Small Town Hipsters: Nancy Wilson & Dickie Landry

This week we’ll hear from folks that started in small towns and made it big, in jazz, blues, country and more. Jazz singer Nancy Wilson called Chillicothe, Ohio home before moving on to become one of the hippest vocalists around. Lafayette, Louisiana is home base for musical polymath Dickie Landry. The saxophone player was a founding member of the Phillip Glass ensemble, works with the swamp pop ensemble Lil’ Band O’ Gold, and continues his own avant-garde musical experiments.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Alligator Boogaloo Lou Donaldson
Blue 45's, The Ultimate Jukebox, Blue Note

Way Down Home on the Farm Percy Mayfield
His Tangerine and Atlantic Sides, Rhino

My Country Man Big Maybelle
The Complete Okeh Sessions, 1952-55, Epic

One Room Country Shack Mose Allison
Back Country Suite, Prestige

Unsquare Dance The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Time Further Out, Columbia

Grey Eagle Alison Krauss
live recording from Folk Masters Concert Series

Instrumental: When It's Darkness on the Delta Country All Stars
Jazz From the Hills, Bear Family

Love Me Elvis Presley
The King of Rock ‘N' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters, RCA

Black Coffee Peggy Lee
Black Coffee, Verve

I'm Down to My Last Cigarette k.d. lang
Shadowland, Sire

Dayton, Ohio Randy Newman
Sail Away, Reprise

Lazybones Leon Redbone
No Regrets, Sugar Hill

Small Town Boy Louis Jordan
Let the Good Times Roll, Bear Family

Instrumental: Wabash Cannonball Adderley
Compact Jazz: Cannonball Adderley, PolyGram

INTERVIEW: Nancy Wilson

Trane's Slo Blues John Coltrane
The Prestige Recordings, Prestige

Night Train James Brown
Star Time, Polydor

Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording

HOUR TWO

Open Bed: Sonny Landreth
American Routes original recording

Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry
His Best, Volume 1, MCA/Chess

On the Road Again Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia

The Natural Facts Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Gospel of the Blues, MCA/Decca

Tear it Up Charlie Feathers
Uh Huh Honey, Norton

Instrumental: Almost Persuaded Lloyd Green
The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green, KOCH

Streets of Baltimore Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris
The Complete Reprise Sessions, Reprise/Rhino

Bright Lights Big City Jimmy Reed
Blues Masters: The Very Best of Jimmy Reed, Rhino

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man Dan Penn
Do Right Man, Sire

Folks Back Home Clarence ‘Gatemouth' Brown
Down South… in the Bayou Country, Barclay

Le Grand Bleu The Bluerunners
Le Grand Bleu, Louisiana Red Hot

INTERVIEW: Dickie Landry

Instrumental: Bayou Ponpon Richard Fontenot
Cajun Country Guitar, Folkways

Down South Blues Muddy Waters
The Aristocrat of the Blues: the Best of Aristocrat Records, MCA/Chess

Slow Rollin' Low Waylon Jennings
Nashville Rebel, RCA Nashville/Legacy

Green River Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fantasy

Driver 8 R.E.M.
And I Feel Fine… The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982 - 1987, EMI

End Bed: Ramble Link Wray & The Wraymen
Walkin' With Link, Epic

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