Last night’s playlist from my new radio show Musicians, Mentors, and Barroom Heroes on 102.3 WHIV FM! Tune in Sundays from 9-11 p.m. Thanks!
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Episode 1: Bartender Picks. Jukebox picks, personal favorite songs, and local band recommendations, courtesy of some of my personal favorite bartenders around New Orleans and beyond. These are just a few of em, plenty of other great material left for future episodes.
Levi Chancellor (Bjs Bywater)
1) “Honky Tonk Heroes” – Waylon Jennings (“The best fucking drinking song of all time”- LC)
2) “Dark End of the Street” – Percy Sledge
Jd Furlong (BJ’s, Vaughan’s Lounge, etc.)
3) “Washing Machine” – Morning 40 Federation (“One of the sexiest dive bar jukebox songs of all time”- JDF)
Katherine Hebbler (Junction)
4) “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” – Black Sabbath (“That song’s got some kind of magic.” – KH, Motown connoisseur)
Wende Wagner (St. Roch Tavern, The Country Club)
5) “Cowboy Song” -Thin Lizzy (WW on jukeboxes: “The Hideout had the best jukebox. And Erin Rose.” … “Todd Perley [sp?] makes the best CD compilations.” …..On working on Lower Decatur during the days of the Hideout: “The stuff we saw, the stuff we did, the fuzzy memories of watching the stuff other people did…”)
Curtis Casados (The Abbey Bar, formerly the Spotted Cat, Mimi’s, etc etc etc)
5) “Black Horn” – South Jones (Band pick. CC’s other favorite local bands? Pat Casey and the New Sound, OTRA, Rory Danger & the Danger Dangers. Coming up soon on playlists near you. Also, the Pre-K: Jazz jam session at Spotted Cat.)
6) “Wait” – Wang Chung (“Almost everyone’s got some songs they call “guilty pleasures”… I realized they’re very different for different people. Like, this guy here. I know him as Mr. Punk Rock, but I bet he has a guilty pleasure, and it’s totally different.”
^ aforementioned “Mr. Punk Rock” aka Mitch Carroll (The Abbey, Spitfire)
7) “Another Saturday Night” – Cat Stevens (“Yup. Cat Stevens.” -MC)
“The Incomparable” Judy Hill (The Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar)
8) “Stagger Lee” – Lloyd Price (Performance pick. Watch out for the high kick.)
Claudia Boyle (Igor’s Check Point Charlie)
9) “Bottom Shelf Blues” – Morning 40 Federation (Another local band pick, catch them live at Checkpoints: The Jerk Officers.)
Meredith Lee (The Shootin’ Gallery, Bar 61 – Metairie):
10) “Children of the Sun” – Billy Thorpe
11) “Fat Bottomed Girls” – Queen (One of my personal favorite jukebox tunes, as well. Chaque mardi aux Foufs, hein Ariane Barrette?)
Eric Ess (Chef extraordinaire at Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant):
12) “I Put A Spell On You” – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Matt Boyko (Old Arabi Bar- Arabi, Le Bon Temps Roule):
13) “The Joker and the Thief” – Wolfmother
Seth Falvo (Boucherie):
14) “If Only Keith Richards Could Surf” – The Unnaturals (Local band pick.)
In honor of DJ Marc Paradis being a guest on air (THANKS):
15) “One One One” – Rory Danger & the Danger Dangers (Side note: I practically never have more fun than whilst watching these lunatics perform. One One One of the best bands ever. I can’t believe “Pepe Peligroso” was on air with me… no wonder I was so Nervous.)
16) “On and On” – Johnny Sketch and The Dirty Notes (On On On dat electric cello.)
17) “Tame” – The Pixies (Oft covered by the Dangers. Cookie, I think *you’re* tame.)
On the Jukebox at the Old Arabi Bar this Week:
18) “Low Down” – Hank Williams III (Thank you to the fella whose name I will remember soon who orders Rumple Minze and soda! A drink I enjoy as well, and this song was perfect. Well played, sir.)
19) “Astral Weeks” – Van Morrison (I might have played this one myself. For closing, not drinking.)