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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
SPRING INTO EASTER WITH THE PASCHALL BROTHERS, CHARLIE LOUVIN AND THE SANTA MARIA PRODUCE COMPANY
Body, soul and Earth are rejuvenated at this special time of year when winter turns to spring. Spend some of it with Virginia-based gospel group the Paschall Brothers who perform an in-studio, a cappella set. Then meet Charlie Louvin, who along with brother Ira made up the Louvin Brothers, famous for their familial harmonies as much as for their hellfire and brimstone tunes. And take a ride with Shreveport, Louisiana’s Santa Maria Produce Company in their trucks covered by hand-painted reproductions of da Vinci’s Last Supper and other religious iconography.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Broadminded Louvin Brothers
When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of the Louvin Brothers, Razor & Tie - (I'm) Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs Elvis Presley
His Hand in Mine, RCA - The Ballad of John & Yoko John Lennon
The U.S. vs. John Lennon: Music from the Motion Picture, Capitol - Sin City The Flying Burrito Brothers
The Gilded Palace of Sin, Edsel - Milky White Way The Trumpeteers
Goodbye, Babylon, Dust-to-Digital - Instrumental: Old Gospel Jackie McLean
New and Old Gospel, Blue Note - Swing Down Chariot (aka Let Me Ride) The Staple Singers
The Best of the Vee-Jay Years, Shout! Factory - Great Speckled Bird Lucinda Williams
Ramblin', Smithsonian Folkways - SEGMENT: Charlie Louvin
Listen - Instrumental: Just As I Am Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Columbia - When the Springtime Comes Again The Carter Family
In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family - Springtime Can Kill You Jolie Holland
Springtime Can Kill You, Anti - Sally Go 'Round the Roses The Jaynettes
Chess Rhythm & Roll, MCA/Chess - Just a Closer Walk With Thee Happyland Band
Saints' Paradise, Smithsonian Folkways - Down by the Riverside The Blind Boys of Alabama with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Allen Toussain
Down in New Orleans, Time/Life
HOUR two
- Open Bed: I'll be Satisfied Paschall Brothers
American Routes original recording, - Open Bed: Christian Automobile Paschall Brothers
American Routes original recording, - SEGMENT: Santa Maria Produce Company in Shreveport, LA
Listen - Shadrack Louis Prima
Ultra-Lounge: Wild, Cool & Swingin', Volume One, Capitol - Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Original Soul Sister, Proper - In the Sweet Bye and Bye Johnny Cash
Personal File, Columbia/ Legacy - Instrumental: In the Sweet Bye and Bye George Lewis
The Atlantic Jazz New Orleans Sessions, Mosaic - Easter Parade Oscar Peterson
The Song is You: Best of the Verve Songbooks, Verve - It Might as Well Be Spring Jackie Terrason & Cassandra Wilson
Rendezvous, Blue Note - Carry Go Bring Come Justin Hines and the Dominoes
Jezebel, Island - You Gotta Move Sam Cooke
Night Beat, - Instrumental: The Preacher Horace Silver
The Best of Horace Silver, Blue Note - He's Got the Whole World in His Hands Nina Simone & Her Trio
My Baby Just Cares for Me, Gambit - On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual) Bessie Smith
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Bessie Smith, Columbia - SEGMENT: Get On Board, Little Children/Christian Automobile/This is a Mean Old World Paschall Brothers
In-studio Performance,
Listen - End Bed: I'll be Satisfied Paschall Brothers
American Routes Original Recording,
