Playlist for June 14, 2008 from 11:59PM - 03:00AM

Louis gives a musical history of the Juneteenth celebration. Slavery was banned in 1865 but neither the word or the law got out to the field for months. It arrived Galveston on June 19th and led to street celebrations which is credited to being the origination of Juneteenth. However, slavery is still a well established institution throughout the world. It is as near as the sexual slavery on the US-Mexico border in euphemistically-called boys towns and throughout the third world. Classic slavery still thrives in the Middle East and Africa where the the particularly vicious form includes child soldiers. And those depraved hearts who hired, housed, fed, and then did not pay but provided plenty of threats to Spanish speakers in post-Katrina New Orleans were subscribing to the same long-standing human instincts of cruelty. Speaking of the human instinct of cruelty, have you gotten the latest round of internet hatchet emails directed at Obama? The slick productions are institutional propaganda but the message is the same - hate and dehumanize the difference.

Love these songs that list what all the insects are doing at an event. This is second only to Big Jay McNeeley upcoming song.

The insects are having a social gathering that Nell Nolan of the Times Picayune missed. This set is 100% male performers probably for the same reasons that my sister Ande called on her brothers to remove bugs from her room. Why is a boy's fascination with bugs in proportion to a girl's revulsion?

For the insectorium's kitchen which prepares insect based food for human consumption. Kind of like a number restaurant around the world.

I did not see this show as a kid but the theme song is killer.

instrumentals that sound like crawling bugs must be boys-only inspirations for making music.

This is the same cd that contains all the New Orleans rockabilly star, Joe Clay's recordings and a bunch of other similarly great but passed over rockabilly performers.

The classic food that bites back. Reminds me of the Three Stooges skit where the clams chowder spray the Stooges but then again, most things remind me of this skit.

There are plenty of bar fly songs so we are limiting ourselves to just this one by the Last of the Blue Devils, Jay McShann

A very short instrumental to get you swatting at your ears.

Okay another big stretch as the song begin in Kansas and ends up in America's Iran but it is Randy Newman and we can stretch the theme to fit this wonderful song.

There is also a rockabilly or country song for every occasion, noun and situation.

We are out of insect lyrics (where is Slim Harpo - Queen Bee?) but we the band names are too good to exclude them from the set.

I love this version of a show I always watched. Might as well do a double header for the impaired who stay up and listen to this show.