David & Roselyn
Praha Live

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In the summer of 1997, Joe Kucera, a Czech sax player who had escaped from his homeland to Berlin twenty years earlier, triumphantly returned to perform with David and Roselyn (Leonard and Lionhart) and their Swiss bassist, Hans Hartmann at the Mississippi Mud Blues Festival at Club Zelena in Praha (Prague).

Roselyn good humoredly tries out her nonexistent Czech to the delight of the international audience and the four talented performers tear the stuffiness out of traditional blues, original folk and jazz standards....

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Personnel

David Leonard early forties King trumpet + Lee Oscar harmonicas + vocals, Roselyn Lionhart guitar + mandolin + electrified African finger piano, Hans Hartmann double bass + Chapman Stick, Joe Kucera tenor sax + alto sax + flute.

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Selections

• 1 Czech Intro
• 2 Just Can't Be Satisfied
  • McKinley Morganfield
• 3 Love In Vain
  • Robert Johnson
• 4 When I Get Drunk
  • Eddie Burns
• 5 Mbira Intro
• 6 Joe Turner
  • Huddie Ledbetter
• 7 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
  • Fats Waller
• 8 Hoochie Coochie Woman
  • Willie Dixon, added lyrics Roselyn Lionhart
• 9 Hard Hearted Hannah
  • Wm. Jack Mellon, Bob Bigelow, Charles Bates
• 10 House of the Rising Sun
  • Traditional
• 11 Saints
  • Traditional

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Year Released: 1999

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For further information, contact
Da Ro Productions
P.O. Box 70813, New Orleans, LA 70172
E-mail: dayro@bellsouth.net