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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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SUMMER SURF WITH DICK DALE

June 21st, 2000

Back to the beach with “beach music” from both coasts. We’ll talk with surf guitarist Dick Dale, go lobstering in Maine, and visit Sea Breeze, a historically African-American beach in North Carolina. With music by Charles Mingus, James Brown and Astrud Gilberto.

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HOUR ONE

  • Summertime James Brown & Martha High
    Duets, Polydor
  • Too Hot The Specials
    The Specials, Chsalis
  • Beach Boy Blues Elvis Presley
    Blue Hawaii, RCA
  • Coconut Island Junior Brown
    12 Shades of Brown, Curb
  • King of the Surf Guitar Dick Dale
    Cowabunga! Box, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Bustin' Thru Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant
    Stratosphere Boogie, Razor & Tie
  • INTERVIEW: Dick Dale

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  • Miserlou Dick Dale
    Better Shred Than Dead: The Dick Dale Anthology, Rhino
  • The Wedge Dick Dale
    Better Shred Than Dead: The Dick Dale Anthology, Rhino
  • Like Swimming Morphine
    Like Swimming, Dreamworks
  • Fisherman's Wharf Peggy Lee
    Blues Cross Country, Capitol Jazz
  • INTERVIEW: Carl Schwab & Bruce McVane on Lobstering in Maine
  • Crawfish Fiesta Professor Longhair
    The Alligator Records 25th Anniversary Collection, Alligator Records
  • Love Letters in the Sand Jerry Lee Lewis
    Classic, Bear Family
  • Pouring Water on a Drowning Man James Carr
    The Essential, Razor & Tie
  • I'm Gonna Sail Like a Ship on the Ocean Henry Morrison
    Sound of the South: Negro Church Music, Atlantic
  • Jonah & the Whale Louis Armstrong
    Louis & the Good Book, MCA
  • Blue Tide Charles Mingus
    Complete Debut Recordings,
  • Shadows on the Sand Frank Sinatra
    The Popular Sinatra Vol.3, BMG

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Over the Waves George Lewis
    Hot Jazz on Blue Note,
  • Smooth Sailing Ella Fitzgerald
    The Very best Of Ella, Decca
  • Barnacle Bill the Sailor Louis Jordan
    The Anthology 1938-1953, MCA/Decca
  • Les Bons Temps Rouler David Doucet
    Quand J'ai Parti, Rounder
  • Red Sails In the Sunset Bobby Jay
    The Best of Excello Vol.1, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Hand Clappin' Red Prysock
    Blues Masters Vol.5: Jump Blues Classics, Rhino
  • INTERVIEW: Brenda Freeman, Alfred Mitchell, Chicken Hicks on Sea Breeze

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  • Everybody Needs Somebody to Love Solomon Burke
    The Best Of Solomon Burke, Rhino/Atlantic
  • Better Luck in the Summertime Robert Parker
    Golden Classics,
  • Don't Rock My Boat Bob Marley & The Wailers
    Selassie Is The Chapel, JAD
  • Instrumental: Wave Antonio Carlos Jobim
    The Man From Ipanema, Polygram
  • Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) Getz/Gilberto
    Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto,
  • La Playa Los Lobos
    This Time, Hollywood
  • Moon, Turn The Tides... gently gently away Jimi Hendrix
    Electric Ladyland, MCA
  • The Dolphins Fred Neil
    Everybody's Talkin': Theme From ‘Midnight Cowboy', Rev-Ola

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