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ALL SAINTS
Tune into music dealing with death and rebirth, loss and resolution, for All Saints and All Souls Days, November 1 and 2. Music transcends the world of the living, as we listen to a jazz funeral for sax player Harold Dejan in the streets of New Orleans. Plus preacher, mortician, and amazing soul singer Solomon Burke tells his tale, and a visit to a local cemetery to see how the dead are honored this time of year. Includes music in the spirit from Pops Staples, King Oliver, Bob Dylan and Ralph Stanley.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Episcopal Hymn John Fahey
Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes , Takoma - In My Time of Dying Josh White
Free and Equal Blues , Smithsonian Folkways - In My Hour Of Darkness Gram Parsons
Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology , Rhino - I Wouldn't Mind Dying Dorothy Love Coates
Get On Board, Specialty - Death Letter Cassandra Wilson
Visions of Jazz: The First Century , Blue Note - Glory Glory Pops Staples
Father Father , Virgin - Instrumental: The Saints Boogie Sammy Price
Rib Joint , Savoy Jazz - SEGMENT: Solomon Burke
Listen - Jump for Joy The Campbell Brothers
None But The Righteous: The Masters of Sacred Steel , Ropeadope - Instrumental: Down In The Valley To Pray / Jesus, Make Up My Dyin' Bed Paul Asbell
Steel String Americana , Busy Hands - Fixin' To Die Dave Van Ronk
The Bluesville Years Vol.7: Blues Blue, Blues While , Prestige - Twelve Gates To The City Reverend Gary Davis
Rev. Gary Davis and Pink Anderson: Gospel, Blues and Street Songs , Riverside - I'm A Man of Constant Sorrow The Stanley Brothers
Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys: 1949-1952 , Bear Family - Gates of Eden Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home , Sony
HOUR two
- Open Bed: When The Saints Go Marching In Nicholas Payton
Gumbo Nouveau , Verve - Dead Man Blues Jelly Roll Morton
Birth of the Hot , Bluebird - St. James Infirmary King Oliver
King Oliver and his Orchestra 1929-1930 , JSP - SEGMENT: All Saints at St. Louis Cemetery
Listen - La Toussaint Steve Riley and Mamou Playboys
La Toussaint , Rounder - Saint Behind the Glass Los Lobos
El Cancionero: Mas Y Mas , Rhino - Instrumental: Streets of Laredo Duane Eddy
The Twang's The Thang /Songs of our Heritage , Bear Family - Rivers of Babylon Steve Earle
Train A Comin' , Winter Harvest - Many Rivers To Cross The Blind Boys of Alabama
Higher Ground , RealWorld - God Bless The Children The Heptones
The Heptones & Friends, Vol. 1 & 2 , Trojan - Instrumental: The Cat Jimmy Smith
The Master , Blue Note - When the Saints Go Marching In Napoleon Strickland
Negro Fife and Drum Bands: Traveling Through the Jungle , Testament - When the Saints Go Marching In Golden Gate Quartet
The Kings of Gospel , PMF - SEGMENT: Harold Dejan Jazz Funeral
Listen - Resolution John Coltrane
Love Supreme , Impulse - End Bed: It's Easy To Remember John Coltrane
Ballads , Impulse
