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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
SUMMER SURF
Back to the beach with “beach music” from both coasts. We’ll talk with California surf guitarist Dick Dale, go lobstering in Maine, and visit Sea Breeze, a historically African-American beach in North Carolina. With music by Charles Mingus, James Brown and Astrud Gilberto.
HOUR ONE
- Summertime James Brown & Martha High
Duets , Polydor - Too Hot The Specials
The Specials , Chsalis - Beach Boy Blues Elvis Presley
Blue Hawaii , RCA - Coconut Island Junior Brown
12 Shades of Brown , Curb - King of the Surf Guitar Dick Dale
Cowabunga! Box , Rhino - Instrumental: Bustin' Thru Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant
Stratosphere Boogie , Razor & Tie - INTERVIEW: Dick Dale
Listen - "Miserlou" and "The Wedge" Dick Dale
Better Shred Than Dead: The Dick Dale Anthology , Rhino - Like Swimming Morphine
Like Swimming , Dreamworks - Fisherman's Wharf Peggy Lee
Blues Cross Country , Capitol Jazz - INTERVIEW: Carl Schwab & Bruce McVane on Lobstering in Maine
- Instrumental: The Fish Vender Tom McDermott
Louisianthology , STR - Love Letters in the Sand Jerry Lee Lewis
Classic , Bear Family - Pouring Water on a Drowning Man James Carr
The Essential , Razor & Tie - I'm Gonna Sail Like a Ship on the Ocean Henry Morrison
Sound of the South: Negro Church Music , Atlantic - Jonah & the Whale Louis Armstrong
Louis & the Good Book , MCA - Blue Tide Charles Mingus
Complete Debut Recordings, - Shadows on the Sand Frank Sinatra
The Popular Sinatra Vol.3 , BMG
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Over the Waves George Lewis
Hot Jazz on Blue Note , - Smooth Sailing Ella Fitzgerald
The Very Best Of Ella , Decca - Barnacle Bill the Sailor Louis Jordan
The Anthology 1938-1953 , MCA/Decca - Les Bons Temps Rouler David Doucet
Quand J'ai Parti , Rounder - Red Sails In the Sunset Bobby Jay
The Best of Excello Vol.1 , Rhino - Instrumental: Hand Clappin' Red Prysock
Blues Masters Vol.5: Jump Blues Classics , Rhino - INTERVIEW: Brenda Freeman, Alfred Mitchell, Chicken Hicks on Sea Breeze
Listen - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love Solomon Burke
The Best Of Solomon Burke , Rhino/Atlantic - Better Luck in the Summertime Robert Parker
Golden Classics , - Don't Rock My Boat Bob Marley & The Wailers
Selassie Is The Chapel , JAD - Instrumental: Wave Antonio Carlos Jobim
The Man From Ipanema , Polygram - Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, - La Playa Los Lobos
This Time , Hollywood - Moon, Turn The Tides... gently gently away Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland , MCA - The Dolphins Fred Neil
Everybody's Talkin': Theme From "Midnight Cowboy", Rev-Ola
