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New Orleans Traditional Jazz Live with Dr. Michael White and the Original Liberty Jazz Band - Jazz Manouche from Christine Tassan et les Imposteures New Orleans Traditional Jazz Live with Dr. Michael White and the Original Liberty Jazz Band - Jazz Manouche from Christine Tassan et les Imposteures January 25th, 2023 (Hour 1)
New Orleans Traditional Jazz Live with Dr. Michael White and the Original Liberty Jazz Band - Jazz Manouche from Christine Tassan et les Imposteures

It’s an American Routes Live session of New Orleans Traditional Jazz with Dr. Michael White, the beloved clarinetist leading the Original Liberty Jazz Band, in concert and conversation. Then, we explore the world of Jazz Manouche and its late leading influence, guitarist Django Reinhardt and his historic recordings with violinist Stephane Grapelli from the Quintette du Hot Club de France. We also visit with a contemporary women’s Jazz Manouche band from Quebec: Christine Tassan et les Imposteures. Plus music influenced by Django Reinhardt from Willie Nelson, Bob Wills, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and the Hot Club of Cowtown.

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THE ROAD WITH DON WALSER

December 9th, 1998

Songs of the open road, and the “Pavarotti of the Plains” — Texas honky-tonker Don Walser.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Choo Choo Ch'Boogie Louis Jordan
    The Greatest Hits - No Moe!, Mercury
  • On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe Judy Garland
    Too Marvelous for Words - Songs of Johnny Mercer, ASV
  • Life On the Road Wayne Hancock
    That's What Daddy Wants, Ark 21
  • When I Take My Vacation in Harlem Tampa Red
    The Bluebird Recordings 1934-1936, RCA
  • Echoes of Harlem (Cootie's Concerto) Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington and his Orchestra 1935-1936, Classics
  • Instrumental: Smokie Part 2 Bill Black Combo
    Hi Times - The R & B Years, Hi/The Right Stuff
  • Le chemin gravaille Jackie Caillier & the Cajun Cousins
    From Porch Cajun Music, Lanor
  • Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Lucinda Williams
    Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Mercury
  • Everybody Does it in Hawaii Jimmie Rodgers
    On the Way Up, 1929, Rounder
  • The Hula Hula Boys Warren Zevon
    I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - An Anthology, Rhino
  • Lovely Hula Hands Junior Brown
    Junior High, MCG/Curb
  • Na Ka Pueo Ledward Kaapana
    Led Live, Solo, Dancing Cat
  • Instrumental: Diamond Head The Ventures
    Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol. 5: Surf, Rhino
  • INTERVIEW: Don Walser
  • Texas Top Hand Don Walser
    Texas Top Hand, Watermelon
  • Hot Rod Mercury Don Walser
    Down At The Sky-Vue Drive-In, Watermelon/Sire
  • The Devil's Great Grandson Don Walser
    Down At The Sky-Vue Drive-In, Watermelon/Sire
  • Rose Marie Don Walser
    Down At The Sky-Vue Drive-In, Watermelon/Sire
  • Hearts Made of Stone Don Walser
    Down At The Sky-Vue Drive-In, Watermelon/Sire
  • Rolling Stone from Texas Don Walser
    Rolling Stone from Texas, Watermelon
  • When I Was a Cowboy Lead Belly
    Goodnight Irene, Smithsonian Folkways

HOUR two

  • Indiana Illinois Jacquet
    Illinois Jacquet, Epic/Legacy
  • Big Road Bonnie Raitt
    Bonnie Raitt, Warner Brothers
  • Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down Bessie Smith
    The Essential Bessie Smith, Columbia/Legacy
  • Chicago Bound Jimmy Rogers
    The Complete Chess Recordings, MCA/Chess
  • Goin' to Chicago Joe Williams
    The Best of Joe Williams, Blue Note
  • Instrumental: Rich Woman Yockamo All-Stars
    Dew Drop Out, Hannibal
  • Gonna Take You Downtown Beau Jocque
    Gonna Take You Downtown, Rounder
  • Downtown Neil Young & Pearl Jam
    Mirror Ball, Reprise
  • Janitor Drives a Cadillac Papa John Creach
    Papa John Creach, Grunt
  • Swing Low Sweet Cadillac Dizzy Gillespie
    The Champ, Savoy Jazz
  • Maybelline Chuck Berry
    His Best, Volume 1, MCA/Chess
  • Diesel On my Tail Jim & Jesse
    Truckers' Jukebox - Top Radio Requests, Epic
  • Instrumental: Dented Fender Roy Clark
    Guitar Player Presents Legends of Guitar - Country Vol. 2, Rhino
  • Going Up to the Country and Paint My Mailbox Blue Taj Mahal
    The Real Thing, Columbia
  • Miss the Mississippi and You Doc Watson
    Memories, Sugar Hill
  • Muddy Water Madeline Peyroux
    Dreamland, Atlantic
  • 5 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days Louis Prima
    Capitol Collection Series, Capitol
  • The End of Our Road Gladys Knight & the Pips
    The Sound of Young America - 1968, Motown
  • End Bed: Buster Browne Willie Mitchell
    Hi Times, Hi/The Right Stuff

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