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A Music Map of New Orleans Lives - with Creole Jazz Singer John Boutté A Music Map of New Orleans Lives - with Creole Jazz Singer John Boutté December 6th, 2023 (Hour 1)
A Music Map of New Orleans Lives - with Creole Jazz Singer John Boutté

It’s a sonic map of New Orleans music from the recording studios and nightclubs to jazz parades. Songs about life on Basin Street and Bourbon Street, to Rampart Street and the lady from la rue Dauphine in the voices of Trombone Shorty, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ida Cox and Louis Prima. Then, a live session at Marigny Studios with Creole jazz and soul singer John Boutté who grew up in the Tremé neighborhood in a family of ten kids, where singing was a household and street corner pastime.

Photo by Marc PoKempner

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HARD TIMES AND HONKY TONKS: DALE WATSON, GILLIAN WELCH AND DAVID RAWLINGS

February 4th, 2015

The sounds may seem old but the songs are not. This week on American Routes we visit with a few musicians who are known for crafting modern country music from old-time inspirations. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings share with us how they fit “an electric peg into an acoustic hole.” Then conversation with Austin’s king of the honky-tonks, Dale Watson, who literally wears his musical inspirations on his sleeve.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Rocky Run Jerry Stuart, Pete Kuykendall, Smiley Hobbs & Tom Gray
    Classic Bluegrass Vol. 2, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Blame It All On Nashville Pee Wee King
    Country Cowboy Classics, Goldenlane
  • Nashville Cats The Lovin' Spoonful
    Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, Buddha
  • Blue The Louvin Brothers
    Country Love Ballads, Capitol
  • Blues Stay Away From Me Doug Sahm and Band
    Doug Sahm and Band, Atlantic
  • When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again Big Al Downing
    Heavy Sugar: The Pure Essence of New Orleans R&B , Fantastic Voyage
  • Instrumental: John Henry/ Worried Blues Doc and Merle Watson
    Guitar Album, Flying Fish
  • SEGMENT: Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

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  • Unknown Blues Tarter and Gray
    The Bristol Sessions: The Big Bang of Country Music 1927-1928, Bear Family
  • Tennessee Jed Grateful Dead
    Europe '72, Warner Bros.
  • Instrumental: Hard Times Stanley Brothers
    Friend of Old Time Music: The Folk Arrival 1961-1965, Folkways
  • Hard Travelin' Woody Guthrie
    My Dusty Road, Rounder
  • Elvis Presley Blues Gillian Welch
    Time the Revelator, Acony
  • When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again Elvis Presley
    The King of Rock 'N' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters, RCA
  • Hard Times Come Again No More Mavis Staples
    Beautiful Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster, American Roots
  • Sugar Mountain Neil Young
    Decade, Reprise
  • End Bed: One of These Days Bill Frisell
    Nashville, Nonesuch

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Pedal Paddle Lloyd Green
    The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green, KOCH
  • Settin' the Woods On Fire Hank Williams
    The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury
  • Around and Around Chuck Berry
    His Best, Volume 1, MCA/ Chess
  • I Love to Rock n Roll Eddie Bo
    Heavy Sugar: The Pure Essence of New Orleans R&B, Fantastic Voyage
  • Moran Tonk Circa 1936 Jason Moran
    Modernistic, Blue Note
  • Don't You Know Ray Charles
    Genius and Soul: 50th Anniversary Collection, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Honky Tonk King Curtis
    The Best of King Curtis, Capitol
  • Stomp and Holler Hayes Carll
    KMAG YOYO & Other American Stories, Lost Highway
  • Maggie's Farm Bob Dylan
    Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
  • Country Boy Johnny Cash
    The Man in Black: 1954-1958, Sony
  • SEGMENT: Dale Watson

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  • Instrumental: Honky Tonk Clarence Gatemouth Brown
    The Man, Verve
  • Everybody Movin' Glen Glenn
    Glen Rocks, Bear Family
  • Boogie Woogie Country Girl Big Joe Turner
    Definitive Blues Collection, Rhino
  • Sister's Coming Home/Down at the Corner Beer Joint Willie NElson
    Phases and Stages, Atlantic
  • Close Up the Honky Tonks Buck Owens
    The Buck Owens Collection 1959-1990, Rhino
  • Paper Wings Gillian Welch
    Revival, Almo Sounds
  • End Bed: Last Date Floyd Cramer
    RCA Country Legends, Buddha

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