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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM

COUNTRY CROSSOVER

Blues, rock, soul, and jazz… all with a little twang of country. This show features artists who take elements of the great country tradition, mix them up and make them their own. Nick talks with a living legend of old time country, Ralph Stanley. Also hear an interview and a short live set from young House of God steel guitarist Robert Randolph. Plus a talk with Cajun country elders the Hackberry Ramblers, and the down-home rock sound of the Sadies, out of Canada.

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Daybreak In Dixie The Stanley Brothers
    Angel Band: The Classic Mercury Recordings, Mercury
  • When The Saints Go Marchin' In Jerry Lee Lewis
    Classic, Bear Family
  • You Win Again Fats Domino
    From Where I Stand, Warner
  • Big Beaver Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
    San Antonio Rose box, Bear Family
  • At A Dixie Roadside Diner Duke Ellington
    Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA/Victor, RCA
  • My Blue Eyed Jane Jimmie Rodgers
    The Singing Brakeman, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Kentucky Mandolin Bill Monroe
    The Country Music Hall of Fame Series, MCA
  • INTERVIEW: Ralph Stanley

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  • Cash on the Barrelhead Dolly Parton
    The Grass is Blue, Sugar Hill
  • Little Cabin on the Hill Elvis Presley
    Walk a Mile in My Shoes, RCA
  • Tennessee Jed Grateful Dead
    Europe '72, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Pass the Chutney The Sadies
    Tremendous Efforts, Bloodshot
  • INTERVIEW: The Sadies

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  • Boppin' the Blues Carl Perkins
    Memphis Rocks, Smithsonian
  • Country Boy Freddy King
    Hideaway, Rhino
  • Black Mountain Rag Chet Atkins
    Galloping Guitar, Bear Family
  • Nashville Cats Lovin' Spoonful
    Anthology, Rhino

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Pan American Blues Deford Bailey
    From Where I Stand: The Black Experience In Country Music, Warner
  • SEGMENT:
  • Down Yonder We Go Ballin' Smiley Lewis
    Shame, Shame, Shame box, Bear Family
  • It Makes No Difference Now Ray Charles
    The Complete Country & Western Recordings 1959-1986, Rhino
  • Instrumental: At The Cross Sonny Treadway
    Sacred Steel, Arhoolie
  • INTERVIEW: Robert Randolph

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  • I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Al Green
    Country Meets Soul, Hi
  • When Something Is Wrong With My Baby Charlie Rich
    Country Meets Soul, Hi
  • One More Night Bob Dylan
    Nashville Skyline, Sony
  • Screen Door Uncle Tupelo
    89/93: An Anthology, Sony
  • Instrumental: Acadian Two-Step Coteau
    Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder
  • INTERVIEW: Luderin Darbonne and Edwin Duhom of Hackberry Ramblers

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  • Crawfish Jambalaya Clifton Chenier
    Out West, Arhoolie
  • He'll Have to Go David Isaacs
    The Complete UK Upsetter Singles, Trojan
  • Wagon Wheels Sonny Rollins
    Way Out West, AP
  • End Bed: Progressive Country Music For A Hollywood Flapper Hank Penny
    Crazy Rhythm: The Standard Transcriptions, Bloodshot

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