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SACRED STEEL BROTHERS AND A MUSICAL MODERNIST: ROBERT RANDOLPH & YUSEF LATEEF
Sacred steel guitarist Robert Randolph has gathered together the leading players of the genre for a 2013 recording, paying tribute to the past, and covering tunes outside the cannon. We’ll speak with him and one of his fellow Slide Brothers, Calvin Cooke. Then a conversation with the late musical modernist Yusef Lateef about his mentors and inspirations.
Yusef Lateef photo by David Redfern
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Wade in the Water The Slide Brothers
Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers, Concord - Don't Let the Devil Ride Sonny Treadway
Traditional Sacred African-American Steel Guitar Music in Florida, Arhoolie - The Devil and Jesus Eric Burdon
'Till Your River Runs Dry, ABKCO - Voodoo Cadillac Southern Culture on the Skids
Dirt Track Date, Geffen - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Big Maybelle
The Complete Okeh Sessions, Epic/Okeh/Legacy - I'm Shakin' Jack White
Blunderbuss, Third Man/Columbia - Who Do You Love Bo Diddley
His Best, Chess/MCA - Instrumental: Bluebonnet Rag Speedy West
Stratosphere Boogie, Razor and Tie - Sitting on Top of the World Moses Williams
Southern Street Musicians, NCTA/unreleased - Steel Guitar Stomp Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Legends of Country Music, Columbia/Legacy - Dire Wolf Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, Warner - Mother's Children Have a Hard Time Blind Willie Johnson
The Complete Blind Willie Johnson, Roots & Blues - Motherless Child Eric Clapton
From the Cradle, Reprise - Instrumental: Jewel Praise Calvin Cooke
Heaven, Dare Records - Segment: Robert Randolph and Calvin Cooke
Listen - Wade in the Water The Blind Boys of Alabama with Ben Harper
Higher Ground, Real World - Blue Sky The Allman Brothers Band
Eat a Peach, Capricorn - End Bed: Steelin' the Blues Tom Morrell
No Peddlers Allowed, WR
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Six Miles Next Door Yusef Lateef
The Blue Yusef Lateef, Atlantic - Jumpin with Symphony Sid King Pleasure
King Pleasure Sings/Annie Ross Songs, Original Jazz Classics - Down 'n' Adam Lester Young
The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve, Verve - Watcha Gonna Do When There Ain't No Swing Catherine Russell
Strictly Romancin', World Village - (Every Time I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone Roy Montrell
Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty - Othelia Yusef Lateef
Eastern Sounds, Prestige - Johnny Can't Dance Clifton Chenier
Louisiana Blues and Zydeco, Arhoolie - Instrumental: The Plum Blossom Yusef Lateef
Eastern Sounds, Prestige - Mean Old World Sam Cooke
Night Beat/Sam Cooke, RCA - That Old Feeling Lena Horne
Lena Horne: The Best of the RCA Years, BMG - My True Story Aaron Neville
My True Story, Blue Note - Tell It Like It Is Aaron Neville
The Best of Aaron Neville, A&M - Tell It Like It Is Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Robert Randolph
Medicated Magic, Ropeadope - Instrumental: Afternoon in Paris (Take 2) Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell, J.J. Johnson, Prestige - Segment: Yusef Lateef
Listen - Down by the Riverside The Blind Boys of Alabama with Allen Toussaint & Preservation Hall
Down in New Orleans, Time Life - End Bed: Just Us Blues Elvin Jones
Illumination!, Impulse
