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Blue Light Boogie: Jitterbugs, Mambos, and Rumbas oh my!

John Henderson
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Program #1850

“The Dark Town Strutter’s Ball”, Alberta Hunter, Amtrak Blues, Columbia Records, http://www.columbiarecords.com

“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”, Ma Rainey, The Essential Ma Rainey, Classic Blues

“Shimmy She Wobble”, Napoleon Strickland, Mississippi Delta Blues Jams vol. 1, Arhoolie Records, http://www.folkways.si.edu/arhoolie

“Charleston” James P. Johnson, Carolina Shout, Biograph Records

“Jitterbug Waltz”, Fats Waller, Legendary Performer, RCA Records, http://www.rcarecords.com

“Jitterbug”, Cab Calloway, Cab Calloway And Company, Jazz Heritage

“Doug The Jitterbug”, Louis Jordan, At The Swing Cats Ball The Early Years 1937-1939, JSP Records, http://www.jsprecords.com

“Jitterbug Boy”, Tom Waits, Small Change, Asylum Records, http://www.tomwaits.com http://www.asylumrecords.com

“Hokey Pokey/ Pasties And A G String”, Tom Waits, On Broadway, Lunatic Records, http://www.tomwaits.com

“Cakewalk Into Town”, Taj Mahal, Like Never Before, Private Music, http://www.tajblues.com

“Slow Draggin’”, Noble ‘Thin Man’ Watts, Return Of The Thin Man, Alligator Records, http://www.alligator.com

“Dance With Mr. Domino”, Fats Domino, They Call Me The Fat Man (box set), EMI Records, http://www.fatsdominoofficial.com

“Dancin’ With Mr. Jones”, Robert Lucas, Usin’ Man Blues, Audio Quest

“Dancin’ Jones”, Neville Brothers, New Orleans Party Classics (various artists), Rhino Records, http://www.rhino.com

“Soul Twist”, King Curtis, Soul Twist, Collectables Records, http://www.oldies.com

“Twisting With The King”, King Curtis, Soul Twist, Collectables Records, http://www.oldies.com

“Wobble Twist”, King Curtis, Soul Twist, Collectables Records, http://www.oldies.com

“Twist All Night”, Louis Prima, Capitol Collector’s Series, Capitol Records, http://www.capitolrecords.com

“Boogie Twist”, Studebaker John And The Hawks, Tremoluxe, Blind Pig Records, http://www.studebakerjohn.com http://www.blindpigrecords.com

“Twistin’ The Night Away”, Nikki Hill, Heavy Hearts, Hard Fists, Deep Fryed Records, http://www.nikkihillmusic.com

“Got To Rumba”, Bill Wharton And The Ingredients, South Of The Blues, King Snake Records, http://www.sauceboss.com http://www.kingsnakecd.com

“Rhumba Girl”, Nicolette Larson, Nicolette Larson, Warner Brothers Records, http://www.nicolettelarson.com http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com

“Rumba All Night”, Rose City Kings, A Love So Strong, self release, http://www.rosecitykings.com

“The Buffalo Cajun Mambo”, Roy Rogers And Norton Buffalo, Travellin’ Tracks, Blind Pig Records, http://www.nortonbuffalo.com http://www.roy-rogers.com http://www.blindpigrecords.com

“Big Man Mambo”, Robert Lucas, Luke And The Locomotives, Audioquest

“Representing The Mambo”, Little Feat, Representing The Mambo, Warner Brothers Records, http://www.littlefeat.net http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com

“Bump And Grind”, Grady Champion, One Of A Kind, Malaco Records, http://www.malaco.com

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“The Train”, Junior Wells, Better Off With The Blues, Telarc Records

“The Dance Goes On”, Volker Strifler Band, The Dance Goes On, Blue Rock’It Records, http://www.bluerockit.com

“First Dance”, Stevie Dupree And The Delta Flyers, Dr. Dupree’s Love Shop, Soulbilly Music Group, http://www.thedeltaflyers.com

“Darktown Strutter’s Ball”, Paul Barbarin And His Band, Sounds Of New Orleans vol. 1, Storyville Records, http://www.storyvillerecords.com

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.