Louisiana Moon (Down in Louisiana, it’s a little deeper blue…)
October 8, 2004 to October 27, 2004
New Orleans, LA / WWOZ Spring Pledge Drive
WWOZ 90.7FM > Marantz 2215 > JVC 5010 > CDR

Disc 1
Friday 10/8/04  Gatemouth Brown:
1. chat with Gatemouth Brown
2. Satin Doll
3. Unchained Melody (recorded live)
4. more chat with Gatemouth
5. Satin Doll reprise
10/8/04  Randy Brecker:
6. interview with Randy Brecker
7. The Sleaze factor
8. more interview with Randy Brecker
9. Introducing Randroid
10. announcer
10/8/04  Chris Thomas King:
11. chat with Chris Thomas King (talking about working with Ray Charles)
12. Juke Joint Lover
13. pledge pitch
14. chat with Chris Thomas King
15. Down

Disc 2
10/11/04  Leo Nocentelli (w/Adrian ‘Stix” Harvum):
1. chat with Leo and Stix
2. Leo does a pledge pitch
3. Que Sera (recorded live)
10/11/04  Anders Osborne:
4. chat with Anders
5. It's Gonna Be Okay
6. more chat with Anders
7. Somebody’s Girl
8. and more chat with Anders
9. Anders moves over to the Piano
10. The Lucky One
11. Summertime In New Orleans
10/11/04  Greyson Capps:
12. intro
13. Sixteeen Tons – 1/17/04
10/12/04  Danelli Spadavecchia and Sicilian Swing:
14. intro to band and chat
15. Mala Femina (Bad Woman)
16. announcer pledge pitch
17. Oh Marie
10/15/04  Irma Thomas:
18. chat with Irma
19. Ruler Of My Heart
20. more chat with Irma (Hip Shakin’ Mama)
21. For The Good Times
22. (Respect Yourself – Staple Singers)
23. closing chat with Irma

Disc 3
10/18/04  Art Neville, Ivan Neville (w/Ian Neville):
1. (Closing bars of Lil Liza Jane)
2. chat with Art, Ian and Ivan Neville
3. more chat
4. Walking In The Shadow Of Life
5. more chat with Art and Ivan
6. Junkie Child
7. more chat
8. Neville Brothers make a pledge to WWOZ
9. Kingdom Come
10. more chat
11. Brothers
12. closing chat
13. Ball Of Confusion
14. livewire music calendar for Monday 10/18/04
15. announcer
10/18/04  James Andrews:
16. chat with James Andrews
17. You Send Me

Disc 4
10/19/04  The Neville Brothers:
(Aaron, Cyril, Charles, Ivan)
1. My Children – Art Neville
2. chat with Aaron and Cyril Neville
3. Your Life (Fallen Soldier)
4. Poppa Funk
5. Can’t Stop The Funk
6. Hey Pocky Way
7. chat
8. more chat
9. Carry The Torch
10/19/04  Oliver “Who Shot The La-La” Morgan:
10. Who Shot The La-La?
11. chat with Oliver
12. Poor Boy – Chuck Carbo
13. more chat with Oliver
14. Staggerlee – Oliver Morgan
15. even more chat with Oliver Morgan
16. Tipitina – Professor Longhair
17. some more chat with Oliver
18. It’s Right (to be loved by my baby)
10/24/04  Jack Neilsen:
19. Come Back To Georgia
10/24/04  Lisa Marie Ellingson (w/Tom Marron on fiddle):
20. Through Your Eyes
21. The Fun Arcade

Disc 5
10/24/04  Gina Phillips:
1. Sweet Things
2. announcer
3. Smooth Ride
4. announcer
10/24/04  No Quarter Chanty Crew:
5. intro
6. What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?
7. Running Down To Cuba
8. announcer
9. chat with K.C. King
10. Roll Alabama Roll
10/24/04  Sunpie Barnes:
11. Chat with Sunpie Barnes
12. Zydeco D’Pasolet
13. Bernadette
14. Mo Bien Comme Mo Ye'
15. announcer
10/24/04  Jonno Frishberg and Bo Ledet:
16. chat
17. Chere Joues Roses (Pretty Rosy Cheeks)
18. chat
19. eating too many green bananas
20. chat
10/22/04  Zion Trinity:
21. intro
22. African Race
10/25/04  Lenny McDaniel:
23. chat with Lenny
24. Good People
25. The Dark Entry
26. announcer
27. more chat with Lenny
28. The Blues Side

