“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-6). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives. You can subscribe to the podcast with this URL (click here to subscribe in iTunes).
This week’s show is a collision of the annual Mardi Gras celebration and our phoneathon coverage. So there’s a lot of me jabbering between sets trying to hustle up some donations — but the music is awfully fun!
If you just can’t bear all the talking, here are some past year Mardi Gras shows that didn’t coincide with phoneathon (I didn’t really do a Mardi Gras show in 2010 because of travel):
- 2012-02-21
- 2011-03-08 (mostly Mardi Gras)
- 2009-02-17 (a week early so I could do the Creative Music Studio special for phoneathon)
- 2008-02-05 (before we called it “Conference of the Birds”)
Enjoy!
Listen:
download program (142MB, 2 hrs 35 min)
Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
The Chosen Few Brass Band: “Mardi Gras Iko / Food Stamp Blues” – The Chosen Few Brass Band N.O. LA (Syla)
Dirty Dozen Brass Band: “Mardi Gras in New Orleans” – Mardi Gras In New Orleans (Rounder)
The Wild Magnolias: “All on a Mardi Gras Day” – Life is a Carnival (Metro Blue)
Wild Tchopitoulas: “Big Chief Got a Golden Crown” – Wild Tchopitoulas (Island)
The Wild Magnolias: “Oops Upside Your Head” – The Mardi Gras Indians Super Sunday Showdown (Rounder)
Lee Dorsey: “Ya Ya” – Ya Ya (Editions Atlas)
The Hawketts: “Mardi Gras Mambo” – Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens (Shout Factory)
Rhythm Masters: “I Can Do Anything You Can Do” – 7″ (Success 100) (Success)
Ernie K-Doe: “A Place Where We Can Be Free” – Here Come the Girls (Charly)
Sugar Boy and his Cane Cutters: “Jock-a-Mo” – 7″ (Checker)
Feufollet: “Femme L’a Dit” – Cow Island Hop (Valcour)
Clifton Chenier: “Jambalaya” – Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens (Shout Factory)
BeauSoleil: “Zydeco Gris-Gris” – Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens (Shout Factory)
Da Sha Ra: “Bootin’ Up” – The Greatest Rap Hits from Down South New Orleans Vol. 1 (Don’t Even Trip)
Brass Monkey Brass Band: “Saints” – Live in Time and Space (Weed)
Dirty Dozen Brass Band: “Do It Fluid/Do It Again” – Live Mardi Gras in Montreaux (Rounder)
Raymond Parker: “Ring Around the Roses” – Wardell Quezergue: Sixty Smokin’ Soul Senders (Funky Delicacies)
Betty Wright: “Shoorah! Shoorah!” – 7″ (Alston)
Fats Domino: “Shu Rah” – Walking To New Orleans (Capitol)
Professor Longhair: “Tipitina” – New Orleans Piano (Rounder)
Ron Cuccia & the Jazz Poetry Group: “Streets/My Darlin’ New Orleans” – Ron Cuccia & the Jazz Poetry Group (Takoma)
Lloyd Price: “Frog Legs” – Creole Kings of New Orleans (Specialty)
Prime Mates: “Hot Tamales – Part 2” – Get Low Down: The Soul of New Orleans ’65-’67 (Sundazed)
The Fabuletts: “Can’t Stay Away” – Wardell Quezergue: Sixty Smokin’ Soul Senders (Funky Delicacies)
The Vibrettes: “Humpty Dump (Parts 1 & 2)” – Eddie Bo’s Funky Funky New Orleans (Funky Delicacies)
Soul Rebels: “504” – Vibe This! WWOZ on CD Spring 2007 (WWOZ)
Rebirth Brass Band: “New Orleans Music” – Ultimate Rebirth Brass Band (Mardi Gras)
Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers: “Skokiaan” – Treme: Music from the HBO Original Series, Season 1 (Geffen)
Olympia Brass Band: “No, It Ain’t My Fault” – Best of Louisiana Music (Mardi Gras)
Hot 8 Brass Band: “J’isten to Me” – Vibe This! WWOZ on CD Spring 2007 (WWOZ)
