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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM

ROUTES MARCH ON: BRASS BANDS & CAJUN YOUTHS

Visit with musicians taking Louisiana roots music forward into the 21st century. Brass Bands like Soul Rebels, Rebirth and Hot 8 can be found everywhere in the streets and clubs of the Crescent City, mixing rap and funk with older traditional numbers. Over in Cajun country, the Pine Leaf Boys swap accordions and fiddles for guitars, moving back and forth between Cajun and zydeco tunes and new originals.

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Bourbon St. Parade Paul Barbarin
    Atlantic Jazz: New Orleans, Atlantic
  • Get Up Hot 8 Brass Band
    Rock with the Hot 8, Louisiana Red Hot
  • Alexander's Ragtime Band Bessie Smith
    The Essential Bessie Smith, Columbia/Legacy
  • Cannabis Leaf Rag 1 Nicholas Payton
    Sonic Trance, Warner Bros
  • West End Blues Louis Armstrong
    The Complete Hot Fives and Sevens Recordings, Columbia
  • Music Goes 'Round and 'Round Paul Gayten
    Chess King of New Orleans - The Chess Years, MCA/Chess
  • Little Boy Blue Robert Lockwood Jr. with Otis Spann
    Essential Blues Guitar, HOB
  • Instrumental: Charlie Dozen The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
    This is Jazz 30, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: New Orleans Brass Bands with Marcus Hubbard and Lumar LeBlanc of Soul Rebels, Phil Frazier of Rebirth, and Bennie Pete of Hot 8

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  • Instrumental: Walking Through the Streets of the City Paul Barbarin
    The Atlantic New Orleans Jazz Sessions, Atlantic
  • When He Calls Me I Will Answer Howard Armstrong
    Louie Bluie, Blue Suit
  • We Will March Through the Streets of the City The Carter Family
    Sunshine in the Shadows, Rounder
  • Streets of the City Johnny St. Cyr w/ Sister Elizabeth Eustis
    Johnny St. Cyr, American Music
  • When the Saints Go Marching In Eddie Bo
    Our New Orleans, Nonesuch
  • Ninth Ward Blues Irvin Mayfield
    Irvin Mayfield, Basin Street
  • Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes Original Recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Pine Leaf Boy Two-step Pine Leaf Boys
  • Travailler C'est Trop Dur Coteau
    Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder
  • Walking to Louisiana Clifton Chenier
    Bon Ton Roulet, Arhoolie
  • They Call me Lazy Lazy Lester
    The Excello Story, Volume 2: 1955 - 1957, Hip-O
  • Work Work Work Lee Dorsey
    Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection, Arista
  • Work Song Cannonball Adderly
    Greatest Hits, Milestone
  • Instrumental: John Henry Etta Baker
    Railroad Bill, Sire
  • Young Man's Blues Mose Allison
    Mose Allison's Greatest Hits, Prestige
  • Three Cool Cats The Coasters
    50 Coastin' Classics, Rhino
  • Wild Wild Young Men Ruth Brown
    Atlantic Rhythm & Blues: 1947 - 1974, Atlantic
  • Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young Faron Young
    Rebels & Outlaws: Music from the Wild Side of Life, Capitol
  • C Jam Blues Ole Rasmussen & His Nebraska Cornhuskers
    Swing West! Volume 3: Western Swing, Razor & Tie
  • Instrumental: Forth Worth Drag Auldridge, Brozman & Grisman
    Tone Poems III, Acoustic Disc
  • If I Needed You Townes Van Zandt
    The Late Great Townes Van Zandt, United Artist
  • Poor Girl's Blues Jolie Holland
    Escondida, Anti
  • Sur Le Borde De L'Eau (On the Water’s Edge) Blind Uncle Gaspard
    Gaspard/Lachney/J. Bertrand: Early American Cajun Music, Yazoo
  • SEGMENT: Pine Leaf Boys

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  • End Bed: Jig Cadjin Pine Leaf Boys
    Les Blues de Musicien, La Louisiane

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