Music and Memory: the Lewis Family Museum, Haney's Big House & New Orleans Jazz Funeral
This week on American Routes, we’ll first take a tour of the Lewis Family Museum and liquor store in Ferriday, LA, where Jerry Lee Lewis’ sister Frankie Jean shows us around their family home. Then we’ll visit with the mayor of Ferriday and others who remember Haney’s Big House, which burned down in 1966. Across the river in Natchez, MS, bluesman Hezekiah Early looks back on playing in Haney’s house band. Back down in New Orleans, we’ll talk with Treme Brass Band’s leader and snare drummer Benny Jones and bass drummer Joe Lastie about their late drummer and friend Uncle Lionel Batiste.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Harmonica Shuffle Hezekiah & the Houserockers
Hezekiah & the Houserockers, High Water
Great Balls Of Fire Jerry Lee Lewis
The Locust Years..., Bear Family
M.I.S.S.I.S.S.I.P.P.I. Ella Fitgerald
1950, Classics
Big River Johnny Cash
The Man In Black: 1954-1958, Bear Family
Natchez Shopping Blues Olu Dara
In the World: From Natchez to New York, Atlantic
The Natchez Burnin' Howlin' Wolf
The Chess Box, MCA/ Chess
SEGMENT: Haney's Big House with Charles Bell & Mayor McGlothin
Instrumental: Jookin' Noble ' Thin Man' Watts and King Curtis
The Fire/ Fury Records Story, Capricorn
SEGMENT: Hezekiah Early
Meet Me Down in Froggy Bottom Mississippi Fred McDowell
The Best of Mississippi Fred McDowell, Arhoolie
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Big Maybelle
The Complete Okeh Sessions 1952-1955, Epic/ Okeh
SEGMENT: The Lewis Family Museum
Instrumental: I've Got a Robe (Goin' to Shout All Over God's Heav'n) Charlie Haden & Hank Jones
Steal Away, Verve
Precious Memories Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Ladies of Gospel - Women of Gospel: Precious Memories, Peacock/ MCA
Son of a Preacher Man Dusty Springfield
Dusty in Memphis, Rhino
I Remember You Frank Ifield
The Best of the EMI Years, Parlophone
Nothing Takes the Place of You Toussaint McCall
Nothing Takes the Place of You, Fuel
Lake Charles Lucinda Williams
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Mercury
End Bed: La Valse a Howard Hebert Les Freres Michot
Eleves a Pillette, ArZed
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Just a Closer Walk With Thee Treme Brass Band
Gimme My Money Back, Arhoolie
First Air of Autumn Drive-By Truckers
English Oceans, ATO
Big Iron Marty Robbins
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, Columbia
Gregorio Cortez Los Hermanos Banda
Mexican-American Border Music Vol.1 1928-1958, Arhoolie
Pancho and Lefty Delbert McClinton
Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt, Free Falls Entertainment
Me and Paul Willie Nelson
Yesterday's Wine, Justice
Instrumental: Red River Road, Part One Los Cenzontles with David Hidalgo & Pete Sears Songs of Wood and Steel, Los Cenzontles Mexican
Smokey Joe's Cafe Buddy Holly
Memorial Collection, Geffen
Teddy's Juke Joint Jackie Scott and the Housewreckers
How Much Woman Can You Stand, Jackie Scott
The New San Francisco Bay Blues Hurray for the Riff Raff
Small Town Heroes, ATO
(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay Otis Redding
Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding, Rhino
Instrumental: These Foolish Things Lester Young
The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve, Universal
Travelin' Light Billie Holiday
The Essential Billie Holiday: Songs of Lost Love, Verve
Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming) Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
Careless Love Lionel Batiste Sr.
Lars Edegran presents Uncle Lionel, GHB
SEGMENT: Treme Brass Band
End Bed: Oh, Didn't He Ramble Kid Ory
1922-1945, Classics