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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
SUMMERTIME BLUES/BACK TO THE BEACH
Get out of your summer funk by hearing some cool blues live in the studio with Mississippi’s Big Jack Johnson on guitar. And keep cool in conversation with elder dudes of the California surf scene regarding the aesthetics of their sport and the music that goes with it. Also beach-wear and music from Belize’s reef islands, and songs that keep an ear on summer.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Bulldog The Firballs
Cowabunga!, Rhino - The Tide is High The Paragons
Roots of Reggae Vol.2: Rock Steady, Rhino - Sea of Love Katie Webster
Katie Webster, Flyright - Sea of Love Cat Power
The Covers Record, Matador - Summertime Doc Watson
Elementary Doctor Watson!, Poppy - Summertime Sidney Bechet
The Best of Sidney Bechet, Blue Note - Instrumental: Since I Met You Baby Big Jack Johnson and the Oilers
Roots Stew, MC - INTERVIEW: Big Jack Johnson
Listen - You Are My Sunshine Carl McVoy
Memphis Rocks: Rockabilly in Memphis 1954-1968, Smithsonian - Summertime Blues Eddie Cochran
Somethin' Else: The Fine Lookin' Hits of Eddie Cochran, Razor & Tie - The Sun is Shining Hound Dog Taylor
Genuine Houserocking Music, Alligator - Instrumental: Baja The Astronauts
Cowabunga!, Rhino - SEGMENT: Wind surfers in San Diego
- Surf Medley Junior Brown
Semi Crazy, Curb - Honolulu March Sol Hoopii
Master of the Hawaiian Guitar Vol.2, Rounder - Mahaka Waves Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Spellbound! 1955-74, Bear Family
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Over the Waves Dr. Michael White
A Song For George Lewis, Basin Street - By the Beautiful Sea Spike Jones
The Spike Jones Anthology: Musical Depreciation Revue, Rhino - Coney Island The Barry Sisters
Kosher Classics, RCA - Rosa Maria Flaco Jimenez
Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio, Arhoolie - Summertime Mongo Santamaria
Skin on Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology, Rhino - Summertime Billy Stewart
Bar-B-Que Soul-a-Bration!, Rhino - Instrumental: Jungle Flower Martin Denny
Exotica!, Rhino - Postcard Belize beach Shark story by Judy Zeck
- Blue Deep Sea Blues Blue Lu Barker
Blue Lu Barker 1938-1939, Classics - How Deep is the Ocean Lonnie Johnson
Complete Folkways Recordings, Folkways - It's Too Hot for Words Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Story Vol II, Columbia - In the Heat of the Night Ray Charles
Uh Huh: His Greatest Hits, DCC - Instrumental: Hastings Street Boogie John Lee Hooker
Graveyard Blues, Specialty - Ground Hog Blues John Lee Hooker
The Complete ‘50s Chess Recordings, MCA/Chess - I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive John Lee Hooker
Live at the Café Au Go-Go (And Soledad Prison), MCA - That Lucky Old Sun Willie Nelson
The Sound In Your Mind, Columbia - Saturday Sun Nick Drake
Five Leaves Left, Hannibal - Groovin Booker T & the MGs
Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968, Stax - Place in the Sun David Isaacs
Tighten Up Vols 1 & 2, Trojan - Sea of Love John Fahey
Return of the Repressed: The Anthology, Rhino
