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Blue Light Boogie: Congo Square, Crawfish, Creole, Summer

Playlist #1421 Saturday Sep. 7, 2019

“Blue Light Boogie”, Cozy Eggleston, Honkers And Barwalkers vol. 1 (various artists), Delmark Records

“Congo Square At Midnight”, Chuck E. Weiss, Old Souls And Wolf Tickets, Rykodisc Records

“Congo Square Rag”, Corey Harris, Greens From The Garden, Alligator Records

“Down In Congo Square”, Zachary Richard, Snake Bite Love, A&M Records

“Congo Square”, Sonny Landreth, Grant Street, Sugar Hill Records

“Crawfish Fiesta”, Professor Longhair, Crawfish Fiesta, Alligator Records

“Crawdad”, Moses Rascoe, Blues, Flying Fish Records

“Crawfish”, Elvis Presley, King Creole Soundtrack Recording, RCA Victor Records

“Crawfishin’”, Mitch Woods And His Rocket 88’s, Solid Gold Cadillac, Blind Pig Records

“Crawdad Hole”, Roomful Of Blues, 45 Live, Alligator Records

“Crawfish City”, Roy Rogers, Blues On The Range, Blind Pig Records

“Suck The Head”, New Orleans Radiators, Law Of The Fish, Epic Records

“Crawfish”, Zachary Richard, Snake Bite Love, A&M Records

“Eat More Crawfish”, C. J. Chenier And The Red Hot Louisiana Band, Step It Up!, Alligator Records

“Creole Love Call”, Johnny Otis And His Orchestra, Spirit Of The Black Territory Bands, Arhoolie Records

“Young Creole Man”, Chubby Carrier And The Bayou Swamp Band, Boogie Woogie Zydeco, Flying Fish Records

“Creole Man”, Davell Crawford, My Gift To You, Basin Street Records

“King Creole”, Elvis Presley, King Creole Soundtrack Recording, RCA Victor Records

“Creole Eyes”, Maria Muldaur, Louisiana Love Call, Black Top Records

“Creole Two Step”, Chubby Carrier And The Bayou Swamp Band, Boogie Woogie Zydeco, Flying Fish Records

“Summertime Thang”, The Soul Of John Black, A Sunshine State Of Mind, Yellow Dog Records

“Summer In The City”, Phil Gates, Phil Gates Live At The Hermosa Saloon, DCT Productions

“A Hot Summer Day”, It’s A Beautiful Day, It’s A Beautiful Day At Carnegie Hall, TRC Records

“Summertime Blues”, The Who, Live At Leeds, MCA Records

“Summertime”, John Coltrane, My Favorite Things, Atlantic Records

“Detour”, Tinsley Ellis, Get It!, Heartfixer Music

Art Hooker was born in Wisconsin and trained on tuba at Hortonville Union High School and Lawrence Conservatory. As a self-taught flutist he traveled throughout the western U.S. as a busker. He studied radio production technology at Mount Hood Community College in Oregon. He also ad libbed flute music beds for a locally produced poetry program on public radio. He currently plays tenor saxophone, flute, rhythm guitar, percussive devices and vocals. He has performed with the Siegal/Schwall Blues Band, Seafood Mama (later known as Quarterflash), Sweet Betty and Nathaniel Mayer, as a solo artist and as a member of the bands King Rat, The Bushwhackers, FM Band, Two Flat Blues Band, Mumblin’ Eddy, Art Hooker, Hot Tomato, and the Big Jones Blues Band. He has opened for John Lee Hooker, James Cotton, Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy, Ben E. King, Luther ‘Guitar Jr.’ Johnson, Marshall Tucker, The Guess Who and Chris Duarte.