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Music Inside Out: Marcia Ball

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Marcia Ball

Few piano players are as tall, glam and terrific as Marcia Ball. Born in Texas, raised in Louisiana and schooled in the dance halls and roadhouses of the Gulf South, Ball can't help but make you boogie woogie. That is, unless you wanna two-step. Or boogaloo. She does that too.

Ball's songs are postcards of small town life in this region and the dilemmas that drive people to the choices they make... And over the years, she's written a LOT of postcards. Since 1972, she's released 17 albums, the most recent being the Tattooed Lady and the Alligator Man in 2014.

On a duet with Dr. John, he sounds downright gentlemanly. The song was his idea.

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Gwen Thompkins is a New Orleans native, NPR veteran and host of WWNO's Music Inside Out, where she brings to bear the knowledge and experience she amassed as senior editor of Weekend Edition, an East Africa correspondent, the holder of Nieman and Watson Fellowships, and as a longtime student of music from around the world.