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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
MAKING NEW ORLEANS MUSIC
It’s a two-hour walk through streets of the city as we dive into two great eras of New Orleans music. First, it’s the 1940s and 50s R&B hit factory with studio man Cosimo Matassa, producer, arranger, trumpet player Dave Bartholomew, drummer Earl Palmer and more. There’s also a chat with The Meters—Art Neville, George Porter, Leo Nocentelli and Zigaboo Modeliste—in which we get to the bottom of the bottom, find out what’s in the pocket and get a definition of funk from the four men who continue to dish it out.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Fats Domino Blues and I'm in Love Again Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Ain't it a Shame Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - CLIP: The Beginning
- Country Boy Dave Bartholomew
1947-1950, Jazz Classics - SEGMENT: Stardust
Listen - Stardust Dave Bartholomew
1947-1950, Jazz Classics - CLIP: The Studio Band
- 3x7=21 Jewel King
Genius of Dave Bartholomew, EMI - Instrumental: Dreaming Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - CLIP: The Fat Man
- The Fat Man Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Slippin' and Slidin' Little Richard
The Specialty Sessions Box, Specialty - SEGMENT: Beat
Listen - Rip it Up Little Richard
The Specialty Sessions Box, Specialty - CLIP: I'm Walkin'
- I'm Walkin' Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - CLIP: Sound
- Let the Four Winds Blow Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Instrumental: Blueberry Hill Mose Allison
Back Country Suite, Prestige - CLIP: Blueberry Hill
- Blueberry Hill Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - I'm Gonna be a Wheel Someday Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Down The Road Smiley Lewis
Shame, Shame, Shame, Bear Family - CLIP: On Smiley Lewis and Professor Longhair
- One Night Elvis Presley
1950s Masters, RCA - In the Night Professor Longhair
New Orleans Piano, Atlantic - CLIP: Fats Success/ Live
- Blue Monday Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes Original Recording,
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Chicken Strut and Fiyo On the Bayou The Meters
Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino - A Message From the Meters The Meters
Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino - SEGMENT: Beginnings
Listen - Ease Back The Meters
Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino - CLIP: House Band
- Fortune Teller Benny Spellman
Fortune Teller - Golden Classics, Collectables - Working In a Coal Mine Lee Dorsey
Wheelin’ and Dealin’: The Definitive Collection, Arista - Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky From Now On Lee Dorsey
Wheelin’ and Dealin’: The Definitive Collection, Arista - Instrumental: Cissy Strut Rod Piazza
Bluesman, LMI - CLIP: Funk
- I Been Hoodood Dr. John
In the Right Place, ATCO - Sophisticated Cissy The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed - CLIP: Cissy Strut
- Cissy Strut The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed - CLIP: Look-Ka-Py-Py
- Look-Ka-Py-Py The Meters
Look-Ka-Py-Py, Sundazed - CLIP: They All Asked for You
- They All Asked for You The Meters
Funkify Your Life Vol. 2, Rhino - Instrumental: Drums on Fire Donald Harrison Jr.
Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. presents The New Sounds of Mardi Gras, FOMP - CLIP: Mardi Gras Indians/ Hey Pocky Way
- Hey Pocky Way The Meters
Rejuvenation, Sundazed - Here Dey Come Wild Tchoupitoulas
Wild Tchoupitoulas, Island - SEGMENT: The Rolling Stones/ Paul McCartney
Listen - Africa The Meters
Uptown Rulers! Live on the Queen Mary, Rhino - CLIP: Breakup
- Stormy The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed - CLIP: Today/ Reunions
- Cissy Strut (Live) The Meters
Live Recording from 2005 New Orleans Jazz Fest,