AMERICAN ROUTES
Breaking Out: British Blues To New Orleans Bounce Breaking Out: British Blues To New Orleans Bounce May 11th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Breaking Out: British Blues To New Orleans Bounce

From Great Britain to the Big Easy, we explore the sounds of musical and social breakouts. First, we hear how British blues pioneer John Mayall broke out of England with his band the Bluesbreakers, bringing British blues to a larger audience. We’ll hear some of Mayall’s sources and contemporaries, like Big Maceo and Eric Clapton. Then, it’s butt shakes and backbeats with Big Freedia, the Queen Diva of New Orleans Bounce, a rhythmic dance music with sources in hip hop and rap, as well as much earlier jazz and R&B. We’ll explore some of those sources, and strut with Kermit Ruffins and Sam Morgan, head “Down Yonder” with Smiley Lewis, and “Take it to the Street” with Rebirth Brass Band.

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HERB JEFFRIES

March 22nd, 2000

The music and life of 88-year-old Herb Jeffries, lead singer and last surviving member of Duke Ellington’s legendary “Blanton-Webster” band of the early 1940s. Jeffries—called “the Bronze Buckaroo—was also the first Black star of a cowboy movie; his theme song, “I’m a Happy Cowboy” comes from the 1938 Western “Harlem on the Prairie.”

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: I'm a Happy Cowboy Herb Jeffries
    The Bronze Buckaroo Rides Again, Warner Bros
  • Jump for Joy Duke Ellington with Herb Jeffries
    Ellington Centennial, BMG
  • Cow Cow Boogie Ella Fitzgerald with Ink Spots
    The Very Best of Ella, MCA
  • Boogie Woogie Country Girl Big Joe Turner
    Big, Bad & Blue, Rhino
  • Boogie Woogie Country Girl Sleepy LeBeef
    The Human Jukebox, Sun
  • Life Is Bad Shelby Lynne
    I Am Shelby Lynne, Island
  • Blank Trip Super Chikan
    What You See, Fat Possum
  • Instrumental: Flippin' the Lid Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant
    Stratosphere Boogie, Razor & Tie
  • INTERVIEW: Herb Jeffries

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  • Just to be in Caroline Earl Hines & His Orchestra
  • I'm a Happy Cowboy Herb Jeffries
  • Flamingo Duke Ellington
    A Brief History of Herb Jeffries, Warner Bros
  • Instrumental: I'm an Old Cowhand Jimmy Smith
    Ultimate, Verve
  • Creole Love Call Ellis Marsalis
    Duke In Blue, Sony
  • I'm Just a Lucky So & So Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
    The Complete Sessions, Roulette
  • Happy Go Lucky Local Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
    Live in Swing City, Sony

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: 7 Moby
    Play, V2
  • Run On for a Long Time Bill Landford & the Landforaires
    There Will be No Sweeter Sound, Sony
  • Do the Funky Chicken Rufus Thomas
    The Best of Rufus Thomas, Rhino
  • Down on the Farm Big Al Downing
    From Where I Stand, Warner Bros.
  • Zydeco Heehaw Boozoo Chavis
    Boozoo Chavis, Elektra
  • Instrumental: Ride Em Cowboy Clifton Chenier
    Bogalusa Boogie, Arhoolie
  • SEGMENT: Elton Laday
  • Texas Cowboy Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson
    I Want To Groove With You, Bullseye
  • Buffalo Soldiers The Persuasions
    Man, Oh Man, EMI
  • Buffalo Soldier Bob Marley
    Legend, Island
  • Instrumental: Greedy G Brentford All Stars
    100% Dynamite, Soul Jazz
  • Nobody Knows (The Trouble I've Seen) Snooks Eaglin
    The Complete Imperial Recordings, Capitol
  • Trouble In Mind Janis Joplin
    18 Essential Songs, Sony
  • Almost Persuaded Etta James
    From Where I Stand, Warner Bros.
  • River Man Brad Mehldau
    Deregulating Jazz, Warner Bros
  • The Man I Love Herbie Hancock with Joni Mitchell
    Gershwin's World, Polygram
  • End Bed: The Man I Love Coleman Hawkins
    Picasso, Giants of Jazz

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