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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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BUSTIN' LOOSE: GO-GO AND ZYDECO WITH CHUCK BROWN AND JEFFREY BROUSSARD

September 16th, 2009

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.

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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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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