Blues & Beyond #155: B. B. Live Live At The BBC -- and Rokia Traore, Kamal Mussalam, Nicole Mitchell

Blues & Beyond #155: B. B. Live Live At The BBC -- and Rokia Traore, Kamal Mussalam, Nicole Mitchell

Series: Blues & Beyond
From: WXPN
Length: 00:59:04

Feature on B. B. King "Live At The BBC" a new album drawn from three concerts and a studio session over a twenty-year period in the UK. Read the full description.

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Piece Description

In the first part of this program, it's BB King, Live at the BBC. A new album featuring the king of the Blues in three different concerts in the UK over a 20-year period along with a couple of studio cuts helps remind us -- not that we need reminding -- why BB King is the king of the Blues. We'll also hear him as a duet partner of the late and great Koko Taylor, and we have the original version of one of songs he is most famous for. Also in this show, blues of a different sort, from singer, songwriter, and guitarist Rokia Traore of Mali, whose music is Malian but draws on many sources outside her homeland -- also Kamal Musallam guitarist from Kuwait, and new music from Chicago jazz flute player and band leader Nicole Mitchell.

promos included: For This Show: promo-bbking. For the next program: promo-otis-taylor

Broadcast History

WXPN-FM Philadelphia 6-21-2009 and 6-22-2009

Transcript

Cynthia Scott "Dream For One Bright World"
Ttocs: Dream For One Bright World
© 2009 Ttocs Music
RSCD1914

B. B. King "When It All Comes Down (I'll Still Be Around)"
Geffen: Live At The BBC
© 2009 Geffen Records
B0012448-02

B. B. King "I Gotta Move Out Of This Neighborhood"
Geffen: Live At The BBC
© 2009 Geffen Records
B0012448-02

Mike Avery "Three O'Clock Blues"
Raisin' Music: Chicago Blues: A Living History
© 2008 Raisin' Music
RM1003

Kamal Musallam...
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Timing and Cues

00:00 Billboard: Show opens, opening theme, "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."

00:59 Billboard ends.. "... in this hour of The Blues & Beyond."

01:00 "option" song: "Starting out, this is..."

05:59 "option" song fades

06:00 show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister....."

29:32 end of part 1:

"... after the break, here on The Blues & Beyond."

59-second bed plays

30:31 bed fades

30:32 part 2: show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."

58:38 voice out on part 2 "... thanks for listening to this hour of The Blues & Beyond."

58:59 theme fades end of part 2

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