Gulf Coast Blues and Jazz: Johnny Winter & Jason Moran

A visit with two native sons of the Texas Gulf Coast. Guitar slinger Johnny Winter grew up listening to the blues in Beaumont, Texas and took his talent for playing to the world. We talk with Winter about his Texas youth and his blues milestones. Jazz pianist Jason Moran started out in Houston playing classical music, but found his way to jazz through Thelonious Monk. We’ll learn more about his adventures in the NYC jazz scene.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Honky Tonk Johnny Winter
Roots, Megaforce

Route 90 Clarence Garlow
Lost Highways: American Road Songs 1920s-1950s, The Viper Label

Pipeliner Blues Moon Mullican
Moon's Rock, Bear Family

Turtle Blues Big Brother and the Holding Company
Cheap Thrills, Columbia/ Legacy

Long Telephone Port Arthur Cleveland Crochet and All the Sugar Bees
Cleveland Crochet and All the Sugar Bees, Goldband

Wrong Number Jon Cleary
Occapella, FHQ

Nice and Easy Barbara Lynn
The Crazy Cajun Recordings, Edsel

Instrumental: By the Night of the Silvery Moon Johnny Winter
Winter Essentials 1960-1967, Fuel

SEGMENT: Johnny Winter

The Red Rooster Howlin' Wolf
The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions, Chess

Mojo Hand Lightnin' Hopkins
The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins, Arhoolie

Have Blues, Will Travel Jerry Reed
The NRC Years: 1958-1960, Studio634

Instrumental: Sonny's Whoopin' The Doop Sonny Terry
Whoopin', Alligator

Hear My Train A Comin' Jimi Hendrix
Blues, Experience Hendrix/ Legacy

It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited, Sony

Southern Casey Jones Chuck Leavell
Back to the Woods, Evergreen Art

Trouble in Mind George Jones
Hank, Bob & Me, Fuel 2000

Lake Charles Lucinda Williams
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, Mercury

End Bed: Last Night Johnny Winter
White, Hot & Blue, Tristar Music

HOUR TWO

Open Bed: Moran Tonk Circa 1936 Jason Moran
Modernistic, Blue Note

Cane River Jimmy Witherspoon
The Bluesville Years - Volume One: Big Blues Honks and Wails, Prestige/Fantasy

If You Love Me Like You Say Albert Collins
Collins Mix, The Best of…, Virgin

Jelly Roll Charles Mingus
Mingus Ah-Um, Columbia/Legacy

Dancers in Love Duke Ellington
Piano Reflections, Capitol Jazz

Houston Jump Floyd Dixon
Cow Town Blues: The Seminal 1948-1950, Ace

Instrumental: Chica Boo Lloyd Glenn
Essential Blues Piano, HOB

SEGMENT: Jason Moran

Dust My Broom Cassandra Wilson
Loverly, Blue Note

Tou' Les Jours C'est Pas La Meme (Every Day Is Not the Same) Carol Fran
Our New Orleans 2005: A Benefit Album, Nonesuch

Instrumental: Lutcher's Leap Nellie Lutcher
Nelly Lutcher and Her Rhythm, Bear Family

Texas Woman Blues Taj Mahal
The Essential Taj Mahal, Columbia/Legacy

Twin Guitar Boogie Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
For the Last Time, Liberty

Sweet Texas Rose Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Down South in the Bayou Country, Sunnyside

Any-Kind-of-Man Victoria Spivey and Her Chicago Four
Blues Masters Vol. 11: Classic Blues Woman, Rhino

Old Man Blues Mose Allison
Gimcracks and Gewgaws, Blue Note

Lucky Old Sun Jerry Lee Lewis
Sun Classics, Charly

End Bed: Rock House Parts 1 & 2 Ray Charles
The Birth of Soul, Atlantic

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