DANCE AROUND IN YOUR BONES: HALLOWEEN, ALL SAINTS AND ALL SOULS
It’s Halloween night, then Toussaint (All Saints Day) and All Souls Day, also Dia de los Muertos. We mark the season with songs and stories of hauntings, voodoo, and the afterlife in a devout and disruptive mix that honors and humors the dead, past and present. Hear from native New Orleanians Dr. John and Charles Neville about their encounters with the spirit world, and a trip to the local botanica in search of potions and charms to conjure good luck. Then California ofrenda maker Ofelia Esparza reveals the meanings behind her altar work for remembering loved ones on the Day of the Dead. Plus holiday and holy day sounds from Cassandra Wilson, Muddy Waters, Ana Tijoux, Gene Vincent and Santana.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Deorc Sceadu (Dark Shadows) Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Open Up Whatcha Gonna Do For the Rest of Your Life, Sony
Haunted House Lonnie Johnson & Elmer Snowden
Blues and Ballads, Fantasy
The Skeleton in the Closet Louis Armstrong
Lost Halloween, UMG
Tain't No Sin To Take off Your Skin (and Dance Around in Your Bones) Fred Hall
Halloween Classics, Sony
Louisiana Blues Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters, Chess
Run the Voodoo Down Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson--Traveling Miles, Blue Note
Instrumental: Ti-Na-Na Dr. John
Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack The Legendary Sessions V. 1, Clean Cuts
CLIP: Charles Neville
Voodoo Neville Brothers
Yellow Moon, UMG
SEGMENT: F & F Botanica
CLIP: Dr. John
I've Been Hoodood Dr. John
In the Right Place, Warner
Evil Eye The Sonics
Single, RKO Unique
Evil Eye Charles Jordan and John Gilmore
Blowing in from Chicago--Clifford Gordan and John Gilmore, Blue Note
Instrumental: White Ghost Shivers The New Orleans Owls
Jazz the World Forgot Vol. 2, Yazoo
Spooky Dusty Springfield
Love Songs, Warner
My Man's an Undertaker Dinah Washington
The Fabulous Miss D! The Keynote, Decca And Mercury Singles 1943-1953 , Hip-O
Season of the Witch Lou Rawls
Lou Rawls--I Can’t Make it on My Own, The Axelrod Years, Capitol
Witchin' Hour Blues Tampa Red
Song Collection, Jazz Experience
Closing Bed: The Ghoul Jack Marshall
Lost Halloween, UMG
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Algiers Hoodoo Woman Dr. Michael White
Dancing in the Sky, Basin Street Records
I Put a Spell on You Nina Simone
The Best of Nina Simone, Verve
Don't Let the Devil Ride Campbell Brothers and John Medeski
Can You Feel It?, Ropeadope
Race with the Devil Gene Vincent
Dance to the Bop, Capitol
Skeleton Fight Mack Allen Smith
Mack Allen Smith: The Early Years 1962-1967, Fat Possum
Instrumental: La Llorona Mariachi Garibaldi
La Discoteca del Siglo- Historia de la Música Ranchera en el Siglo XX, Vol. 1, Discos Fuentes
SEGMENT: Ofelia Esparza
Que Me Llevan Canciones La Dinastia De Tuzlantla, Michoacán
Single, El Rancho Music
Hasta La Tumba Flaco Jimenez
Un Mojado Sin Licencia and Other Hits from the 1960s, Arhoolie
Calaveritas Ana Tijoux and Celso Piña
Single, Firebrand Records
Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen Santana
Abraxas, Columbia
Instrumental: Blues on the Moon Raful Neal
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Dying Crap Shooter Blues Blind Willie McTell
Atlanta Twelve String, Atlantic
Hades Pleads Parker Millsap
The Very Last Day, Okrahoma Records
See That My Grave is Kept Clean Lightnin Hopkins
Lightnin Hopkins, Smithsonian Folkways
Closing Bed: Didn't He Ramble/Closer Walk with Thee Dr. John
Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack: The Legendary Sessions, Vol. 2, Clean Cuts