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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
GUILTY PLEASURES: MUSIC WE LOVE MORE THAN WE CAN SAY
We take a deep dive into the memory vaults to spin the tunes that we shamelessly love. From guilty pleasures, including a disco dance number, to confessional ballads like James Carr’s “Dark End of the Street” and songs of redemption ala Bobby Hebb’s “Sunny,” we shine a light on our heart’s true delights. Plus, we explore social protest anthems including Mavis Staples’ “Long Walk to D.C.,” Simon & Garfunkel’s “Richard Cory,” and a standout R&B version of Pete Seeger’s “If I Had a Hammer” sung by Shreveport’s Toussaint McCall.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Do Whatcha Wanna Rebirth Brass Band
Do Whatcha Wanna, Mardi Gras Records - Sweet Soul Music Arthur Conley
Muscle Shoals Sounds , Rhino - I Love the Nightlife (Disco Round) Alicia Bridges
Say It Sister , A Bridges - Night Life Willie Nelson
Milk Cow Blues , UMG Recordings - Guilty Randy Newman
Good Old Boys , Warner Brothers - It's a Mean Old World Sam Cooke
Nightbeat , RCA - Instrumental: Bandera Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger , Columbia - When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland Carter Family
The Carter Family: In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain , Bear Family Records - Dead Flowers Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers , Rolling Stones Records - That's How I Got to Memphis Solomon Burke
Nashville, Anti- - Dark End of the Street James Carr
The Essential James Carr , Razor and Tie Music - Sin City Flying Burrito Brothers
Gilded Palace of Sin , A&M Records - Instrumental: Detour Duane Eddy
Have ‘Twangy’ Guitar, Will Travel , Jamie Record - Pancho and Lefty Delbert McClinton
Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zand, Free Falls Entertainment - Big Iron Marty Robbins
Gun Fighter Ballads , Sony Legacy - Don't Take Your Gun to Town Johnny Cash
Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983, Columbia/Legacy - Johnny Too Bad The Slickers
The Harder They Come , Island - Tighten Up Archie Bell and the Drells
Tightening it Up: The Best of Archie Bell & The Drells , Rhino - Bon Ton Roulet Clarence Garlow
Crescent City Soul: The Sound of New Orleans 1947-1974 , EMI - Closing Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes Original Recording,
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Jambalaya Tuts Washington
Tuts Washington: New Orleans Piano Professor , Rounder Records - Dixie Flyer Randy Newman
The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2, Nonesuch - Living for the City Stevie Wonder
Innervisions, Motown - Blowing in the Wind Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder Greatest Hits , Motown - John Henry John Cephas and Phil Wiggins
Richmond Blues, Smithsonian Folkways - If I Had a Hammer Toussaint McCall
Nothing Takes the Place of You: The Ronn Recordings , Fuel 2000 Recordings - Long Walk to DC Staple Singers
Soul Folk in Action , Stax - Instrumental: Anji Simon and Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence , Columbia - Richard Cory Simon and Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence , Columbia - Beat it on Down the Line Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead , Warner Brothers - I Fought the Law Bobby Fuller Four
Hot Rod Rebels , The Right Stuff - Mama Tried Merle Haggard
Mama Tried, Capitol Records - Follow Your Heart Joe Farrell Quartet
Joe Farrell Quartet , CTI - Rainy Day Dream Away Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland, Reprise - I Can't Stand the Rain Ann Peebles
Hi Times: The Hi Records R&B Years , Hi Times - Instrumental: Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet
The Best of Sidney Bechet , Blue Note Records - Blue Skies Cassandra Wilson
Blue Skies , Polydor - Sunny Bobby Hebb
Night Train to Nashville , Lost Highway - Here Comes the Sun Richie Havens
Meet the Covers! A Tribute to the Beatles , Hip-O Records - Closing Bed: On the Sunny Side of the Street Tuts Washington
Tuts Washington: New Orleans Piano Professor , Rounder Records
