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May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now

This July 4th weekend, we dive into the record crates to bring you music of celebration, hope and critique from Nina Simone, Randy Newman, Sly Stone and Jon Batiste. Then, the July 4th roots of American Routes as we go back to the 1990s, deep in the archive, for highlights from The American Roots Independence Day concerts at the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Join us for spectacular stage performances by the urbane blues hero Charles Brown, the Texas Playboys with Johnny Gimble playing Western swing, Mexican-American Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Young Tuxedo Brass with New Orleans jazz, and Hawaiian music and song of slack-key guitar master Ledward Kaapana.

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ON THE ROAD WITH ROSANNE CASH AND ARLO GUTHRIE

April 5th, 2006

This weeks’ American Routes hits the road in story and song. We visit with country singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash about life in a musical family, living in Nashville and her recent release, Black Cadillac. And join Nick as he rides the rails. It’s a trip on the City of New Orleans train with the singer that made it famous, folk hero Arlo Guthrie. Plus two hours of the traveling blues, as well as country, jazz, rock and soul and more.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Black Cadillac Rosanne Cash
    Black Cadillac, Capitol
  • Tennessee Flat Top Box Rosanne Cash
    Hits 1979-1989, Columbia
  • Ballad of a Teenage Queen Rodney Crowell
    Dressed in Black: A Tribute to Johnny Cash, Dualtone
  • Cowgirl Blues Jessie Mae Hemphill
    Feelin' Good, HMG
  • Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea Leadbelly
    Cowboy Songs on Folkways, Smithsonian Folkways
  • The Midnight Special Harry Belafonte
    The Folk Years: Simple Song of Freedom, Time/Life
  • Instrumental: Steelin' the Blues Jerry Byrd & the String Dusters
    Guitar Player Presents: Legends of Guitar - Country, Vol.2, Rhino
  • Half as Much Van Morrison
    Pay the Devil, Lost Highway
  • Lovesick Blues Patsy Cline
    The Essential Patsy Cline, RCA
  • Tennessee Flat Top Box Johnny Cash
    The Man in Black: 1959-1962, Bear Family
  • Big River Rosanne Cash
    Right or Wrong/Seven Year Ache, Raven
  • INTERVIEW: Rosanne Cash

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  • Instrumental: Ahunk Ahunk Thad Jones / Mel Lewis
    Blue Big Bands: A Swingin' Affair, Blue Note
  • Black Cadillac Lightnin' Hopkins
    The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings, Prestige/Bluesville
  • Cadillac Baby Roy Brown
    Blues Deluxe, Charly
  • Lavender Cadillac Maurice King & His Wolverines w/Bea Baker
    The Okeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1947-1957, Sony
  • Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac Dizzy Gillespie
    The Champ, Savoy Jazz
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Staple Singers
    Freedom Highway, Columbia/Legacy

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: City of New Orleans Arlo Guthrie
    The Best of Arlo Gurhrie, Warner Bros.
  • Hard Travelin' Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin', Smithsonian/Folkways
  • This Train Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    Blues Classics: 1927-1969, MCA
  • Cannon Ball Nora Lee King
    Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 3, Rounder
  • Detroit City Solomon Burke
    King Solomon / I Wish I Knew, Koch
  • Give Me the Good Old Boxcar Snooks Eaglin
    Country Boy in New Orleans, Arhoolie
  • My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans Jimmie Rodgers
    Jimmie Rodgers: The Singing Brakeman, Bear Family
  • Basin Street Blues Louis Armstrong
    The Essential Louis Armstrong, Columbia/Legacy
  • Basin Street Blues Bob Wills
    Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Midnight Train Country All Stars
    Country All Stars: Jazz From the Hills, Bear Family
  • SEGMENT: Arlo Guthrie / City of New Orleans

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  • I'm Movin' On Elvis Presley
    The Essential 60's Masters, BMG
  • Mystery Train Little Junior Parker and his Blue Flames
    Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 3, Rounder
  • Instrumental: Night Train Bill Doggett
    Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol.3, Rounder
  • Night Train The Mahogany Brass Band
    The Mahogany Brass Band, Sound of New Orleans
  • I'm Movin' On Professor Longhair
    Big Chief, Tomato
  • End Bed: Basin Street Blues Sidney Bechet
    Runnin' Wild, Blue Note

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