitarist Chuck Brown, who’ll explain the finer points of jamming and showing the audience some love. Then we’re back in Louisiana getting down to the Creole sounds of zydeco with the Creole cowboy Jeffrey Broussard, whose fiddle and accordion playing brings the music back its source. The son of the late accordion legend Delton Broussard, Jeffrey knows the deep roots of d’vrais zarico (real zydeco), but also the appeal of tradition in a modern sound.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Ashley's Roachclip Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers
Salt of the Earth , Soul Brother Records - Strickly Soul Bobby Dobyne & the Barefacts
The Birmingham Sound: The Soul of Neal Hemphill, vol.2 , Rabbit Factory - Hey Little Woman Sonny Til and the Orioles
Greatest Hits , Collectables - Rag Mama Rag Blind Boy Fuller
Mojo Workin': Blues For The Next Generation , Columbia/Legacy - Digging My Potatoes Warner Williams & Jay Summerour
Blues Highway , Smithsonian Folkways - I Love the Rhythm in a Riff Billy Eckstine
The Savoy Story: Vol. 1, Jazz , Savoy - Rockochet Duke Ellington Small Bands
The Intimacy of the Blues , Fantasy - Instrumental: Tracin' Tracey Grant Green
Sunday Morning , Blue Note - SEGMENT: Chuck Brown
Listen - K.B. Blues Kenny Burrell
Introducing Kenny Burrell , Blue Note - Compared to What Roberta Flack
First Take , Atlantic - Instrumental: Make the Road By Walking Menahan Street Band
Make the Road By Walking , Dunham - You're Gonna Make Me Cry O.V. Wright
The Soul of O.V. Wright , MCA - Cryin' Time Buck Owens
The Very Best of Buck Owens, Vol. 2 , Rhino - Together Again Ray Charles
Ray Charles: The Complete Country & Western Recordings 1959-1986 , Rhino - This Little Girl's Gone Rockin' Ruth Brown
Miss Rhythm: Greatest Hits and More , Atlantic - Sister's Coming Home / Down at the Corner Beer Joint Willie Nelson
Phases and Stages , Atlantic - End Bed: Last Date Floyd Cramer
RCA Country Legend , Buddha
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Creole Zydeco Hot Step Jeffrey Broussard and the Creole Cowboys
Keeping The Tradition Alive! , Maison de Soul - Bon Ton Roula Clarence Garlow
Zydeco Champs , Arhoolie - Tighten Up Archie Bell & the Drells
Tightening It Up: The Best of Archie Bell and the Drells , Rhino - Do the Reggay Toots and The Maytals
Time Tough: The Anthology , Island Jamaica - That's What You Do To Me Rosco Gordon
No Dark in America , Dualtone - Baby Baby Val Bennett
She-Boom, She-Boom: African-American Influences on Reggae 1963-73, Westside - Lawdy Miss Clawdy Rod Bernard
Swamp Rock 'N' Roller , Ace - Honey Hush Cookie & the Cupcakes
Kings of Swamp Pop , Ace - Instrumental: Opelousas Hop Clifton Chenier
Zodico Blues & Boogie , Specialty - Kwadril - pwemye fidgi Rameau Poleon
Musical Traditions of St. Lucia West Indies , Smithsonian Folkways - Colinda Lawtell Playboys
Zodico: Louisiana Creole Music , Rounder - SEGMENT: Jeffrey Broussard
Listen - Instrumental: Funky Banjo Don Vappie
Banjo a la Creole , Vappielle - Moulala twa fasad John Jacobs and Napoleon Henry
Musical Traditions of St. Lucia, West Indies , Smithsonian Folkways - Madame Becassine Don Vappie & the Creole Jazz Serenaders
Swing Out , Vappielle - Yini Madoda Miriam Makeba & the Skylarks
The Best of Miriam Makeba & the Skylarks , Camden - The Rivers of Babylon The Melodians
By The Rivers of Babylon: Timeless Hymns of the Rastafari , Shanachie - End Bed: Coconut Shake Don Vappie
Banjo A La Creole , Vappielle