WWOZ was on hand at the Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette, La. on August 15, 2014
as Lazy Lester hopped onstage with the Lil Buck Sinegal Band to perform 'They
Call Me Lazy.' Those harmonica skills!
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1 Eastern Rock The Skatalites 04:36 Return Of The
Big Guns
2 Far Celestial Shores Mavis Staples 02:55 One
True Vine
3 Higher And Higher Queen Esther Marrow 03:47
feat. The Harlem Gospel Singers
4 Tears Of A Clown (1975) ...
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1) Krewe of O.A.K. rolls out its "Midsummer Mardi Gras" on Saturday! It all
kicks off from the Maple Leaf starting at 7p.
2) The 2018-19 second line season kicks off this Sunday with a parade from
The Valley of Silent Men! Get all the info, including route sheets, for this...
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Leslie Johnson, better known as Lazy Lester, passed away Wednesday, August 22
at the age of 85 after a battle with stomach cancer. He was a wonderfully
gifted blues musician and performer who is widely known as a pioneer of the
swamp-blues genre.
Lazy Lester was born June...
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Strange Roux joined Big D on Sittin' At The Crossroads this afternoon!
Check out their performance below.
Songs:
1. Got You Runnin'
2. Helpless
3. Love Is Gone
Jason Kareores - guitar
Matt Schmitt - bass
Cody Lee - guitar
Jamie Hill - vocals
Chris O'Guinn - drums
Chris ...
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If you missed my special tribute (Saturday, August 18) to Aretha Franklin on
my Soul Power show, featuring only LP cuts from her mid 70s-mid 80s albums,
please enjoy at the following link, courtesy of WWOZ's Two Week Archive:
wwoz.org/listen/archive/show.php?date=2018-08-18...
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Here's one from Water Seed, live at WWOZ on March 2, 2018! Water Seed is a
progressive, innovative band with fingers in Funk, Soul, R&B, Fusion, and
Future Funk.
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Tune in this Tuesday, August 21 as host Neil Pellegrin spotlights the
formative years and pre "Queen of Soul" period of Aretha Louise Franklin on
this week's 1950s R&B Show.
Neil shares, "My original intent was to play 90 minutes of her early work.
However, after reacquain...
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Since Aretha Franklin's passing on Thursday, many of our DJs have been
sharing wonderful tributes to the Queen of Soul. Here's a few, available on
our 2-week archive. Just click the show you're interested in and it will
begin playing.
DJ Soul Sister shares her favorite dee...
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New Orleans' second line parades wouldn't be what they are without brass bands. Host Action Jackson sat down with the Big 6 Brass Band earlier this summer to get their take on the brass band scene today, coming up in music education in New Orleans, and much more.
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