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Judy Hill & co. “My Babe” Clip!

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Exciting news- our live album will officially be a double album!! All sorts of additional music and content TBA. Hear hear!

Here–hear a sneak peek of one of my favorite tracks, Judy Hill belting out the Little Walter classic “My Babe”, backed up by Jamey St. Pierre, Ted Hefko, Bob Worth, Nervous Duane, and Rory Collins. This was a totally impromptu collaboration, which is why I love it so much… a lot of these folks had just met that night. And this clip is just a tease, so if you want to hear the rest of Ted’s “guitar” solo, you’ll have to get the album 😉

Episode 50: THE LAST STRAW (Season Finale)

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Oh lawd!

Finally getting the playlist and pictures up from our season finale a week ago. What a night! We ran from 8pm to almost 1:30am and had over 50 guests in the studio, and various others tuning in from near and far. There were several newcomers (including my best&most-clever frand Brady, the notorious “Whalevo Rob”, and Jim Smith of Checkpoint Charlie’s Acoustic Open Mic), a bunch of old-comers, one dog, one child, a lot of delicious food, a lot of gas station food, Hair-on-the-Air (victim: me), Amber bringing a SPOCK candle (!!!) and Patrick Cooper announcing he was going to play “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” seconds after I’d cued up that album on my laptop.

We heard tons of local tunes (mostly live, a few …un-live? dead? undead? ) in the company of an ever-charmingly-diverse crew dear friends, sworn enemies, and neighbors. Our pals at United Bakery Records came in to announce the fabulous shows they’re putting together this holiday season, and we even got a surprise visit at the very end from our illustrious leader, MarkAlain Dery! (emojis) It’s been a great year, and I’ll miss y’all like the dickens. See ya on the flip side! Semi-accurate playlist etc. below… there was a rough draft, then people started shouting requests… you know how it is.

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Episode 46: The Big Ol’ Chicken-Less Fest

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(It’s October 22nd, and you know what that means…it’s time for THE BIG OL’ CHICKEN-FEST!

(I completely made that up.) We’re celebrating my dad being in town with a boiled chicken/fried fish fiasco a la Darby and Brandy Roden, plus mystery *legal* reptile courtesy of Cajun cooker Red DeVecca… And (duh) New Orleans music played live from 102.3 WHIV FM studios! Plus…

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Episode #42: Washboard Lissa & the CatHouse Mamas ;)

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Thanks to all the musicians who played, guest soundboard operators who operated, and Pizza Mikes who brought gas station chicken. Check out Margi Cates’ ‘do by Stacey Kelly Styling!

Most of all, thank you to Lissa Driscoll for changing so many lives for the better, keeping us all on our toes, and saying ‘fuck it’ in the appropriate instances. And of course for all the music. Rest recklessly. (And peacefully, too.)

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Episode #39: Irresistible Saloon Hair

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Thank you to Renard Boissiere, Andre Lovett, and Nervous Duane for playing/reading live, big thanks always to Pizza Mike and his plethora of gas station snacks, hurray for Stacey Leigh Bridewell (Stacey Kelly Vintage Styling and her hot rollers for getting me back to my roots being a widowed saloon owner during the last gold rush (“widowed” as in, “hip and unattached”), my fave Brandy Roden for schlepping over from Arabi, and congrats to Corey Collins for working a fourteen hour day then running a great second show! (“Under the Influence”, 11p-1a.) Playlist below.

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Episode #33: Poaching From The Mint

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Lawd! What a crew. I harassed Jamey St Pierre and Ted Hefko to be on the show after an intimate performance with Dick Deluxe at the US Mint, and all these other great folks showed up too. Thank you so much to everyone that played, read, chatted, took pictures, refrained from barking, and lurked around in such a way as to cultivate the warm, wacky atmosphere that makes Sunday nights at 102.3 WHIV FM such a blast. Thank you Josh for these beautiful pics!

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Episode #31: Picking Up Guests On Street Corners

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Another wacky, educational episode of Musicians, Mentors, and Barroom Heroes! New friends and dear/weird friends. Live music, not-live music, bar stories about not-live people, fine literature, good company, company, $2 chips. Thank you bunches to Eric Ess, Nervous Duane, Karen Childs, Stephen Medina, Carrie Anne Rose, Ashley Rice, Shawn Williams, and Cousin Andrew Jonathan for hanging out! (See Karen Childs’ video below!)

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Episode #15: Down ‘n’ Out with Washboard Lissa

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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.)”

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Episode #3: Nervous Chatter & the Sheiks of Arabi

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Ok! After wading through the carnage of Sunday night’s installment of Musician, Mentors, and Barroom Heroes, this was our playlist, approximately. (The second half of the program mostly consisted of people frantically yelling at me to find songs I’d never heard of, me cursing out various electronic devices, everybody staying properly hydrated, and all of us getting distracted by the best [i.e. dirtiest] stories once we were off-air. Ah, would that the FCC would take a holiday…)

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Episode #2: Bar Lurker Picks

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Last night’s playlist from Musicians, Mentors, & Barroom Heroes on 102.3 WHIV FM! Local and non-local picks and dedications by/to patrons at the Old Arabi Bar and the Ooh Poo Pah Doo, also from miscellaneous musically-knowledgeable people that frequent the same haunts as I do. Including me. Sundays from 9-11 p.m., thanks for tuning in!

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