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BAD LUCK / GOOD LUCK
Baton Rouge bluesman Henry Gray, composer of “I’m a Lucky, Lucky Man,” plays piano and tells tales of life’s downs and ups from humble beginnings to reknown as a musician. Guitarist and singer John Hammond Jr. was born into an urbane East Coast family with music business connections, but chose the country blues as a way of life. He speaks about his travels and fortunes as a musician, and his recent collaboration with Tom Waits. Plus we visit with the fortune teller, light a candle, and ask you to listen for the luckiest music mix in the world.
HOUR ONE
- Wheel of Fortune Little Jimmy Scott
Everybody's Somebody's Fool, Decca - Never Get Out of this World Alive Delta Rhythm Boys
The Jive is Jumpin': RCA & Bluebird Vocal Groups, 1939-52, West Side - Never Get Out of this World Alive Hank Williams
The Compete Hank Williams, Mercury - Gambler's Yodel Doc Watson
Ballads from Deep Gap, Vanguard - I'm a Bad Luck Woman Memphis Minnie
Hoodoo Lady 1933-1937, Sony - Instrumental: Sahara Mac ‘Dr. John' Rebennack
Dr. John: Medical School, MCI - SEGMENT: Sandra Blenden and Felix Figueroa of F&F Botanica and Candle shop
Listen - Fortune Teller Benny Spellman
Minit Records Story, EMI - Four Leaf Clover ReBirth Brass Band
Do Whatcha Wanna, Mardi Gras - Invocando a Chango Ernesto Lecuona and the Lecuona Cuban Boys
Mambo Cubano: The Golden Age of Cuban Music 1940-1960, Proper/Retro - Fallaste Corazón Cuco Sanchez
Mexicanisimo: 24 Exitos, CBS International - Instrumental: Klezmer Dances: Introduction Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
L.A.G.Q., Sony Classical - Dear Someone Gillian Welch
Time (The Revelator), Acony - Stones In My Passway John Hammond
The Best of, Vanguard - INTERVIEW: John Hammond Jr
Listen - Happy Go Lucky Local Duke Ellington
Blues Masters Vol.13: New York City Blues, Rhino
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Mr. Lucky Si Zentner
Ultra Lounge Vol. 13: TV Town, Capitol - Stormy Monday Them
Them Featuring Van Morrison, London - Stormy Monday Lou Rawls
Anthology, Capitol - I'm Just a Lucky So and So Ella Fitzgerald
The Very Best of Ella, Decca - I'm Just a Lucky So and So Eddie Lockjaw Davis
Giants of the Blues & Funk Tenor Sax, Fantasy - Mean Old World Little Walter
The Essential, MCA/Chess - Mean Old World Sam Cooke
Night Beat, Abkco - Instrumental: Slim's Shout Sunnyland Slim
Slim's Shout, Fantasy - INTERVIEW: Henry Gray
Listen - I Ain't Superstitious Howlin' Wolf
His Best: Chess 50th Anniversary Collection, MCA - I Had My Chance Morphine
Yes, Rykodisc - Instrumental: Feelin' Bad Blues Ry Cooder
music by Ry Cooder, Warner Bros - Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen The Staple Singers
Great Day, Milestone - Rolling Stone Bob Marley & The Wailers
Wailing Wailers at Studio One, Vol.2, Heartbeat - Ol' 55 Tom Waits
Closing Time, Asylum - That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around) Jerry Lee Lewis
Classics Box, Bear Family - Close bed: I'm Just a Lucky So and So Yusef LaTeef
The Riverside Records Story, Riverside
