E13 Jazz and Country

When the two separate paths of jazz and country cross, we get some of the most fascinating fusions in American music, from Hank Garland jazzing up the early Nashville country scene, to the development of Western Swing, and contemporary jazz takes on country classics. We’ll talk with music historian Cary Ginell about forgotten Nashville session man Hank Garland, look at the thriving Nashville jazz scene with Maxx Myrick of the Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society, and chat with composer Andrew Bishop about his contemporary jazz take on the music of country legend Hank Williams.

 

Episode Transcript

 

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Cary Ginell, Andrew Bishop, Maxx Myrick

 

Music

• Hank Garland “Sugarfoot Rag”
• Hank Garland “Why Not?”
• Ray Charles “Blue Moon of Kentucky” 
• Milton Brown “Girl of My Dreams”
• Milton Brown “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You”
• Milton Brown “Taking Off”
• Bob Wills “Orange Stomp”
• Bob Wills “New San Antonio Rose”
• Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys “Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas”
• Chet Atkins and Les Paul “Caravan”
• Hank Williams “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”
• Andrew Bishop “Hymn for Hank Williams”
• Andrew Bishop “Hymn for Hank Williams (and Willie Nelson)”
• Andrew Bishop “Again You Win” 
• Andrew Bishop “Your Cheatin’ Heart”
• Sonny Rollins “I'm an Old Cowhand”
• Hank Garland “Ain’t Nothin Wrong with That, Baby”
• Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces”
• Roy Hall “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On”
• Patti Page and Hank Garland “Just Because”
• Hank Garland “All the Things You Are”
• Hank Garland “Autumn Leaves”
• Hank Garland “Three-Four the Blues”
• Bill Frisell “Disfarmer Theme”
• Elizabeth Crawford “The Nashville Tour”
• El Movimiento “El Señor Está Contigo (Reprise)”
• The Time Jumpers “Roly Poly”
• Béla Fleck and the Flecktones “Flight of the Cosmic Hippo”
• Ricky Skaggs “Gallatin Rag”
• Willie Nelson “All of Me”

 

Original Air Date: October 31, 2011

 

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

 

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

 

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