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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
DELTA DAILY LIFE.
A musical return to that fount of styles called the blues as we take a tour of the Mississippi Delta, and also visit kinfolk in Memphis, Chicago, and Oakland. We’ll hear about blues roots and routes in conversations with singer Little Milton, Delta Deejay Early Wright — famous for his “snake alerts” — and at a Clarksdale, Mississippi, barbershop where stropping the razor to a beat is an art form.
HOUR ONE
- Crossroads Hound Dog Taylor
Genuine Houserocking Music, Alligator - Polk Salad Annie Tony Joe White
The Best of, Warner - Highway 61 Blues Jack Kelley & his S. Memphis Jug Band
Violin, Sing the Blues for Me, Old Hat - Jug Band Music Lucinda Williams
Ramblin', Smithsonian Folkways - Down Home Girl The Coasters
50 Coastin Classics, Rhino - INTERVIEW: Blues Barber - Wade Walton
- Instrumental: Sad Hours Little Walter
His Best, MCA/Chess - Death Letter Son House
Blues masters, Vol.7, Rhino - Death Letter Cassandra Wilson
Visions of Jazz: The First Century, Blue Note - Can't Hardly Stand It Charlie Feathers
Get With It, Revenant - It's Bad You Know RL Burnside
Come On In, Fat Possum - Instrumental: Ol' Man River Jimmy Smith
Ultimate Jimmy Smith, Verve - INTERVIEW: Little Milton
Listen - Lookin' For My Baby Little Milton
The Sun Masters, Rounder - Ol' Man River Gene Ammons
- Ol' Man River Kenneth Spencer w/full orchestra & chorus
Showboat: 1946 Broadway Revival Cast, Sony
HOUR two
- Long John Lightning and Group
Afro-American Spiritual, Work-Songs And Ballads, Rounder - Our Father Five Blind Boys of Mississippi
Jubilation Vol.2, Rhino - Down in Mississippi Pops Staples
Peace to the Neighborhood, PointBlank - Oh Freedom Hollis Watkins
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, Smithsonian-Folkways - Change Is Gonna Come Otis Redding
Otis! - The Definitive Redding, vol. 1, Rhino - Instrumental: Call Him By His Name Glenn Lee
Sacred Steel, Arhoolie - Natchez Mississippi Blues Lewis Brozeville Five
The Jive is Jumpin: Vocal Groups, WestSide - The Natchez Burnin' Howlin' Wolf
The Chess Box, MCA - Love in Vain Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed, ABKCO - Honky Tonk Women Ike &Tina Turner
The Best Of, EMI - INTERVIEW: Early Wright
- West Memphis Blues Sonny Boy Williamson II
King Biscuit Time, Arhoolie - Roll Over Beethoven Carl Perkins
The Classic, Bear Family - Instrumental: Sunshine Twist (You are My Sunshine) Jellyroll Kings
Rockin' The Juke Joint Down, Earwig - Catfish Blues Taj Mahal/Toumani Diabate
Kulanjan, Hannibal - Crawdad Hole Jessie Mae Hemphill
She-Wolf, Highwater/HMG - My Home is in the Delta Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
Alone & Acoustic, Alligator - Mississippi Delta Blues Jimmie Rodgers
Last Sessions, Rounder - Delta Bound Duke Ellington Orchestra featuring Ivie Anderson
