Today’s edition of “Safe at Home” radio is up for streaming at your leisure! New music from Ivan Neville, Peter Case, Nickel Creek, Lankum, Scullion, and Krewe du Belge! Plus another set of Mr. Dave, Zachary Richard, Tin Men, Drive-By Truckers, The Movie Stars, To Be Continued Brass Band, Professor Longhair, Red Meat, John Prine, John Delafose, and more. Enjoy!

https://www.mixcloud.com/SazeracLA/safe-at-home-april-8-2023/

Okay, let’s rock ‘n roll…

I suspect those of you who still have this thing in their RSS feed already know about my streaming radio show, but here goes. It’s still a thing! Although it’s bi-weekly now, because it takes up about 6 hours of my Saturday and I needed half of my Saturdays back. (It’ll go back to weekly when I retire, if I’m still doing it by then.)

You may have also seen my reaction on other socials to the passing of David Lindley, perhaps the greatest musician on this planet. That one hit me hard, as I’d been a big fan of Mr. Dave for at least 40 years. So, in case you missed it, here’s the 3-1/2 hour tribute show I did for him a few weeks back.

And the playlist:

DAVID LINDLEY – El Rayo-X [EL RAYO-X/Asylum] 1981
RY COODER – Little Sister [BOP TILL YOU DROP/Warner Bros.]
BOTTLE ROCKETS WITH DAVID LINDLEY – Rocket in My Pocket [ROCK AND ROLL DOCTOR: A TRIBUTE TO LOWELL GEORGE/CMC International] 1979
THE PAHINUI BROTHERS WITH RY COODER & DAVID LINDLEY – Jealous Guy [THE PAHINUI BROTHERS/Panini Records] 1997
DAVID LINDLEY & EL-RAYO-X – Something’s Got A Hold On Me [WIN THIS RECORD!/Asylum] 1982

DAVID LINDLEY – Mad Mountain Medley [ANTHOLOGY OF THE BANJO/Tradition] 1961
THE DRY CITY SCAT BAND – Baldheaded End of the Broom [FOREVER CHANGING: THE GOLDEN AGE OF ELEKTRA RECORDS – 1963-1973/ELEKTRA] 1964
KALEIDOSCOPE – Egyptian Gardens [SIDE TRIPS/Epic] 1967
KALEIDOSCOPE – Seven-Ate Sweet [INCREDIBLE!/Epic] 1969
LEONARD COHEN – So Long, Marianne [SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN/Columbia] 1967

JACKSON BROWNE – Running on Empty [RUNNING ON EMPTY/Asylum] 1977
JACKSON BROWNE – Late for the Sky [LATE FOR THE SKY/Asylum] 1974
JACKSON BROWNE – The Load-Out / Stay [RUNNING ON EMPTY/Asylum] 1977
JACKSON BROWNE & DAVID LINDLEY – Take It Easy [LOVE IS STRANGE: EN VIVO CON TINO/Inside Recordings] 2010

DAVID LINDLEY & HANI NASER – She Took Off My Romeos / Pretty Girl Rules The World [LIVE IN TOKYO: OFFICIAL BOOTLEG/Pleemhead Records] 1993
DAVID LINDLEY & HANI NASER – Afindrafindrao [PLAYING EVEN BETTER: OFFICIAL BOOTLEG #2/Pleemhead Records] 1995
DAVID LINDLEY & WALLY INGRAM – Cat Food Sandwiches [TWANGO BANGO DELUXE/Ulftone Music] 1998
COODER-LINDLEY FAMILY – Sí Bheag Sí Mhór [LIVE AT THE VIENNA OPERA HOUSE/Pleemhead Records] 2018
BONNIE RAITT & DAVID LINDLEY – Everywhere I Go [LOOKING INTO YOU: A TRIBUTE TO JACKSON BROWNE/Music Road Records] 2014

WARREN ZEVON – Mama Couldn’t Be Persuaded [WARREN ZEVON/Asylum] 1976
MARSHALL CRENSHAW – Someplace Where Love Can’t Find Me [GOOD EVENING/Warner Bros.] 1989
JOHN PRINE – Way Back Then [THE MISSING YEARS/Oh Boy Records] 1991
JUNE TABOR – Beat the Retreat [BEAT THE RETREAT: SONGS BY RICHARD THOMPSON/Capitol Records] 1994
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – Racing in the Street (’78) [THE PROMISE/Columbia Records] 2010

RY COODER & DAVID LINDLEY WITH JOAQUIM COODER, BOBBY KING, TERRY EVANS & WILLIE GREEN – Mercury Blues [NEW ORLEANS JAZZ AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL, MAY 1, 1994]
RY COODER & DAVID LINDLEY WITH JOAQUIM COODER, BOBBY KING, TERRY EVANS & WILLIE GREEN –
O Death [NEW ORLEANS JAZZ AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL, MAY 1, 1994]
RY COODER & DAVID LINDLEY WITH JOAQUIM COODER, BOBBY KING, TERRY EVANS & WILLIE GREEN – Across the Borderline [NEW ORLEANS JAZZ AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL, MAY 1, 1994]

