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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
MEMORIAL DAY
Join American Routes for the year’s first official road trip holiday, Memorial Day. To commemorate it, we’ll visit roadside sites that are sacred: a shrine to Our Lady of the Highways and the grave of Jimi Hendrix. Plus an early traveler in rockabilly and rock ‘n’ roll; James Burton tells some tales.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Suzie Q James Burton
The Guitar Sound of James Burton, A&M - Key to the Highway Dinah Washington
Back to the Blues, Roulette - One for the Highway James Booker
Classified, Rounder - Be My Chauffeur Clifton Chenier
Clifton Sings the Blues, Arhoolie - I Want to Be Your Driver Chuck Berry
His Best Vol. 2, Chess - Motivatin' Man Red Simpson
Country Western Truck Drivin Singer, Razor & Tie - Six Days on the Road Dave Dudley
Legends of Guitar - Country Vol. 2, Rhino - Instrumental: Johnny B Goode James Burton
The Guitar Sound of James Burton, A&M - INTERVIEW: James Burton
Listen - Return of the Grievous Angel Gram Parsons
GP/Grevious Angel, Warner - Instrumental: Back Home Indiana Merrill Moore
Boogie My Blues Away, Bear Family - 99 and 1/2 Dorothy Love Coates
Oxford American Sampler 1999, Oxford American - 99 and 1/2 Won't Do Wilson Pickett
A Man and a Half, Rhino - Don't Let the Devil Ride Joe May
Men of Gospel, Peacock - V-8 Ford Blues Mose Allison
Alison Wonderland, Rhino - Travelin' Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith
Blue Bash, Verve - The Long and Winding Road Aretha Franklin
Young Gifted and Black, Rhino
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Moon, Turn The Tides… gently gently away Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland, MCA - So Many Roads, So Many Trains Otis Rush
Chess Blues Classics 1957 to 1967, MCA - On the Road Again Canned Heat
Blues Masters, Vol. 7: Blues Revival, Rhino - SEGMENT: grave of Jimi Hendrix
Listen - Instrumental: Capitaine Corey Harris
Downhome Sophisticate, Rounder - Me and the Devil Blues Robert Johnson
King of the Delta Blues Singers, Sony - Highway Patrolman Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska, Sony - The Devil Had A Hold Of Me Gillian Welch
Hell Among the Yearlings, Almo - Wreck on the Highway Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will the Circle Be Unbroken, EMI - SEGMENT: Our Lady of The Highways roadside shrine
Listen - Wayfaring Stranger Eva Cassidy
Songbird, Blix St. - Instrumental: Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Pickin' On The Grateful Dead
Pickin' On The Grateful Dead, CMH - Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Elizabeth Cotten
Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, Folkways - Long Road to Travel Lonnie Johnson
Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection, Folkways - Country Honk Rolling Stones
Let it Bleed, ABCKO - Lost Highway Hank Williams
Complete, MGM - End of the Road Jerry Lee Lewis
Classic Vol. 1, Bear Family - End Bed: Sugarfoot Rag Junior Brown
Junior High, Curb
