Thanksgiving

We gather together to give thanks for our cornbread and red beans and chicken cordon blues.  Call any vegetable and join us for our tribute to feasting on this, the heaviest of American holidays.  Do the mashed potato yeah. 

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Everybody Eats When They Come To My House Cab Calloway
Are You Hep To The Jive, Columbia/Legacy

Give Him Cornbread Beau Jocque
Beau Jocque Boogie, Rounder

Gravy (on My Mashed Potatoes) Dee Dee Sharp
45rpm, Cameo

Carve That Possum Southern Culture On The Skids
Plastic Seat Sweat, DGC

Vegetables Beach Boys
Smiley Smile, Brother Records

Instrumental: Shortnin' Bread Three Pieces
Jazz Dance Classics, Luv n' Haight

Shortnin Bread Abner Jay
recorded live at Wolf Trap for Folk Masters series

Blueberry Rhyme Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea
Gershwin's World, Verve

Blueberry Hill Fats Domino
They Call Me The Fat Man..." The LegendaryImperial Recordings, EMI

Crow Hop Black Lodge Singers
Enter the Circle, Canyon

Indian on a Stump The Balfa Brothers
The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music Volumes 1 & 2, Swallow

Cherokee Boogie Moon Mullican
I'll Sail My Ship Alone, Nashville

Instrumental: After the Party is Over Marcus Roberts
The Joy of Joplin, Sony

Rollin' Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Reprise

Motherless Child William Grant Still
American Portraits: The American Music Sampler, Koch International

Crows Howard Finster
Smithsonian Folkways LP, Smithsonian Folkways

Home By the Sea Carter Family
Complete 1932-33, Rounder

Sweet Sunny South The Hix
Sweet Sunny South, Tritone

HOUR TWO

Soppin the Gravy Alison Krauss
Masters of the Folk Violin, Arhoolie

Home Cookin' Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
The Hottest New Group in Jazz, Columbia/Legacy

Hunger Is From Ken Nordine
The Beat Generation, Rhino

Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals Kronos Quartet
Released, Nonesuch

Dig This Menu Please! Red Rodney Sextet
The OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957, Epic/OKeh/Legacy

Dirty Dirty Rice Timbuk 3
The Watermelon Sampler Vol. 1, Watermelon

Instrumental: Medicine Woman Red Thunder
Makoce Wakan, Eagle Thunder

Hoop Dance Red Thunder
Makoce Wakan, Eagle Thunder

Hidden Medicine Red Thunder
Makoce Wakan, Eagle Thunder

Alice's Restaurant Arlo Guthrie
Alice's Restaurant Soundtrack, Ryko

Okra Olu Dara
In the World - From Natchez to New York, Atlantic

Mama's Cooking Marcia Ball
Bar-B-Que Soul-a-Bration, Rhino

Instrumental: Jesus Will Fix It Sonny Treadway
Jesus Will Fix It, Arhoolie

I Shall Not Be Moved Pops Staples
Peace to the Neighborhood, Pointblank

I Am A Pilgrim Merle Travis
Classic Country Music, Smithsonian Collection

Ripple The Grateful Dead
American Beauty, Warner Brothers

Prosperity Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers
The Colored Sacred Harp, New World

Resolution John Coltrane
A Love Supreme, Impulse

End Bed: Mashed Potatoes Nat Kendricks and the Swans
Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974, Atlantic

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