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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
MUSIC AND HEALING: PART 2
Songs and stories of the healing power of music and its role in improving personal health with gospel singer Cora Harvey Armstrong, Apsaalooke rapper and fancy dancer Supaman, singer-songwriter Jesse Colin Young and Santana‘s reflections on reincarnation. Plus, songs about the temptations of elixirs as fixers of pain and maladies of all kinds from the flu and plain old love sickness.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Get Together The Youngbloods
The Youngbloods, RCA Victor - CLIP: Jesse Colin Young
Listen - CLIP: Carlos Santana
Listen - The Healer John Lee Hooker and Santana
Dance Of The Rainbow Serpent, Columbia/Legacy - T.B. Blues Josh White
Free and Equal Blues, Smithsonian Folkways - T.B. Blues Jimmie Rodgers
The Essential Jimmie Rodgers, Sony - Instrumental: Cocaine Blues Reverend Gary Davis
Pure Religion & Bad Company, Smithsonian Folkways - Cocaine Blues Dave Van Ronk
Folk Singer, Prestige - Champagne and Reefer Muddy Waters
King Bee, Blue Sky - Guilty Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Warner Bros. - Dram Shop Gal Carson McHone
Carousel, Carson McHone Music - Instrumental: Sally Goodin' Hank Williams
Health and Happiness Shows, Mercury - Happy Roving Cowboy Hank Williams
Health and Happiness Shows, Mercury - Lovesick Blues Hank Williams
Health and Happiness Shows, Mercury - La Valse de Hadacol Happy, Doc and the Hadacol Boys
- Hadacol Bounce Professor Longhair
Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology, Rhino - Memphis Flu Elder Curry And Congregation
How Can I Keep From Singing: Early American Religious Music and Song Vol. 2, Shanachie - Dr. Jazz Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton: Birth of the Hot, BMG - End Bed: TB Sheets Van Morrison
Mob Life, Uncut
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Sugar Blues Clyde McCoy and his Orchestra
Sugar Blues 1951, Circle - Abi Gezunt Barry Sisters
The Barry Sisters Sing Traditional Yiddish Songs, Cadence - Fever Peggy Lee
All Aglow Again, Capitol - Conjurer Spirit McIntyre
Mourning To The Moonlight, Self-released - Medicine Woman Rob Finley
Goin' Platinum, Easy Eye - SEGMENT: Supaman
Listen - Instrumental: Strollin' Champion Jack Dupree
Blues from the Gutter, Atlantic - Junko Partner Dr. John
Gumbo, Atco - Can't Kick the Habit Champion Jack Dupree
Blues from the Gutter, Atlantic - Feelin Good JB Lenoir
Alabama Blues, L+R Records - SEGMENT: Cora Harvey Armstrong
Listen - Instrumental: This Train is Bound for Glory Olympia Brass Band, Terrence Blanchard, Donald Harrison
New Orleans Jazz Preservation, Mardi Gras Records - CLIP: Nick Spitzer Healing Account
Listen - Goin Down Slow St. Louis Jimmy Oden
Worried Life Blues, BMG - Blues Won't Let Me Take My Rest Henry Gray
American Routes Recording at the 2016 Baton Rouge Blues Festival, - Blue Skies Cassandra Wilson
Blue Skies, JMT - End Bed: Bajabula Bonke (Healing Song) Hugh Masekela
Still Grazing, Blue Thumb
