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American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey January 13th, 2021 (Hour 1)
American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey

We go live in concert and conversation with two New Orleans artists each of whom bring their family heritage forward into contemporary music. Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla has called New Orleans home for many years, but her family ties are to Haiti. She draws on French Creole roots for inspiration, as well as from the poetry of Langston Hughes. Then jazz saxophonist Big Chief Donald Harrison, whose musical journey includes time in New York with drummer Art Blakey’s band, talks about “Afro-New Orleans” culture and demonstrates how to bring soul, funk, and Black carnival traditions into modern jazz.

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WHILE I'M LIVIN': TANYA TUCKER & WARREN STORM

January 22nd, 2020

Singer Tanya Tucker got her start as a very young singer in Nashville. At age 13, she had her first hit with “Delta Dawn.” Since then, she’s seen a lot of the world of Country Music but still kept her landmark sound. We’ll talk about her new Grammy-nominated record and her love of cutting horses in the Desert West. Then the King of Swamp Pop, Warren Storm brings us back to Louisiana where he’s taking the world by storm with a new recording of classic songs.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Delta Dawn Tanya Tucker
    Delta Dawn , Columbia
  • Blood Red and Going Down Tanya Tucker
    What’s Your Mama’s Name , Columbia
  • Rainy Night in Georgia Tony Joe White
    Continued , Monument
  • Baby Dottie West
    Suffer Time , RCA
  • T'aint Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do Little Milton
    Blues ‘n Soul , Stax
  • Instrumental: Cannonball Rag Bill Frisell
    Guitar in the Space Age! , Okeh
  • There's Another Place I Can't Go Charlie Rich
    The Essential Charlie Rich , Sony
  • Walk Through Fire Yola
    Walk Through Fire , Easy Eye Sound
  • Heart Over Mind Mel Tillis
    The Best of Mel Tillis , Sony
  • SEGMENT: Tanya Tucker

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  • Instrumental: Down Yonder Willie and Bobbie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger , Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Tanya Tucker, Pt.2

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  • She Loves to Ride Horses Guy Clark
    The Dark , Sugar Hill
  • Tennessee Stud Johnny Cash
    American Recordings , American Recordings
  • Tennessee Stud Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed
    Me and Jerry , RCA
  • Bandera Willie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger , Columbia

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Lonely, Lonely Nights Warren Storm
    Taking the World By Storm , APO Records
  • Mama Mama Mama Warren Storm and Yvette Landry
    Takin the World By Storm , APO Records
  • I'm Leaving It All Up to You Dale & Grace
    Swamp Gold Volume 1 , Jin Records
  • Let the Four Winds Blow Fats Domino
    They Call Me the Fat Man: The Legendary Imperial Recordings , EMI Imperial
  • Those Lonely, Lonely Nights Earl King
    Earl’s Pearls , West Side
  • Une Autre Soir D'Ennui Belton Richard
    The Essential Belton Richard , Swallow
  • Doggin' Around Jean Knight
    South Texas Rhythm ‘n’ Soul Revue , Demon
  • Dog Hill Boozoo Chavis
    Boozoo Chavis, Nonesuch
  • Mathilda Cookie and the Cupcakes
    Cookie and the Cupcakes: Kings of Swamp Pop , Ace
  • Instrumental: Up the Creek Allen Toussaint
    The Wild Sounds of New Orleans , Jazz Work Records
  • Let's Do the Cajun Twist Randy and the Rockets
    Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues , American Made Music
  • This Should Go On Forever Rod Bernard
    Chess New Orleans , UMG
  • Time Will Tell Bobby Charles
    Chess New Orleans , UMG
  • Walk That Walk Eddie Bo
    Chess New Orleans , UMG
  • Strollin' Champion Jack Dupree
    Blues from the Gutter , Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Cajun Steel Guitar The Buckaroos
    The Best of the Buckaroos , Sundazed
  • SEGMENT: Warren Storm

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  • Closing Bed: Cajun Waltz David Doucet
    1957: Solo Cajun Guitar , Rounder Select

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