I love. Listening to Aspen Public Radio broadcasts. Then and Casey Jags Carbondale. Welcome to the blue horizon show this is your host and I'm here to play the blues for you tonight on blue horizon I will be playing songs about hot dogs and barbecues and parades even fireworks since it's the 4th of July weekend and I hope everyone's having it's safe and happy and Independence Day weekend and really get the show started with Curtis Jones So let's get the show rolling. Rather. Not the way I met my dad. That sounded a little. Run out no merit. But I thought that the. Fog a little better knock knock. I've got the best costume out of the. Night. RINGBACK I got back after last and we. And our mock up of the service. That my. Mom made a favor and you a man at home. I've come from a to fight and you. Then you know that for her the. Law bothered. I've got all the modern and ha. Ha ha ha. Ha. And my limit. And you come to my house come down on the hand rail I got a. Little sail on. Q. . 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That was Lucille Bogan with barbecue bells and I'm sure she was just talking about her barbecue she was born April 1st 1897 and passed away August 10th 1948 she was among the 1st blues singers to be recorded and she also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson she was born Lucille Anderson or Marie Mississippian raised in Birmingham Alabama and in 1916 she married Nazareth Lee Bogan a railway man and she 1st recorded vaudeville songs for Okie Records in New York in 1923 with pianist Terry Callan's later that year she recorded pawnshop blues in Atlanta which was the 1st time a black blues singer had been recorded outside of New York or Chicago and in 1907 she began recording for Paramount records in Chicago where she recorded her 1st big success sweep Petunia which was covered by Blind Blake she also recorded for Brunswick records back by Tampa Redding Kalki Davenport by 1930 her recordings had begun to concentrate on drinking and sex with songs such as sloppy drunk Blues which was later covered by Leroy Carne others around 1932 she returned to Birmingham and apparently to conceal her identity began recording as Bessie Jackson and she was usually accompanied on piano by. Walter Roland with whom she recorded over 100 songs between 19331935 including some of her biggest commercial successes and we started out the show and that set with Curtis Jones and hot dog man he was born August 18th 1000 out of 6 in Naples Texas and passed away September 11th 1981 in Munich Germany and Jones played guitar when he was young but switched to piano after moved to Dallas and in 1936 he really came to Chicago where he recorded between 19371941 vocally and records Bluebird records and Okie records among his best known tunes from these recordings where the hit lonesome bedroom blues and the song Tin Pan Alley World War 2 interrupted his recording career which he did not resume until 953 and Jones' 1st full length recording appeared in 1960 on blues bill records by which time he had become a noted performer in the Chicago folk music scene a solo album appeared in 1962 but by that time he had moved to Europe where he spent the rest of his life apart from a few years living in Morocco and he passed away in Germany from heart failure in 1901 at the age of $65.00 and we get on to this next set here it's got a few New Orleans musicians in this next set well all New Orleans musicians like said and we're going to start it off with Kermit Ruffins with smokin with some barbecue. Smoke it with somebody. Local with a ball with your weight then. Read the like with this whole it's like fun thing. To do with this one go. Go on a light grill. Smoke and. If you live with the. Drop down. Low don't get on her good night. Blame it on the Bud Light. Rather than no fly. On the wheel. Good luck. Lol Lol but you. Are no longer in the. Long. real. Life all mine. Where the. Former might. Be slow if the. Truth with. The things he. Has evolved from the. Flame of the bomb like. From the flight of. The Fall. Down. The river to. See. Us. For the floating. News. I am. I am I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am I am the for. Us I am I am I am. I am. I am . When. I've. Done. That with. The boy. With. Her family. Over the. Phone with. The person who didn't want to know the point 0. 000-0000. 