Good morning, lovers of New Orleans music. It’s certainly one of the most eclectic musical areas of the nation and today we celebrate it with our ‘Down in New Orleans’ EP!
Here’s your end-of-the-week musical lineup:
11:00 a.m. Down in New Orleans: Various Artists
Today we celebrate the music of New Orleans and we give you authentic Cajun/Zydeco sounds as well as some mainstream musicians who were born and raised there. You’ll hear Allen Toussaint, BeauSoleil, Clifton Chenier, Dr. John, Buckwheat Zydeco, Irma Thomas, Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Allen Fontenot, Aaron Neville, Lucinda Williams, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Kermit Ruffins, Louis Armstrong, The Daywalkers, The Neville Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chance Bushman, The Boogaloo Swamis, Queen Ida & The Bontemps Zydeco Band, Marcia Ball, The Magnolia Sisters and more!
8:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Eagles NEW!
This one has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here. There’s no question that I’m a bigger fan of their early stuff (pre-Joe Walsh), but I’m also a fan of their later stuff as they shifted from country-rock to a more mainstream rock sound.
Before, in between and after our programming you are treated to our big, wide Open Stream courtesy of The Music Mermaid. We’re on 24/7 at no charge to the listening public. And there’s no commercial advertising ever. What’s not to love here?
Good Morning, fellow music lovers! Here we are on our usual (mostly) Open Stream Wednesday. But we do have an amazing playlist for you today called the Down in N’Awlins Playlist. It offers just a hair (like, one second) over four hours of authentic music from one of great music centers in the world (in my humble musical opinion).
We’ve got four hours of great New Orleans music for you today!
Here’s what you’ll hear!
12:00 p.m. Down in N’Awlins Playlist: Various Artists UPDATED!
We have only one playlist for you today, and it’s a pretty amazing eclectic collection of all sounds New Orleans and Louisiana, from Cajun-Zydeco to the blues. We’ve also updated it from last year’s version to keep it fresh and to reflect music we’ve hunted for over the past year. Here are some of the people you’ll hear:
BeauSoleil
Clifton Chenier
Allen Toussaint
Kermit Venable
Dr. John
The Neville Brothers (together and solo)
Professor Longhair
Tony Joe White
Antoine “Fats” Domino
Irma Thomas (The Soul Queen of New Orleans)
Lucinda Williams
Queen Ida
Jerry Lee Lewis
Chance Bushman & Friends
The Daywalkers
The Boogaloo Swamis
Some of the people on this list I discovered on my trips to New Orleans. The Neville Brothers, for example, I saw at the world-renown venue called Tipitinas on one of my earliest business trips to the city.
I discovered The Daywalkers on a vacation trip I took in 2014 at one of Bourbon Street’s most famous venue called The Cat’s Meow. I spent the day driking Tito’s vodka and just having a blast with the music. I discovered another band on that same trip at a great restaurant called Cafe Sbisa, which has sadly closed temporarily due to COVID-19. The band’s name is Chance Bushman & Friends. By the way, they also make a great Bacon Bloody Mary for the day after.
One band, however, I discovered right here in the Boston area; in Somerville, Massachusetts, to be exact. The Boogaloo Swamis were as good a Cajun-Zydeco band as anything you can hear in New Orleans because they genuinely loved the music. It was a craft to them. We’d spend every Friday night at a great place called Johnny D’s Uptown just partying with the Swamis. Great food. Great Drinks. (And a great Sunday Blues Brunch as well.) The family-owned venue rocked for 47 years. It finally closed for good in 2016, but it remains one of the great Boston-area music venues of all time. Great memories. I went on a hunt for Boogaloo Swamis music. I found some. I have some in vinyl form that I will send out for conversion to mp3’s over the next couple of months, but I did have some in CD form which have already been converted and added to the radio station. You’ll hear some of it today, and it has also been added to the general rotation.
Please tune us in. We’re sure you’ll love this playlist. It begins at noon.
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