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Memorial Day with the 2022 National Heritage Fellows

For Memorial Day, we’re celebrating the 2022 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows. Great musicians, storytellers, artisans and advocates, who have received our nation’s highest honor in traditional arts with these new honorees: Richmond gospel family, The Legendary Ingramettes; Navajo Diné weaver and sheep rancher, TahNibaa Naataanii; Washington DC step choreographer, C. Brian Williams; Excelsior Brass Band of Mobile, Alabama; master Hawaiian Hale builder Francis “Palani” Sinenci; Tibetan Opera singer and dancer Tsering Wangmo Satho; Flamenco dancer Eva Encinias; Bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland; St. Croix Quelbe flute player and bandleader, Stanley Jacobs; and New Orleans Black-masking craftsman, stilt dancer and musician, Shaka Zulu. Plus music from former fellows Doc Watson, Cedric Burnside, Clifton Chenier, Flaco Jiménez, Andy Statman, Dr. Michael White and Wanda Jackson, among others.

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GATEMOUTH MOORE / RY COODER

December 10th, 2003

Two men who embody eclecticism in the music they play and love. First, an in-depth discussion with guitarist and producer Ry Cooder—from his California roots in American blues, country and rock, to his forays into Tex-Mex, African, and East Indian music, his many film soundtracks, and most recently his work in Cuba with the Buena Vista Social Club and guitarist Manuel Galban. Also meet 90-year-old blues and gospel singer Gatemouth Moore, who began performing with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels in the 1920s and currently preaches at his church in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Plus the American Routes music mix we hope you seek… each week.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Available Space Ry Cooder
    Ry Cooder, Reprise
  • Police Dog Blues Ry Cooder
    Ry Cooder, Reprise
  • De Camino a La Vereda Ibrahim Ferrer
    Buena Vista Social Club, Nonesuch
  • INTERVIEW: Ry Cooder #1

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  • He'll Have To Go Ry Cooder
    Chicken Skin Music, Reprise
  • Goin' To Brownsville Ry Cooder
    Ry Cooder, Reprise
  • Instrumental: Walkin' Away Blues Ry Cooder & Sonny Terry
    Crossroads soundtrack, Warner
  • INTERVIEW: Ry Cooder #2

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  • Memo From Turner Mick Jagger
    Performance soundtrack, Warner
  • INTERVIEW: Ry Cooder #3
  • Paris, Texas Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, David Lindley
    Paris, Texas, Warner
  • Ganges Delta Blues Ry Cooder & Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
    Meeting By The River, Waterlily Acoustics
  • Gomni Ali Farke Toure & Ry Cooder
    Talking Timbuktu, Rykodisc
  • Instrumental: Lasidan Ali Farke Toure, Ry Cooder, Gatemouth Brown
    Talking Timbuktu, Rykodisc
  • INTERVIEW: Ry Cooder #5
  • Naufragio Ibrahim Ferrer
    Buenos Hermanos, Nonesuch
  • Echale Salsita
    Mambo Sinuendo, Nonesuch

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Hey, Mr. Gatemouth Gatemouth Moore
    Hey Mr. Gatemouth, WestSide
  • Fore Day Creep Ida Cox
    Stars of the Apollo, Sony
  • Did You Ever Love a Woman BB King
    His RPM Hits 1951-1957, Ace
  • Blues No. 1 Jimmy Smith
    Six Views of the Blues, Blue Note
  • Nearer to Thee Sam Cooke with The Soul Stirrers
    The Complete Specialty Recordings of Sam Cooke, Specialty
  • Instrumental: Pop's Instrumental The Staple Singers
    Soul Folk In Action, Stax
  • INTERVIEW: Gatemouth Moore

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  • I Want A Lavender Cadillac Maurice King & His Wolverines
    OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957, Epic
  • Cadillac and a Model 'A' Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
    Anthology 1935-1973, Rhino
  • One Piece at a Time Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Three
    Hot Rods & Custom Classics, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Stick Shift The Duals
    Hot Rods & Custom Classics, Rhino
  • Christian's Automobile Bright Light Quartet
    Southern Journey Vol. 8: Velvet Voices, Rounder
  • Terraplane Blues John Lee Hooker
    Ultimate Collection 1948-1990, Rhino
  • Nothing But the Wheel Peter Wolf with Mick Jagger
    Sleepless, Artemis
  • Hands on the Wheel Willie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger, Columbia/Legacy
  • End Bed: Woman Wanted James Cotton
    Fire Down Under the Hill, Telarc

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