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Joe Turner Playlist
posted by Robert Sweibel on Fri, Nov 14, 2008
in At the theatre
If you follow this blog regularly, you may have noticed that blogging was light this week. It's been busy at the Theatre: we very rarely have two shows opening so close together. The cast and crew of Joe Turner's Come and Gone are enjoying their first week post-opening, as across the way, in the Thrust, Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights has been been gearing up for previews--the first of which was held last night.
For now, though, audiences have been really responding to Joe Turner--they've been quiet and thoughtful, yet laughing in all the right places. And everyone seems to really love the pre-show playlist compiled by our music director, Dwight Andrews. It's a great mix of blues and gospel that really sets the tone for the world of the show. The music is really great--I might even add a few of these to my personal playlist. I highly recommend you check them out.
Pre-show music:
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“Joe Turner”
Mississippi John Hurt / Memorial Anthology Vol.1
“12 Gates to the City”
Reverend Gary Davis
“My Jack Don’t Drink Water No More”
Shortstuff Macon / Classic Blues--Smithsonian Folkways (CBSF)
“Been in the Storm So Long”
Mary Pinckney / Classic African American Gospel from Smithsonian Folkways (CAAGGSF)
“Blow Gabriel”
Reverend Gary Davis
“Crossroads Blues”
Robert Johnson
“Clog Dance (Stomping Blues)”
Champion Jack Dupree / CBSF
“Shake It and Break It”
Charlie Patton / The Best of Charlie Patton
“Hallelujah, It Is Done”
Elizabeth Cotten / CAAGGSF
“If I Had My Way”
Reverend Gary Davis / There is No Eye
“High Water Everywhere”
Charlie Patton / The Best of Charlie Patton
Intermission playlist
“I Belong to The Band” Reverend Gary Davis / “Black Woman” Rich Amerson “Jesus Going to Make up my Dying Bed” Horace Sprott / CAAGSF “Soon, One Mornin” Willie Gresham / CAAGSF “Been in the Storm So Long” Mary Pinckney / CAAGSF “Low Down Death Right Easy” Dock Reed / CAAGSF
“Black Woman” Vera Hall / CAAGSF
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