Making New Orleans Music
It’s a two-hour walk through streets of the city as we dive into two great eras of New Orleans music. First, it’s the 1940s and 50s R&B hit factory with studio man Cosimo Matassa; producer, arranger, trumpet player Dave Bartholomew; drummer Earl Palmer and more. There’s also a chat with The Meters—Art Neville, George Porter, Leo Nocentelli and Zigaboo Modeliste—in which we get to the bottom of the bottom, find out what’s in the pocket, and get a definition of funk from the four men who continue to dish it out.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: "Fats Domino Blues" and "I'm In Love Again" Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
Ain't It a Shame Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
Country Boy Dave Bartholomew
1947-50, Jazz Classics
SEGMENT: Stardust
Stardust Dave Bartholomew
1947-50, Jazz Classics
3x7=21 Jewel King
Genius of Dave Bartholomew, EMI
Instrumental: Dreaming Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
The Fat Man Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
Slippin' and Slidin' Little Richard
The Specialty Sessions, Specialty
SEGMENT: Beat
Rip It Up Little Richard
The Specialty Sessions, Specialty
I'm Walkin Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
Let the Four Winds Blow Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
Instrumental: Blueberry Hill Mose Allison
Back Country Suite, Prestige
Blueberry Hill Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
I'm Gonna be a Wheel Someday Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
Down The Road Smiley Lewis
Shame, Shame, Shame, Bear Family
One Night Elvis Presley
1950s Masters, RCA
In the Night Professor Longhair
New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
Blue Monday Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Chicken Strut The Meters
Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
Fiyo on the Bayou The Meters
Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
A Message From the Meters The Meters
Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
SEGMENT: Beginnings
Ease Back The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed
Fortune Teller Benny Spellman
Fortune Teller - Golden Classics, Collectables
Working In a Coal Mine Lee Dorsey
Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection, Arista
Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky From Now On Lee Dorsey
Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection, Arista
Instrumental: Cissy Strut Rod Piazza
Bluesman, LMI
I Been Hoodood Dr. John
In The Right Place, ATCO
Sophisticated Cissy The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed
Cissy Strut The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed
Look-Ka-Py-Py The Meters
Look-Ka-Py-Py, Sundazed
They All Asked for You The Meters
Funkify Your Life Vol.2, Rhino
Instrumental: Drums on Fire Donald Harrison, Jr.
Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. presents The New Sounds of Mardi Gras, FOMP
Hey Pocky Way The Meters
Rejuvenation, Sundazed
Here Dey Come Wild Tchoupitoulas
Wild Tchoupitoulas, Island
SEGMENT: The Rolling Stones/Paul McCartney
Africa The Meters
Uptown Rulers! Live on the Queen Mary, Rhino
Stormy The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed
Cissy Strut (Live) The Meters
Live Recording from 2005 New Orleans Jazz Fest