AMERICAN ROUTES
May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now June 29th, 2022 (Hour 1)
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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THE ROAD WITH DON WALSER

July 8th, 1998

Midsummer night dreams, songs of the open road, and the “Pavarotti of the Plains” — Texas honky-tonker Don Walser.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Choo Choo Ch'Boogie Louis Jordan
    The Greatest Hits - No Moe!, Mercury
  • On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe Judy Garland
    Too Marvelous for Words - Songs of Johnny Mercer, ASV
  • Life On the Road Wayne Hancock
    That's What Daddy Wants, Ark 21
  • When I Take My Vacation in Harlem Tampa Red
    The Bluebird Recordings 1934-1936, RCA
  • Echoes of Harlem (Cootie's Concerto) Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington and his Orchestra 1935-1936, Classics
  • Instrumental: Smokie Part 2 Bill Black Combo
    Hi Times - The R & B Years, Hi/The Right Stuff
  • Le chemin gravaille Jackie Caillier & the Cajun Cousins
    From Porch Cajun Music, Lanor
  • Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Lucinda Williams
    Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Mercury
  • Everybody Does it in Hawaii Jimmie Rodgers
    On the Way Up, 1929, Rounder
  • The Hula Hula Boys Warren Zevon
    I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - An Anthology, Rhino
  • Lovely Hula Hands Junior Brown
    Junior High, MCG/Curb
  • Na Ka Pueo Ledward Kaapana
    Led Live, Solo, Dancing Cat
  • Instrumental: Diamond Head The Ventures
    Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol. 5: Surf, Rhino
  • INTERVIEW: Don Walser
  • Texas Top Hand Don Walser
    Texas Top Hand, Watermelon
  • Hot Rod Mercury Don Walser
    Down At The Sky-Vue Drive-In, Watermelon/Sire
  • The Devil's Great Grandson Don Walser
    Down At The Sky-Vue Drive-In, Watermelon/Sire
  • Rose Marie Don Walser
    Down At The Sky-Vue Drive-In, Watermelon/Sire
  • Hearts Made of Stone Don Walser
    Down At The Sky-Vue Drive-In, Watermelon/Sire
  • Rolling Stone from Texas Don Walser
    Rolling Stone from Texas, Watermelon
  • When I Was a Cowboy Lead Belly
    Goodnight Irene, Smithsonian Folkways

HOUR two

  • Indiana Illinois Jacquet
    Illinois Jacquet, Epic/Legacy
  • Big Road Bonnie Raitt
    Bonnie Raitt, Warner Brothers
  • Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down Bessie Smith
    The Essential Bessie Smith, Columbia/Legacy
  • Chicago Bound Jimmy Rogers
    The Complete Chess Recordings, MCA/Chess
  • Goin' to Chicago Joe Williams
    The Best of Joe Williams, Blue Note
  • Instrumental: Rich Woman Yockamo All-Stars
    Dew Drop Out, Hannibal
  • Gonna Take You Downtown Beau Jocque
    Gonna Take You Downtown, Rounder
  • Downtown Neil Young & Pearl Jam
    Mirror Ball, Reprise
  • Janitor Drives a Cadillac Papa John Creach
    Papa John Creach, Grunt
  • Swing Low Sweet Cadillac Dizzy Gillespie
    The Champ, Savoy Jazz
  • Maybelline Chuck Berry
    His Best, Volume 1, MCA/Chess
  • Diesel On my Tail Jim & Jesse
    Truckers' Jukebox - Top Radio Requests, Epic
  • Instrumental: Dented Fender Roy Clark
    Guitar Player Presents Legends of Guitar - Country Vol. 2, Rhino
  • Going Up to the Country and Paint My Mailbox Blue Taj Mahal
    The Real Thing, Columbia
  • Miss the Mississippi and You Doc Watson
    Memories, Sugar Hill
  • Muddy Water Madeline Peyroux
    Dreamland, Atlantic
  • 5 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days Louis Prima
    Capitol Collection Series, Capitol
  • The End of Our Road Gladys Knight & the Pips
    The Sound of Young America - 1968, Motown
  • End Bed: Buster Browne Willie Mitchell
    Hi Times, Hi/The Right Stuff

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