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May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now June 29th, 2022 (Hour 1)
May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now

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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February 21st, 2001

The music of Mardi Gras across the Americas, with glances at the history and customs surrounding it, featuring the sounds of New Orleans’ famed celebration: brass bands, parades, Mardi Gras Indians, Creole cowboys and more. Music includes Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Ry Cooder, and Beau Jocque.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Do Whatcha Wanna - Pt. 3 Rebirth Brass Band
    Mardi Gras Party, Rhino
  • Louisiana Percy Mayfield
    Creole Kings of New Orleans, Speciality Records
  • New Orleans Elvis Presley
    King Creole, RCA
  • Jockamo AKA Iko-Iko Larry Williams
    Creole Kings of New Orleans, Speciality Records
  • Big Chief Rebirth Brass Band
    Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc
  • New-Way-Pocky-Way Young Guardians of the Flame
    New Way Pocky Way, First Tribe
  • Instrumental: Mardi Gras Zydeco Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas
    Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc
  • La Danse de Mardi Gras Steve Riley
    Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc
  • Beau's Mardi Gras Beau Jocque
    Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc
  • Mascarade Folk Research Center of St. Lucia
    Musical Traditions of St. Lucia, Folkways
  • Quadrille Figure # 6 Blinky and the Roadmasters
    Crucian Scratch Band Music, Rounder
  • F.D.R. in Trinidad Ry Cooder
    Into the Purple Valley, Warner
  • The Road Lord Kitchener
    Volume 1 1959-1964: Ska's the Limit, Island
  • Meet de Boys on the Battlefront Wild Tchoupitoulas
    New Orleans Party Classics, Rhino
  • Instrumental: (Somebody Got) Soul, Soul, Soul Wild Magnolias
    The Wild Magnolias, Polydor
  • SEGMENT: Mardi Gras Indians

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  • Indian Red Donald Harrison, Jr.
    Indian Blues, Candid

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Longhair's Blues-Rhumba Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
  • Mardi Gras Mambo The Meters
    Mardi Gras in the New Orleans II, Mardi Gras Records
  • Mambo # 8 Prez Prado
    A Carnival of Cuban Music: Routes to Rhythm Vol 1, Rounder
  • Siboney Xavier Cugat and Bing Crosby
    A Carnival of Cuban Music: Routes to Rhythm Vol 1, Rounder
  • Bamboula (Danse des negres) Amiram Rigai
    American Piano Music, Folkways
  • Mardi Gras in New Orleans Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: New Second Line Olympia Brass
    Mardi Gras in the New Orleans II, Mardi Gras Records
  • SEGMENT: Mardi Gras Parades
  • Street Parade Earl King
    Mardi Gras in New Orleans, MG Records
  • Kooks on Parade Stanton Moore
    All Kooked Out, Fog City
  • Instrumental: Cuando Vuelvo A Tu Lado Alfredo Rodriguez
    Cuba Linda, Hannibal
  • La Fiesta Campesina Los Pleneros de la 21
    Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, Shanachie
  • Maman Rosin Boudreax Beausoleil
    Mardi Gras Party, Rounder
  • Hot Tamale Baby Marcia Ball
    Hot Tamale Baby, Rounder
  • Tourist Leggo King Short Shirt
    Ghetto Vibes, Charlies Records
  • Little Liza Jane Dirty Dozen Brass Band
    New Orleans Party Classics,
  • SEGMENT: Clean Up Crew
  • End Bed: Tee-Nah-Nah Tuts Washington
    Louisiana Spice, Rounder

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