Music and Memories Along the Mississippi: the Lewis Family Museum, Haney's Big House and New Orleans Jazz Funeral
How do we capture the intangible power of music and memories? We’ll first take a tour of the Lewis Family Museum and liquor store in Ferriday, Louisiana, where Jerry Lee Lewis’ sister Frankie Jean shows us around their family home decorated with show posters, weapons, magazine clippings, religious icons and other memorabilia. Then we’ll visit with the mayor of Ferriday and the people who turned memories into reality of club/hotel/bus depot/post office Haney’s Big House that burned down in 1966. Across the river in Natchez, MS, blues drummer and harp player Hezekiah Early looks back on playing in Haney’s house band. Back down in New Orleans, we’ll talk with Treme Brass Band’s leader and snare drummer Benny Jones and bass drummer Joe Lastie about their late drummer and friend Uncle Lionel Batiste who was memorably embalmed standing up in street parade finery.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Harmonica Shuffle Hezekiah & the Houserockers Hezekiah & the Houserockers, High Water
Great Balls Of Fire Jerry Lee Lewis The Locust Years..., Bear Family
M.I.S.S.I.S.S.I.P.P.I. Ella Fitgerald 1950, Classics
Big River Johnny Cash The Man In Black: 1954-1958, Bear Family
Natchez Shopping Blues Olu Dara In the World: From Natchez to New York, Atlantic
The Natchez Burnin' Howlin' Wolf The Chess Box, MCA/ Chess
SEGMENT: Haney's Big House with Charles Bell & Mayor McGlothin
Instrumental: Jookin' Noble ' Thin Man' Watts and King Curtis The Fire/ Fury Records Story, Capricorn
SEGMENT: Hezekiah Early
Meet Me Down in Froggy Bottom Mississippi Fred McDowell The Best of Mississippi Fred McDowell, Arhoolie
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Big Maybelle The Complete Okeh Sessions 1952-1955, Epic/ Okeh
SEGMENT: The Lewis Family Museum
Instrumental: I've Got a Robe (Goin' to Shout All Over God's Heav'n) Charlie Haden & Hank Jones Steal Away, Verve
Precious Memories Sister Rosetta Tharpe Ladies of Gospel - Women of Gospel: Precious Memories, Peacock/ MCA
Son of a Preacher Man Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis, Rhino
I Remember You Frank Ifield The Best of the EMI Years, Parlophone
Nothing Takes the Place of You Toussaint McCall Nothing Takes the Place of You, Fuel
Lake Charles Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Mercury
End Bed: La Valse a Howard Hebert Les Freres Michot Eleves a Pillette, ArZed
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Just a Closer Walk With Thee Treme Brass Band Gimme My Money Back, Arhoolie
First Air of Autumn Drive-By Truckers English Oceans, ATO
Big Iron Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, Columbia
Gregorio Cortez Los Hermanos Banda Mexican-American Border Music Vol.1 1928-1958, Arhoolie
Pancho and Lefty Delbert McClinton Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt, Free Falls Entertainment
Me and Paul Willie Nelson Yesterday's Wine, Justice
Instrumental: Red River Road, Part One Los Cenzontles with David Hidalgo & Pete Sears Songs of Wood and Steel, Los Cenzontles Mexican
Smokey Joe's Cafe Buddy Holly Memorial Collection, Geffen
Teddy's Juke Joint Jackie Scott and the Housewreckers How Much Woman Can You Stand, Jackie Scott
The New San Francisco Bay Blues Hurray for the Riff Raff Small Town Heroes, ATO
(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay Otis Redding Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding, Rhino
Instrumental: These Foolish Things Lester Young The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve, Universal
Travelin' Light Billie Holiday The Essential Billie Holiday: Songs of Lost Love, Verve
Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming) Willie Nelson Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
Careless Love Lionel Batiste Sr. Lars Edegran presents Uncle Lionel, GHB
SEGMENT: Treme Brass Band
End Bed: Oh, Didn't He Ramble Kid Ory 1922-1945, Classics