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New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators September 27th, 2023 (Hour 1)
New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators

New Orleans musician and raconteur Danny Barker was a banjo and guitar hero—a major player in New York jazz who never forgot his French Creole roots in song and style. We look back on Danny’s career, his life with wife and collaborator, the singer Blue Lu Barker, and his influence sustaining culture in the Crescent City. Then, current day guitar and banjo man, Detroit Brooks pays tribute to the Barker legacy with his band the Syncopated Percolators live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

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JOHN PRINE REMEMBERED: IN HIS OWN WORDS

April 15th, 2020

John Prine, the beloved songmaker, singer and guitarist passed away from Corona Virus in Nashville on April 7 2020. This week we present our memorable 2006 interview with John as he walks us through his life, from suburban Illinois back to Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and catalog of enduring songs. Throughout his career, John Prine performed songs that presented wry and darkly humorous looks at every day America. We’ll hear about his Vietnam-era protest songs like “Take the Star Out of the Window” and “Sam Stone,” and his starkly personal environmental broadside “Paradise.” There are also performances of Prine’s songs by others and his own live appearances in this two-hour visit that has long been a favorite of American Routes listeners.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Picture Show John Prine
    The Missing Years, Oh Boy
  • Crazy as a Loon John Prine
    Fair and Square, Oh Boy
  • Kentucky The Everly Brothers
    Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, Rhino
  • The Frying Pan John Prine
    Diamonds in the Rough, Atlantic
  • Paradise John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • Instrumental: John's Smoke Turns Blue Eddie Pennington
    Walks the Strings and Even Sings, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Hello in There John Prine
    Souvenirs, Oh Boy
  • The Great Compromise John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • Souvenirs John Prine and Steve Goodman
    Diamonds in the Rough, Atlantic
  • Angel from Montgomery John Prine and Bonnie Raitt
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • Segment: Protest Songs
  • Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore John Prine
    John Prine, Atlantic
  • Sam Stone John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • The Fightin' Side of Me Merle Haggard
    The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology, 1963-1977, Razor & Tie
  • Illegal Smile John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • Closing Bed: Green Velvet Lloyd Green
    The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green, KOCH

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Saturday Night Shuffle Merle Travis
    Walkin' the Strings, Capitol
  • Honky Tonk Blues Hank Williams
    The Original Singles Collection Plus, PolyGram
  • Dang Me Roger Miller
    The Hits, Mercury
  • We Are the Lonely John Prine
    Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings, Oh Boy
  • Nine Pound Hammer John Prine
    Sweet Revenge , Atlantic
  • Picture Show John Prine
    The Missing Years, Oh Boy
  • That's the Way the World Goes Round John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Wilson Rag Elizabeth Cotten
    Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, Smithsonian Folkways
  • The Sins of Memphisto John Prine
    The Missing Years , Oh Boy
  • Jesus the Missing Years John Prine
    The Missing Years, Oh Boy
  • Some Humans Ain't Human John Prine
    Fair and Square, Oh Boy
  • Take the Star Out of the Window John Prine
    Diamonds in the Rough, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Midnight Silence Lloyd Green
    Lloyd Green and His Steel Guitar, Double Ten
  • Segment: Humor, Performing, Old People, Voice and Future
  • Dear Abby John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds John Prine & Melba Montgomery
    In Spite of Ourselves, Oh Boy
  • Angel from Montgomery John Prine
    Diamonds in the Rough, Atlantic
  • Closing Bed: Fish and Whistle John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino

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