EASTER PARADE & PASSOVER: MUSIC FOR HOLY DAYS AND HOLIDAYS
For Easter: a live bluegrass set from Del McCoury from the National Folk Festival and a conversation with Chicago gospel giants The Highway Q.C.‘s. We’ll give the chocolate rabbits, colored eggs, Jesus and believers their due in songs by Woody Guthrie, the Staple Singers, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Bob Dylan. Plus Passover themes from the Caribbean to New York. Join us for that and our Easter Parade of holiday and holy day hits.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: The Bunny Hop The Champs
Great Dance Hits, PnR
Honey Bop Wanda Jackson
20 Rock 'n Roll Hits, Capitol
Easter Bunny Boogie Willie Brown
Easter Bunny Boogie, Aladdin Records
I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
Ella and Louis Again, Verve
I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket Bob Wills
Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 6, Rhino
Big Eyed Rabbit 2016 Kilby New Year's Eve Jam
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SEGMENT: Rabbit Blues
Instrumental: Easter Parade Oscar Peterson
The Complete Mercury/Clef Recordings, Verve
Rabbit Blues Charley Booker
Original Folk Blues: Mississippi Blues, United
Easter Parade Fats Domino
Miss You So, Imperial
When the Saints Go Marching In Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet-Runnin' Wild (with Wild Bill Davidson), Blue Note
Feast of the Passover The Congos
Arkology, Island
The Israelites Desmond Dekker and the Aces
Desmond Dekker-The Definitive Collection, Trojan
Der Twistin Sher Lou Klayman & His Orchestra
Twistin' the Freilach, Essential World Masters
Christian Automobile Sons of Andros
The Bahamas-Islands of Song, Smithsonian Folkways
Loves Me Like a Rock The Dixie Hummingbirds
We Love You Like a Rock, Peacock
Jesus is On the Mainline Mississippi Fred McDowell
Mississippi Fred MacDowell-I Do Not Play No Rock 'N' Roll The Complete Sessions, Capitol
Instrumental: In Christ there is no East or West John Fahey
The Legend of Blind Joe Death, Takoma
Jesus Christ Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land-The Asch Recordings Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
Blowin' in the Wind Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Columbia
Don't Knock The Staple Singer
The Staple Singer-Legacy Gospel, Sonorous Records
Gotta Serve Somebody Bob Dylan
Slow Train Coming, Columbia
End Bed: Gospel Interlude Billy Preston
Hymns Speak from the Organ, Exodus Records
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Gospel in My Soul
The Complete Vee-Jay Recordings, Concord
Straight Street The Pilgrim Travelers
The Best of the Pilgrim Travelers, Speciality
Put A Little Love in Your Heart Albertina Walker and the Caravans
One of These Days, Sonorus Records
Just the One I've Been Looking For Johnnie Taylor
Wanted: One Soul Singer, Atlantic
SEGMENT: Highway Q.C.'s
Instrumental: Swing Low Sweet Chariot Hank Jones and Charlie Haden
Steal Away-Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs, Jazz Heritage
Backwoods Preacher Man Tony Joe White
Homemade Ice Cream, Warner
Why Me Lord Johnny Cash
Cash, American Recordings
Over in the Glory Land The Stanley Brothers
16 Gospel Hits, Gusto
I'll Fly Away Gillian Welch and Allison Krauss
Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Mercury
SEGMENT: Del McCoury
Instrumental: Fiddle Tune Del McCoury Bluegrass Band
Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD,
Dark Hollow Del McCoury Bluegrass Band
Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD,
High on the Mountain Del McCoury Bluegrass Band
Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD,
Vincent Black Lightning Del McCoury Bluegrass Band
Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD,
All Aboard Del McCoury Bluegrass Band
Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD,
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Del McCoury Bluegrass Band
Live at the 2021 National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD,
End Bed: Wildwood Flower David Grisman and Tony Rice
David Grisman, Tony Rice-Tone Poems, Acoustic Disc