May the Fourth Be with You: Mr. Sipp’s Blues and Sheryl Cormier’s Cajun Accordion
This 4th of July, we explore the varied meanings of American independence in words and music. We celebrate the diversity built into our country by digging into the musical traditions that inform our democracy at its best. We talk with Mr. Sipp, a hip blues and gospel man from McComb, Mississippi and Sheryl Cormier, the octogenarian Cajun accordion queen from Grand Coteau, Louisiana. Plus music from Bo Diddley, Big Maybelle, Bob Dylan, La Santa Cecilia, and Santana. In these tough times, May the Fourth be with us on American Routes.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: My Blues Jig Mr. Sipp
It’s My Guitar, Malaco, Inc.
Bo Diddley Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley, Chess
You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover Bo Diddley
The Chess Box, Chess
Voodoo Woman Koko Taylor
I Got What it Takes, Alligator Records
One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show Big Maybelle
I’ve Got a Feelin’ - Okeh & Savoy Recordings 1952-56, Rev-Ola Bandstand
Instrumental: Blues for Me BB King
Easy Listening Blues, Crown
SEGMENT: Mr. Sipp
You’re the Best Thing The True Believers
Back to the Roots, Malaco, Inc.
Instrumental: I Can’t Quit the Blues Buddy Guy
A Man and the Blues, Vanguard Records.
Juke Joint Cedric Burnside
Hill Country Love, Provogue
My Home Is In the Delta Muddy Waters
Folk Singer, Chess
Stones in My Passway Robert Johnson
King of the Delta Blues Singers, Columbia
Backlash Blues Nina Simone
Nina Simone Sings the Blues, RCA Victor
Open the Road Leyla McCalla
Sun Without the Heat, Anti-
We’ll Get Over The Staple Singers
We’ll Get Over, Stax
America the Beautiful Keb’ Mo’
America the Beautiful, Kind of Blue Music
End bed:American Symphony Theme Jon Batiste
Beethoven Blues, Verve
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Crow Hop Black Lodge Singers
Pow Wow Songs - Recorded Live in Arizona, Canyon
This Land Keith Secola
Native Americana- A Coup Stick, Keith Secola
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Doc and Merle Watson
Elementary Doctor Watson, Tomato
Going up the Country Canned Heat
Under My Heels, Hip-O
Louisiana Percy Mayfield
Percy Mayfield-Poet of the Blues, Specialty
Louisiana 1927 Randy Newman
1978 LIVE on David Letterman, Youtube
Hurricane Bob Dylan
Desire, Columbia
Instrumental: Blues a La Machito Machito
Kenya, Roulette
Tres Veces Mojado Los Tigres del Norte
Idolos del Pueblo, Fonovisa Records
This Land is Your Land Trini Lopez
Trini Lopez at PJs (Live), Reprise
Ice El Hielo La Santa Cecilia
Treinta Días, Universal
México Americano (Mexican American) Los Texmaniacs
Cruzando Borders, Smithsonian Folkways
Day of Celebration Santana
Supernatural, Arista Records
Instrumental: L’ouragan (The Hurricane) BeauSoleil
Our New Orleans, Nonesuch
Segment: Sheryl Cormier
Closing Bed: Hymn to Freedom Oscar Peterson Trio
Night Train, Verve