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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
WILCO
An acoustic performance from Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett, who front the Chicago rock band Wilco. Tweedy and Bennett talk about writing music for the lyrics of Woody Guthrie. Plus a guided tour of the Mississippi River Valley in Missouri and Illinois with music by Miles Davis, Chuck Berry, and John Hartford.
HOUR ONE
- Hard Traveling Woody Guthrie
Hard Traveling, Folkways - Watchin' the River Flow Bob Dylan
Greatest Hits Vol.2, Columbia - One Room Country Shack Mercy Dee Walton
One Room Country Shack, Specialty - One Room Country Shack Jimmy D Lane
Legacy, APO - Instrumental: Someday Some Morning Sometime Wilco & Billy Bragg
Mermaid Avenue Volume 2, Reprise - INTERVIEW: Wilco
Listen - Airline to Heaven Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett
- How to Fight Loneliness Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett
- Blues for Illinois Dr. Ross
Down Home Harp, Testament - Illinois Blues Cephas & Wiggins
Homemade, Alligator - Instrumental: Melville Two-Step Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
Home Music with Spirits, Arhoolie - Parlez Nous a Boire Lil' Band O' Gold
Lil Band O' Gold, Shanachie - Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee Malcolm Yelvington
Sun Singles Vol.1, Bear Family - Louisian-i-a Michael White
A Song for George Lewis, Basin Street
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Maple Leaf Rag Marcus Roberts
Joy of Joplin, Columbia - Show Me Missouri Blues Julia Lee
Ladies Sing The Blues Mercury Records 1945-1957, Mercury - You Came a Long Way From St. Louis June Christy
Big Band Specials, Blue Note - Missouri Valley Carson Robison & His Pioneers
Home Sweet Home On The Prairie, ASV - Long Hot Summer Day John Hartford
Mark Twang, Flying Fish - Illinois Blues Alvin Youngblood Hart
Territory, Hannibal - Missouri Low
Secret Name, Kranky - Instrumental: Dance Around Molly Jake Hockemeyer and Russ Orchard
I'm Old But I'm Awfully Tough, Missouri Friends of the Folk Arts - INTERVIEW: Barry Bergey
- Missouri Moan Cab Calloway
Volume 1 1929-1930, Masters of Jazz - St. Louis Blues Ann Peebles & The Memphis Horns
River of Song, Folkways - Instrumental: All Blues Miles Davis
Kind of Blue, Columbia - Some Day My Prince Will Come Miles Davis
Some Day My Prince Will Come, Columbia - Johnsburg, Illinois Tom Waits
Swordfishtrombones, Island - Down the Road Apiece Chuck Berry
Chess Box, MCA - Rock Island Line Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Long Way From Home, MCA
