Words & Music
Find the connections between the literary landscape and soundscape. We talk with Columbia University jazz scholar Robert O’Meally about the music writings of Ralph Ellison, the Harlem Renaissance author best known for the novel Invisible Man. And visit with songsmith and wordsmith James Talley. Plus music about writing, reading and talking by Hank Williams, Cassandra Wilson and Bob Wills.
HOUR ONE
Chatter Box American Jazz Quintet
In the Beginning, AFO Classic
I'm Not Talking Mose Allison
Allison Wonderland: The Mose Allison Anthology, Rhino
Can't You Read Big Maceo
The King of Chicago Blues Piano, Arhoolie
Signifyin' Monkey Oscar Brown, Jr.
Sin & Soul…and Then More, Columbia
You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover Bo Diddley
His Best, Chess/MCA
Honey Hush The Johnny Burnette Trio
Rockabilly Boogie, Bear Family
Instrumental: Whistle Stop Mickey Baker
The Wildest Guitar, Sepia Tone
Words Solomon Burke
Home in Your Heart: The Best of Solomon Burke, Rhino/Atlantic
In My Diary The Moonglows
Blue Velvet: The Ultimate Collection, Chess/MCA
The Talk of the Town Little Jimmy Scott
The Savoy Years and More…, Savoy Jazz
Work House Blues Bessie Smith
Ralph Ellison: Living With Music, Columbia
Down Hearted Blues Jimmy Rushing and His Orchestra
Ralph Ellison: Living With Music, Columbia
Instrumental: Smarty, You Know It All Count Basie and His Orchestra
Vol.3: 1929-1937, Média 7
INTERVIEW: Robert O'Meally on Ralph Ellison
Flying Home Ella Fitzgerald
Masters of Jazz, Vol. 5: Female Vocal Classics, Rhino
Flying Home Johnny Otis and His Orchestra
Spirit of the Black Territory Bands, Arhoolie
End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording
HOUR TWO
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter Lionel Ferbos & John Robichaux
Lars Endegran Presents Lionel Ferbos & John Robichaux, GHB
Take Me Back to Tulsa Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan
United Artists Hall of Fame, United Artists
W. Lee O'Daniel and the Light Crust Doughboys James Talley
Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got A Lot Of Love, Cimarron
INTERVIEW: James Talley
Instrumental: Big Taters in a Sandy Land James Talley
Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got A Lot Of Love, Cimarron
Paperback Writer Charles River Valley Boys
Beatle Country, Elektra
Write me a Few of Your Lines / Kokomo Blues Bonnie Raitt
Takin' My Time, Warner Bros.
Sad Letter Muddy Waters
More Real Folk Blues, Chess/MCA
Death Letter Cassandra Wilson
New Moon Daughter, Blue Note
The Letter Edged in Black Johnny Cash
Personal File, Columbia/Legacy
Instrumental: Future Shot At The Rainbow Peter Lang
The Thing At The Nursery Room Window, Takoma
Mansion on the Hill Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska, Columbia
Mansion on the Hill Hank Williams
The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury
Richard Cory Simon & Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence, Columbia
A Satisfied Mind Porter Wagoner
Greatest Songs, Curb
My Back Pages The Byrds
Younger Than Yesterday, Columbia/Legacy
End Bed: Anji Simon & Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence, Columbia