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May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now June 29th, 2022 (Hour 1)
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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VALENTINE'S DAY

February 10th, 1999

Romance and passion with American Routes’ annual musical Valentine. With such musical couples as Les Paul and Mary Ford, Charles Brown and Bonnie Raitt and Astrud Gilberto with Antonio Carlos Jobim.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Our Love Is Here To Stay Bill Evans
    The Giants of Jazz Play George Gershwin, Prestige
  • Our Love is Here To Stay Dinah Washington
    Jazz Masters 19, Verve
  • Whole Lotta Loving Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • How To Make Love Southern Moonlight Entertainers
    Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 1, Yazoo
  • Cupid Boogie Johnny Otis Orchestra
    The R & B Box: 30 Years of Rhythm & Blues, Rhino
  • He'll Have to Go Ry Cooder with Flaco Jimenez
    Chicken Skin Music, Reprise
  • Amor Em Paz (Once I Loved) Astrud Gilberto & Antonio Carlos Jobim
    The Man from Ipanema, Verve
  • Instrumental: And I Love Her Count Basie
    Basie's Beatle Bag, Verve
  • Prelude to a Kiss Duke Ellington
    1938, Vol. 3, Classics
  • Knock Me a Kiss Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five
    Let The Good Times Roll, Bear Family
  • Kisses Sweeter than Wine Jimmie Rodgers
    Only Country 1955-1959, JCI
  • Every Kiss Acetone
    Acetone, Vapor
  • Cinnamon Girl Neil Young
    Decade, Reprise
  • Wild About You Baby Hound Dog Taylor
    Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers, Alligator
  • Me and My Baby Got a Good Thing Going Lyn Collins
    James Brown's Original Funky Divas, Polydor
  • Instrumental: La femme d'argent Air
    Moon Safari, Source
  • Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms George Jones & Melba Montgomery
    Vintage Collections, Capitol
  • How High the Moon Les Paul & Mary Ford
    Sentimental Journey: Pop Vocal Classics, Vol. 3: 1950-1954, Rhino
  • Someone to Love Charles Brown & Bonnie Raitt
    Someone to Love, Bullseye Blues
  • Valentine Willie Nelson
    Across the borderline, Columbia

HOUR two

  • Love Letters Ruth Welcome
    Zither Goes Hollywood, Capitol
  • John & Marsha Stan Freberg
    The Very Best of Stan Freberg, Collectables
  • You Can Leave Your Hat On Randy Newman
    Guilty - 30 Years of Randy Newman, Rhino
  • Take Off Your Dress Clifton Chenier
    Bogalus Boogie, Arhoolie
  • I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl Nina Simone
    Essential Blues Women, House of Blues
  • It Ain't the Meat The Swallows
    Risque Rhythm, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Somebody Loves Me The Hot Club of Cowtown
    Swingin' Stampede, Hightone
  • Sugar Magnolia Grateful Dead
    American Beauty, Warner Brothers
  • Boogie Woogie Country Girl Sleepy LeBeef
    The Human Jukebox, Sun
  • Don't Mess Up A Good Thing Fontella Bass & Bobby McClure
    Chess Soul - A Decade of Chicago's Finest, MCA/Chess
  • I Found A True Love Buddy Guy
    The Complete Chess Studio Recordings, Chess/MCA
  • Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye
    The Master: 1961-1984, Motown
  • Instrumental: Valentine Stomp Fats Waller
    His Best Recordings 1928-1942, Best of Jazz
  • If Ever I Cease To Love Original Zenith Brass Band
    New Orleans 1946: Original Zenith Brass Band/ECLIP:se Alley Five/Avery-Tillman Band, American Music
  • Tipitina Professor Longhair
    The Professor Longhair Anthology, Rhino
  • The Look of Love Dusty Springfield
    The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection, Rhino
  • My Funny Valentine Chet Baker
    Master of Jazz: Male Vocal Classics, Rhino
  • End Bed: Lover Come Back To Me Louis Prima
    The Capitol Recordings, Bear Family

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