Tonight’s guest Washboard Lissa Driscoll performing with Nervous Duane in a video we did (99% of the cred: Noé Pierre) a year or two back for OffBeat Magazine. Tune in tonight 9-11 pm on 102.3 WHIV FM! As this warnt enough we’ll be joined as well by Jonathan Fedash, Judy Hill of the Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar and more! An hour of Mardi Gras music/reminiscences followed by an hour of god-knows-what. (But it will be acoustic and relatively clean.)”
Playlist, approximately:
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Part 1: The Spirit(s) of the Saison
“Mardi Gras in New Orleans” – Fats Domino
“Treme Mardi Gras” – Kermit Ruffins
“Handa Wanda” – The Wild Magnolias
“Last Train” – Allen Toussaint
“Stagger Lee” – Lloyd Price
“Sew Sew Sew” – Galactic feat. Big Chief Monk Boudreaux
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Part 2: [mayhem]
“One” – Rory Danger & the Danger Dangers
“Rocks Off” – The Rolling Stones
“Rock Miss Lucy” – Butch Trivette & The Roulettes
“Hold Me Blues” – Memphis Minnie
[Freestyle Delta Jazz r.e. Bed Bugs, Sparrows being kept in their place, Sinister Neighbors, the comparative merits of Jonnie 2x, & more] – Guitar Lissa LIVE
“Lil Queen O’ Spades” – John Mooney
“Reckless Woman” – Lucille Bogan
[“A sheepish acappella murder ballad” a.k.a “don’t quit your day job to perform this version of ‘Long Black Veil’” – Bob Bateman feat. Lissa Driscoll on guitar, Shawn Williams on sporadic whistle, me on somber tones/scantily-suppressed laughter. LIVE {for now}]
“One More Drink” – Shawn Williams Music LIVE (music hath charms to soothe the savage mayhem)
“Closer” – Shawn Williams LIVE
“In the Night” – John Mooney
“Sugar Sugar” – Ike & Tina Turner
[multi-lingual Nervous Duane tribute courtesy of Bob Bateman and Shawn Williams, preceded by autobiographical tale of how Washboard Lissa saved Lame-Duane from Seattle, pt. 1 LIVE]
“You Will Not Lose” – Allen Toussaint
“I Want You” – Bob Dylan LIVE
“Shadow” – Shawn Williams LIVE
[I forget what happened next]
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Part 0 (Filling in for Little Luna & the Major Arcana Music Show, 8-9 pm): Pisces-Inspired tunes, degrading into “whatever I wanted to listen to” (#TypicalPisces ##GoWithTheFlow)
1. “Los Peces” – Lhasa de Sela
2. “Fishies” – The Cat Empire
3. “Til the Ocean Takes Us All” – The Cat Empire
4. “Ferry Man” – Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses
5. “Up On Cripple Creek” – The Band
6. “Across the Great Divide” – The Band
7. “Isis” – Bob Dylan
8. “Desperado” – Johnny Cash
9. “Lost On You” – LP
10. “Love Is A Burden” – Jamestown Revival
11. “Hurricane” – Possessed By Paul James
12. “Lust For Life” – Iggy Pop
13. “Absolutely Sweet Marie” – Bob Dylan
14. “Hit or Miss” – Odetta
15. “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” – Bob Dylan
16. “Spoonbread” – Lil Band o Gold
17. “Time Stands Still” – Chris Smither