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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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FACE THE MUSIC AND VOTE! AMERICAN ROUTES 2020 ELECTION SHOW

October 28th, 2020

By mail, by ballot box, by pulling a lever or pushing a button on November 3rd, Americans will exercise their democratic right to vote for President, Senators, Congresspeople and, in many local elections, for legislators and judges to mosquito control officers and dogcatchers. It’s a big one folks! So we’ve created a soundtrack in words and music to get you to the polls. With jazz and gospel takes on American anthems; cool versions of civil rights songs like “If I Had a Hammer” and “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”; blues treatments warning “Be Careful How You Vote!”; a soul variation on “This Land is Your Land”; and songs about revolution… and restraint. It’s time to face the music and vote!

Vote! image used with permission by Globe Collection and Press at MICA

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  • Listen to Hour Two

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Star Spangled Banner Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra
    Make American Great Again!, Troubadour Jass Records
  • Mr. President Have Pity on the Working Man Randy Newman
    Good Old Boys , Warner
  • Political Science Natalie Merchant
    Rarities: 1998-2017, Nonesuch
  • Every Man a King Randy Newman
    Good Old Boys , Warner
  • Vote 'Em Out Willie Nelson
    Vote 'Em Out Single , Sony
  • Vote, Baby Vote Deee-lite
    Infinity Within , Elektra
  • Compared to What John Legend and The Roots
    Wake Up, Sony
  • Instrumental: Lift Every Voice and Sing Hank Crawford and Jimmy McGriff
    The Best of Hank Crawford and Jimmy McGriff , Fantasy
  • I Wish I knew How It Would Feel to be Free Nina Simone
    Silk and Soul , RCA
  • Be Careful How You Vote Sunnyland Slim
    Be Careful How You Vote , Airway Records
  • Lift Every Voice and Sing Southern Sons
    1940s Vocal Groups: Southern Sons and Richmond’s Harmonizing Four , Document
  • This Land is Your Land Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
    Naturally , Daptone Records
  • Instrumental: Rebel Rouser Bill Frisell
    Guitar in the Space Age, Songtone LLC
  • The Man in Black Johnny Cash
    The Man in Black , Columbia
  • Crawl Into the Promised Land Rosanne Cash
    Crawl Into the Promised Land Single , Blue Note
  • For What It's Worth Staple Singers
    Freedom Highway , Epic
  • Fortunate Son Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Creedence Clearwater Revival , Fantasy
  • U.S. Blues Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel , WB
  • Yes We Can Part 1 Lee Dorsey
    Yes We Can and Then Some , Polydor
  • One Love/People Get Ready Bob Marley and the Wailers
    Exodus, Island
  • Closing Bed: Stripes Otha Turner and the Afrossippi Allstars
    Otha Turner and the Afrossippi Allstars , Birdman Records

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: America the Beautiful The Happyland Band
    Saints Paradise: Trombone Shout Band of the United House of Prayer , Smithsonian Folkways
  • If I Had a Hammer Toussaint McCall
    Nothing Takes the Place of You, Fuel 2000
  • Right to Rock Trini Lopez
    Right To Rock single , Volk Records
  • V.O.T.E. (Public Service Announcement) Chris Stamey with Yo La Tengo
    V.O.T.E , Yep Roc
  • El Mexicano Los Cenzontles
    American Roulette , Los Centzontles
  • Will the Wolf Survive Los Lobos
    How Will the Wolf Survive , Slash
  • Instrumental: Kerr's Negro Jig Carolina Chocolate Drops
    Leaving Eden , Nonesuch
  • Think About Your Fellow Man The Cate Brothers
    Voices of Americana: When Love Comes , Demon Music Group
  • Old King Coal Sturgill Simpson
    Cuttin’ Grass Vol 1: The Butcher Shop Sessions , High Top Mountain Records
  • Breadline Blues 2008 Del McCoury, Mac Wiseman, Tim O'Brien, and Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
    Moneyland, McCoury Music
  • I Pity the Poor Immigrant Marion Williams
    The New Message , Atlantic
  • Political World Carolina Chocolate Drops
    Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan , Amnesty International
  • The New Mr. President Big Boy Henry
    Work's Many Voices Vol.1 LP , JEMF
  • Funky President (People It's Bad) James Brown
    Star Time , Polydor
  • Instrumental: We Shall Overcome Bill Frisell
    Valentine , Blue Note
  • Alabama John Coltrane
    The Gentle Side of John Coltrane , Impulse
  • Tryin' Times Roberta Flack
    First Take , Atlantic
  • Tryin' Times Ernest Franklin
    Holy Spirit: Spiritual Soul and Gospel Funk from Shreveport’s Jewel Records , Harmless
  • The Times They Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan
    The Times They Are A-Changin' , Columbia
  • Closing bed: Blues for Langston and LaRue Charles Lloyd
    Vanished Gardens , Blue Note

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