Club Hopping in New Orleans
Jazz/blues pianist/songwriter Mose Allison, who migrated from the Mississippi village of Tippo to Greenwich Village, is a mellow post-Thanksgiving verbal and musical presence as we club-hop across New Orleans from Snug Harbor to the Saturn Bar.
HOUR ONE
Saturday Night Fish Fry # 1 & 2 Louis Jordan
Let The Good Times Roll (1938-1954), Bear Family
Shine, Shave & Shower (It's Saturday) Lefty Frizzell
Look What Thoughts Will Do, Columbia
Gamblin' Bar Room Blues John Mellencamp
The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers (A Tribute), Egyptian Records
St. James Infirmary Billy & DeDe Pierce
Blues & Tonks from the Delta, Fantasy
Instrumental: Phat City Coolbone
Brass-Hop, Hollywood
SEGMENT: Donna's Bar and Grill / Bob French
We Come to Party Rebirth Brass Band
We Come to Party, Shanachie
Dance to the Music Sly & the Family Stone
Greatest Hits, Epic
I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar Jonathan Richman
I, Jonathan, Rounder
Sister's Coming Home Willie Nelson
Phases and Stages, Atlantic
Instrumental: Saturday Mose Allison
Back Country Suite, Prestige
SEGMENT: Snug Harbor / Mose Allison
One O'Clock Jump Delta Rhythm Boys
The Jive Is Jumpin', Westside
Hey Bartender Floyd Dixon
Marshall Texas Is My Home, Specialty
Steppin' out with my baby Dinah Shore
Carry My Blues Away, Sony
Small Change, Elektra
End Bed: Goodnight Irene Kelley Joe Phellps
Shine Eyed Mister Zen, Rykodisc
HOUR TWO
Open bed: Hung over King Curtis
The Capitol Years, 1962-1965, Bear Family
Basin Street/Sleepy Time Down South Louis Prima
Louis Prima & Keely Smith, Capitol
Drinkin' Wine Sticks McGhee
Atlanta R &B 1947-74 Vol 1
Let Me Go Home Whiskey Amos Milburn
Down The Road Apiece, EMI
Let me Go Home Whiskey Asleep At The Wheel
Texas Gold, Capitol
Instrumental: Ramble Link Wray and the Wraymen
Walkin' With Link, Epic/Legacy
SEGMENT: Shim Sham / Link Wray
La Banda Esta Borracha Freddie Fender
Canciones de Mi Barrio, Arhoolie
Tequila Beau Jocque
Check It In, Lock It out, Rounder
One Mint Julep The Clovers
Atlantic R &B 1947-74 Vol 1
Instrumental: Tequila King Curtis
Blow Man, Blow, Bear Family
Drifter In the Dark Ween
Chocolate & Cheese, Elektra
Walking after Midnight Patsy Cline
Walkin' Dreams, Rhino
Sophisticated Lady Billie Holiday
The Essential Billie Holiday: Songs of Lost Love, Verve
Every Time I Get To Drinkin' Sunnyland Slim
Slim's Shout, Prestige/Bluesville
Alabama Song Marianne Faithful
The Seven Deadly Sins, RCA
Piano Has Been Drinking (not me) Tom Waits