AMERICAN ROUTES
New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators September 27th, 2023 (Hour 1)
New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators

New Orleans musician and raconteur Danny Barker was a banjo and guitar hero—a major player in New York jazz who never forgot his French Creole roots in song and style. We look back on Danny’s career, his life with wife and collaborator, the singer Blue Lu Barker, and his influence sustaining culture in the Crescent City. Then, current day guitar and banjo man, Detroit Brooks pays tribute to the Barker legacy with his band the Syncopated Percolators live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

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March 24th, 2004

New season, new music in the air! In addition to a lively spring mix of music, we’ll bring you the sounds of the birds in Belize, the bees in urban New Orleans… and the man who sings like a frog. New Orleans R&B star Clarence “Frogman” Henry tells us about his amphibious voice, his collection of frogs, and hanging out with the Beatles on tour in ’64.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Ain't Got No Home The Band
    Moondog Matinee, Capitol
  • Froggie Went a Courtin' Doc Watson
    Home Again!, Vanguard
  • Miss Froggie Warren Smith
    Complete Sun Singles Vol. 2, Bear Family
  • Ain't Got No Home Sleepy LaBeef
    Larger Than Life, Bear Family
  • Frog Sounds
    Sounds of North American Frogs, Folkways
  • INTERVIEW: Clarence 'Frogman' Henry

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  • Froggy Bottom Jimmy Witherspoon with Jay McShann And His Band
    Goin' to Kansas City Blues, RCA
  • I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water Lou Rawls
    Anthology, Capitol
  • Instrumental: A Sleepin' Bee Bill Evans
    Verve Jazz Masters 5, Verve
  • Honey Bee Blues Silas Hogan
    Swamp Blues, Excello
  • Honey Bee Muddy Waters
    His Best 1947-1955, MCA/Chess
  • SEGMENT: Beekeeper Jay Martin
  • Honey, Honey Gary Tollett
    West Texas Bop, Ace
  • Wolverton Mountain Clyde King
    Columbia Country Classics Vol.3: Americana, Columbia
  • Old Man From The Mountain Merle Haggard
    The Lonesome Fugitive: Anthology 1963-1977, Razor & Tie
  • Instrumental: Foggy Mountain Special Lester Flatt
    Foggy Mountain Breakdown, CMH
  • Away Out On The Mountain Jimmie Rodgers
    Singing Brakeman, Bear Family
  • You're A Flower Bloomin' In The Wildwood Harry & Jeanie West
    Country Bluegrass, Prestige
  • Way Behind The Sun Pentangle
    Light Flight: The Anthology, Castle
  • Stormy Weather Billie Holiday
    The Collection, Verve

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Sounds from ‘Peterson Field Guides: Bird Songs Houghton Mifflin and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  • Tree Top Serenade Carson Robison & His Pioneers
    Home, Sweet Home on the Prairie, ASV
  • Starting a New Life Van Morrison
    Tupelo Honey, Warner
  • Hey! Baby Buckwheat Zydeco
    Five Card Stud, Island
  • Possum up a Simmon Tree Snooks Eaglin
    Country Boy Down in New Orleans, Arhoolie
  • Slide (sic - Sly) Mongoose Count Lasher's Calypso Quintet
    Boogu Yagga Gal, Heritage
  • SEGMENT: Birds of Belize
  • Instrumental: Rain Forest John Fahey
    Return of the Repressed: The John Fahey Anthology, Rhino
  • Before the Next Teardrop Falls Freddie Fender
    45 rpm,
  • The Rains Came Doug Sahm
    The Roots of Doug Sahm, Music Club
  • Rain Charlie Feathers
    Uh Huh Honey, Norton
  • Little Rain Jimmy Reed
    Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood soundtrack, Sony
  • I Can't Stand The Rain Cassandra Wilson
    The Blue Note Years 1939-1999, Blue Note
  • Rain Down Rain Big Maybelle
    The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-55, Epic/Legacy
  • Didn't it Rain The Ward Singers
    Great Gospel Groups: Over in Glory, MCA
  • Instrumental: Over the Rainbow Art Pepper
    Jazz Profile: Art Pepper, Blue Note
  • Come Rain or Come Shine John Coltrane
    The Prestige Recordings, Prestige
  • When the Sun Comes Out Ella Fitzgerald
    The Harold Arlen Songbook Vol. 2, Verve
  • End Bed: Over the Rainbow Claude Williams
    Swingin' The Blues, Rounder

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