AMERICAN ROUTES
Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté May 18th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté

It’s Blueswomen, Jazzmen, African roots and branches. Chicago blues singer Shemekia Copeland‘s father, the late blues guitarist Johnny Copeland, brought her into his music as a child. As an adult, she found new ways to use blues to express her perspective. We’ll hear from some of Shemekia’s heroes including Etta James, Ruth Brown, Alberta Hunter and Big Mama Thornton. Then a conversation and performance by Boston-based Mandinka balafon player Balla Kouyaté and music inspired by and from the continent of Africa from Randy Weston, Miriam Makeba and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Shemekia Copeland photo by Mike White

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May 27th, 2015

American Routes samples the best live music collaborations from the 2011 Jazz Fest season in New Orleans. Each year, music from the festival at the fairgrounds spills over into the streets and clubs of our city. We’ll camp out at Preservation Hall for an evening of jazz and country with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Nashville song man Buddy Miller, with special guest Robert Plant. Then we’ll catch the Hot 8 Brass Band and Mos Def at the Howlin’ Wolf across town. Plus more musical surprises.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Bourbon Street Parade Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • I Ain't Got Nobody Buddy Miller
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • I Want to Be With You Always Buddy Miller & Patty Griffin
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • Nature Boy Robert Plant
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • Rich Woman Robert Plant
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • Instrumental: Short Dressed Gal Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    New Orleans Preservation, Vol. 1, Preservation Hall Recordings
  • Bad Boy Charlie Musselwhite
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • Sad and Beautiful World Charlie Musselwhite
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • Strange Land Charlie Musselwhite
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • Roll Your Money Maker Charlie Musselwhite
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • Instrumental: Bars in the Prison Beausoleil
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall,
  • Chez Varise Connor Beausoleil
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • J'ai Passe Devant ta Porte Beausoleil
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • La Chanson de Cinquante Sous Beausoleil
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • Marie Beausoleil
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • End Bed: Eh La Bas Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    Shake That Thing, Preservation Hall Recordings

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Walking Papers Booker T. Jones
    The Road From Memphis, Anti-
  • Time Is Tight Booker T. Jones
    Live Recording at the Howlin' Wolf 2011,
  • New Orleans Mos Def & Hot 8 Brass Band
    Live Recording at the Howlin' Wolf 2011,
  • Instrumental: Rent Party Booker T. Jones
    The Road From Memphis , Anti-
  • SEGMENT: Ben Jaffe of Preservation Hall

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  • 50/50 Chance The Del McCoury Band & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    American Legacies, McCoury Music
  • Choko Mo Feel No Hey Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    New Orleans Preservation Vol. 1, Preservation
  • Peanut Vendor Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    The Best of the Early Years, Preservation Hall
  • I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    Preservation Hall Hot 4 With Duke Dejan, Preservation Hall
  • Instrumental: Olympia on Parade Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    The Best of the Early Years, Preservation Hall
  • Trouble In Mind Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • Poison Love Buddy Miller & Patty Griffin
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • Bo Diddley Medley: You Can't Judge a Book / Mona Buddy Miller & Robert Plant
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • End Bed: Christo Redemptor Charlie Musselwhite
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,

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