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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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December 29th, 1999

Time to ring in a new century by examining the past one. For the big Y2K, we’ll reel in the years with our favorite artists’ favorite songs of the millennium. Travel through the past thousand years of music with personal requests from many of our party guests including: Randy Newman, B.B. King, Allen Toussaint, Tito Puente, Gillian Welch, Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, John Fogerty, Willie Nelson, and more!

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Auld Lange Syne Dejan's Olympia Brass band
  • City of New Orleans Steve Goodman
    Folk Song America, Smithsonian
  • Ball the Wall Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
  • Body and Soul Coleman Hawkins
    Body and Soul, RCA Victor
  • All The Way Frank Sinatra
    The Complete Capitol Singles Collection, Capitol
  • Instrumental: Moonlight in Vermont Willie Nelson
    American Heritage, Columbia Legacy
  • Rock of Ages Gillian Welch
    Hell Among the Yearlings, Almo
  • The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down The Band
    The Band, Capitol
  • Let's Stay Together Al Green
    Anthology, Hi
  • Instrumental: Archie's Funeral Ry Cooder
    Music by Ry Cooder, Warner
  • Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground Blind Willie Johnson
    The Complete Blind Willie Johnson, Columbia Legacy
  • Let's Burn Down the Cornfield Randy Newman
    12 Songs, Reprise
  • Bess You Is My Woman Now Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald
    Porgy and Bess, Verve
  • Stardust Nicolas Payton and Doc Cheatham
    Doc Cheatham and Nicolas Payton, Verve

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Ti Mon Bo Tito Puente
    50 Years of Swing, RMM
  • Oye Como Va Tito Puente
    50 Years of Swing, RMM
  • El caballo blanco Jose Alfredo Jimenez
    Lo Mejor De Jose Alfredo Jimenez, RCA
  • Greensleeves John Coltrane
    The Impulse Years, Impulse!
  • Instrumental: Take the Coltrane Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
    Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, Impulse!
  • Flamingo Duke Ellington
    The Centennial, RCA
  • Mother-In-Law Ernie K-Doe
    Minit: The Minit Records Story, EMI
  • Fist City Loretta Lynn
    Greatest Hits Vol. II, MCA
  • Nitty Gritty Southern Culture on the Skids
    Dirt Track Date, DGC
  • Instrumental: The ‘In' Crowd Ramsey Lewis Trio
    Rock Instrumental Classics Vol. 4: Soul, Rhino
  • The Girl I Left Behind Spencer Moore
    The Alan Lomax Collection Sampler, Rounder
  • Tennessee Jed Grateful Dead
    Europe '72, Warner
  • Strance of the Spirit Red Gator Medeski, Martin & Wood
    Shack-Man, Ryko
  • Red House Jimi Hendrix Experience
    Stages, Reprise
  • End Bed: Auld Lang Syne Jimi Hendrix
    Eddie G Private Christmas CD,

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