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| March 2007 |
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| March 7 - March 13, 2007 (click for playlist) |
Robbie Fulks and Bettye LaVette
Join us for the sounds and stories of estranged country singer and songwriter Robbie Fulks. And soul vixen Bettye LaVette takes us from the Motor City to Muscle Shoals, and Beale Street to Bourbon Street as she recounts nearly 50 years of singing R&B. Plus meditations on honky-tonk angels, speckled birds and more. |
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| March 14 - March 20, 2007 (click for playlist) |
America's Hippie Heritage
Tune in and turn on to our nation's fringe heritage. Along with their spiritual forefathers, the beatniks and folkies, our hippie generation latched on to great music before them--from old-time country and bluegrass, bebop, blues and more--and created their own versions. We're joined by Maria Muldaur who recalls making jug-band music in the West Village in the '60s. Also, we speak with bass player Jack Casady, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. |
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| March 21 - March 27, 2007 (click for playlist) |
By Any Other Name…
What's in a name? Listen in and you'll find out why Emmett Ellis Jr. became the bluesman Bobby Rush; how folks get names like Topsy (Chapman), Sherman & Wendell (Holmes); and how country singer George Jones became known as "the possum." Also, we talk to Yale anthropologist David Watts about names of non-human primates. |
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| March 28 - April 3, 2007 (click for playlist) |
Words & Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz-Shaped America & James Talley
Find the connections between the literary landscape and soundscape. We talk with Columbia University jazz scholar Robert O'Meally about the music writings of the Harlem Renaissance author best known for the novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison. And visit with songsmith and wordsmith James Talley. Plus music about writing, reading and talking Hank Williams, Cassandra Wilson and Bob Wills. |
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