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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
MEMPHIS
Our tour of great musical cities continues this week in Memphis, Tennessee. Guests include the Reverend Al Green, Rufus and Carla Thomas, Jerry Lee Lewis and Sun Records producer Sam Phillips. We’ll also cruise the town in a borrowed Caddy, and hang out at Wild Bill’s Juke Joint.
HOUR ONE
- Memphis Johnny Rivers
Anthology, Rhino - Take Me to the River Al Green
Anthology, Hi - When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes BB King
Blues Masters Vol.12: Memphis Blues, Rhino - Memphis Soul Stew King Curtis
Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974, Atlantic - Instrumental: Mobile Line Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band
Troubadours of the Folk Era vol.3, Rhino - Viola Lee Blues Cannon's Jug Stompers
Blues Masters Vol.12: Memphis Blues, Rhino - I'm a Bad Luck Woman Memphis Minnie
Hoodoo Lady, Sony - SEGMENT: Tad Pierson in Cadillac
Listen - Night Train to Memphis Jerry Lee Lewis
Classics, Bear Family - Lonesome Traveler Memphis Slim
Raining the Blues, Fantasy - Instrumental: Honky Tonk Women Pickin' on the Rolling Stones
Pickin' on the Rolling Stones, CMH - Which Way Did My Baby Go Moses Williams
It Came From Memphis, Upstart - Honky Tonk Women Rolling Stones
Singles Collection, ABCKO - Oh How it Rained Lorette Velvette
It Came From Memphis, Upstart - I Can't Stand the Rain Ann Peebles
Hi Times - The Hi Records R & B Years, Hi - Memphis Blues Duke Ellington
Battle of the Bands: Duke Ellington vs. Count Basie, RCA - Beale St. Blues Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong plays W.C. Handy, Sony
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Beale St. Blues Duke Ellington
The Complete RCA Victor Recordings, RCA/Victor - Mystery Train Little Junior Parker
Sun Singles Vol.1, Bear Family - Hey Porter Johnny Cash
The Man in Black, Bear Family - SEGMENT: Michael Conway, the Tour Director at Sun Studios
- The Wolf is at Your Door Howlin' Wolf
Memphis Days Vol.2, Bear Family - She Wolf Jessie Mae Hemphill
She Wolf, Hightone - Instrumental: Midnight in Memphis J J Cale
Anyway The Wind Blows, - Pain in My Heart Otis Redding
The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968, Atlantic - Birds & Bees Rufus & Carla Thomas
Atlantic Rhythm &Blues 1947-1974, Atlantic - SEGMENT: Rufus & Carla Thomas
Listen - Instrumental: Beale Street Blues Jesse Fuller
Brother Lowdown, Fantasy - Tuesday Night in Memphis John Lurie
- SEGMENT: CLIP: from Jim Jarmusch's film Mystery Train
- Put Your Cat Clothes On Carl Perkins
The Classic, Bear Family - Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde, Sony - My Boy Elvis Janis Martin
Loud, Fast & Out of Control, Rhino - Graceland Willie Nelson
Across the Borderline, Sony - Down By the Riverside The Million Dollar Quartet
Elvis Presley - The Million Dollar Quartet, RCA - End Bed: Love Me Tender Scotty Moore
The Guitar That Changed The World!, Razor & Tie
