Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand

Country singer Kelsey Waldon grew up in the Ohio River bottoms of Ballard County Kentucky-a place called “Monkey’s Eyebrow” where her family has farmed for generations. She tells us about her journey as a songwriter, and her friendship with another hero of Kentucky, John Prine. Then a live set of New Orleans jazz and its Caribbean cousins with the widely acclaimed multi- instrumentalist, Aurora Nealand and her quartet at Artisound Studios in New Orleans 9th Ward.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: The Dog (Outro) Kelsey Waldon
No Regular Dog, Oh Boy Records

Gone, Gone, Gone Everly Brothers
Gone, Gone, Gone—The Everly Brothers, Warner Brothers

Highway 51 Blues Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan, Columbia

I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow The Soggy Bottom Boys, Dan Tyminski
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Mercury

Blue Moon of Kentucky Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe—Anthology, UMG

Blue Moon of Kentucky Elvis Presley
A Boy from Tupelo: The Complete Recordings 1953-1955, RCA

Instrumental: Ike Everly's Rag Merle Travis and Joe Maphis
Country Guitar Giants, CMH

Warfaring Stranger Johnny Cash
Solitary Man—American III, American Recordings

Kentucky Waltz Osborne Brothers
100 Greatest Bluegrass Hits, CMI

Van Lear Rose Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn—Van Lear Rose, Third Man Records

SEGMENT: Kelsey Waldon

Instrumental: So Round, So Firm Eddie Pennington
Walks the Strings and Even Sings, Smithsonian Folkways

Honey Don't The Beatles
The Beatles for Sale, London

Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby Carl Perkins
Sun Rockabilly Classics, Sun Records

Matchbox The Beatles
The Beatles Live at the BBC, BBC

Boppin' the Blues Carl Perkins
Carl Perkins—Sun King, Sun Records

My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night John Prine
Single, Oh Boy! Records

End Bed: Old Kentucky Home Shotgun Jazz Band
Steppin' on the Gas, Shotgun Jazz Band

HOUR TWO

Open Bed: Tropical Moon Rhumba The Aurora Nealand Quartet
American Routes Live at Artisound Productions

It's All Right With Me The Aurora Nealand Quartet
American Routes Live at Artisound Productions

Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth The Salt Of My Tears The Aurora Nealand Quartet
American Routes Live at Artisound Productions

Instrumental: The Optimism Blues BC Coogan
American Routes Live at Artisound Productions

Shag The Aurora Nealand Quartet
American Routes Live at Artisound Productions

Lucky Old Sun The Aurora Nealand Quartet
American Routes Live at Artisound Productions

Instrumental: Rosebecks Backroom Aurora Nealand Quartet
American Routes Live at Artisound Productions

Temptation Rag The Aurora Nealand Quartet
American Routes Live at Artisound Productions

Nous, Les Cuisinières The Aurora Nealand Quartet
American Routes Live at Artisound Productions

End Bed: Georgia Cabin The Aurora Nealand Quartet
American Routes Live at Artisound Productions

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