Musical Couples: Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, Leroy Jones & Katja Toivola
We’ll talk with a pair of musical couples, to learn the secrets of sharing the spotlight and making beautiful music together. Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion are folk musicians who met in the alt-country scene in LA. Today, with two daughters and a successful career sharing the stage, they sing for families and clubs around the country. Leroy Jones is a trumpet player from New Orleans and his wife, Katja Toivola is a trombone player from Finland. We’ll visit their home in the Treme to find out more about their love of bringing New Orleans jazz to world.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Chitlin Con Carne Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy
Hoodoo Man Blues, Delmark
Tramp Otis Redding and Carla Thomas
Atlantic Rhythm & Blues, 1947-1974, Atlantic
I Ain't Gonna Let You In Paul Gayten and Annie Laurie
Regal Records in New Orleans, Specialty
No estes Sonando (I Hear You Knockin') Freddie Fender
Canciones de Mi Barrio: The Roots of Tejano Rock, Arhoolie
Moonglow, Lamp Low Eleni Mandell
Miracle of Five, Zedtone
You're the Cream in My Coffee Nat King Cole Trio
The Best of the Nat King Cole Trio: The Vocal Classics 1942-46, Capitol Jazz
We Go Together George Jones & Tammy Wynette
George & Tammy Super Hits, Epic
Instrumental: Tee Nah Nah Tuts Washington
New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder
Get a Working Man Billie and DeDe Pierce
Gulf Coast Blues, Arhoolie
Milk 'Em in the Morning Blues Sam & Kirk McGee
Live: 1955-1967, Outstanding in Their Field, Arts Center of Cannon County
Car Song Woody Guthrie
Smithsonian Folkways Children's Music Collection, Smithsonian Folkways
SEGMENT: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion
Instrumental: Sleepwalk Santo & Johnny
Billboard Top Rock & Roll HIts: 1959, Rhino
Me and Bobby McGee Janis Joplin
Pearl, Columbia
Up On Cripple Creek The Band
Across the Great Divide, Capitol
I Was Made to Love Her Stevie Wonder
The Definitive Collection, Motown
Jackson Jerry lee Lewis and Linda Gail Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis: The Locust Years and… the Return to the Promised Land, Bear Family
Oh, What a Good Thing We Had June Carter & Johnny Cash
Carryin' On With Johnny Cash & June Carter, Columbia/ Legacy
Stop and Think It Over Dale and Grace
Golden Dozen Hits by Various Recording Stars, Jin
End Bed: Kickapoo Juice Paul Gayten
Regal Records in New Orleans, Specialty
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: I've Found a New Baby New Orleans Helsinki Connection
Paradise on Earth, NOHC
Don't You Make Me High Blue Lu Barker with Danny Barker
Blue Lu Barker 1938-1939, Classics
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Verve
Baby It's Cold Outside Ray Charles and Betty Carter
Ray Charles and Betty Carter, Castle
Baltimore Oriole Bob Dorough
Devil May Care, Verse Music
Bye Bye Blackbird Leroy Jones
Leroy Jones and Katja Toivola, Spirit of New Orleans
Instrumental: Bye Bye Blackbird Danny Barker
The Fabulous Banjo of Danny Barker, Essential Media Group
SEGMENT: Leroy Jones and Katja Toivola
Mean to Me Billie Holiday with Lester Young
Billie Holiday + Lester Young: A Musical Romance, Columbia/ Legacy
Roll with Me Henry Etta James
Etta James: R&B Dynamite, Flair/ Virgin
Mister Twister The Shirelles & King Curtis
Give A Twist Party, Sundazed
Instrumental: Old Fashioned Two-Step The Red Stick Ramblers
My Suitcase is Always Packed, Sugar Hill
Reno Waltz The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
The Best of the Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band, Arhoolie
Philadelphia Lawyer Rose Maddox
Sing a Little Song of Heartache, Bear Family
Baby's in Black John Doe & Virgil Shaw
Graciously: A Gulf Benefit Compilation, Funzalo
Leave My Woman Alone Everly Brothers
Classic Everly Brothers, Bear Family
Two of Us The Beatles
Let It Be… Naked, Apple
End Bed: Tea for Two Oscar Peterson
The Song is You: Best of the Verve Songbooks, Verve