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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM

EMMYLOU HARRIS & YO LA TENGO

Gifted singer Emmylou Harris takes a new trip down old country roads as the self-searching “Red Dirt Girl”. We speak with her about growing up between South and North, her days on the road with Gram Parsons, and her atmospheric music today. Also, the purposefully unrooted band Yo La Tengo of Hoboken, New Jersey tracks their 15 years of luminous music and improvisatory life.

HOUR ONE

  • We'll Sweep Out the Ashes in the Morning Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris
    Gram Parsons & the Fallen Angels Live, Rhino
  • Used to Be Olu Dara and Cassandra Wilson
    Neighborhoods, Atlantic
  • They Can't Take that Away from Me Louis Prima and Keely Smith
    Together, Jasmine
  • I Ain't Got Nobody Tiny Bradshaw
    Anthology of Scat Singing Vol.3 1933-1941, Media 7
  • Instrumental: Rose Room Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
    Nuages, ASV
  • Why Don't You Do Right? Lil Green
    Essential Women In Blues, HoB
  • Mansion on the Hill Bruce Springsteen
    Nebraska, Columbia
  • One of These Days Emmylou Harris
    Portraits, Warner Bros
  • SEGMENT: Emmylou Harris

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  • Instrumental: Vaseline Machine Gun Leo Kottke
    Standing In My Shoes, BMG
  • If I Could Only Win Your Love Louvin Brothers
    When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of, Razor & Tie
  • My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble R.L. Burnside
    Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down, Fat Possum
  • Cowboy Boots Alvin Youngblood Hart
    Start With the Soul, Hannibal
  • To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) Ryan Adams
    Heartbreaker, Bloodshot
  • Dot Com Blues Jimmy Smith
    Dot Com Blues, Verve
  • Sad Little Girl Les McCann
    Talkin Verve, Verve

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Last Days of Disco Yo La Tengo
    And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out, Matador
  • My True Love (Voyage d'amour) Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
    Bayou Ruler, Rounder
  • Do Re Mi John Mellencamp
    Folkways: A Vision Shared, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Best of Broadside Box Set
  • Links on the chain Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs
    Best of Broadside, Folkways
  • Business Pete Seeger
    Best of Broadside, Folkways
  • Mississippi Goddam Nina Simone
    Best of Broadside, Folkways
  • We'll never turn back Pete Seeger
    Best of Broadside, Folkways
  • John Brown Bob Dylan
    Best of Broadside, Folkways
  • INTERVIEW: Sis Cunningham
  • My Oklahoma home (it blowed away) Sis Cunningham
    Best of Broadside, Folkways
  • Baby, I've Been Thinking (aka "Society's Child") Janis Ian (Blind Girl Grunt)
    Best of Broadside 1962-1988, Folkways
  • Instrumental: Windy & Warm Doc Watson
    Foundation, Sugar Hill
  • Long Lonely Nights Clyde McPhatter
    Treasure of Love and Other Hits, Flashback
  • Round Midnight Sun Ra & His Astro Infinity Orchestra w/ Hatty Randolph
    Greatest Hits, Evidence
  • Sunday Morning Velvet Underground
    Velvet Underground & Nico, Verve
  • Our Way to Fall Yo La Tengo
    And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out, Matador
  • SEGMENT: Yo La Tengo
  • Instrumental: Sleepy Time Raymond Scott
    Soothing Sound For Baby Vol.1, Basta
  • Boff Boff (Mop Mop) Coleman Hawkins w/ Leonard Feather's All Stars
    Jackson Pollack, Jazz, Moma - Museum Music
  • I Got a Break, Baby T-Bone Walker
    Jackson Pollack, Jazz, Moma - Museum Music
  • It Ain't My Fault Forgotten Souls Brass Band
    Forgotten Souls Brass Band, NONE

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