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American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey January 13th, 2021 (Hour 1)
American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey

We go live in concert and conversation with two New Orleans artists each of whom bring their family heritage forward into contemporary music. Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla has called New Orleans home for many years, but her family ties are to Haiti. She draws on French Creole roots for inspiration, as well as from the poetry of Langston Hughes. Then jazz saxophonist Big Chief Donald Harrison, whose musical journey includes time in New York with drummer Art Blakey’s band, talks about “Afro-New Orleans” culture and demonstrates how to bring soul, funk, and Black carnival traditions into modern jazz.

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SPRING INTO EASTER WITH THE PASCHALL BROTHERS, CHARLIE LOUVIN AND THE SANTA MARIA PRODUCE COMPANY

April 17th, 2019

Body, soul and Earth are rejuvenated at this special time of year when winter turns to spring. Spend some of it with Virginia-based gospel group the Paschall Brothers who perform an in-studio, a cappella set. Then meet the late Charlie Louvin, who along with brother Ira made up the Louvin Brothers. Famous for their familial harmonies as much as for their hellfire and brimstone tunes like “The Drunkard’s Grave,” and “Satan is Real,” Charlie recalls the brothers’ heyday and talks about getting his second wind as a performer. And take a ride with Shreveport, Louisiana’s Santa Maria Produce Company in their trucks covered by hand painted reproductions of da Vinci’s Last Supper and other religious iconography.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Broadminded Louvin Brothers
    When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of the Louvin Brothers, Razor & Tie
  • (I'm) Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs Elvis Presley
    His Hand in Mine, RCA
  • The Ballad of John & Yoko John Lennon
    The U.S. vs. John Lennon: Music from the Motion Picture, Capitol
  • Sin City The Flying Burrito Brothers
    The Gilded Palace of Sin, Edsel
  • Milky White Way The Trumpeteers
    Goodbye Babylon , Dust-to-Digital
  • Up Above My Head Sharon Jones with Billy Rivers and the Angelic Voices of Faith
    Music From & Recorded For The Motion Picture The Great Debaters, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Old Gospel Jackie McLean
    New and Old Gospel, Blue Note
  • Swing Down Chariot (aka Let Me Ride) The Staple Singers
    The Best of the Vee-Jay Years, Shout! Factory
  • Great Speckled Bird Lucinda Williams
    Ramblin', Smithsonian Folkways
  • SEGMENT: Charlie Louvin

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  • Instrumental: Just As I Am Willie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
  • When the Springtime Comes Again The Carter Family
    In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family
  • Springtime Can Kill You Jolie Holland
    Springtime Can Kill You, Anti
  • Sally Go 'Round the Roses The Jaynettes
    Chess Rhythm & Roll, MCA/Chess
  • Just a Closer Walk With Thee Happyland Band
    Saints' Paradise, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Down by the Riverside The Blind Boys of Alabama with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Allen Toussaint
    Down in New Orleans, Time/Life
  • Closing Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes original recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: I'll be Satisfied and Christian Automobile The Paschall Brothers
    American Routes original recording,
  • SEGMENT: Santa Maria Produce Company in Shreveport, LA

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  • Shadrack Louis Prima
    Ultra-Lounge: Wild, Cool & Swingin', Vol. 1, Capitol
  • Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    The Original Soul Sister, Proper
  • In the Sweet Bye and Bye Johnny Cash
    Personal File, Columbia/Legacy
  • Instrumental: In the Sweet Bye and Bye George Lewis
    The Atlantic Jazz New Orleans Sessions, Mosaic
  • Easter Parade Oscar Peterson
    The Song is You: Best of the Verve Songbooks, Verve
  • It Might as Well Be Spring Jackie Terrason & Cassandra Wilson
    Rendezvous, Blue Note
  • Carry Go Bring Come Justin Hines and the Dominoes
    Jezebel, Island
  • You Gotta Move Sam Cooke
    Night Beat, RCA
  • Instrumental: The Preacher Horace Silver
    The Best of Horace Silver, Blue Note
  • He's Got the Whole World in His Hands Nina Simone & Her Trio
    My Baby Just Cares for Me, Gambit
  • On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual) Bessie Smith
    Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Bessie Smith, Columbia/Legacy
  • SEGMENT: The Paschall Brothers

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  • Closing Bed: I'll be Satisfied The Paschall Brothers
    American Routes original recording,

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