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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
MARCIA BALL
Blues from piano queen Marcia Ball and talk about her life in the Louisiana-Texas borderlands.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: She Made Me Lose My Blues Paul Siebel
Paul Siebel, Philo - Lay Down Sally The Seldom Scene
After Midnight, Sugar Hill - Barefootin Robert Parker
Barefootin - Golden Classics, Collectables - Chicken Strut Meters
Bar-B-Que Soul-A-Bration, Rhino - Chicken-Shack Boogie Amos Milburn
Blues, Barrelhous & Boogie Woogie: 1946-1955, Capitol - Instrumental: Watermelon Man Mongo Santamaria Band
Bar-B-Que Soul-A-Bration, Rhino - The Ghetto Part 1 Donny Hathaway
Atlantic Ultimate '70s R & B Smashes, Atlantic - El Barrio Los Hombres Calientes w/Cyril Neville
Los Hombres Calientes, Basin Street - Born on the Bayou Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Gold, Fantasy - Laisse-moi connetre Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
Bayou Ruler, Rounder - Instrumental: Buddy's Boogie Buddy Guy
Chess Blues Guitar - Two Decades of Killer Fretwork, MCA/Chess - INTERVIEW: Marcia Ball
- That's Enough of That Stuff Marcia Ball
Hot Tamale Baby, Rounder - A Thousand Times Marcia Ball
Soulful Dress, Rounder - Leavin' Louisiana Marcia Ball
Circuit Queen, Capitol - Crawfishin' Marcia Ball
Let Me Play With Your Poodle, Rounder - Route 90 Clarence 'Bon Ton' Garlow
Texas Rhythm and Blues, Ace - So Many Roads, So Many Trains Otis Rush
Chess Blues Classics, Chess/MCA - Ol' ‘55 Tom Waits
Closing Time, Elektra - Pipeliner Blues Moon Mullican
I'll Sail My Ship Alone, Nashville - Texas Boogie Dale Watson
Cheatin' Heart Attack, Hightone
HOUR two
- Jumpin' With Symphony Sid Lester Young
The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Lester Young, Blue Note - Turn Your Radio On Rose Maddox
A Beautiful Bouquet, Arhoolie - You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Joni Mitchell
Hits, Reprise - Caravan Van Morrison
Moondance, Warner Brothers - Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio The Ramones
Ramones Mania, Sire - Instrumental: Queen of the Dub Cornell Campbell & the Eternals
Dub Specialist - 17 Dub Shots from Studio One, Heartbeat - Kinky Reggae Bob Marley & The Wailers
Catch A Fire, Capitol - Ninety-nine and One-Half (Won't Do) Wilson Pickett
Greatest Hits, Atlantic - Moose the Mooche Dirty Dozen Brass Band w/Branford Marsalis
Voodoo, Columbia - Barres de la Prison Bois Sec Ardoin & Canray Fontenot
La Musique Creole, Arhoolie - Moonlight and Skies Jimmie Rodgers
Riding High, 1929-1930, Rounder - I'm A Lonesome Fugitive Merle Haggard
Greatest Hits Volume 1, Curb - Vigilante Man Bruce Springtsteen & the E Street Band
Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, Columbia - Instrumental: Peter Gunn Henry Mancini
Spy Magazine Presents, Vol. 1: Spy Music, Rhino - Killer Diller Blues Memphis Minnie
Queen of the Blues, Columbia/Legacy - Zydeco Shuffle Sonny Landreth
Almost Everybody Slides, Ryko - Boogie Woogie Country Girl Big Joe Turner & Orchestra w/Van 'Piano Man' Walls
Blues Masters, Volume 14: More Jump Blues, Rhino - Good Night Irene James Booker
Junco Partner, Ryko - End Bed: Mini Skirt Esquivel
Cabaret Mañana, RCA
