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Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins July 6th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins

New Orleans’ own Basin Street Records is a homegrown record label featuring superstars of the local sound like the Rebirth Brass Band, Davell Crawford, Jason Marsalis and Kermit Ruffins. The label got its start with a live recording of Kermit’s band at the Uptown club Tipitina’s in 1997. Now, over two decades later and several Grammy Awards under its belt, Basin Street Records still holds true to the sounds of New Orleans. We talk with Basin Street founder Mark Samuels about the label’s history. We listen in on the artists who call it home, including Jon Cleary, whose “Quarantini Sessions” streamed live from his Funk Headquarters in the 9th Ward and helped us get through these challenging times. Then, a live concert and conversation with Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers from Esplanade Studios in the Historic Treme neighborhood of New Orleans.

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March 14th, 2018

We’re on the road again, dialed into high-flying honky-tonk as we cruise through Texas cotton patches and Midwestern pastures of plenty. Starting off in Illinois farm country, we meet up with Margo Price, who followed her dreams of songwriting to Nashville, Tennessee. She put her name on the map with songs about growing up in rural America, and has since dug in her heels while singing about a landscape of gender and economic inequities. Then, we look in the rear view mirror to our 2000 in-studio performance and interview with Willie Nelson, who reminisces about his hometown of Abbott, Texas, and the “opera of voices” he heard in its fields. Plus, songs from Muhlenberg County, Butcher Hollow, New Orleans’ 9th Ward, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska and Hendrix’s Both Sides of the Sky.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Honky-Tonk Angels Buddy Emmons
    The Steel Guitar and Dobro Sounds of Shot Jackson and Buddy Emmons, Nashville Records
  • A Real Country Song Dale Watson
    Blackjack, Dale Watson
  • Coal Miner's Daughter Loretta Lynn
    Greatest Hits Vol. 2, MCA
  • 9 Pound Hammer John Prine
    Sweet Revenge, Atlantic
  • Knockin' on Your Screen Door John Prine
    The Tree of Forgiveness , Oh Boy
  • Tennessee Jed Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead Europe '72, Warner
  • Instrumental: West Coast Blues Merle Travis & Joe Maphis
    Country Music's Two Guitar Greats: Merle Travis & Joe Maphis, Capitol
  • SEGMENT: Margo Price

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  • Tennessee Arrested Development
    3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of, Capitol
  • Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine Margo Price
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  • Instrumental: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Merle Travis
    Strictly Guitar, Capitol
  • Pastures of Plenty Michael Hurley and Jon Neufeld
    Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie's 26 Northwest Songs, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Outlaw Blues Bob Dylan
    Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
  • Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight Marcia Ball
    Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight/I'll Be Doggone, Capitol
  • Walkin' to New Orleans Fats Domino
    The Legendary Imperial Recordings, Capital/EMI
  • Louisiana Percy Mayfield
    Percy Mayfield: Lost Love the Singles A's and B's, Jasmine
  • Closing Bed: Careless Love Seva Venet
    New Orleans Banjo, Vol. 1: Musieu Bainjo, Seva Venet

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Twin Guitar Boogie Bob Wills
    For the Last Time, Liberty
  • Wild, Wild Young Men Ruth Brown
    Miss Rhythm: Greatest Hits and More, Atlantic
  • Back in Business Beverly "Guitar" Watkins
    Back in Business, Music Makers
  • SEGMENT: Margo Price pt. 2

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  • Instrumental: Down Yonder Willie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Willie Nelson

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  • Instrumental: Sweet Angel Jimi Hendrix
    Both Sides of the Sky, Columbia Legacy
  • Lonesome Road Blues Cryin' Sam Collins
    Before the Blues Vol. 1, Yazoo
  • Johnny 99 Bruce Springsteen
    Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen
  • On the Road Again Canned Heat
    Boogie with Canned Heat, Liberty
  • Things I Used to Do Jimi Hendrix
    Both Sides of the Sky, Columbia Legacy
  • On My Way Luke Winslow King
    I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always, Bloodshot
  • Closing bed: Jungle Jimi Hendrix
    Both Sides of the Sky, Columbia Legacy

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