SACRED STEEL BROTHERS AND A MUSICAL MODERNIST: ROBERT RANDOLPH & YUSEF LATEEF
Sacred steel guitarist Robert Randolph has gathered together the leading players of the genre for a 2013 recording, paying tribute to the past, and covering tunes outside the cannon. We’ll speak with him and one of his fellow Slide Brothers, Calvin Cooke. Then a conversation with the late musical modernist Yusef Lateef about his mentors and inspirations.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Wade in the Water The Slide Brothers
Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers, Concord
Don't Let the Devil Ride Sonny Treadway
Traditional Sacred African-American Steel Guitar Music in Florida, Arhoolie
The Devil and Jesus Eric Burdon
'Till Your River Runs Dry, ABKCO
Voodoo Cadillac Southern Culture on the Skids
Dirt Track Date, Geffen
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Big Maybelle
The Complete Okeh Sessions, Epic/Okeh/Legacy
I'm Shakin' Jack White
Blunderbuss, Third Man/Columbia
Who Do You Love Bo Diddley
His Best, Chess/MCA
Instrumental: Bluebonnet Rag Speedy West
Stratosphere Boogie, Razor and Tie
Sitting on Top of the World Moses Williams
Southern Street Musicians, NCTA/unreleased
Steel Guitar Stomp Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Legends of Country Music, Columbia/Legacy
Dire Wolf Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, Warner
Mother's Children Have a Hard Time Blind Willie Johnson
The Complete Blind Willie Johnson, Roots & Blues
Motherless Child Eric Clapton
From the Cradle, Reprise
Instrumental: Jewel Praise Calvin Cooke
Heaven, Dare Records
Segment: Robert Randolph and Calvin Cooke
Wade in the Water The Blind Boys of Alabama with Ben Harper
Higher Ground, Real World
Blue Sky The Allman Brothers Band
Eat a Peach, Capricorn
End Bed: Steelin' the Blues Tom Morrell
No Peddlers Allowed, WR
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Six Miles Next Door Yusef Lateef
The Blue Yusef Lateef, Atlantic
Jumpin with Symphony Sid King Pleasure
King Pleasure Sings/Annie Ross Songs, Original Jazz Classics
Down 'n' Adam Lester Young
The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve, Verve
Watcha Gonna Do When There Ain't No Swing Catherine Russell
Strictly Romancin', World Village
(Every Time I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone Roy Montrell
Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty
Othelia Yusef Lateef
Eastern Sounds, Prestige
Johnny Can't Dance Clifton Chenier
Louisiana Blues and Zydeco, Arhoolie
Instrumental: The Plum Blossom Yusef Lateef
Eastern Sounds, Prestige
Mean Old World Sam Cooke
Night Beat/Sam Cooke, RCA
That Old Feeling Lena Horne
Lena Horne: The Best of the RCA Years, BMG
My True Story Aaron Neville
My True Story, Blue Note
Tell It Like It Is Aaron Neville
The Best of Aaron Neville, A&M
Tell It Like It Is Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Robert Randolph
Medicated Magic, Ropeadope
Instrumental: Afternoon in Paris (Take 2) Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell, J.J. Johnson, Prestige
Segment: Yusef Lateef
Down by the Riverside The Blind Boys of Alabama with Allen Toussaint & Preservation Hall
Down in New Orleans, Time Life
End Bed: Just Us Blues Elvin Jones
Illumination!, Impulse