EASTER/PASSOVER WITH AL GREEN

Our Easter/Passover show, as Nick Spitzer talks to the one-and-only Rev. Al Green about growing up in rural Arkansas and how soul music leads to saving souls—including his own. Plus Passover music from downtown trumpeter Steven Bernstein.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Strawberry Soul Willie Mitchell
Soul Serenade, Capitol

Love & Happiness Al Green
Anthology, Hi

Take Me to the River Talking Heads
Sand in the Vaseline, Sire

The Preacher Horace Silver
The Blue Note Years, Blue Note

Backwoods Preacher Man Tony Joe White
The Best of Tony Joe White, Warner

Instrumental: The Preacher Jimmy Smith
The Master, Blue Note

INTERVIEW: Al Green

Go Down Moses Grant Green
Jazz Profile, Blue Note

Instrumental: Could You Be Loved Monty Alexander
Stir It Up, Telarc

Feast of the Passover Lee Scratch Perry
Arkology, Island

Elijah Dorothy Love Coates
The Great Gospel Women, Shanachie

INTERVIEW: Steven Bernstein

Manishtana Steven Bernstein
Diaspora Soul, Tzadik

Do Lord Preservation Hall Brass Band
In the Sweet Bye and Bye, Sony

Old Uncle Rabbit Hettie Godfrey
Afro-American Blues and Game Songs, Rounder

Rabbit Blues Smokey Babe
Shake ‘em on Down: The Real Country Blues, Arhoolie

Spring Is Here Charlie Byrd
The Savoy Story, Savoy

When The Springtime Comes Again The Carter Family
When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland, Rounder

Spring & All Greg Brown
Slant 6 Mind, Red House

End Bed: Sand Hill Cranes Recorded by Carolyn Johnsen of Nebraska Public Radio

HOUR TWO

Open Bed: Easter Parade Oscar Peterson
The Song Is You, Verve

Easter Parade Judy Garland
Her Greatest Movie Hits, Rhino

Easter Parade Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family

I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Cheek to Cheek: The Irving Berlin Songbook, Verve

Big Butter & Egg Man Kermit Ruffins
Big Butter & Egg Man, Justice

Instrumental: Stand Up, Sit Down Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell Quartet, Nonesuch

Resurrection Blues Cassandra Wilson
Traveling Miles, Blue Note

Love Ritual Al Green
Anthology, Hi

INTERVIEW: Al Green

Instrumental: An Unmarked Grave Up Bustle & Out
Cinematique, Shadow

Easter Bunny Boogie Willie Brown
Jumpin' the Blues, Ace

The Bunny Mitchell Froom
Dopamine, Atlantic

SEGMENT: Rabbits

Bunny Hop Mary Ann Meanus and Verbena Green
Heartbeat: Voices Of First Nations Women, Smithsonian

Peter Cottontail Gene Autry
The Gene Autry Collection, Rhino

Rabbit Foot Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson
Anthology of American Folk Music, Smithsonian

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