Downhome in the Big City: Norah Jones and Andy Statman
We’ll spend time with two eclectic NYC-based musicians who mix up country with jazz and other traditions. Multi-instrumentalist Andy Statman comes from a family steeped in Jewish musical traditions, but got the bluegrass bug playing with David Grisman and Tony Trischka. We’ll talk about his explorations of bluegrass, klezmer, free jazz and now duets with tea kettles. Then singer and pianist Norah Jones, known for her own personal stamp on jazz, shares the country side of life in her recent work with The Little Willies. Plus lots of “citified” country songs and downhome urban tunes.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Tommy Rockwood The Little Willies
For the Good Times, Milking Bull
Dixie Fried Carl Perkins
Sun: The Singles Collection: Vol.2, Bear Family
Dixie Chicken Little Feat
Dixie Chicken, Warner Brothers
Goin' Back to the City Onie Wheeler
Ain't I'm a Dog: 25 More Rockabilly Rave-Ups, Columbia/Epic/Legacy
Fist City The Little Willies
For the Good Times, Milking Bull
She Ain't For Nobody Roosevelt Sykes
The Honeydripper, Prestige
Instrumental: Down Yonder Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You) Waylon Jennings
The Essential Waylon Jennings, BMG/ RCA
Night Life The Little Willies
The Little Willies, Milking Bull
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
SEGMENT: Norah Jones
Instrumental: Cold, Cold Heart Bill Frisell
The Willies, Nonesuch
Cold, Cold Heart Dinah Washington
Jazz Masters 19: Dinah Washington, Verve
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Al Green
Country Meets Soul, Cream/ Hi
I Can't Get You Off My Mind Bob Dylan
Hank Williams: Timeless, Lost Highway
I'm a Long Gone Daddy Hank III
Hank Williams: Timeless, Lost Highway
Forget Me Not The Civil Wars
Barton Hollow, Sensibility
Lonestar Norah Jones
Come Away With Me, Blue Note
End Bed: Bandera Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Ocean Parkway After Dark Andy Statman
Old Brooklyn, Shefa
Silkene Pajamas (Take #3) Dave Tarras
TANZ! With Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers, Epic/ Legacy
Rag Mama Jim Kweskin Jug Band
Greatest Hits!, Vanguard
Sunny Side of the Mountain Jimmy Martin
The King of Bluegrass, Country Music Foundation Inc.
Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning Vassar Clements
Living with the Blues, Acoustic Disc
New York Town Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Hard Travelin': Songs by Woody Guthrie and Others, Fantasy
I Was Young When I Left Home Jenny Scheinman
Jenny Scheinman, Koch
Instrumental: I Want to Go Home Bill Frisell
The Willies, Nonesuch
116th and Lennox Jackie McLean
Swing, Swang, Swingin', Blue Note
SEGMENT: Andy Statman
Instrumental: The Sudbury Nickel Joe Doe & the Sadies
Country Club, Yep Roc
The Devil Never Sleeps Iron & Wine
The Shepherd's Dog, Sub Pop
Promised Land Chuck Berry
The Chess Box, Chess/ MCA
Return of the Grievous Angel Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris
GP/ Grievous Angel, Reprise
I Dreamed of a Hill-billy Heaven Cowboy Copas
Mister Country Music, Starday
That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) Louis Armstrong
Highlights from HIs Decca Years, Decca
End Bed: Like It Is Erroll Garner
That's My Kick & Gemini, TelArchive