FROM GOSPEL TO GIGGING: GLADYS KNIGHT AND IRIS DEMENT
Motown legend Gladys Knight grew up in Atlanta and sang her first recital in church at age 4, before heading out on the road with the Pips, a group assembled by her cousin. Iris DeMent, the warbler from Arkansas, had the same church-choir start and now writes songs that get to the emotional center of life and love in these United States. We talk to both of them about their Southern childhoods and musical careers.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: I Heard It Through the Grapevine Gladys Knight & the Pips
Anthology, Motown
It's All Over but the Shouting Gladys Knight & the Pips
Anthology, Motown
Shouting Time Madison Prayer Band
Saints Paradise, Folkways
Shout, Sister, Shout Boswell Sisters
It's The Girls, Magnum
Shout, Sister, Shout Koerner, Ray & Glover
One Foot In the Groove, Tim Kerr
I Heard it Through the Grapevine Creedence Clearwater Revival
Chronicle, Fantasy
Instrumental: I Heard it Through the Grapevine The Little Big Horns
Ultra-Lounge: On the Rocks Part Two, Capitol
SEGMENT: Gladys Knight
Smokey Joe's Café The Coasters
50 Coastin' Classics, Rhino
Hound Dog James Booker
Classified, Rounder
Kansas City Joya Landis
Tighten Up, Trojan
Instrumental: Hound Dog Twist Whispering Smith
House Rockin' & Hip Shakin', Vol. 4: Bayou Blues Harp, Hip-O
Loveable Sam Cooke
With the Soul Stirrers, Specialty
Doo-Wop (That Thing) Lauryn Hill
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Columbia
The End Of Our Road Gladys Knight
Anthology, Motown
End Bed: Guitar Boogie Shuffle The Virtues
Guitar Boogie Shuffle, Bacci Bros Records
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: On Praying Ground Doc Watson
On Praying Ground, Sugar Hill
Wade In the Water Golden Gate Quartet
Swing Down, Chariot, Sony
Wade In the Water Johnny Griffin/Edwin Williams
Giants of the Blues & Funk Tenor Sax, Fantasy
Walk Right In Gus Cannon
Walk Right In, Stax
Walk Right In Rooftop Singers
Troubadours of Folk Vol 3, Rhino
Hobo Bill's Last Ride Jimmie Rodgers
Jimmie Rodgers 1929 On the Way Up, Rounder
Two Trains Runnin' James Cotton
Deep in the Blues, Verve
Instrumental: Sad Hours Little Walter
His Best, Chest
SEGMENT: Iris DeMent
Cryin' Time Buck Owens
I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail, Sundazed
Those Lonely, Lonely Nights Earl King
The Very Best of Earl King 1955-1960, Westside
Instrumental: Rum and Coke Professor Longhair
Rum and Coke, Rhino
That's Your Red Wagon Anita O'Day & Cal Tjader
Time For 2, Verve
Shake It Sunnyland Slim
Slim's Shout, Fantasy
Discontented Blues Duke Ellington
Mosaic Sampler, Blue Note
Debra Beck
Midnite Vultures, Geffen
End Bed: Boozer John Scofield
A Go Go, Verve