TRUE BELIEVERS AND HARDWORKING TROUBADOURS: POST-PUNK FOLKSINGER, LEE BAINS, & SWAMP POP HERO, TOMMY MCLAIN
For Labor Day weekend, it’s true believers and hardworking troubadours. First, Lee Bains, Birmingham, Alabama’s post-punk folksinger whose songs seek social justice, inclusive humanity and protection of the environs as a sacred quest. Then, octogenarian Louisiana Swamp Pop hero Tommy McLain, who brought his classic ’60s songs and music mix of country, blues, rock and gospel to clubs and casinos, now recording with Elvis Costello and touring with Nick Lowe. Plus music from Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, Little Richard, and Marcia Ball.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Roebuck Parkway Lee Bains and the Glory Fires
There is a Bomb in Gilead, Alive Natural Sound Records
Hard Travelin' Woody Guthrie
Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways
Outlaw Blues Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
Midnight Rider Allman Brothers
Idlewild South, Capricorn
Ramblin' Johnny Shines
Johnny Shines and Robert Lockwood, Paula
Ramblin Man Hank Williams and his Drifting Cowboys
Just a Country Singer, Country Master
Instrumental: Ramblin' Charles Lloyd & the Marvels
Tone Poem, Blue Note
Freight Train The Dexateens
Hardwire Healing, Cornelius Chapel Records
72 (This Highway's Mean) Drive-By Truckers
Southern Rock Opera, Lost Highway Records
SEGMENT: Lee Bains
Instrumental: The Memphis Mail Scott Dunbar
Voices of Mississippi—Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust-to-Digital
Mississippi Goddam Kelsey Waldon, Adia Victoria, Kyshona Armstrong
Mississippi Goddam single, Oh Boy
I Wish Knew How it Would Feel to be Free Nina Simone
Silk & Soul, Sony Entertainment
Night Train James Brown
James Brown—Star Time, UMG
Blue Train Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two
Johnny Cash: The Man, the World, His Music, Sun Records
Hear My Train A Comin' Jimi Hendrix
People, Hell and Angels, Experience Hendrix
End Bed: Blue Train John Coltrane
Blue Train, Capitol
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Just Because Tommy McLain
Tommy McLain: The Essential Collection, Jin
Greenwood Mississippi Little Richard
Little Richard—The Rill Thing, Reprise
Green River Eilen Jewell
Green River Single, Signature Sounds
Suzie Q Dale Hawkins
Presenting Dale Hawkins, Chess
Livin' On the Losin End Tommy McLain
I Ran Down Every Dream, Yep Roc
Sweet Suzannah Clint West
Clint West—Swamp Pop Legend, The Essential Collection, Jin
Leavin' Louisiana in the Broad Daylight Marcia Ball
Outlaws & Armadillos—Country's Roaring Seventies, Sony
Instrumental: Switchit Danny James
Danny James—Boogie in the Mud, Goldband
Jukebox Songs Tommy McLain
Swamp Pop Music, Vol. 2, Demon S&C
Try to Find Another Man Tommy McLain, Clint West & the Boogie Kings
Tommy McLain: The Essential Collection, Jin
Here Comes that Feeling Nick Lowe
Here Comes that Feeling single, Yep Roc
SEGMENT: Tommy McLain
Instrumental: Appelousa Danny James
Danny James—Boogie in the Mud, Goldband
Bama Lama Bama Loo Little Richard
The Very Best of Little Richard, Specialty
Sticks and Stones Tommy McLain
Tommy McLain: The Essential Collection, Jin
Dream a Little Dream of Me Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald
Love, Ella, Verve
Before I Grow too Old Fats Domino
Fats Domino—The Complete Imperial Singles, Capitol
End Bed: When I Grow too Old to Dream Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith—Back at the Chicken Shack, Blue Note