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May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now

This July 4th weekend, we dive into the record crates to bring you music of celebration, hope and critique from Nina Simone, Randy Newman, Sly Stone and Jon Batiste. Then, the July 4th roots of American Routes as we go back to the 1990s, deep in the archive, for highlights from The American Roots Independence Day concerts at the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Join us for spectacular stage performances by the urbane blues hero Charles Brown, the Texas Playboys with Johnny Gimble playing Western swing, Mexican-American Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Young Tuxedo Brass with New Orleans jazz, and Hawaiian music and song of slack-key guitar master Ledward Kaapana.

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CREOLES AND COWGIRLS: CHARLIE GABRIEL & THE QUEBE SISTERS

December 11th, 2019

We hit up Preservation Hall in the French Quarter for a potent dose of trad jazz, as bandleader and fourth-generation Creole musician Charlie Gabriel tells of his Caribbean roots, jazz funerals, and New Orleans’ hybrid rhythms. Then we head to the Lonestar state to hear the reworking of jazz into Texas swing, as played by the Quebe Sisters. The fiddling siblings tell of their sheltered upbringing outside Ft. Worth and their fiery baptism into western swing. Plus, we spin other pioneering Creoles—Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, and Fats Domino—and country & western greats from Bob Wills to Willie Nelson.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Yellow Moon Preservation Hall Jazz Band featuring Charlie Gabriel
    That's It, Legacy
  • Let the Good Times Roll/Feel So Good Deacon John
    Deacon John's Jump Blues, VCC
  • My Girl Josephine Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • CLIP: Jelly Roll Morton

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  • Dr. Jazz Jelly Roll Morton
    Jazz King of New Orleans, Bluebird
  • Dear Old Southland Sidney Bechet w/ Noble Sissle
    Sidney Bechet: Ken Burns Jazz, Columbia/Legacy
  • Instrumental: Bourbon Street Parade Original Tuxedo Jazz Band
    Jazz Begins, Atlantic
  • Les Ognons Baby Dodds Trio
    Jazz a la Creole, GHB
  • Frog Legs Lloyd Price
    Creole Kings of New Orleans, Ace
  • Choko Mo Feel No Hey Charlie Gabriel w/ Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    New Orleans Preservation Vol. 1, Preservation Hall Records
  • I Think I Love You Preservation Hall Jazz Band featuring Charlie Gabriel
    That's It!, Legacy
  • SEGMENT: Charlie Gabriel

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  • Instrumental: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes original recording,
  • Tootie Ma Was a Big Fine Thing Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Tom Waits
    Preservation, Preservation Hall Records
  • Ya Ya Lee Dorsey
    Ya! Ya! , Fury Records
  • Tou’ les jours ç’est pas la même Carol Fran
    Our New Orleans 2005 , Nonesuch
  • One More 'Fore I Die Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Del McCoury
    50th Anniversary Collection , Sony
  • Closing Bed: Java Allen Toussaint
    Allen Toussaint-- The Complete 'Tousan' Sessions, Bear Family

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: San Antonio Rose Quebe Sisters
    Texas Fiddling, Arhoolie
  • I'm an Old Cowhand Dan Hicks and Mary Ann Price
    Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks Striking It Rich, MCA
  • Cow Cow Boogie Ella Mae Morse
    From the Vaults , Vol. 1: The Birth of a Label, Capitol
  • Milk Cow Blues Johnnie Lee Wills
    Hillbilly Blues 1929-1947, ASV
  • Texas Dance Hall Girl Johnny Bush
    Texas Dance Hall Girl , RCA
  • Be Real Freda & the Fire Dogs
    Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm, Vanguard
  • Sister's Coming Home/Down at the Corner Beer Joint Willie Nelson
    Phases and Stages, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Pflugerville Boogie Bill Neely
    Texas Law and Justice, Arhoolie
  • Texas Woman Blues Taj Mahal
    Recycling the Blues and Other Related Stuff, Columbia
  • Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar Andrews Sisters
    The Cream of the Andrews Sisters, Pavilion
  • Down the Road Apiece Merrill Moore
    Swing West! Volume 3-- Western Swing, Razor & Tie
  • One, Two Spade Cooley
    Shame On You-- Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang, Bloodshot
  • Steel Guitar Rag Spade Cooley
    Shame on You-- Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang, Bloodshot
  • Intro and Texas Playboy Theme Bob Wills
    For the Last Time , Capitol
  • Instrumental: Taking Off Milton Brown & His Brownies
    Texas Music Vol. 2-- Western Swing & Honky Tonk, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: The Quebe Sisters

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  • Dallas Jimmie Dale Gilmore
    Don't Look for a Heartache, Hightone
  • Abilene George Hamilton IV
    The Folk Years- A Singers and Songwriters Collection-Reason to Believe, EMI
  • Lonestar Norah Jones
    Come Away with Me, Capitol
  • Big Yellow Moon Over Texas Bill Neely
    Texas Law & Justice, Arhoolie
  • Brazos River Song Townes Van Zandt
    Fathers of Texas, Texanna Records
  • Closing Bed: Bandera Willie Nelson
    Red-Headed Stranger, Columbia

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