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Our dream-teen hosts, Sean Ormiston and Max Kagan, explore forests of New Orleans R&B, New Orleans Blues, New Orleans Jazz, New Orleans Funk and New Orleans Rock for the spirit that awed them countless times before in their "Dr. John" and "The Meters" albums. What caught their ear: "Buckwheat Zydeco," "Fats Domino," "John Booker," "Al Hirt," and "Professor Longhair."
Playlist
01 I Need More Time, The Meters
02 You Better Believe, Esquerita
03 Stack-A-Lee, Dr. John
04 Cabbagehead, Professor Longhair
05 Zydeco Boogaloo, Buckwheat Zydeco
06 Zydeco People, Rockin' Dopsie, Jr.
07 Moroccan Roller, New Orleans Klezmer All Stars
08 Tango Till They're Sore, Tom Waits
09 When the Saints Go Marching In, Fats Domino
10 Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
11 Sunny Side of the Street, James Booker
12 A Night In Tunisia, Al Hirt
13 Churning Man Blues, Lonnie Johnson, Memphis Slim & Tampa Red
14 Stagger Lee, Lloyd Price
New York City teens Max Kagan and Sean Ormiston take the after-school crowd for a sidewalk stroll through current and classic interludes in music, popular and poignant.
Max Kagan and Sean Ormiston are present and former students at New York's Stuyvesant High School, the smart-kids' school. And these two kids, both 18, are really really smart, especially when it comes to music, past and present. Here they run through bands as varied as the Pixies, Gong, Velvet Underground, Elliott Smith and the English Beat -and they're not just entertaining. They're educational.
Now that we've got work covered, how about school? Recent high-school grads Joe Ahearn and Max Kagan celebrate their diplomas with a science-and-math music mix. Indeed, where would we be without "Calculus Man"? Without the Beastie Boys, for one thing, joined here by Mos Def, Sun Ra, Elvis Costello, the Pixies, White Stripes and more.
High-schoolers Joe Ahearn and Max Kagan focus their afternoon music mix around the plaintive sound of the harmonica. That means the blues, hip-hop, rock, reggae. That means Captain Beefheart, the Blues Brothers, Gorillaz, King Curtis and Eminem too!
01 Sassafras by Helio Sequence
02 Quills by Roots
03 Revolution by Built to Spill
04 Soulfunky by Mugwump
05 In the Back of the Caddy Shack by RAMM:ELL:ZEE
06 You No Go Die? by Fela Kuti
07 Fingerprints by Black Heart Procession
08 Six Gnossiennes I. Lent by Eric Satie
09 Before the People by Black Heart Procession
10 I Saw Stars by Django Reinhardt
11 Two Sisters Drunk on Each Other by Califone
12 Stay in School by Otis Redding
