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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
LOOKING FOR AMERICA: ELVIS COSTELLO AND CARLA BLEY
We’re seeking out the “American” in American music with two eclectic artists: Elvis Costello and Carla Bley. For British songman Elvis Costello, American music has shaped much of his musical creativity. We’ll hear about his love of American country and blues, his musical upbringing in Liverpool, and his current fascination with P.T. Barnum. For the inventive and eccentric jazz composer Carla Bley, the National Anthem proves an unlikely source of inspiration. Bley brings wry humor to a conversation about the challenges of writing for her very big bands, her early days as a cigarette girl in NYC jazz clubs, and why America might be famous for baked beans.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Brilliant Mistake Elvis Costello
King of America , Rhino - Hidden Shame Elvis Costello
Secret, Profane & Sugarcane , Hear Music - American Music The Blasters
American Music , Hightone - Promised Land Chuck Berry
His Best, Volume 2 , MCA/Chess - I've Been Everywhere Johnny Cash
Unchained, American - I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
Striking It Rich, MCA - Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Cow Fingers and Mosquito Pie , Sony - Sulphur to Sugarcane Elvis Costello
Secret, Profane & Sugarcane , Hear Music - Instrumental: Weeper's Dream Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Trust, Rykodisc - INTERVIEW: Elvis Costello
Listen - Nowhere To Go Allen Toussaint
The Complete 'Tousan' Sessions , Bear Family - Dixie Flyer Randy Newman
American Routes original recording, - Zipper: Latch On Fats Waller and His Rhythm
Fractious Fingering / The Early Years Part 3, 1936 , BMG - Don't Stop the Music George Jones
The Classic Mercury Years , Mercury - Blues à Catin Catin Bonsoir
Blues à Catin, Bridgetown - Matchbox (I'm Gonna Forget About You) Ike Turner
King Cobra / The Chicago Sessions , Fuel 2000 - Cryin' Blues Charles Mingus
Blues & Roots, Atlantic - End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording,
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Ida Lupino Paul Bley Trio
Closer, ESP-Disk - I'm Nuts About Screwy Music Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra
The Swinging Mr. Lunceford , Empress - Jump for Joy Herb Jeffries with Duke Ellington
A Brief History of Herb Jeffries , Warner Bros. - INTERVIEW: Carla Bley
Listen - Instrumental: H.C.Q. Strut Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
The Ultimate Collection , Prism Leisure - You Gotta Pay the Band Abbey Lincoln & Stan Getz
You Gotta Pay the Band , Gitanes Jazz - Falling Rain Blues Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson: Complete Folkways Recordings, Smithsonian Folkways - I Love the Life I Live Mose Allison
Retrospective , Columbia - If It Ain't Got that Swing The Modern Jazz Quartet
The Modern Jazz Quartet , Warner Music France - Little Bells Paul Burch
Still Your Man , Ramseur - Instrumental: California Cotillion Mike Seeger
True Vine , Smithsonian Folkways - Fifty Miles of Elbow Room F.W. McGee
The Anthology of American Music , Smithsonian Folkways - The Brakeman's Blues Jimmie Rodgers
First Sessions, 1927-1928 , Rounder - Freight Train Elizabeth Cotten
Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes , Smithsonian Folkways - No Depression in Heaven The New Lost City Ramblers
50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go?, Smithsonian Folkways - Roll On Son Volt
American Central Dust , Rounder - End Bed: Fuller Blues Sam McGee
Grand Dad of the Country Guitar Pickers , Arhoolie
