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A Music Map of New Orleans Lives - with Creole Jazz Singer John Boutté A Music Map of New Orleans Lives - with Creole Jazz Singer John Boutté December 6th, 2023 (Hour 1)
A Music Map of New Orleans Lives - with Creole Jazz Singer John Boutté

It’s a sonic map of New Orleans music from the recording studios and nightclubs to jazz parades. Songs about life on Basin Street and Bourbon Street, to Rampart Street and the lady from la rue Dauphine in the voices of Trombone Shorty, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ida Cox and Louis Prima. Then, a live session at Marigny Studios with Creole jazz and soul singer John Boutté who grew up in the Tremé neighborhood in a family of ten kids, where singing was a household and street corner pastime.

Photo by Marc PoKempner

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MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH US! AMERICAN ROUTES INDEPENDENCE DAY THEN & NOW

June 29th, 2022

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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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Stars and Stripes Forever Eubie Blake
    Eighty Six Years of Eubie Blake, Columbia
  • US Blues Grateful Dead
    From the Mars Hotel, Warner
  • Long Walk to DC The Staple Singers
    Soul Folk Action, Concord
  • I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free Nina Simone
    Nina Simone-- Silk & Soul, Sony
  • Dixie Flyer Randy Newman
    Randy Newman Songbook Vol II, Nonesuch
  • If I Had a Hammer Toussaint McCall
    Nothing Takes thhe Place Of You, Fuel 2000
  • Dance to the Music Sly and the Family Stone
    Dance to the Music, Sony
  • Freedomm Jon Batiste
    We Are, Verve
  • Instrumental: Pipeline/Ghostriders Ledward Kaapana
    YouTube,
  • Surfin' USA Beach Boys
    Surfin' USA, Capitol
  • Back in the USA Chuck Berry
    Chuck Berry Twist, UMG
  • Only in America Jay and the Americans
    Come a Little Bit Closer: the Best of Jay & the Americans, Capitol
  • Across the Borderline Freddy Fender
    The Golden Voices of the Texas Gulf Coast,
  • The Dreamer Jackson Browne (featuring Los Cenzontles)
    The Dreamer Single, Inside Recordings
  • One Time, One Night in America Los Lobos
    By the Light of the Moon, Waner
  • Instrumental: March! For Martin Luther King John Fahey
    The Yellow Princess, Vanguard
  • I Shall Be Released Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol 2, Columbia
  • Carry It On Joan Baez
    One Day at a Time, Vanguard
  • Man in Black Johnny Cash
    The Essential Johnny Cash, Sony
  • Blowin' in the Wind Stevie Wonder
    Up-Tight, Motown
  • End Bed: America the Beautiful Happyland Band
    Trombone Shout Bands from the United House of Prayer, Folkways

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Do What You Wanna Bob French and the Young Tuxedo Jazz Band
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 2000 Original Recording,
  • Henry Butler Patriotic Medley Bob French and the Young Tuxedo Jazz Band
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 2000 Original Recording,
  • Texas Playboys Theme/Take Me Back to Tulsa The Texas Playboys
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording,
  • Faded Love The Texas Playboys
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording,
  • San Antonio Rose The Texas Playboys
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording,
  • Instrumental: Radio Hula Ledward Kaapana and Clyde "Kindy" Sproat
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1998 Original Recording,
  • My Companion the Horse Ledward Kaapana and Clude "Kindy" Sproat
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1998 Original Recording,
  • Mauna Loa Slack-key Ledward Kaapana and Clyde "Kindy" Sproat
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1998 Original Recording,
  • Guadalajara Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording,
  • El Parrandero Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording,
  • Jalisco Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording,
  • Viva Mexico, Viva America! Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording,
  • Instrumental: Just Playin' Kermit Ruffins, Irvin Mayfield, Wendell Brunious, Lery Jones, Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown
    A Beautiful World, Basin Street
  • Going Down Slow Charles Brown
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording,
  • Drifting Blues Charles Brown
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording,
  • Seven Long Days Charles Brown
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording,
  • End Bed: Instrumental Charles Brown
    American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording,

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