AMERICAN ROUTES
May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now June 29th, 2022 (Hour 1)
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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JOHN PRINE

September 27th, 2006

Join us for a two-hour visit with John Prine as he walks us through his catalog and his life—from urban Illinois backwards to Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. For over 35 years the singer and guitarist has written and performed songs which present a slightly off-kilter and darkly humorous look at working class America. We’ll also talk agitprop with the man who wrote Vietnam-era protest songs like “Take the Star Our of the Window” and “Sam Stone,” and environmental broadsides such as “Paradise.” There’s also performances of Prine’s songs by others and more in this two-hour visit with one of America’s leading songwriters.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Picture Show John Prine
    The Missing Years, Oh Boy
  • Crazy as a Loon John Prine
    Fair and Square, Oh Boy
  • Kentucky The Everly Brothers
    Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, Rhino
  • The Frying Pan John Prine
    Diamonds in the Rough, Atlantic
  • Paradise John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • Instrumental: John's Smoke Turns Blue Eddie Pennington
    Walks the Strings, and Even Sings, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Hello in There John Prine
    Souvenirs, Oh Boy
  • The Great Compromise John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • Souvenirs John Prine and Steve Goodman
    Diamonds in the Rough, Atlantic
  • Angel from Montgomery (live) John Prine & Bonnie Raitt
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • Instrumental: March! For Martin Luther King John Fahey
    The Yellow Princess, Banguard
  • SEGMENT: Protest Songs

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  • Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore John Prine
    John Prine, Atlantic
  • Sam Stone John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • The Fightin' Side of Me Merle Haggard
    The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977, Razor & Tie
  • Illegal Smile John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • End Bed: Green Velvet Lloyd Green
    The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green, KOCH

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Saturday Night Shuffle Merle Travis
    Walkin' the Strings, Capitol
  • Honky Tonk Blues Hank Williams
    The Original Singles Collection-Plus, PolyGram
  • Dang Me Roger Miller
    The Hits, Mercury
  • We are the Lonely John Prine
    Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings, Oh Boy
  • Nine Pound Hammer John Prine
    Sweet Revenge, Atlantic
  • Picture Show John Prine
    The Missing Years, Oh Boy
  • That's the Way the World Goes Round John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Wilson Rag Elizabeth Cotton
    Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, Smithsonian Folkways
  • The Sins of Memphisto John Prine
    The Missing Years, Oh Boy
  • Jesus the Missing Years John Prine
    The Missing Years, Oh Boy
  • Some Humans Ain't Human John Prine
    Fair and Square, Oh Boy
  • Take the Star Out of the Window John Prine
    Diamonds in the Rough, Atlantic
  • SEGMENT: Humor, Performing, Old People, Voice and the Future

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  • Instrumental: Midnight Silence Lloyd Green
    Lloyd Green and His Steel Guitar, Double Ten
  • Dear Abby (live) John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds John Prine & Melba Montgomery
    In Spite of Ourselves, Oh Boy
  • Angel from Montgomery John Prine
    Diamonds in the Rough, Atlantic
  • End Bed: Fish and Whistle John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino

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