Disc 6
10/25/04  James Andrews and Big Chief Alfred Dousset:
1. chat
2. Marie Laveau
3. chat
4. Indian chant #1
5. Indian chant #2
6. ‘OZ Time (Carnival Time) chant
7. Indian Red chant
8. chat
9. Saints chant
10. chat and 568-1234 chant
11. Promo for Irma Thomas sings Gospel
David Torkanowsky’s Titanic Orchestra (w/ Troy Andrews and James Martin):
12. chat with Troy Andrews
13. chat with James Martin
14. Under The Waves
15. chat
16. Sleeping With The Fishies
17. chat
18. Going Down Slowly
19. Deep, Deep, Deep
20. chat
(Mike Gourrier Jazz From The Park):
Tracks 21 – 22

Disc 7
10/15/04  Bob French and Friends:
(Henry Butler – piano; Bob French – drums; Wendell Brunious – trumpet vocals; 
Mark Braud – trumpet, vocals; Richard Moten – bass; James Rivers – sax; 
Kermit Ruffins – trumpet, vocals; Freddie Lonzo – trombone; Tricia “Sister 
Teedy” Boutte’ – vocals; Topsy Chapman – vocals; John Boutte’ – vocals)
1. Sunny Side Of The Street
2. chat
3. Satin Doll
4. chat
5. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
6. chat
7. Over The Rainbow
8. blank track
9. chat
10. Over In The Gloryland
11. chat
12. Paper Moon
13. chat
14. Sunny
15. chat

Disc 8
10/15/04  Bob French and Friends:
1. Second Line
2. chat
10/19/04  Bourbon Cowboys:
3. announcer
4. Walkin’ The Hard Line
5. My Louisiana Home
10/19/04  Butch Trevet:
6. announcer
7. I Walk On
8. I Got to Pack My Things and Go
10/20/04  Henry Butler:
9. Ain’t Misbehavin’
10. chat
11. Henry’s Boogie
Big Daddy O (Owen Tufts):
12. Louisiana Moon
10/22/04  Noon and the Black Bottom Brass Band:
12. chat
13. Tea For Two
14. station ID
15. blank track
16. What A Difference A Day Makes
17. chat
18. chat
19. blank track
20. Paradise Inger
21. chat
22. Caprice Rag
23. Poor Butterfly
24. chat & station ID

Disc 9
10/26/04  Clarence Frogman Henry:
1. announcer (Jivin’ Gene)
2. Just Because
3. chat with Frogman Henry
4. Ain’t Got No Home
5. Just My Baby and Me
6. chat with the Frogman
7. No Kisses For Me
8. I Love You A Little Too Much
9. Please Forgive Me
10. Looking Back
11. chat with The Frogman
12. announcer
13. Little Green Frog
14. Why Do I Love You (Like I Do)
15. Please Mister Bossman
16. Around The World
17. This Time
18. chat with Frogman Henry
19. Troubles, Troubles, Troubles
20. This Big Ol’ World
21. The Glory Of Love
22. chat with the Frogman
23. livewire for Tuesday October 26
24. chat with Frogman
25. Shake Your Money Maker
26. Beepin’ and Boppin’
27. You Made Me Love You
28. I’ll Never Be The Same
29. chat with the Frogman

Disc 10
10/26/04  Frogman Henry part 2:
1. But I Do
2. Think It Over
3. I Love You, Yes I Do
4. Keep Your Hands Off Of Her
5. chat with the Frogman
6. Little Suzy
7. That’s My Desire
8. You Always Hurt The One You Love
9. The Jealous Kind
10. announcer
11. Lost Without You
12. Why Can't You?
13. For Your Love
14. chat with Frogman Henry
15. See-Saw Baby
(Tracks 16 through 26 are other artists with the announcer removed…
same program but these tracks are not Frogman Henry)
16.
17. Have Mercy, Mercy Baby
18. It Was Broken
19. Don’t Slam That Door – Snooks Eaglin
20. Calling All Cows
21. Ooooh Weee
22. Shimmies and Shakes
23. Emmett Lee
24.
25.
26. The Things I Used To Do – Earl King (live at Tipitina’s 1992)

