AMERICAN ROUTES
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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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WILCO

May 16th, 2001

An acoustic performance from Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett, who front the Chicago band Wilco. They tell us about writing music to accompany the lost lyrics of Woody Guthrie. Plus a musical tour of Wilco’s old stomping grounds, the Midwestern Mississippi River Valley.

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HOUR ONE

  • Hard Traveling Woody Guthrie
    Hard Traveling, Folkways
  • Watchin' the River Flow Bob Dylan
    Greatest Hits Vol.2, Columbia
  • One Room Country Shack Mercy Dee Walton
    One Room Country Shack, Specialty
  • One Room Country Shack Jimmy D Lane
    Legacy, APO
  • Instrumental: Someday Some Morning Sometime Wilco & Billy Bragg
    Mermaid Avenue Volume 2, Reprise
  • INTERVIEW: Wilco

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  • Airline to Heaven Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett
  • How to Fight Loneliness Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett
  • Blues for Illinois Dr. Ross
    Down Home Harp, Testament
  • Illinois Blues Cephas & Wiggins
    Homemade, Alligator
  • Instrumental: Melville Two-Step Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
    Home Music with Spirits, Arhoolie
  • Parlez Nous a Boire Lil' Band O' Gold
    Lil Band O' Gold, Shanachie
  • Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee Malcolm Yelvington
    Sun Singles Vol.1, Bear Family
  • Louisian-i-a Michael White
    A Song for George Lewis, Basin Street

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Maple Leaf Rag Marcus Roberts
    Joy of Joplin, Columbia
  • Show Me Missouri Blues Julia Lee
    Ladies Sing The Blues Mercury Records 1945-1957, Mercury
  • You Came a Long Way From St. Louis June Christy
    Big Band Specials, Blue Note
  • Missouri Valley Carson Robison & His Pioneers
    Home Sweet Home On The Prairie, ASV
  • Long Hot Summer Day John Hartford
    Mark Twang, Flying Fish
  • Illinois Blues Alvin Youngblood Hart
    Territory, Hannibal
  • Missouri Low
    Secret Name, Kranky
  • Instrumental: Dance Around Molly Jake Hockemeyer and Russ Orchard
    I'm Old But I'm Awfully Tough, Missouri Friends of the Folk Arts
  • INTERVIEW: Barry Bergey
  • Missouri Moan Cab Calloway
    Volume 1 1929-1930, Masters of Jazz
  • St. Louis Blues Ann Peebles & The Memphis Horns
    River of Song, Folkways
  • Instrumental: All Blues Miles Davis
    Kind of Blue, Columbia
  • Some Day My Prince Will Come Miles Davis
    Some Day My Prince Will Come, Columbia
  • Johnsburg, Illinois Tom Waits
    Swordfishtrombones, Island
  • Down the Road Apiece Chuck Berry
    Chess Box, MCA
  • Rock Island Line Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
    Long Way From Home, MCA

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    MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH US! AMERICAN ROUTES INDEPENDENCE DAY THEN & NOW

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    EARL SCRUGGS & TOM RUSH

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    SOUNDS OF FREEDOM: FONTELLA BASS AND FREDDIE HUBBARD

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