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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
MILLENIUM / ARTISTS' PICKS
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!
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,