00 . I was Tom McDermott and Matt Perrin of bone Rama on the sousaphone and the song is Stars and Stripes Forever Tom McDermott is a pianist and composer born in St Louis Missouri in 1957 and he began studying piano at age 6 and became a professional musician at 16 and received a masters in music degree from Washington University in St Louis in 19822 years later he moved to New Orleans and became noted for the styles of jazz associated with that town especially Dixieland jazz and ragtime in he was in the group Dukes of Dixieland through much of the 1980 s. And in 1994 he co-founded and wrote arrangements for the innovative brass band the New Orleans night crawlers he has released 9 C.D.'s as a leader and since 2001 he has devoted much time traveling to Brazil where he studies and research and has recorded Brazilian music and McDermott is also a journalist writing primarily about music and travel and before that we heard from Kermit Ruffins with smokin with some barbecue and I'm sure he's talking about the barbecue he was born December 19th 1964 and he's a jazz trumpeter singer and composer from New Orleans and he has been heavily influenced by Louis Armstrong lawyers Jordan and Eddie Jefferson and rough and accompanies a large portion of his songs with his own vocals and says that the highest note he can hit on his trumpet is the high c. Note mostly his band performs New Orleans jazz standards though he also composed as many of his own original pieces and Kermit started playing trumpet in 8th grade at Wallace junior high in New Orleans 9th Ward he attended Joseph s. Clark high school in New Orleans 6 ward in the Tremaine neighborhood and he co-founded the Rebirth Brass Band in 1903 while still tending Clark high school and Ruffins has an affinity for barbecue his band even called the Barbecue Swingers and he says he developed an appreciation for cooking through his grandmother observing her movements in the kitchen while growing up and going to go on to the next set of . Independence Day songs and snakes that barbecue set and I'm going to sing this next song out to all my friends and family in Texas and start this off with Mitch Woods and boogie woogie barbecue. Place with. They got some. Very. Serious. Come on guys. Let's get started. On. You were just listening to de fields with rocking the barbecue or at the barbecue he was born in Manhattan but spent time in the south where he was raised by a nanny from Athens Georgia he experienced the rich funky flavor of grits gravy and chitlins to the sophisticated urban influence of his famous father Sammy forever Fields who was a virtuoso pianist though Dave was in a merged with the guitar in Jimi Hendrix from an early age his supportive but strict father insisted he 1st studied the piano beginning at age 8 the discipline paid off as the precocious youngster became adept on the keys and the strings at 15 he began playing sessions with his father and a year later composed his 1st big band score. The time spent in the studio would prove prove to be a technological education preceding his studies at Berklee School of Music in Boston where he studied performance in composing arranging and de field is an extraordinary talented contemporary singer songwriter and multigrain stimulus who knows his music inside and out from the bottom up and we started that set out with Mitch Woods and boogie woogie bargain barbecue he was born April 3rd 1951 in Brooklyn New York so a couple of New Yorkers in that set thinking about barbecue in the south. Mitch Woods is a modern day boogie woogie jump blues in jazz pianist and singer since the early 1980 s. He's been touring and recording with his band The Rocket 88 and Woods calls his music rock a bogey much Woods and his backing band The Rocket 88 have retrospectively provided a 940 s. In pity's jump blues style Woods got his start playing clubs near the State University of New York Buffalo campus and he moved to San Francisco in $1071.00 originally a student of jazz and classical music on relocation to the west coast would started playing jump and rhythm and blues and we're now into the flip side of the blue horizon show I'm your host Sheryl the Bluebird and tonight in blue horizon I'm playing songs about parades and fireworks and barbecue and hot dogs and all for independent states and so we're going to start the 2nd half of the show with a song called street parade by the dk for. a. Long as. He was. Very. Glad. I am. That was Paul Thorn with Mission temple fireworks stand he was born July 13th 1964 and commercial Wisconsin and is a set Americana singer songwriter who styles a mix of blues and rock music Thorne was born in Wisconsin but as an infant his family moved and he was raised in Tupelo Mississippi before his professional music career began he was briefly a professional boxer having fought a nationally televised fight against former world champion Roberta Duran and also won the mid-south middleweight championship in Memphis Tennessee after a few years of working in a local furniture factory him playing a local blues clubs he was discovered by music professional Miles Copeland who's the brother of the police drummer Stewart Copeland and he was signed to a recording contract with an m. Records and recorded his 1st album hammer in nail in 1907 followed by numerous more albums and in 2008 he enjoyed