Spiritual--New Orleans' Music and the World,
with Kidd Jordan, Roger Lewis, and Kirk Joseph
Show #1, Hour One
(First in the series that became ’Spiritual as Music’ and grew to 22 Hours of Interviews and Tracks.)
0:00--1:00 Intro with "I SHALL NOT BE MOVED" by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
1:00--5:02 Toots and the Maytals' "SPIRITUAL HEALING"
5:02--8:20 KIRK JOSEPH on his beginnings as a musician and origins of the DDBB
8:20--13:45 DDBB "MARDI GRAS IN NEW ORLEANS" from Live: Mardi Gras In Montreux, 1986
13:44--19:14 ROGER LEWIS on his beginnings as a musician and with the DDBB
19:14--21:08 KIDD JORDAN on his learning music in Crowley, Louisiana
21:08--22:57 KIDD JORDAN on his first bands and he and Ornette Coleman playing rhythm-and-blues music in 1950s' Louisiana--"The Temple Roof was a rough place."
22:57--25:56 ROGER, KIRK on the DDBB playing Monday nights at the Glass House, early 1980s, and how spontaneous creations arose within the band
25:56--29:40 DDBB "THE FLINTSTONES MEET THE PRESIDENT"
29:40--32:18 ROGER, KIRK on how "spiritual" and "powerful" New Orleans' music is
32:18--32:40 DON PAUL on how music carries both ways across the Atlantic
32:40--37:30 Van Morrison with Cliff Richard "WHENEVER GOD SHINES HIS LIGHT"
37:30--39:34 KIRK, ROGER on the "Federal flood" in New Orleans of 2005 and the DDBB's album What's Going On
39:34--44:02 DDBB with Chuck D "WHAT'S GOING ON"
44:02--48:54 Don Paul reads from his September 2, 2005 column for the San Francisco Bay View newspaper about the Federal flood--' "A National Disgrace" ' (quoting New Orleans' head of Emergency Operations, Terry Ebbert on the U.S. Government's lack of response to survivors' suffering)
48:54--51:32 The Impressions, Curtis Mayfield "THIS IS MY COUNTRY"
51:32--55:48 Intro and Zelia Barbosa "CANCAO DE TERRA"
55:48--61:12 Cyril Neville with Russell Batiste, Henry Butler, Ivan Neville, Leo Nocentelli, George Porter in Austin, Texas, 2006 "THIS IS MY COUNTRY"
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