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AMERICAN ROUTES GOES TO THE MOVIES
Think all the glamour is in Hollywood? This week on American Routes we’re going to the movies. John Sayles, writer-director of such classic films as “Lonestar” and “Matewan” talks about how he uses music to evoke emotion. Quebequois director Andre Gladu shares his documentary vision and stories of following music along the Mississippi and French Louisiana. Plus composer Thomas Newman takes us behind the scenes of Altman’s “The Player,” Disney’s “Wall-E” and more.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Introduction Charlie Haden Quartet West
Haunted Heart, Polydor/PolyGram France - Since I Met You Baby Ivory Joe Hunter
Lone Star: Original Soundtrack, Daring - Saturday Night at the Movies The Drifters
All-Time Greatest Hits, K-Tel - Movie Magg Carl Perkins
The Classics, Bear Family - Picture Show John Prine
The Missing Years, Oh Boy - The Monument Valley Drive-By Truckers
Brighter Than Creation's Dark, New West - Johnny Too Bad The Slickers
The Harder They Come: Original Soundtrack, Island - Hello Stranger Barbara Lewis
Talk to Me: Music from the Motion Picture, Atlantic - Instrumental: Yekermo Sew Mulatu Astatke
Broken Flowers: Music from the Film, Decca - I Can't Be Satisfied Jeffery Wright
Cadillac Records: Music from the Motion Picture, Special Deluxe Edition, Sony BMG - Gotta Serve Somebody Shirley Caesar
Masked and Anonymous: Music from the Motion Picture, Sony - INTERVIEW: John Sayles
Listen - Instrumental: Lagrimas De Acero Duke Levine, Evan Harlan, Marshall Wood and Tim Jackson
Lone Star: Original Soundtrack, Daring - Sad Movies Make Me Cry Gloria Crawford
Trojan Sixties Box Set, Sanctuary - Act Naturally The Beatles
Help!, EMI - Ingrid Bergman Billy Bragg
Mermaid Avenue, Elektra - Matinee Damien Jurado
Where Shall You Take Me, Secretly Canadian - Ballad of a Teenage Queen Johnny Cash
The Man in Black, 1954-1958 Box, Bear Family - End Bed: When I Fall in Love Dianne Reeves
Good Night, and Good Luck, Concord
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Repair Ward Thomas Newman
Wall-E: Soundtrack, Walt Disney - If I Had a Talking Picture of You Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders
The History of Pop Radio, International Music Co - La Vie en Rose Louis Armstrong
Wall-E: Soundtrack, Walt Disney - Chantez les Bas Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt Box, Bear Family - INTERVIEW: Andre Gladu
Listen - Instrumental: Always There Rebirth Brass Band
Rebirth For Life, Tipitina's - You Don't Know What You Mean (To a Lover Like Me) The Sugarman 3 featuring Lee Fields
Soul Men Soundtrack, Stax - Generique Miles Davis
Jazz in Paris: Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud, Universal Jazz France - One for My Baby Dianne Reeves
Good Night, and Good Luck, Concord - INTERVIEW: Thomas Newman
Listen - Instrumental: 72 Degrees and Sunny Thomas Newman
Wall-E: Soundtrack, Walt Disney - All the World is Green Tom Waits
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Original Soundtrack, Hollywood - Living Proof Cat Power
My Blueberry Nights: Music from the Motion Picture, BlueNote - Audrey Dave Brubeck
The Essential Dave Brubeck, Columbia - As Time Goes By Billie Holiday
The Complete Commodore Recordings, GRP - End Bed: As Time Goes By Dave McKenna
Dave "Fingers" McKenna, Chiaroscuro