national t.v. Performance appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel Live and he is actually the song of a Pentecostal minister so that's where he gets his Holy Ghost influence and that song was covered by Sawyer Brown and Robert Randolph Well that was interesting I think it was a pretty good cover of it and we start out that set with the dk 4 in street parade and dk fours headed by dk Stuart who was expelled from classical piano lessons at the age of 14 for playing boogie woogie that gave him the early opportunity to develop his own piano style and the result of his departure from tradition was the discovery of jazz and blues and this unusual pursuit at such a young age afforded the opportunity to meet and perform with a multitude of living legends and he inevitably put his savvy stage experience to work. For himself in 1905 by creating the. Trio and which later became the dk for another band member and we have time for a few more so let's get on to this next set with Scott Nelson and the song is called 4th of July. Thank you out to our Clear. 6. That was looney Kravitz with American woman he was born Leonard Albert Kravitz a May 6th 1964 and he's a singer songwriter multi-lane Stones record producer and arranger whose retro style incorporates elements of rock soul r. And b. Funk reggae hard rock folk and ballads and addition to singing lead and backing vocals Kravitz often plays all the guitar bass drums keyboards and percussion himself when recording he won the Grammy Award for Best Male Brock vocalist performance for years in a row from 1909 to 2002 breaking the record for most wins in that category and most consecutive wins in any one category and cravats was born in New York City on May 26th 1964 the song of Roxy rocker an actress known for her character Helen Willis in the 1970 s. Television sitcom The Jeffersons and his father was psych rabbits and n.b.c. Television news producer and Kravitz father was of Ukranian Jewish descent and his mother was of Bahamian and African-American descent and credits began banging on pots and pans in the kitchen playing them his drums at the age of 3 at the age of 5 he wanted to be a musician and he began playing the drums and soon at a guitar and he grew up listening to the music of his parents and was arm be jazz classical opera gospel and blues and in $74.00 the credits family relocated to Los Angeles where his mother landed her role in the Jeffersons and at his mother's urging Kravitz joined the California Boys Choir for 3 years where he performed a classical repertoire and sang with the Metropolitan Opera we started out that son with Scott Ellison and 4th of July and talented singer songwriter guitarist and blues rocker Scott Ellison was born Feb 13th 1950. For in Tulsa Oklahoma by the 70s tolls had become an unexpected hotbed of blues based rock bands which was around the same time that Elsom began playing with others such as Country singer Jessica James who was Conway Twitty daughter in 1970 and a renowned blues man Clarence gate mouth Brown in 1981 Ellison relocated to Los Angeles by the mid eighty's However keeping his music career going by playing with the Box Tops the Sharelle Zz the coasters and Peaches and Herb and by the ninety's he had formed his own blues band and opened for the likes of Joe Cocker The Fabulous Thunderbirds embody guy it was also around this time that Ellison began issuing solo albums shortly after return back home to Tulsa he issued his 3rd release steaming followed by one step from the blues which featured several other Tolson musicians backing him in addition Allison has also pinned songs that have appeared in such to hit t.v. Shows as Sister Sister ion ally in the soap opera Santa Barbara as well as the soundtrack to been Affleck's motion picture Reindeer Games in 2001 else and issued his 1st release for the burnside label called cold hard cash which was produced by longtime Robert Crais producer Denis Walker and we have time for just one more so I'm going to leave you with a live recording of Jimi Hendrix at the Los Angeles forum on April 25th 1980 playing the Star-Spangled Banner. The o.-o. O.-o. Were the were the of the. Ones. A and. They were and. And I was Jimi Hendrix playing the Star-Spangled Banner that was recorded live at the Los Angeles forming it was a bootleg album made by this guy named The robber dubber and he would go around and record various concerts and he was kind of underground very secretive Anyway I got the album from my parents and that concludes the blue horizon show for this week I hope you enjoyed all the Independence Day themed songs and I hope you will join me next week for more great blues that you can use I've been your host Sheryl the Bluebird and you're listening to blue horizon on Aspen Public Radio broadcasting on k. Ajax Aspen and k.c. Jakes Carbondale who.