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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
WILLIE NELSON
We visit with Willie Nelson about his early gigs in Texas polka music, his days as a teenage radio host for the early-morning farm report, and the fact that he is so used to touring that he sleeps on his tour bus, even when it’s in the driveway at his home in Texas.
HOUR ONE
- Down Yonder Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, - On the Road Again Willie Nelson
Revolutions of Time, Columbia - Stay A Little Longer Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
Anthology 1935-73, Rhino - Funny How Time Slips Away Joe Hinton
From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music, Warner Brothers - Crazy Patsy Cline
The Nashville Sound of Owen Bradley, Decca - Hello Walls Reverend Horton Heat
Twisted Willie , Justice - Instrumental: Minor Struggle Fly-Rite Boys
Big Sandy presents the Fly-Rite Boys, Hightone - Whiskey River Willie Nelson
Revolutions of Time, Columbia - Whiskey Heaven Fats Domino
From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music, Warner Brothers - Legalize It Peter Tosh
Peter Tosh, Columbia - Taxman Junior Parker
Love Ain't Nothin But a Business Goin' On, Beast Retro - Georgia on My Mind Billie Holiday
The Classic Hoagy Charmichael, Smithsonian Collection - Remember Me Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, - Instrumental: Lord Have Mercy John Fahey & His Orch.
Return Of The Repressed: The JF Anthology, Rhino - INTERVIEW: Willie Nelson
- Uncloudy Day The Staple Singers
Testify: The Gospel Box, Rhino - Night Life Aretha Franklin
The Delta Meets Detroit, Rhino
HOUR two
- Georgia on My Mind Tuts Washington
- Train Whistle Nightmare Joe "Cannonball" Lewis
Train 45: Railroad Songs of the Early 1900s, Rounder - Train That Carried My Girl from Town Kelly Joe Phelps
Shine Eyed Zen, Rykodisc - Rooster Call Gandy Dancers
Blues Routes, Smithsonian Folkways - Day Break Express Duke Ellington
The Centennial Edition, RCA - Postcard NYC subway ID from Carolina Slim
- Take the A Train Gatemouth Brown
Gate Swings, Verve - Instrumental: Dented Fender Roy Clark
Swing West! vol. 2: Guitar Slingers, Razor & Tie - Return of the Grevious Angel Gram Parsons and EmmyLou Harris
GP/Grievous Angel, Reprise - Six Days on the Road Red Simpson
Best Of Red Simpson, Razor & Tie - My Babe Little Walter
His Best, MCA - Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby Dinah Washington
Wild, Cool & Swingin' Too, Capitol - Laura's Aura Combustible Edison
Impossible World, Sub Pop - Instrumental: Mack The Knife Kid Thomas and His Algiers Stompers
New Orleans: The Living Legends Kid Thomas, Riverside - Mack the Knife Lotte Lenya & Louis Armstorng
Sings Kurt Weill, Sony - Shame Randy Newman
Bad Love, Dream Works - Niña y Señora Tito Puente
50 Years of Swing, RMM - Spanish Harlem Ben E. King
Atlantic R&B 1947-74, Atlantic - Spanish Harlem Val Bennett
Tighten Up, Trojan
