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Episode 22
ListenIn this episode of Tapestry of the Times: We celebrate the Big Easy with the late great New Orleans street singer Snooks Eaglin, we hear New Orleans jazz from The Crescent City Serenaders, and we listen back to some vintage Cajun social music; also, the sounds of Timbuktu’s Ali Farka Toure, and a hybrid of American folk guitar and rhythms from Uganda. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds.
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Snooks Eaglin
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New Orleans Street Singer
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15, Sophisticated Blues
Snooks Eaglin
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New Orleans Street Singer
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14, Drifting Blues
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White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians
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Blues Routes: Heroes & Tricksters, Blues & Jazz, Worksongs & Street Music
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13, Sew, Sew, Sew
Dr. Michael White and the Crescent City Serenaders
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Folk Masters
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10, St. James Infirmary
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Hadley Fontenot, Sady Courville, and Preston Manuel
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Cajun Social Music
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1, Trape Mon Chapeau
Michael Doucet
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From Now On
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19, You Gotta Move
Woody Guthrie
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Dust Bowl Ballads
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7, So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust)
Woody Guthrie
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There is No Eye: Music for Photographs
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19, Ramblin’ Round
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Rufus Cohen and Wade Patterson
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There is No Eye: Music for Photographs
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16, So Long: Go
Ali Farka Toure with Afel Bocoum
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Mali Lolo: Stars of Mali
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12, Hilly Yoro
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Jean Ritchie
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Ballads from her Appalachian Family Tradition
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10, The Unquiet Grave
Snooks Eaglin
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New Orleans Street Singer
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5, High Society
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Aaron Henkin is the creator and host of 'Tapestry of the Times.' He's also a co-creator and producer of WYPR's weekly cultural program, The Signal. Aaron's reports and features have aired nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Day to Day, and PRI's Studio 360 and The World. He's a regular guest-host on the American Public Media program The Story. He's also the curator and host of a weekly podcast called The NPR Station Showcase with PRX