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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
FAMILY HARMONY
Join us around the piano for a good helping of family harmonies, led by the Haden Triplets and their father, jazz bassist Charlie Haden. Then get down to the sounds of Tupelo, Mississippi’s Homemade Jamz Blues Band, featuring the Perry brothers and their little sister Taya on drums. Plus music from famous family bands and songs about grandmas, cousins and long lost relatives — all of whom we expect to hear from at Thanksgiving dinner.
HOUR ONE
- Tater Pie Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Boot Heel Drag: The MGM Years, Mercury - You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Joni Mitchell
Hits, Reprise - Rambling Boy Charlie Haden
Rambling Boy, Decca - Turn Your Radio On John Hartford
Aereo-Plain, - Open Bed: Focus On Sanity Ornette Coleman
The Shape Of Jazz To Come, Rhino Atlantic - Turkey Hop, Pt.2 Johnny Otis
The Original Johnny Otis Show, Nippon Columbia - Everybody Eats When They Come to My House Cab Calloway
DinerMite - The Swingin' Diner, Sony - Instrumental: Turkey in the Straw Bill Monroe and Doc Watson
Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980 Off the Record Vol.2, Smithsonian Folkways - Blue Railroad Train Doc and Merle Watson
Lonesome Road, BGO - Two Trains Running James Cotton
Deep in the Blues, Verve - Dinner Train to Dutchtown The Bottle Rockets
Leftovers, Mercury - SEGMENT: Charlie Haden Pt.1
Listen - Instrumental: Old Joe Clark Hobart Smith
Blue Ridge Legacy, Rounder - SEGMENT: Charlie Haden Pt.2
Listen - Daddy Sang Bass Johnny Cash
Gospel, Columbia - Mom and Dad's Waltz Belton Richard
The Essential Belton Richard, Swallow - Family Prayer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Proper - Will the Circle Be Unbroken Michael White
Blue Crescent, Basin St. Records - End Bed: Is This America? (Katrina 2005) Charlie Haden
Rambling Boy, Decca
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Wade in the Water Charlie Haden and Hank Jones
Steal Away, Verve - Home Jerry Lee Lewis
Classic Jerry Lee Lewis, Bear Family - My Home Among the Hills Carter Family
The Carter Family: In the Shadow of the Clinch Mountains, Bear Family - The Old Gospel Ship Iris DeMent
Lifeline, Flariella - Paradise John Prine
John Prine, Atlantic - Sands of Iwo Jima Drive By Truckers
The Dirty South, New West - Wade in the Water Staple Singers
Freedom Highway, Columbia - Instrumental: My Sweet Potato Booker T. & The MG's
The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968, Atlantic - Barnyard Dance Martin Bogan and Armstrong
Barnyard Dance, Rounder - Aunt Hagar's Blues Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy, Columbia - SEGMENT: Homemade Jamz Blues Band
Listen - Instrumental: 2009 Cherry Soul Sound Jr. & His Soulettes
Home Schooled: The ABC of Kid Soul, Numero Group - King Harvest The Band
Stage Fright, Capitol - Sister Soak the Beans Joe Ely
Twistin' in the Wind, MCA - I'm Coming Home Beau Jocque
Beau Jocque's Nursery Rhyme, Beau Jocque Music - End Bed: Spiritual Charlie Haden
Rambling Boy, Decca
