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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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MUSIC OF HEALING & ELIXIRS: LITTLE FREDDIE KING, ANDERS OSBORNE, DR. MICHAEL WHITE & MUSIC MAKER RELIEF FOUNDATION

March 21st, 2018

From healing songs and expressions of pain to hoodoo cure-alls and feel-good elixirs, we explore the musical world of sickness and health. We talk with Mississippi-born guitarist Little Freddie King about how the blues saved many of his nine lives. New Orleans songwriter and rocker Anders Osborne tells of a journey that led to self-medicating with pain relievers that do more harm than good, and his eventual recovery. Tim Duffy of the Music Maker Relief Foundation in North Carolina explains the curative properties of music on society and his work with Taj Mahal to help deep-roots musicians in need. And clarinetist Dr. Michael White talks of jazz and its role in his and New Orleans’ recovery after Katrina. Plus, medicine show troubadours hawk their tonics, Dr. John prescribes Mama Roux’s healing potions, and Huey “Piano” Smith gives us a serious case of “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu.”

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: One Dime Blues Etta Baker and Taj Mahal
    Etta Baker with Taj Mahal, Music Makers Relief Foundation
  • W.S. Wolcott Medicine Show The Band
    Stage Fright, Capitol Records
  • The Great Medical Menagerist Harmonica Frank
    The Great Medical Menagerist, Adelphi Records
  • "Mother Marie" Radio Announcement from Kevin Nutt
  • Mama Roux Dr. John
    Gris-Gris, Atco
  • High Blood Pressure Huey "Piano" Smith
    The Best of Ace Records: The R&B Hits, Rock 'n' Roll/Scott Brothers
  • Rockin' Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns
    The Best of Ace Records: The R&B Hits, Rock 'n' Roll/Scott Brothers
  • Instrumental: Old Yellow Boy Little Freddie King
    Messin' Around the Living Room, MadeWright
  • SEGMENT: Little Freddie King

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  • Bowleg Rooster, Duckleg Hen/ Sweet Georgia Brown Papa Lemon Nash
    New Orleans Ukulele Maestro & Tent Show Troubadour, Arhoolie
  • Jug Band Music The Lovin' Spoonful
    Daydream, Kama Sutra
  • Trenchtown Rock Bob Marley
    Trenchtown Rock: Anthology 1968-'78, Trojan
  • Instrumental: Clickin' Whistlin' Britches
    We Are the Music Makers, Music Maker Relief Foundation
  • Instrumental: Freight Train Boogie Captain Luke
    We Are the Music Makers, Music Maker Relief Foundation
  • SEGMENT: Tim Duffy

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  • Closing Bed: Peace Behind the Bridge Carolina Chocolate Drops
    Genuine Negro Jig, Nonesuch

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Strong Anders Osborne
    Flower Box, Independent
  • SEGMENT: Anders Osborne

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  • Healing Hands of Time Willie Nelson
    Willie and the Boys: Stash Vol. 2, Sony
  • Age Don't Mean a Thing Robert Finley
    Age Don't Mean a Thing, Big Legal Mess
  • Dr. Feelgood (Love is Serious Business) Aretha Franklin
    I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Backporch Soul The Swampers
    Muscle Shoals Has Got the Swampers, Muscle Shoals Sound Records
  • Pain Pills Angaleena Presley
    American Middle Class, Slate Creek Records
  • Sick Feelin' Blues Lightnin' Hopkins
    Lightnin' and the Blues, Herald
  • I'm a Fool for a Cigarette/Feelin' Good Ry Cooder
    Paradise and Lunch, Warner Brothers
  • Too Much Alcohol JB Hutto and His Hawks
    Chicago/The Blues/Today!, Vol. 1, Vanguard
  • Goodbye Booze Old Crow Medicine Show
    Eutaw, Blood Donor Records
  • Instrumental: House of the Rising Sun Dr. Michael White
    Adventures in New Orleans Jazz Volume 1, Basin Street
  • Streets of Laredo Johnny Cash
    American IV: The Man Comes Around, American
  • House of the Rising Sun Doc and Richard Watson
    Third Generation Blues, Sugar Hill
  • SEGMENT: Dr. Michael White

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  • Closing Bed: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Dr. Michael White
    Blue Crescent, Basin Street

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