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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
MEMORIAL DAY
On Memorial Day, remembering jazz banjo hero and oral historian Danny Barker—who played with everyone from Louis Armstrong to Wynton Marsalis—in his own words.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Abraham, Martin & John Emmylou Harris & the Nash Ramblers
At The Ryman, Reprise - Where Have All the Flowers Gone Johnny Rivers
Johnny Rivers Anthology 1964-1977, Rhino - The Man Who Couldn't Cry Johnny Cash
American Recordings, American - On the Dark Road Crying Moses ‘Whispering' Smith
Louisiana Blues, Arhoolie - Instrumental: In memory of Mississippi John Hurt John Fahey
Of Rivers and Religion, Warner Brothers - J'ai passé devant ta porte (I Passed By Your Door) Balfa Brothers
The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music, Swallow - Where the Soul Never Dies Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice
Way Down Deep in my Soul, Sugar Hill - Father Death Blues Allen Ginsberg
Utopia Americana, New Tone - Lake of Fire Nirvana
Unplugged in New York, Geffen - Freddie's Dead (Theme From 'Superfly') Curtis Mayfield
The Very Best of Curtis Mayfield, Rhino - Instrumental: My Man's Gone Now Miles Davis
Porgy and Bess, Columbia Legacy - INTERVIEW: Danny Barker
- Don't You Make Me High Danny Barker
Blue Lu Barker 1938-1939, Classics - Save the Bones Danny Barker
Live, - Whinin' Boy Danny Barker
Live, - Oh, But On the Third Day (Happy Feet Blues) Wynton Marsalis
The Majesty of the Blues, Columbia
HOUR two
- Hot Barbeque Brother Jack McDuff
Bar-B-Que Soul-a-Bration!, Rhino - Everything on the Hog Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas
Steady Rock, Rounder - Barbeque Robert Earl Keen
Gringo Honeymoon, Sugar Hill - Frim Fram Sauce Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald
Ella - The Legendary Decca Recordings, Decca - Bar-B-Q Wendy Rene
Bar-B-Que Soul-a-Bration!, Rhino - Instrumental: Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat Charles Mingus
This is Jazz 6, Columbia/Legacy - Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat Joni Mitchell
Mingus, Asylum - New Lester Leaps In Lester Young
The Complete Aladdin Sessions, Blue Note - Ode to Billy Joe Tammy Wynette
Take Me To Your World - I Don't Wanna Play House, Koch - Remember Me Otis Redding
Remember Me, Stax - Instrumental: Miles Davis' Funeral Morphine
Cure for Pain, Ryko - From the Housatanic at Stockbridge Charles Ives
Three Places in New England/Baltimore Symphony/Zinman, Argo - St. James Hospital Doc Watson
Folk Song America, Smithsonian Collection of Recordings - Dying Crapshooter Blues Blind Willie McTell
Atlanta Twelve String, Atlantic - Remember Me Beaufort NC Sea Chanteymen
Recorded live at Carnegie Hall for Folkmasters, - Blowin' in the Wind Stevie Wonder
Bob Dylan - The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration, Columbia - End Bed: I'll Be Seeing You James Booker
Junco Partner, Hannibal/Ryco
