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May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now

This July 4th weekend, we dive into the record crates to bring you music of celebration, hope and critique from Nina Simone, Randy Newman, Sly Stone and Jon Batiste. Then, the July 4th roots of American Routes as we go back to the 1990s, deep in the archive, for highlights from The American Roots Independence Day concerts at the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Join us for spectacular stage performances by the urbane blues hero Charles Brown, the Texas Playboys with Johnny Gimble playing Western swing, Mexican-American Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Young Tuxedo Brass with New Orleans jazz, and Hawaiian music and song of slack-key guitar master Ledward Kaapana.

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HIGHWAY 61 WITH B.B. KING

January 27th, 1999

Our Highway 61 feature continues with blues legend B.B. King. With variations on “St. Louis Blues,” and music from Eartha Kitt, Little Feat, Miles Davis, and Robbie Robertson.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: My Home is in the Delta Muddy Waters
    Folk Singer, Chess/MCA
  • Delta Dawn Tanya Tucker
    Delta Dawn, Columbia
  • Rock Island Line Kelly Pace
    Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings, Rounder
  • Night Train to Memphis Roy Acuff
    The King of Country Music, ASV
  • Country Honk Rolling Stones
    Let It Bleed, Abkco
  • Looking at the World Through a Windshield Son Volt
    Feeling Minnesota Soundtrack, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Beale Street Boogaloo Preston Shannon
    Deep Blue, Rounder
  • INTERVIEW: B.B. King

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  • Why I Sing the Blues B.B. King
    The Definitive B.B. King Collection, MCA
  • I'll Survive B.B. King
    Blues on the Bayou, MCA
  • Beale St. Blues Eartha Kitt
    Miss Kitt, To You, RCA
  • Memphis Slim USA Memphis Slim
    Born With the Blues, Jewel
  • Instrumental: Beale Street Breakdown Jed Davenport
    Memphis Masters - Early Blues, Yazoo
  • Lure of the South Mamie Smith
    Stars of the Apollo, Columbia/Legacy
  • I Wanna Go Back to Dixie Tom Lehrer
    Songs and More Songs by Tom Lehrer, Rhino
  • Dixie Fried Carl Perkins
    Perkins & Vincent, TKO
  • Dixie Chicken Little Feat
    Dixie Chicken, Warner Brothers

HOUR two

  • St Louis Blues Don Byron
    Bug Music, Nonesuch
  • St. Louis Blues W.C. Handy
    Memphis Blues Band, Memphis Archive
  • St. Louis Blues Machito
    Mucho Macho, Pablo
  • St. Louis Blues Herbie Hancock with Stevie Wonder
    Gershwin's World, Verve
  • Ghost of St. Louis Blues Leon Redbone
    Sugar, Private Music
  • You Came a Long Way From St. Louis Peggy Lee & George Shearing
    Beauty and the Beat!, Capitol
  • How Strong is a Woman Ann Peebles
    St. Louis Woman/Memphis Soul, Hi
  • That's How I Got to Memphis Tom T. Hall
    The Hits, Mercury
  • Instrumental: Bag's Groove Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
    So What, Acoustic Disc
  • In a Silent Way Miles Davis/Bill Laswell
    Panthalassa, Columbia
  • Red Mud Chris Thomas King
    Red Mud, Black Top
  • Instrumental: Sailing on the Robert E. Lee Ray Noble & his New Mayfair Orchestra
    Riverboat Shuffle, Memphis Archives
  • Roll on Mississippi Boswell Sisters
    Riverboat Shuffle, Memphis Archives
  • Lazy River Mills Brothers
    The Best of the Decca Years, MCA
  • Somewhere Down the Crazy River Robbie Robertson
    Robbie Robertson, Geffen
  • Get Down River Bottlerockets
    Leftovers, Doolittle/Mercury
  • Proud Mary Jr. Walker & the All Stars
    Gotta Hold On to this Feeling, Motown
  • End Bed: Proud Mary The Ventures
    Hawaii Five-O/Swamp Rock, One Way

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