Summer's Last Chance to Dance: New Orleans Live
This Labor Day weekend we bring out the best from the clubs in New Orleans. Recorded during the 2012 New Orleans Jazz Fest weekends, this music is sure to get your barbeque hopping and your picnic popping. We'll visit Preservation Hall for songs and stories by Steve Earle and Tao Seeger, plus a special tribute to late New Orleans trumpeter John Brunious. Then we head over to the Howlin' Wolf for a late night set by the 2012 Grammy winning Rebirth Brass Band
.
Chuck Leavell & Jon Cleary
Meet two piano professors from the South with two differing styles. First up, from Macon, GA,
Chuck Leavell
has played in more than a few of Rock's most iconic bands, from the Allman Brothers to the Rolling Stones. And while piano might be his day job, he's also a keeper of a Georgia forest and an honorary forest ranger! We talk to Chuck about his love of the keys and the trees. Then, it's a lesson in New Orleans funk a la keyboard with
Jon Cleary
, who breaks down the elements and reveals the Latin tinge to New Orleans piano favorites.