Disc 11
10/27/04  Records From The Crypt:
Snooks Eaglin with Brotherhood of Groove (W/guests: George Porter Jr, 
David Torkanowsky, Ivan Neville, Eddie Bo, James Andrews, Troy Andrews, Big Chief Alfred Dousset…)
1. station ID
2. opening Theme
3. Stand By Me
4. Saved
5. announcer, band intro, tuning
6. Jam #1
7. Mailman Blues
8. Oh Baby (Down The Road I Go)
9. announcer
10. Quaker City
11. 568-1234 Jam
12. announcer
13. Doggin’ Around With You
14. announcer
15. Dizzy Miss Lizzy
16. announcer
17. Black Night
18. announcer

Disc 12
10/27/04
1. announcer – I’m Wise
2. announcer
3. Check Mr. Popeye
4. announcer
5. Down Yonder (Down on the Farm)
6. announcer
7. Bright Lights, Big City
8. announcer
9. New Love Thing
10. announcer
11. Hard Times
12. (false start-) Let The Four Winds Blow
13. announcer
14. Drive Her Home
15. announcer
16. Something You Got
17. announcer – Marie Laveau
18. announcer

Disc 13
10/27/04
1. Skinny Minnie
2. announcer – Jam # 2
3. announcer – 568-1234 Jam
4. announcer
5. High Heeled Sneakers
6. announcer
7. Red Beans Cooking
8. announcer
9. Big Chief
10. announcer
11. People Say
12. announcer
13. closing announcement
14. (I Like It Like That)
The New Orleans Jazz Vipers (10/27/04 afternoon):
15. announcer
16. Exactly Like You
17. announcer
18. Blue Drag
19. announcer
20. Ghost Of A Chance
21. announcer


Here are 13 CDR’s worth of in-the studio performances, interviews, artists tributes 
and tracks from WWOZ's live archives  that were culled from WWOZ’s fall 2004 pledge drive.

For example, David Torkanowsky was joined live on the air by Troy “Trumpet Slim” Andrews, James Martin, and an unnamed bassist and drummer. They chatted and played 4 songs from their upcoming (still unreleased) cd, “The Titanic Orchestra.” This is a seasoned journeyman musician, a real keyboard genius joined by some teen-aged musicians.

Discs 9 and 10 are an air check that’s 2 and 1/2 hour interview/tribute/pledge pitch with Clarence 'Frogman' Henry who is still alive and playing 200 nights a year. Buddy Holly covered Frogman's "Ain't Got No Home" over 45 years ago...AND the Beatles had him open on 19 shows on their 1964 USA tour…those accomplishments alone should tell you something about the Frogman.

And disc 11, 12 and 13 are a 3 hour live broadcast of Snooks Eaglin backed by Brotherhood Of Groove with special guests George Porter Jr., Ivan Neville, David Torkanowsky, James and Troy Andrews, Eddie Bo, Big Chief Alfred Dousset, and more...live outside the 'OZ studios in Armstrong Park (formerly Congo Square) and under the stars during a lunar eclipse.

For example, Gatemouth Brown did a 10 minute interview, whereas The Neville Brothers did 2 seperate 1 hour plus interviews, one day it was a rare Art Neville interview (with his son, Ian and Aaron's son Ivan) and the next day it was Aaron, Charles, Cyril, and Ivan Neville who showed up. Anders Osborn came in to the studio and played some acoustic songs on guitar and was then coaxed into playing on the piano his then-newest composition, followed by his N’Awlins classic, Summertime In New Orleans. Chris Thomas King talked about being in the film "RAY" as Llowell Fulsom, the Bob French and Friends set is a different show than the one offered previously on TTD, Henry Butler dropped in and played 2 songs on the piano that resides in the WWOZ studios (it was James Booker's piano).....and so on....

This is the on-going musical heritage of a city that some jerks in Congress had the nerve to suggest that maybe it shouldn't be rebuilt. This is one on the seminal cities of our country and the music is a melting pot of many diverse cultures and races.

You just don't get that stuff anywhere else. Here in one collection are Cajun musicians playing acoustic (Sunpie Barnes on his “Acadian Air Compressor” -- his accordion, for you non-Zydeco types), here is Sicilian Swing, here is Mardi Gras Indian chants, sea chanteys, blues, funk, singer-songwriters, jazz, rock, and arguably the REAL Queen of Soul, Miss Irma Thomas.

So if you think that those apple-knockers in Congress and the media are right and that N’Awlins shouldn't be rebuilt, then you just don't get it.


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