TARIKA RAKOTO FRAH – The Rakoto Frah Two-Step [A WORLD OUT OF TIME: HENRY KAISER & DAVID LINDLEY IN MADAGASCAR/Shanachie] 1992
RAKOTO FRAH & DAVID LINDLEY – You Done Me Wrong [A WORLD OUT OF TIME, VOL. 2: HENRY KAISER & DAVID LINDLEY IN MADAGASCAR/Shanachie]
HENRY KAISER & DAVID LINDLEY WITH HANS FREDRIK JACOBSEN & TONE HULBÆKMO – The Sweet Sunny South [THE SWEET SUNNY NORTH: HENRY KAISER & DAVID LINDLEY IN NORWAY/Shanachie] 1994
TIRILTUNGA – Tenarløn Hjå Telebonden (The Servant’s Fee) [THE SWEET SUNNY NORTH: HENRY KAISER & DAVID LINDLEY IN NORWAY, VOL. 2/Shanachie] 1996
HENRY KAISER & DAVID LINDLEY – McMurdo Barn Dance [MUSIC FOR WERNER HERZOG’S ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD/Fractal Music] 2013

DAVID LINDLEY – Down in the Vatican Library [BIG TWANG/Pleemhead] 2007
DAVID LINDLEY & WALLY INGRAM – Methlab Boyfriend [TWANGO BANGO II/Pleemhead] 2001
DAVID LINDLEY & EL RAYO-X – You Been Doing Something Wrong, I Can Tell By The Way You Smell [EL RAYO LIVE!/Asylum] 1983
WARREN ZEVON & DAVID LINDLEY – Casey Jones [DEADICATED/Arista] 1991

DAVID LINDLEY & EL-RAYO X – Tiki Torches at Twilight [VERY GREASY/Elektra] 1988

Let’s all get normal at the luau!

One of my favorite Christy Moore songs (written by Peter Hames), which seems particularly timely these days, I’m sad to say.

I’m an ordinary man, nothin’ special, nothin’ grand,
I’ve had to work for everything I own.
Well I never asked for a lot, I was happy with what I got,
Enough to keep my family and my home.
Now they say that times are hard, and they’ve handed me my cards,
They say there’s not the work to go around.
When the whistle blows the gates will finally close,
Tonight they’re going to shut this factory down,
Then they’ll tear it down.

I never missed a day nor went on strike for better pay,
For 20 years I served them best I could.
With a handshake and a cheque it seems so easy to forget
Loyalty through the bad times and the good.
The owner says he’s sad to see that things have got so bad,
But the Captains of Industry won’t let him lose,
He drives a brand new car, and smokes a fat cigar,
And still he takes his family on a cruise.
He’ll never lose.

Now it seems to me to be such a cruel irony,
He’s richer now ever he was before.
Now my cheque is spent and I can’t afford the rent,
There’s one law for the rich, one for the poor.
Every day I’ve tried to salvage some of my pride
To find some work so’s I might pay my way.
But everywhere I go, the answer is always no,
There’s no work for anyone here today.
No work today.

And so condemned I stand, just an ordinary man,
Like thousands beside me in the queue.
I watch my darlin’ wife tryin’ to make the best of life,
God knows what the kids are goin’ to do.
Now that we are faced with this human waste,
A generation cast aside.
For as long as I live, I never will forgive;
You’ve stripped me of my dignity & pride.
You’ve stripped me bare.

If you’re not in New Orleans, you are (like me, unfortunately) in the wrong place. Sigh. Maybe next year.

Back to the Indians in a bit … in the meantime, if you don’t know them already, you need to learn the four primary Mardi Gras songs:

Professor Longhair, “Go to the Mardi Gras” (audio only)

The Hawketts, “Mardi Gras Mambo” (audio only)

Al Johnson, “Carnival Time” (audio only)

Earl King, Dr. John, Professor Longhair and The Meters (!!!) — FULL VIDEO!

Now, time for some Mardi Gras Indians:

The Wild Magnolias, “All On A Mardi Gras Day” (audio only, with slideshow)

The Wild Tchoupitoulas, “My Big Chief Got A Golden Crown” (audio only, with slideshow)

Big Chief Albert Lambreaux, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and other Indians, singing “Indian Red” in memory of a fellow Indian taken by the Federal Flood after Hurricane Katrina, interrupted by Larry Ragusa (from HBO’s “Treme”)

A little brass band music on the streets …

Rebirth Brass Band, “Do Whatcha Wanna” (filmed in the French Quarter on April 24, 2008, the day before Jazzfest began)

Finally, my favorite band out of New Orleans these days:

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, “One Night Only” (performance from the David Letterman Show)

HAPPY MARDI GRAS, Y’ALL!!

One of the highlights of our trip home for Jazzfest a couple of months ago was seeing the stage debut of the work-in-progress musical by Colman DeKay & Paul Sanchez, “Nine Lives,” based on Dan Baum’s fantastic book. The goal is to take it to Broadway, and while it’s not a fully-realized musical yet (no book or staging), it was staged for the first time on Wednesday, May 9 at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre in the French Quarter, and it was fantastic.

Here’s a look at the finale of the show, “Rebuild Renew.”

Now go buy the CD!