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Thanksgiving 2023: Words and Music of Inspiration and Solace in Troubled Times

These are contentious times of conflicting emotions surrounding war and peace. This holiday weekend we bring songs and sounds for your consideration, concern, and hopefully solace. We’ll hear words and music from Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Mavis Staples and Charles Lloyd. Plus Sacred Steel guitar live at the 2023 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival from the Campbell Brothers.

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AMERICAN ROUTES LIVE: FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE 2017

June 28th, 2017

This holiday weekend American Routes boogies down to bayou country to catch live music at Festival International, a showcase of French music from southwest Louisiana and the wider Francophone world along with blues, Chicano nouveau and swamp pop. For the 31st annual festival, we hear female Cajun supergroup Bonsoir, Catin tear up the stage; bluesman Corey Harris ring out the Mississippi Delta’s West African roots; and blue-eyed soul from swamp pop legends Johnnie Allan, T.K. Hulin, and G.G. Shinn. Plus, accordionist CJ Chenier, son of Clifton Chenier, proves he is carrying on the king of zydeco’s royal bloodline. Las Cafeteras from East Los Angeles give us a taste of Veracruz’s Afro-Latin jarocho music, including the folk-turned-pop song “La Bamba.” And Texas singer, fiddler, and accordionist Cedric Watson adds Caribbean and Latin flavors to his homegrown Creole sound.

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HOUR ONE

  • Sista Rose Corey Harris
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • Open Bed: Cher Minoux Bonsoir, Catin
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • 44 Blues Corey Harris
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • Big Road Blues Corey Harris
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • Instrumental: Revelation Two-Step Bonsoir, Catin
    Light the Stars, Valcour Records
  • SEGMENT: Bonsoir, Catin

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  • The Squirrel Song Bonsoir, Catin
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • L'delaissée Bonsoir, Catin
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • Tit Angé Bonsoir, Catin
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • All Night Long Bonsoir, Catin
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • Instrumental: Let the Good Times Roll The Revelers
    The Revelers Play the Swamp Pop Classics, Vol. 1, The Revelers
  • I Can't Stand the Rain Gregg Martinez and the Delta Kings
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • Promised Land Johnnie Allan
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • I Got Loaded T.K. Hulin
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • Something Is Wrong with My Baby GG Shin
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • End bed: Firebird Blues Sonny Landreth
    Bound By the Blues, Provogue Records

HOUR two

  • Open bed: Eunice Two-Step C.J. Chenier
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • My Name is C.J. Chenier C.J. Chenier
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • I Got a Woman C.J. Chenier
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • SEGMENT: C.J. Chenier

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  • Zydeco Party C.J. Chenier
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • Instrumental: unknown cumbia Cedric Watson et Karnival Kreyol
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • Midland Two-Step Cedric Watson et Karnival Kreyol
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • Mange Creole Cedric Watson et Karnival Kreyol
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • Instrumental: A Si Paré Don Vappie
    Banjo A la Creole, Vappielle
  • La Morena Las Cafeteras
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • This Land is Your Land Las Cafeteras
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • La Bamba Las Cafeteras
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,
  • Closing Bed: I'm Coming Home C.J. Chenier
    American Routes recording live at Festival International 2017 ,

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