Words & Music V
Do the words make the song or the notes? What does it take to tell a good tale in music or about music? We put those questions to a few writers of both songs and stories. Singer-songwriter and memoirist Rosanne Cash sits down before a live audience to tell us about her authorial journey, then we chat with novelist Cyril Vetter on translating a musician's life into fiction. And New Orleans bluesman Little Freddie King spins a few tall tales from the juke joint.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: That's Alright Mama Bill Frisell
Disfarmer Nonesuch Records
You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover Bo Diddley
Willie Dixon: The Chess Box MCA Records, Inc.
Paper Back Writer The Beatles
The Beatles 1962-1966 Apple Records
Write Me a Few of Your Lines Mississippi Fred McDowell
The Best of Fred McDowell Arhoolie
Write Me a Few of Your Lines Bonnie Raitt
Takin' My Time Warner Bros.
Almost Persuaded Etta James
The Essential Etta James MCA Records
The Way We Make a Broken Heart John Hiatt w/ Rosanne Cash
The Best of John Hiatt Capitol Records
Instrumental: Death Letter Cassandra Wilson
New Moon Daughter Blue Note Records
I Walk the Line Johnny Cash
The Legend The Shelby Singleton Corp
SEGMENT: Rosanne Cash
Tennessee Flat Top Box Rosanne Cash
Kings Record Shop Columbia Records
I Still Miss Someone Johnny Cash
The Legend The Shelby Singleton Corp
Instrumental: Real Life Stories Donald Harrison
Real Life Stories Nagel HeyerRecords
Dark End of the Street James Carr
The Essential James Carr Razor and Tie Records
The Same Old Story Billie Holiday
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia Rcords
Summertime Herbie Hancock w/ Joni Mitchell & Stevie Wonder
Gershwin's World Verve, Polygram Records
Dixie Flyer Randy Newman
The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2 Nonesuch Records
End Bed: One Sweet Letter From You Coleman Hawkins & Lionel Hampton Orchestra
RCA Records
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Driftin' Christian McBride, Nicholas Payton, Mark Whitfield
Fingerpainting: The Music of Herbie Hancock Polygram records
Nirvana Tom Waits
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards Anti-
Bus to Baton Rouge Lucinda Williams
Essence Lost Highway records
SEGMENT: Cyril Vetter
Instrumental: Chicken Reel Bill Monroe and Doc Watson
Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record Volume 2 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Barnyard Dance Martin, Bogan and Armstrong
Barnyard Dance Rounder
Uncle Bud Boozoo Chavis
Who Stole My Monkey? Rounder
CLIP: Little Freddie King
Chicken Dance Little Freddie King
You Don't Know What I Know Fat Possum Records
Whole Lotta Shakin' Carl Perkins
The Classics Columbia/Sun
Instrumental: This Is the Pig Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile
Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile Nonesuch
May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight, Mister Charlie Poole
You Ain't Talkin' to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music Columbia, Legacy
Motorpsycho Nitemare Bob Dylan
Another Side of Bob Dylan Columbia Records
The Weight The Band
Music From Big Pink Capitol Records
I Can't Help From Cryin' Sometime The Staple Singers
The Staple Singers/Great Day Fantasy Records
Wrote a Song for Everyone Marvis Staples
You Are Not Alone ANTI‐
End Bed: Pop's Instrumental The Staple Singers
The Staple Singers/Great Day Fantasy Records