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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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BLUES BORN AND LEARNED: SONNY LANDRETH & BOBBY RUSH

October 15th, 2008

Join us this week as we visit with the King of the Chitlin’ Circuit, Bobby Rush. The singer, songwriter, manager, harmonica player, guitarist and bus driver talks about a life in the blues and breaks down his famous stage show. Mississippi-born, Louisiana-bred guitarist Sonny Landreth drops by for a live set and reveals his special technique with the slide.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: 99 (Instrumental) Bobby Rush
    Live at Ground Zero, Deep Rush
  • Darktown Strutters Ball Fats Waller
    If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!, Bluebird/Legacy
  • Mama Told Me Not to Come Randy Newman
    12 Songs, Reprise
  • I Like 'Em Fat Like That Louis Jordan
    Let the Good Times Roll: 1938-1954, Bear Family
  • Fine Fat Daddy Dinah Washington
    Dinah Washington Sings Bessie Smith, Verve
  • The Rumproller (Pt.1) Lee Morgan
    Blue 45s: The Ultimate Jukebox, Blue Note
  • Bowlegged Woman and Knock Kneed Man (Part 1) Bobby Rush
    It's Alright, Paula
  • Instrumental: Seven and 7 The Bo-Keys
    The Royal Sessions, Yellow Dog
  • SEGMENT: Bobby Rush

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  • Instrumental: Fat Judy (Pt.1) Big' John Patton
    Blue 45s: The Ultimate Jukebox, Blue Note
  • Blues for Smedley Oscar Peterson Trio with Clark Terry
    Oscar Peterson Trio + One, Clark Terry, Mercury
  • Chitlin' Hop Piano Red
    Piano Red a.k.a. Dr. Feelgood: The Doctor's In!, Bear Family
  • So Round So Firm, So Fully Packed Merle Travis
    The Best of Merle Travis: Sweet Temptation, Razor and Tie
  • Caledonia / Flip, Flop & Fly / Ragg Mop Re-birth Brass Band
    Take it to the Street, Rounder
  • Tipitina (American Routes theme) Allen Toussaint
    American Routes original recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Sonny Landreth
    live at American Routes studio,
  • Highway Blues Clifton Chenier
    Sings the Blues, Arhoolie
  • Deal Jerry Garcia
    The Very Best of Jerry Garcia, Rhino
  • Last Fair Deal Gone Down Cephas & Wiggins
    Somebody Told Me The Truth, Alligator
  • Mississippi River Blues Jimmie Rodgers
    The Singing Brakeman, Bear Family
  • Going to New Orleans Bob Dylan
    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Outtakes, Vigo
  • Shake Your Moneymaker Elmore James
    Blues Masters: The Very Best of Elmore James, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Allons a Lafayette Richard Fontenot
    Cajun Country Guitar, Folkways
  • Allons a Lafayette Harry Choates
    Fiddle King of Cajun Swing, Arhoolie
  • Grand Chenier Bluerunners
    Le Grande Bleu, Louisiana Red Hot
  • SEGMENT: Sonny Landreth

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  • Instrumental: Sunny Jimmy Smith
    Talkin' Verve Groovy!, Verve
  • Sitting on Top of the World Johnny Shines
    Traditional Delta Blues, Biograph
  • Sittin' on Top of the World Bob Wills & Tommy Duncan
    Hall of Fame, United Artists
  • I Saw the Light Five Blind Boys of Alabama
    I Saw the Light, Liquid-8
  • That Lucky Old Sun The Isley Brothers
    Shout: The RCA Sessions, RCA
  • End Bed: Hallelujah Anyhow Sonny Treadway
    Sacred Steel Instrumentals, Arhoolie

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