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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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CLUB HOPPING IN NEW ORLEANS

November 24th, 1999

Jazz/blues pianist/songwriter Mose Allison, who migrated from the Mississippi village of Tippo to Greenwich Village, is a mellow post-Thanksgiving verbal and musical presence as we club-hop across New Orleans from Snug Harbor to the Saturn Bar.

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HOUR ONE

  • Saturday Night Fish Fry # 1 & 2 Louis Jordan
    Let The Good Times Roll (1938-1954), Bear Family
  • Shine, Shave & Shower (It's Saturday) Lefty Frizzell
    Look What Thoughts Will Do, Columbia
  • Gamblin' Bar Room Blues John Mellencamp
    The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers (A Tribute), Egyptian Records
  • St. James Infirmary Billy & DeDe Pierce
    Blues & Tonks from the Delta, Fantasy
  • Instrumental: Phat City Coolbone
    Brass-Hop, Hollywood
  • SEGMENT: Donna's Bar and Grill / Bob French
  • We Come to Party Rebirth Brass Band
    We Come to Party, Shanachie
  • Dance to the Music Sly & the Family Stone
    Greatest Hits, Epic
  • I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar Jonathan Richman
    I, Jonathan, Rounder
  • Sister's Coming Home Willie Nelson
    Phases and Stages, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Saturday Mose Allison
    Back Country Suite, Prestige
  • SEGMENT: Snug Harbor / Mose Allison

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  • One O'Clock Jump Delta Rhythm Boys
    The Jive Is Jumpin', Westside
  • Hey Bartender Floyd Dixon
    Marshall Texas Is My Home, Specialty
  • Steppin' out with my baby Dinah Shore
    Carry My Blues Away, Sony

HOUR two

  • Open bed: Hung over King Curtis
    The Capitol Years, 1962-1965, Bear Family
  • Basin Street/Sleepy Time Down South Louis Prima
    Louis Prima & Keely Smith, Capitol
  • Drinkin' Wine Sticks McGhee
    Atlanta R &B 1947-74 Vol 1,
  • Let Me Go Home Whiskey Amos Milburn
    Down The Road Apiece, EMI
  • Let me Go Home Whiskey Asleep At The Wheel
    Texas Gold, Capitol
  • Instrumental: Ramble Link Wray and the Wraymen
    Walkin' With Link, Epic/Legacy
  • SEGMENT: Shim Sham / Link Wray
  • La Banda Esta Borracha Freddie Fender
    Canciones de Mi Barrio, Arhoolie
  • Tequila Beau Jocque
    Check It In, Lock It out, Rounder
  • One Mint Julep The Clovers
    Atlantic R &B 1947-74 Vol 1,
  • Instrumental: Tequila King Curtis
    Blow Man, Blow, Bear Family
  • Drifter In the Dark Ween
    Chocolate & Cheese, Elektra
  • Walking after Midnight Patsy Cline
    Walkin' Dreams, Rhino
  • Sophisticated Lady Billie Holiday
    The Essential Billie Holiday: Songs of Lost Love, Verve
  • Every Time I Get To Drinkin' Sunnyland Slim
    Slim's Shout, Prestige/Bluesville
  • Alabama Song Marianne Faithful
    The Seven Deadly Sins, RCA
  • Piano Has Been Drinking (not me) Tom Waits
    Small Change, Elektra
  • End Bed: Goodnight Irene Kelley Joe Phellps
    Shine Eyed Mister Zen, Rykodisc

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