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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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DOC WATSON

August 19th, 1998

A conversation with the mountain guitar legend Doc Watson, who recently celebrated his 75th birthday.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Freight Train Boogie Doc Watson
    Elementary Doctor Watson!, United Artists
  • Casey Jones Grateful Dead
    Workingman's Dead, Warner Brothers
  • Reefer Man Baron Lee and the Blue Rhythm Band
    Stars of the Apollo, Columbia Legacy
  • Light Up and Listen Radio Show Excerpt
  • Smoke Rings k. d. lang
    Drag, Warner Brothers
  • Instrumental: Hoopah Rag Bob Wills
    Country Music Hall of Fame Series, MCA
  • So Let's Rock Bob Wills
    Country Music Hall of Fame Series, MCA
  • The Blues Had A Baby and They Named It Rock & Roll Muddy Waters
    Mojo Workin' - Blues for the Next Generation, Columbia/Legacy
  • Sweet Little Rock and Roller Chuck Berry
    His Best Volume 2, Chess/MCA
  • Rock & Roll Velvet Underground
    Loaded, Polydor
  • Little Maggie Grayson & Whitter
    Old-Time Southern Dance Music - Ballads and Songs, Old Timey
  • Avalon Blues Mississippi John Hurt
    Avalon Blues 1963, Rounder
  • Hummingbird Victoria Williams
    Musings of a Creek Dipper, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Doc & Dawg Doc Watson & David Grisman
    Doc & Dawg, Acoustic Disc
  • INTERVIEW: Doc Watson
  • Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms Doc Watson
    Ballads from Deep Gap, Vanguard
  • Rain Crow Bill Doc Watson
    Home Again, Vanguard
  • John Henry/Worried Blues Doc Watson
    Doc & Merle Watson's Guitar Album, Flying Fish
  • Make Me a Pallet on your Floor Doc Watson
    Live Labor Day American Roots program from Wolftrap,
  • Good Times Sam Cooke
    The Man and his Music, RCA
  • Hora Decubitus Charles Mingus
    Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, Impulse

HOUR two

  • Butler's Boogie Henry Butler
    Blues After Sunset, Black Top
  • Big Ten Inch Record Moose Jackson w/Tiny Bradshaw's Orchestra
    Risqué Rhythm - Nasty ‘50s R & B, Rhino
  • Phonograph Blues Robert Johnson
    The Complete Recordings, Columbia
  • I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin Songs Today Moe Bandy
    The Best of Bandy Volume 1, Columbia
  • Dead Flowers Rolling Stones
    Sticky Fingers, Virgin
  • Chan Chan Buena Vista Social Club w/Ry Cooder
    Buena Vista Social Club, World Circuit/Nonesuch
  • Boppin' the Rock Armando Almendarez & Conjunto Mexico
    San Antonio's Conjunto's in the 1950s, Arhoolie
  • Instrumental: Quand la nuit coule du ciel The Bluerunners
    To The Country, Rounder
  • Helpless Neil Young
    Decade, Reprise
  • Cutting Ferns/Alex Dan MacIsacc's/Brenda Stubbert's/Mutt's Favorite/Bernadette's/Lady Gordon of Gordonstown Jerry Holland
    The Fiddlesticks Collection, Green Linnet
  • Adieu Rosa Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
    Friday At Last, Swallow
  • Instrumental: Bubber (If Only) Olu Dara
    In The World - From Natchez to New York, Atlantic
  • Jumpin' Tonight Joe Turner
    The Complete Aladdin and Imperial Recordings, EMI
  • The Jeep Is Jumpin' Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins
    Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins, Impulse
  • Indians Jumpin' on Fire Mahogany Brass
    Kickin' Some Brass, Shanachie
  • Tramp Otis and Carla
    Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968, Atlantic
  • My Home Has Wheels Southern Culture on the Skids
    Ditch Digger, Safe House
  • This Land Is Your Land Woodie Guthrie
    This Land Is Your Land, Smithsonian Folkways
  • End Bed: Thunder Road/Sugarfoot Rag Doc Watson
    Docabilly, Sugar Hill

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