World Cafe Playlist for 05/26/2021

Branford Marsalis joins New Orleans correspondent Gwen Thompkins

The 2020 film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom tells the story of blues singer Gertrude “Ma” Rainey. It was directed by George C. Wolfe who recruited Branford Marsalis to compose the film’s soundtrack. On the next World Cafe, Branford Marsalis talks about scoring the film and why he had to record the music he’d written in his hometown, New Orleans. 

*Bruce Hornsby “Long Tall Cool One” Harbor Lights

Branford Marsalis “Levee’s Song” Recorded Live for the World Cafe

Branford Marsalis “Song For Trumpet” Recorded Live for the World Cafe

Louis Jordan “Ain’t That Just Like a Woman” Jack, You’re Dead: The Essential Blue Archive

Branford Marsalis “Simi Valley Blues” I Heard You Twice The First Time

Branford Marsalis “I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together” In My Solitude: Live at Grace Cathedral

Sting “Driven To Tears” Bring On The Night

Preservation Hall Jazz Band “Santiago” So It Is

Allison Russell “Nightflyer” Outside Child

Gregory Alan Isakov “Dark, Dark, Dark” Evening Machines

Hour Two
*Rufus Wainwright “I Don’t Know What It Is” Want One

Arlo Parks “Too Good” Collapsed in Sunbeams

David Bowie “Golden Years” Station to Station

The Howlers “I Don’t Love You All The Time” I Don’t Love You All The Time (single)

Iggy Pop “Lust for Life” Lust for Life

Pearl Charles “Only for Tonight” Magic Mirror

The Rolling Stones “She’s A Rainbow” Through the Past Darkly

Leon Bridges “Motorbike” Gold-Diggers Sound

Peter Gabriel “In Your Eyes” So

The Twilight Singers “When Doves Cry” Spin Presents Purplish Rain

Lord Huron “Not Dead Yet” Long Lost

Bjork “Venus As A Boy” Debut

Julien Baker “Faith Healer” Little Oblivions

*Optional Song