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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
FELLOW TRAVELERS: MARGO PRICE, WILLIE NELSON & FRIENDS
We’re on the road again, dialed into high-flying honky-tonk as we cruise through Texas cotton patches and Midwestern pastures of plenty. Starting off in Illinois farm country, we meet up with Margo Price, who followed her dreams of songwriting to Nashville, Tennessee. She put her name on the map with songs about growing up in rural America, and has since dug in her heels while singing about a landscape of gender and economic inequities. Then, we look in the rear view mirror to our 2000 in-studio performance and interview with Willie Nelson, who reminisces about his hometown of Abbott, Texas, and the “opera of voices” he heard in its fields. Plus, songs from Muhlenberg County, Butcher Hollow, New Orleans’ 9th Ward, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska and Hendrix’s Both Sides of the Sky.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Honky-Tonk Angels Buddy Emmons
The Steel Guitar and Dobro Sounds of Shot Jackson and Buddy Emmons, Nashville Records - A Real Country Song Dale Watson
Blackjack , Dale Watson - Coal Miner's Daughter Loretta Lynn
Greatest Hits Vol. 2, MCA - 9 Pound Hammer John Prine
Sweet Revenge, Atlantic - Knockin' on Your Screen Door John Prine
The Tree of Forgiveness, Oh Boy - Tennessee Jed Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead Europe '72, Warner - Instrumental: West Coast Blues Merle Travis & Joe Maphis
Country Music's Two Guitar Greats: Merle Travis & Joe Maphis, Capitol - SEGMENT: Margo Price
Listen - Tennessee Arrested Development
3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of, Capitol - Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine Margo Price
Spotify Single, - Instrumental: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Merle Travis
Strictly Guitar, Capitol - Pastures of Plenty Michael Hurley and John Neufeld
Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie's 26 Northwest Songs, Smithsonian Folkways - Outlaw Blues Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia - Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight Marcia Ball
Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight/I'll Be Doggone, Capitol - Walkin' to New Orleans Fats Domino
The Legendary Imperial Recordings, Capitol/EMI - Louisiana Percy Mayfield
Lost Love: The Singles As and Bs 1947-1962, Jasmine - Closing Bed: Careless Love Seva Venet
New Orleans Banjo, Vol. 1: Musieu Bainjo, Seva Venet
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Twin Guitar Boogie Bob Wills
For the Last Time, Liberty - Wild, Wild Young Men Ruth Brown
Miss Rhythm: Greatest Hits and More, Atlantic - Back in Business Beverly "Guitar" Watkins
Back in Business, Music Maker - SEGMENT: Margo Price pt. 2
Listen - Instrumental: Down Yonder Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Columbia - SEGMENT: Willie Nelson
Listen - Instrumental: Sweet Angel Jimi Hendrix
Both Sides of the Sky, Columbia Legacy - Lonesome Road Blues Cryin' Sam Collins
Before the Blues Vol. 1, Yazoo - Johnny 99 Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska , Bruce Springsteen - On the Road Again Canned Heat
Boogie With Canned Heat, Liberty - Things I Used to Do Jimi Hendrix
Both Sides of the Sky, Columbia Legacy - On My Way Luke Winslow King
I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always, Bloodshot - Closing Bed: Jungle Jimi Hendrix
Both Sides of the Sky, Columbia Legacy