Blues Jukes & Jazz Streets with Bill Ferris and Doreen Ketchens

We travel from Mississippi juke joints to the streets of the French Quarter to hear from those who record and perform music. Folklorist Bill Ferris recounts his experience documenting blues, gospel, fi fe & drum music, and folk arts in the Mississippi delta and hill country. Ferris recently compiled his recordings in the Voices of Mississippi boxed set. Then, New Orleans’ queen of the clarinet Doreen Ketchens serenades us from her post at Royal and St. Peters Street. Doreen tells how the clarinet brought her from the family’s sweet shop in Treme to a global stage. Plus, hot takes from Hot Tuna, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Lavern Baker, and Marvin Gaye.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Memphis Mail

Scott Dunbar

Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust to Digital

Railroadin' Some Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas

Ragtime Texas, Herwin

Freight Train Boogie Ira and Charlie Louvin

A Tribute to the Delmore Brothers, Capital

Lil' Liza Jane Scott Dunbar

Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust to Digital

Liza Jane Dale Hawkins

Oh! Susie Q: The Best of Dale Hawkins, Chess/MCA

L'il Liza Jane Kermit Ruffins

The Big Butter Egg Man, Justice

Instrumental: Nothing Wash Heron and Big Jack Johnson

Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust to Digital

I Got a Letter from Hot Springs Mississippi Fred McDowell

Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust to Digital

You Gotta Move Rolling Stones

Sticky Fingers, Virgin

Baby Please Don't Go Lawtell Playboys

La-La: Louisiana Black French Music, Maison de Soul

Instrumental: Bounceball Othar Turner & Rising Star Fife and Drum Band

Everybody Hollerin' Goat, Birdman

Eyesight to the Blind Sam Myers Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust to Digital

You Don't Know Like I Know Southland Singers Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust to Digital

Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning Hot Tuna First Pull Up and Then Pull Down, RCA Victor

SEGMENT: Bill Ferris

End Bed: Outlaws Bill Frisell

Blues Dream, Elektra Nonesuch

HOUR TWO

Open Bed: This Train and When the Saints Go Marching In Doreen Ketchens

American Routes recording in the French Quarter,

The Music Goes Round and Round Louis Prima

Louis Prima - Capitol Collector's Series, Capitol

(Every Time I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone Roy Montrell

Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty

Les Oignons Danny Barker, Albert Nicholas, James P. Johnson, Pops Foster

Jazz a la Creole, GHB Records

Froglegs Lloyd Price

Lawdy!, Specialty

Instrumental: Lord, Lord, Lord Doreen Ketchens

Doreen's Jazz New Orleans (Volume XIX), DJNO Records

SEGMENT: Doreen Ketchens

Lady Be Good Martin, Bogan and Armstrong

Barnyard Dance, Rounder

Jim Dandy Lavern Baker

Soul on Fire, Atlantic

Instrumental: Pretty Stars Were Made to Shine Bill Frisell

Blues Dream, Elektra Nonesuch

He'll Have to Go David Hidalgo with Los Cenzontles

Los Cenzontles: Covers 2, Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center

Reconsider Me Margaret Lewis

Reconsider Me, Ram Records

Long Telephone Port Arthur Cleveland Crochet and the Sugar Bees

Cleveland Crochet and All the Sugar Bees, Goldband

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer John Lee Hooker

The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Blues, MCA

One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) Marvin Gaye

Motown Celebrates Sinatra, Motown

End Bed: Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet

Blue Horizon: The Sidney Bechet Story, Proper Records

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