MEDICINE SHOW
Step right up! It’s a sonic tonic for the mid-Winter blues as we turn to the healing power of music ranging from “Hadacol Boogie” to “Dr. Jazz.” Plus a visit with folk medicine practitioners and the music of New Orleans piano man Eddie Bo, who also offers advice in the healing arts.
HOUR ONE
Fever Little Willie John
All 15 of his Chart Hits, King
Fever The Three Suns
Cocktail Mix Vol.1, Rhino
Fever Thrill Rosie Ledet
Zesty Zydeco, Maison de Soul
High Fever Blues Corey Harris
Fish Ain't Bitin', Alligator
High Blood Pressure Huey Smith
The Very Best Of Vol.1, West Side
Rockin' Pneumonia, Boogie Woogie Flu Funky Meters
Get You a Healin', New Orleans Musicians Clinic
Instrumental: Live It Up Eddie Bo
The Hook and Sling, Tuff City
INTERVIEW: Eddie Bo
Got My Mojo Workin' Jimmy Smith
Got My Mojo Workin', Verve
Instrumental: Got My Mojo Workin' Clarence ‘Gatemouth' Brown
Standing My Ground
Bop Pills Macy Skipper
The Very Best of Sun Rockabilly, Charly
Snake Oil Steve Earle
Ain't Never Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection, Hip-o
Hadacol Boogie Bill Nettles
Fonville Winans Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press
Dr. Jazz Jelly Roll Morton
Birth of the Hot, RCA
HOUR TWO
Great Medical Menagerist Harmonica Frank
Harmonica Frank, Puritan
The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show The Band
Across the Great Divide, Capitol
Pneumonia Blues Lightnin' Hopkins
The Complete Prestige/Bluesville
Pneumonia Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson, Fantasy
Cocaine Habit Blues Memphis Jugband
Rukus Juice and Chittlins Vol.1, Shanachie
Jug Band Music Lovin' Spoonful
Anthology, Rhino
Instrumental: Jesus is a Dying Bedmaker 2 John Fahey
America, Takoma
Them Bones Mitchell's Christian Singers
The Gospel Tradition, Sony
Them Bones Eddie Kirk
Stax Volt Singles, Atlantic
Your Molecular Structure Mose Allison
Atlantic Vocal Jazz Classics, Rhino
I've Got You Under My Skin Louis Prima and Keely Smith
Capitol Collectors Series, Capitol
Instrumental: Big Shoe Bill Frisell
Good Dog Happy Man, Nonesuch
SEGMENT: Pharmacy Museum
Love Potion #9 The Clovers
The Best Of The Clovers, EMI
Spoonful Howlin' Wolf
His Best, MCA
Spoonful Gil Evans Orchestra
Cool Talkin' Verve, Verve
Dr. Feelgood Aretha Franklin
Aretha's Blues, Rhino