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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
THANKSGIVING
We gather together to give thanks for our cornbread and red beans and chicken cordon blues. Call any vegetable and join us for our tribute to feasting on this, the heaviest of American holidays. Do the mashed potato yeah.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Everybody Eats When They Come To My House Cab Calloway
Are You Hep To The Jive, Columbia/Legacy - Give Him Cornbread Beau Jocque
Beau Jocque Boogie, Rounder - Gravy (on My Mashed Potatoes) Dee Dee Sharp
45rpm, Cameo - Carve That Possum Southern Culture On The Skids
Plastic Seat Sweat, DGC - Vegetables Beach Boys
Smiley Smile, Brother Records - Instrumental: Shortnin' Bread Three Pieces
Jazz Dance Classics, Luv n' Haight - Shortnin Bread Abner Jay
recorded live at Wolf Trap for Folk Masters series, - Blueberry Rhyme Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea
Gershwin's World, Verve - Blueberry Hill Fats Domino
They Call Me The Fat Man..."The Legendary Imperial Recordings, EMI - Crow Hop Black Lodge Singers
Enter the Circle, Canyon - Indian on a Stump The Balfa Brothers
The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music Volumes 1 & 2, Swallow - Cherokee Boogie Moon Mullican
I'll Sail My Ship Alone, Nashville - Instrumental: After the Party is Over Marcus Roberts
The Joy of Joplin, Sony - Rollin' Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Reprise - Motherless Child William Grant Still
American Portraits: The American Music Sampler, Koch International - Crows Howard Finster
Smithsonian Folkways LP, Smithsonian Folkways - Home By the Sea Carter Family
Complete 1932-33, Rounder - Sweet Sunny South The Hix
Sweet Sunny South, Tritone
HOUR two
- Soppin the Gravy Alison Krauss
Masters of the Folk Violin, Arhoolie - Home Cookin' Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
The Hottest New Group in Jazz, Columbia/Legacy - Hunger Is From Ken Nordine
The Beat Generation, Rhino - Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals Kronos Quartet
Released, Nonesuch - Dig This Menu Please! Red Rodney Sextet
The OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957, Epic/OKeh/Legacy - Dirty Dirty Rice Timbuk 3
The Watermelon Sampler Vol. 1, Watermelon - Instrumental: Medicine Woman Red Thunder
Makoce Wakan, Eagle Thunder - Hoop Dance Red Thunder
Makoce Wakan, Eagle Thunder - Hidden Medicine Red Thunder
Makoce Wakan, Eagle Thunder - Alice's Restaurant Arlo Guthrie
Alice's Restaurant Soundtrack, Ryko - Okra Olu Dara
In the World - From Natchez to New York, Atlantic - Mama's Cooking Marcia Ball
Bar-B-Que Soul-a-Bration, Rhino - Instrumental: Jesus Will Fix It Sonny Treadway
Jesus Will Fix It, Arhoolie - I Shall Not Be Moved Pops Staples
Peace to the Neighborhood, Pointblank - I Am A Pilgrim Merle Travis
Classic Country Music, Smithsonian Collection - Ripple The Grateful Dead
American Beauty, Warner Brothers - Prosperity Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers
The Colored Sacred Harp, New World - Resolution John Coltrane
A Love Supreme, Impulse - End Bed: Mashed Potatoes Nat Kendricks and the Swans
Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974, Atlantic
