Robbie Fulks & Bettye LaVette
Join us for the sounds and stories of estranged country singer and songwriter Robbie Fulks. And R&B vixen Bettye LaVette takes us from the Motor City to Muscle Shoals, and Beale Street to Bourbon Street, as she recounts nearly 50 years of singing R&B.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Touch My Heart Lloyd Green
The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green, Koch
Sitting on Top of the World Doc Watson
Trouble in Mind: The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection, 1964-1998, Sugar Hill
Happy Woman Blues Lucinda Williams
Happy Woman Blues, Smithsonian Folkways
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Elizabeth Cotten
Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, Folkways
Lonesome Road Blues Muddy Waters
The Chess Box, MCA/Chess
This Old Road Kris Kristofferson
This Old Road, New West
End of the Road Jerry Lee Lewis
Classic Jerry Lee Lewis, Bear Family
Instrumental: Pan Handle Rag Leon McAuliffe & His Western Swing Band
Heroes of country Music, Vol.1: Legends of Western Swing, Rhino
INTERVIEW: Robbie Fulks
Great Speckled Bird Johnny Cash
Love, God, Murder, Columbia/American/Legacy
Paper Wings Gillian Welch
Revival, Almo Sounds
Wild Side of Life Charlie Feathers
Get With It: Essential Recordings 1954-69, Revenant
Instrumental: Great Speckled Bird Auldridge, Brozman & Grisman
Tone Poems III, Acoustic Disc
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Kitty Wells
In the Country of Country, Compass
The Wild Side of Life / It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Robert 'Bilbo' Walker
Promised Land, Rooster Blues
Stealin', Stealin' Memphis Jug Band
When the Sun Goes Down: The First Time I Met the Blues, Bluebird
I'm a Woman Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band
Greatest Hits!, Vanguard
Country Honk Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed, ABKCO
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Soul Serenade Willie Mitchell
Hi Records: The Hi Records R&B Years, Hi
Work With Me Annie Hank Ballard
Sexy Ways: The Best of Hank Ballard & the Midnighters, Rhino
Roll with Me Henry Ettta James
R&B Dynamite, Flair/Virgin
Brown Eyed Handsome Man Buddy Holly
The Buddy Holly Collection, MCA
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You Louis Prima and Keely Smith
Ultra-Lounge: Wild, Cool and Swingin', Vol. 1, Capitol
Someday, You'll Be Sorry Johnny St. Cyr
Johnny St. Cyr, American Music
Instrumental: Bogalusa Strut John Rankin
Guitar Gumbo, STR
Release Me Clifton Chenier
King of the Bayous, Arhoolie
He'll Have To Go Ry Cooder
Chicken Skin Music, Reprise
INTERVIEW: Bettye LaVette
Instrumental: Al's Theme Allen Toussiant
The Complete ‘Tousan' Sessions, Bear Family
All These Things Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint
The River in Reverse, Verve
Sea of Love Cookie and the Cupcakes
King of Swamp Pop, Ace
Walking to New Orleans Dr. John
Sing Me Back Home: The New Orleans Social Club, Burgundy
One Step at a Time Fats Domino
Alive and Kickin', Tipitina's Foundation
This Little Light of Mine Sam Cooke
At the Copa, ABKCO
End Bed: Sunday Mornin' Grant Green
Sunday Morning, Blue Note