Music of Healing & Elixirs: Little Freddie King, Anders Osborne, Dr. Michael White & Music Maker Relief Foundation
From healing songs and expressions of pain to hoodoo cure-alls and feel-good elixirs, we explore the musical world of sickness and health. We talk with Mississippi-born guitarist Little Freddie King about how the blues saved many of his nine lives. New Orleans songwriter and rocker Anders Osborne tells of a journey that led to self-medicating with pain relievers that do more harm than good, and his eventual recovery. Tim Duffy of the Music Maker Relief Foundation in North Carolina explains the curative properties of music on society and his work with Taj Mahal to help deep-roots musicians in need. And clarinetist Dr. Michael White talks of jazz and its role in his and New Orleans’ recovery after Katrina. Plus, medicine show troubadours hawk their tonics, Dr. John prescribes Mama Roux’s healing potions, and Huey “Piano” Smith gives us a serious case of “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu.”
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: One Dime Blues Etta Baker and Taj Mahal
Etta Baker with Taj Mahal, Music Makers Relief Foundation
W.S. Wolcott Medicine Show The Band
Stage Fright, Capitol Records
The Great Medical Menagerist Harmonica Frank
The Great Medical Menagerist, Adelphi Records
"Mother Marie" Radio Announcement from Kevin Nutt
Mama Roux Dr. John
Gris-Gris, Atco
High Blood Pressure Huey "Piano" Smith
The Best of Ace Records: The R&B Hits, Rock 'n' Roll/Scott Brothers
Rockin' Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns
The Best of Ace Records: The R&B Hits, Rock 'n' Roll/Scott Brothers
Instrumental: Old Yellow Boy Little Freddie King
Messin' Around the Living Room, MadeWright
SEGMENT: Little Freddie King
Bowleg Rooster, Duckleg Hen/ Sweet Georgia Brown Papa Lemon Nash
New Orleans Ukulele Maestro & Tent Show Troubadour, Arhoolie
Jug Band Music The Lovin' Spoonful
Daydream, Kama Sutra
Trenchtown Rock Bob Marley
Trenchtown Rock: Anthology 1968-'78, Trojan
Instrumental: Clickin' Whistlin' Britches
We Are the Music Makers, Music Maker Relief Foundation
Instrumental: Freight Train Boogie Captain Luke
We Are the Music Makers, Music Maker Relief Foundation
SEGMENT: Tim Duffy
Closing Bed: Peace Behind the Bridge Carolina Chocolate Drops
Genuine Negro Jig, Nonesuch
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Strong Anders Osborne
Flower Box, Independent
SEGMENT: Anders Osborne
Healing Hands of Time Willie Nelson
Willie and the Boys: Stash Vol. 2, Sony
Age Don't Mean a Thing Robert Finley
Age Don't Mean a Thing, Big Legal Mess
Dr. Feelgood (Love is Serious Business) Aretha Franklin
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Atlantic
Instrumental: Backporch Soul The Swampers
Muscle Shoals Has Got the Swampers, Muscle Shoals Sound Records
Pain Pills Angaleena Presley
American Middle Class, Slate Creek Records
Sick Feelin' Blues Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' and the Blues, Herald
I'm a Fool for a Cigarette/Feelin' Good Ry Cooder
Paradise and Lunch, Warner Brothers
Too Much Alcohol JB Hutto and His Hawks
Chicago/The Blues/Today!, Vol. 1, Vanguard
Goodbye Booze Old Crow Medicine Show
Eutaw, Blood Donor Records
Instrumental: House of the Rising Sun Dr. Michael White
Adventures in New Orleans Jazz Volume 1, Basin Street
Streets of Laredo Johnny Cash
American IV: The Man Comes Around, American
House of the Rising Sun Doc and Richard Watson
Third Generation Blues, Sugar Hill
SEGMENT: Dr. Michael White
Closing Bed: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Dr. Michael White
Blue Crescent, Basin Street