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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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MAKE AMERICAN ROUTES GREAT AGAIN: STRONGER TOGETHER... IN SONGS AND STORIES

November 2nd, 2016

This week on American Routes, we’re here to Make American Routes Great Again! Stronger Together… in Songs & Stories. With just a few days left before relief or disbelief in our diverse democracy… we bring you ghosts of elections past and present… And the words of lofty American songmakers Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, Los Lobos and Bruce Springsteen. We’ll give a smidgeon of equal time to politicians from both parties whose sounds take to the podium and the stage: Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander on piano and Tim Kaine from Virginia on harmonica.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: The Preacher Jimmy Smith
    Jimmy Smith Retrospective, Blue Note
  • This Land Is Your Land Sharon Jones
    Naturally, Daptone
  • Be Careful How You Vote Sunnyland Slim
    Be Careful How You Vote, Earwig
  • Fortunate Son Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Chronicle, Fantasy
  • Political World Carolina Chocolate Drops
    Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan, Amnesty International
  • Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues Bob Dylan
    The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased), Columbia
  • Instrumental: Watergate Blues Modern Jazz Quartet
    Echoes, Pablo
  • I Pity the Poor Immigrant Marion Williams
    The New Message, Atlantic
  • Plane Wreck at Los Gatos Bruce Springsteen
    Til We Outnumber 'em: Songs of Woody Guthrie, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum/Woody Guthrie Foundation
  • Soy Mexico Americano Los Cenzontles
    Raza de Oro, Cenzontles
  • Only in America Jay and the Americans
    God Bless the USA, MCA
  • One Time One Night Los Lobos
    By the Light of the Moon, Warner Bros.
  • Instrumental: Stars and Stripes Forever / Sweethearts on Parade The Kalima Brothers
    Legends of the Ukelele, Rhino
  • No Banker Left Behind Ry Cooder
    Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, Nonesuch
  • Prohibition Blues Jorma Kaukonen
    Blue Country Heart, Columbia
  • Franklin Roosevelt's Back Again Cox Brothers
    Old Time Southern Dance Music, Old Timey
  • Guitar Pickin' President Jimmie Martin
    Jimmie Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys, Bear Family
  • CLIP: Tim Kaine
  • End Bed: Stars and Stripes Forever Eubie Blake
    The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake, Columbia

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Happy Days Are Here Again Casa Loma Orchestra
    Songs of the Depression, Bear Family
  • Roosevelt in Trinidad The Atilla
    Roosevelt in Trinidad, Rounder Records
  • The only thing we have to fear... Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    20th Century Time Capsule, Buddha Records
  • No Depression Carter Family
    In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family
  • Hard Times Come Again No More Johnny Cash
    Unearthed, American Recordings
  • CLIP: Robert Byrd
  • CLIP: Roland Cheramie
  • Instrumental: The House I Live In Sonny Rollins
    Sonny Rollins 1956, Giants of Jazz
  • Mr. President Have Pity on the Working Man Randy Newman
    Good Ol' Boys, Warner
  • Mr. President Big Boy Henry
    Work's Many Voices Vol. 1, JEMF/DownHome Music
  • What's Going On Marvin Gaye
    What's Going On, Tamla
  • The Day After Tomorrow Tom Waits
    Real Gone, ANTI
  • For What It's Worth Buffalo Springfield
    Buffalo Springfield, ATCO
  • Once They Banned Imagine Drive-By Truckers
    American Band, ATO Records
  • Instrumental: The Beautiful American Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
    The Great Summit, Blue Note
  • Long Walk to DC Staple Singers
    Soul Folk in Action, Stax
  • The Times They Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan
    The Times They Are A-Changin', Columbia
  • A Change Is Gonna Come Terrence Trent Darby with Booker T & the MG's
    Freedom: Songs From the Heart of America, Sony
  • End Bed: America the Beautiful The Happyland Band
    Saints' Paradise: Trombone Shout Bands from the United House of Prayer, Smithsonian Folkways

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