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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
SATURDAY NIGHT & SUNDAY MORNING
Visit with Arkansas rockabilly hero Sleepy LaBeef, the human jukebox. Sleepy knows several thousand of songs by heart, but he still loves the Southern gospel numbers of his youth. And we’ll talk with gospel singer and scholar Horace Boyer about the roots of the music.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Having a Party King Cutis
Blow, Man, Blow, Bear Family - Open Bed: The Lover Medeski Martin & Wood
Friday Afternoon in the Universe, Ryko - Boogie Woogie on a Saturday Night Steve Gibson & the Red Caps
The Jive is Jumpin, WestSide - Olde Wine AFO Executives
Gumbo Stew, Ace - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer Aldus Roger
Lafayette Saturday Night, Ace - Shake it Baby John Lee Hooker
The Very Best of, Rhino - After Midnight JJ Cale
Anyway the wind Blows, Mercury - Instrumental: Hotwax Beck
- INTERVIEW: Sleepy LaBeef
Listen - Let's Have A Party Wanda Jackson
Vintage Collections, Capitol - Little Latin Lupe-Lou Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
Rev Up: The Best Of, Rhino - Parties In The USA Jonathan Richman
I, Jonathan, Rounder - Instrumental: Only Good One The Sadies
Pure Diamond Gold, Bloodshot - Steppin' Out With My Baby Tony Bennett
Steppin' Out, Columbia - Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
The Hottest New Group in Jazz, Columbia/Legacy - Good Rockin' Tonight Wynonie Harris
Blues Masters Vol.5, Rhino - Dance All Night Boozoo Chavis
Who Stole My Monkey, Rounder - Sing on Michael White
Crescent City Serenade, Island - Descarga Cachao Jazz on the Latin Side Allstars
Jazz on the Latin Side Allstars, Cubop - Saved LaVern Baker
Atlantic Rhythm And Blues 1947-1974, Atlantic
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Don't Let The Devil Ride Sonny Treadway
Sacred Steel, Arhoolie - Lost Highway Hank Williams
The Complete, MCA - Sinner Don't You Know Robert Pete Williams
15 Down Home Gospel Classics, Arhoolie - Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen Snooks Eaglin
The Complete Imperial Recordings, Capitol - Way Down In the Hole Tom Waits
Franks Wild Years, Island - Instrumental: Amazing Grace Terence Blanchard
Terence Blanchard, Columbia - INTERVIEW: Horace Boyer
- Take me to the Water Nina Simone
Ultimate, Verve - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Cannonball Adderley
Masters of Jazz Vol.7, Rhino - Sinner's Prayer Ray Charles
The Birth of Soul, Atlantic - Guilty Randy Newman
Guilty: 30 Years Of, Rhino - Instrumental: Go Down Moses Grant Green
Jazz Profile: Grant Green, Blue Note - Sweet Little Angel Buddy Guy
Vanguard Blues Sampler, Vanguard - Call Him By His Name Glenn Lee
Sacred Steel, Arhoolie
