Museums of Sound
This week we look how music is enshrined at three spots around the country. In Memphis, the Stax Records Museum is opening this spring and we’ll hear stories from artists on the label like Isaac Hayes, the Bar-Kays, the Memphis Horns, and Rufus Thomas. Then we’ll head west and visit the massive Experience Music Project in the heart of downtown Seattle with it’s high-tech focus on rock and roll. Finally, Peggy Bulger of the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center tells us about their Save the Sounds project — preserving 50 of the most important recordings ever made. American Routes, where old sounds endure and new ones appear.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Soul Finger Bar-Kays
Soul Finger, Stax
Hold On! I'm Comin' Sam & Dave
The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
Memphis Train Rufus Thomas
The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
Mr. Big Stuff Jean Knight
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Vol.2 1968-71, Stax
SEGMENT: Stax #1 with Rufus & Carla Thomas, Issac Hayes, Memphis Horns, Bar-Kays, Elvis Costello, Deanie Parker, Rob Bowman
These Arms of Mine Otis Redding
The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
Something Is Wrong With My Baby Sam & Dave
The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
Instrumental: I Can't Turn You Loose Memphis Horns
Memphis Horns, Cotillion
SEGMENT: Stax #2
Respect Yourself Staple Singers
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Vol.2 1968-71, Stax
Instrumental: Big Chief Part 2 Professor Longhair with Earl King
Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology, Rhino
CLIP: Earl King
Baby You Can Get Your Gun Earl King
Earl's Pearls, West Side
Trick Bag Earl King
Spirit of New Orleans: The Genius of Dave Bartholomew, EMI
SEGMENT: Experience Music Project with Bob Santelli, Ann Powers
Come On (Let The Good Times Roll) Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland, MCA
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: One Dime Blues Etta Baker
Hills of Home: 25 Years of Folk Music on Rounder Records, Rounder
Bourgeois Blues Taj Mahal
Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly, Columbia
I Ain't Got No Home Bruce Springsteen
Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly, Columbia
SEGMENT: Folkways with Mo Asch, Michael Asch, Ralph Rinzler, Tony Schwartz
Instrumental: Pahko'ola Dance Song Yaqui and Deer Singers
Wood That Sings: Indian Fiddle Music of the Americas, Folkways
Roving Gambler Country Gentlemen
Country Songs Old and New, Folkways
Key to the Highway Memphis Slim
The Folkway Years: 1959-1973, Folkways
SEGMENT: Save Our Sounds project with Peggy Bulger
Instrumental: Now's The Time Charlie Parker
The Savoy Story Volume One - Jazz, Savoy
Tiger Rag The Original Dixieland Five
Masters of Jazz Vol.1: Traditional Classics, Rhino
In a Mellotone Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
Centennial Edition: Complete RCA Victor Recordings 1927-1973 Box, RCA
CLIP: Nina Simone
I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl Nina Simone
The Very Best of Nina Simone: Sugar in My Bowl, RCA
Take Me to the Water Nina Simone
Ultimate Nina Simone, Verve
End Bed: Nite Life Mary Lou Williams
Nite Life, Chiaroscuro