Back in New Orleans for the Mardi Gras and time for what’s now our annual Mardi Gras show in a Joint Production with Tom Morgan’s New Orleans Music Show on WWOZ Radio. This year I get to spend the entire two hours in the co-pilot’s chair as Tom brings out his comprehensive presentation of Mardi Gras Indian music, starting with Jelly Roll Morton’s reminiscences and demonstrations of Mardi Gras Indian tunes from the turn of the 20th century and recordings by the Louis Dumaine orchestra, Danny Barker & His Creole Cats, the Mardi Gras Indians interviewed by Sam Charters in 1956, Sugar Boy & the Cane Cutters, Big Chief Tootie Montana interviewed by Royce Osborne, the Dixie Cups, and Huey “Piano” Smith & The Clowns.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
IKO IKO
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 123
John Sinclair & Tom Morgan, WWOZ-FM, New Orleans, February 13, 2007 [20-0702]
Paul Gayton: Backtrackin’
Jelly Roll Morton: Indian Songs at Mardi Gras
Louis Dumaine: To-Wa-Bac-A-Wa
Danny Barker: Chocko Mo Feendo Hey
Danny Barker: Tootie Ma Is A Real Fine Thing
Danny Barker: My Indian Red
Danny Barker: Corrine Died on the Battlefield
Red White & Blue: To Wa Bac A Way
Red White & Blue: Red White & Blue got The Golden Band
Sugar Boy Crawford: Jockomo
Tootie Montana: Indian Beginnings
Dixie Cups: Two Way Pocky Way
The Dixie Cups: Iko Iko
Huey “Piano” Smith & The Clowns: Don’t You Know Yockamo
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by Tom Morgan & John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced, engineered & recorded by Tom Morgan
Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Steve Pratt
Special thanks to Tom Morgan & Hild Creed
© 2007, 2018 The John Sinclair Foundation
