Sweet Company on Radio Cardiff #61 - 'Basin Street Blues'

Eclectic weekly music show on Radio Cardiff (Sundays 10pm) featuring Soul, Blues, Jazz & Standards dating from 1930 to 1969.

This week - a special edition celebrating the rich musical heritage of New Orleans, with classic recordings by...

Fats Domino
Louis Armstrong
King Olivers Creole Jazz Band
Jelly Roll Morton
Professor Longhair
Irma Thomas
Joe Turner
Champion Jack Dupree
Sidney Bechet
Louis Prima
Mahalia Jackson
Aaron Neville
Randy Newman
James Booker
Blind Snooks Eaglin


All that plus our Shirley Bassey birthday bonus! (in honour of her 80th birthday year). This week we feature her rendition of a New Orleans anthem from 1957 "The Basin Street Blues'.
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Presented by pianist & singer Rachel Lewis, and Soul & Blues DJ Jeremy Rees.

Sweet Company is broadcast every Sunday night at 10pm on VCS Radio Cardiff, this edition was first heard on New Years' Eve 2017.