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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
RESOLUTIONS FOR A NEW YEAR
We test your resolve with music about food, drink and the good life, as well as songs that ask us to keep our promises to ourselves and one another. Tempting visits with some of New Orleans great cooks from Commander’s Palace restaurant to Tee Eva’s Praline Shop. Artists featured for their topical tunes include Cab Calloway, Otis Redding and Southern Culture on the Skids.
HOUR ONE
- Pork Chops And Mustard Greens Ernie Andrews w/ Maxwell Davis Orchestra
Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin', Capitol - All That Meat And No Potatoes Louis Armstrong
Satch Plays Fats, Columbia/Legacy - Red Beans Professor Longhair
BBQ Soul-a-Bration, Rhino
Listen - Fried Neck Bones And Some Home Fries Willie Bobo
BBQ Soul-a-Bration, Rhino - Instrumental: Captain Bacardi Antonio Carlos Jobim
The Man From Ipanema, Verve - INTERVIEW: Lally Brennan & Jamie Shannon of Commander's Palace
- Oleo Miles Davis & Modern Jazz Giants
Bag's Groove, Fantasy - Hey Good Lookin Mose Allison
Allison Wonderland, Rhino - Hold Tight Andrews Sisters
Cream of the Andrews Sisters, Past - Instrumental: Salt Peanut Dizzy Gillespie
YardBird Suite: The Ultimate Charlie Parker Collection, Rhino - INTERVIEW: Leah Chase of Dooky Chase Restaurant
- A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But A Bird Cab Calloway and his Orchestra
DinerMite - The Swingin' Diner!, Sony - When You Want Chili Bus Moten & His Men
Kansas City Blues, Capitol - Givin' Up Food For Funk (Parts 1 & 2) The J.B.'s
Funky Good Time: The Anthology, Polygram - Polk Salad Annie Tony Joe White
The Best of, Warner - Too Much Pork for Just One Fork Southern Culture On The Skids
Ditch Diggin, Safe House
HOUR two
- New Year's Resolution Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
The Definitive Otis Redding, Rhino - I Want a Tall Skinny Papa Rosetta Tharpe & Lucky Millinder
Lucky Millinder & His Orshestra 1941/1947, EPM - So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed Merle Travis
Guitar Rags and a Too Fast Past, Bear Family - Skin and Bone Kinks
Muswell Hillbillies, RCA - Big Legged Mama's Are Back In Style Taj Mahal
Mean Old World: The Blues from 1940 to 1944 Vol. 4, Smithsonian Folkways - Instrumental: Chicken Shack Little Walter
Blues With A Feeling, MCA/Chess - Nobody In Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll like Mine Bessie Smith
The Complete Recordings Vol.1, Columbia - I Like Pie, I Like Cake The Four Clefs
The Jive is Jumpin', West Side - INTERVIEW: Tee Eva of Tee Eva's Pie and Praline Shop
Listen - Shortnin Bread Lee Dorsey
Golden Classics, Collectables - Church Lyle Lovett
Joshua Judges Ruth, MCA - Instrumental: Go Down Moses Grant Green
Jazz Profile, Blue Note - Bucket's Got a Hole In It (Kermit Ruffins' BBQ Turkey Recipe) Kermit Ruffins
Swing This, Basin St. - The Fat Man Fats Domino
Out Of New Orleans, Bear Family - Jambalaya Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis, Sun Classics - End Bed: The Way You Look Tonight Erroll Garner Trio
Giants of Jazz, Sarabandas
