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Routes Rock & Cajun Stardom: Boz Scaggs & Jimmy C. Newman

We trace stardom back to its source, traversing the roots and routes that led small town musicians to national fame. Pop icon Boz Scaggs and the late Cajun honky-tonk man Jimmy C. Newman took very different paths to the stage but carried with them the sounds they grew up hearing. Boz Scaggs achieved mainstream success with his own platinum records as well as his work with Steve Miller and Duane Allman. We talk to him about his 6+ years performing on the road and how he came into his own by reconnecting with the blues he heard as a kid in “Nowhere, Texas.” Then, we remember the late Jimmy C. Newman, who took the sounds of French Louisiana to the Grand Ole Opry and put Cajun music and culture on the map. Son Gary Newman, producer Joel Savoy and musician Kelli Jones tell of his legacy and their tribute album, Farewell, Alligator Man. Plus, we trace Hank Williams’ “Jambalaya” back to its Cajun origins, served up with tunes from Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and Professor Longhair.

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November 25th, 1998

We gather together to give thanks for our cornbread and red beans and chicken cordon blues. Call any vegetable and join us for our tribute to feasting on this, the heaviest of American holidays. Do the mashed potato yeah.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Everybody Eats When They Come To My House Cab Calloway
    Are You Hep To The Jive, Columbia/Legacy
  • Give Him Cornbread Beau Jocque
    Beau Jocque Boogie, Rounder
  • Gravy (on My Mashed Potatoes) Dee Dee Sharp
    45rpm, Cameo
  • Carve That Possum Southern Culture On The Skids
    Plastic Seat Sweat, DGC
  • Vegetables Beach Boys
    Smiley Smile, Brother Records
  • Instrumental: Shortnin' Bread Three Pieces
    Jazz Dance Classics, Luv n' Haight
  • Shortnin Bread Abner Jay
    recorded live at Wolf Trap for Folk Masters series,
  • Blueberry Rhyme Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea
    Gershwin's World, Verve
  • Blueberry Hill Fats Domino
    They Call Me The Fat Man..."The Legendary Imperial Recordings, EMI
  • Crow Hop Black Lodge Singers
    Enter the Circle, Canyon
  • Indian on a Stump The Balfa Brothers
    The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music Volumes 1 & 2, Swallow
  • Cherokee Boogie Moon Mullican
    I'll Sail My Ship Alone, Nashville
  • Instrumental: After the Party is Over Marcus Roberts
    The Joy of Joplin, Sony
  • Rollin' Randy Newman
    Good Old Boys, Reprise
  • Motherless Child William Grant Still
    American Portraits: The American Music Sampler, Koch International
  • Crows Howard Finster
    Smithsonian Folkways LP, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Home By the Sea Carter Family
    Complete 1932-33, Rounder
  • Sweet Sunny South The Hix
    Sweet Sunny South, Tritone

HOUR two

  • Soppin the Gravy Alison Krauss
    Masters of the Folk Violin, Arhoolie
  • Home Cookin' Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
    The Hottest New Group in Jazz, Columbia/Legacy
  • Hunger Is From Ken Nordine
    The Beat Generation, Rhino
  • Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals Kronos Quartet
    Released, Nonesuch
  • Dig This Menu Please! Red Rodney Sextet
    The OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957, Epic/OKeh/Legacy
  • Dirty Dirty Rice Timbuk 3
    The Watermelon Sampler Vol. 1, Watermelon
  • Instrumental: Medicine Woman Red Thunder
    Makoce Wakan, Eagle Thunder
  • Hoop Dance Red Thunder
    Makoce Wakan, Eagle Thunder
  • Hidden Medicine Red Thunder
    Makoce Wakan, Eagle Thunder
  • Alice's Restaurant Arlo Guthrie
    Alice's Restaurant Soundtrack, Ryko
  • Okra Olu Dara
    In the World - From Natchez to New York, Atlantic
  • Mama's Cooking Marcia Ball
    Bar-B-Que Soul-a-Bration, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Jesus Will Fix It Sonny Treadway
    Jesus Will Fix It, Arhoolie
  • I Shall Not Be Moved Pops Staples
    Peace to the Neighborhood, Pointblank
  • I Am A Pilgrim Merle Travis
    Classic Country Music, Smithsonian Collection
  • Ripple The Grateful Dead
    American Beauty, Warner Brothers
  • Prosperity Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers
    The Colored Sacred Harp, New World
  • Resolution John Coltrane
    A Love Supreme, Impulse
  • End Bed: Mashed Potatoes Nat Kendricks and the Swans
    Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974, Atlantic

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