WWOZ-FM -
Tuesday, February 13, 2007@ 11:10 am-12:30 pm
New Orleans, La.
Back in New Orleans for the Mardi Gras and time for what’s now our annual Mardi Gras show in a Joint Production with Tom Morgan’s New Orleans Music Show on WWOZ Radio. This year I get to spend the entire two hours in the co-pilot’s chair as Tom brings out his comprehensive presentation of Mardi Gras Indian music, starting with Jelly Roll Morton’s reminiscences and demonstrations of Mardi Gras Indian tunes from the turn of the 20 th century and recordings by the Louis Dumaine orchestra, Danny Barker & His Creole Cats, the Mardi Gras Indians interviewed by Sam Charters in 1956, Sugar Boy & the Cane Cutters, Big Chief Tootie Montana interviewed by Royce Osborne, the Dixie Cups, and Big Chiefs Donald Harrison Sr and Jr. My own contribution is a reading from my essay “They Call us Wild” from Va Tutto Bene / It’s All Good.
Playlist #123
[01] Opening Music: Paul Gayton: Backtrackin’ with Tom Morgan & John Sinclair intros & comments
[02] Jelly Roll Morton: Indian Songs at Mardi Gras
[03] Louis Dumaine: To-Wa-Bac-A-Wa
[04] Danny Barker: Chocko Mo Feendo Hey
[05] Danny Barker: Tootie Ma Is A Real Fine Thing
[06] Danny Barker: My Indian Red
[07] Danny Barker: Corrine Died on the Battlefield
[07] Comments by Tom Morgan & John Sinclair
[08] Red White & Blue: To Wa Bac A Way
[09] Red White & Blue: Red White & Blue got The Golden Band
[10] Sugar Boy Crawford: Jockomo
[11] Tootie Montana: Indian Beginnings
[12] Dixie Cups: Two Way Pocky Way
[13] Comments by Tom Morgan & John Sinclair
[14] Donald Harrison Sr: Chong Chong
[15] Tootie Montana: Learning Songs
[16] Donald Harrison Sr: Shallow Water
[17] Donald Harrison: Hu Ta Nay w/John Sinclair reading from They Call Us Wild
A Joint Production
Hosted by Tom Morgan for WWOZ-FM and John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced, engineered & recorded by Tom Morgan
Mastered & posted by Henk Botwinik
Executive Producer: John Sinclair
Special thanks to Tom Morgan & Hild Creed
©(p) 2007 John Sinclair
