AMERICAN ROUTES
New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators September 27th, 2023 (Hour 1)
New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators

New Orleans musician and raconteur Danny Barker was a banjo and guitar hero—a major player in New York jazz who never forgot his French Creole roots in song and style. We look back on Danny’s career, his life with wife and collaborator, the singer Blue Lu Barker, and his influence sustaining culture in the Crescent City. Then, current day guitar and banjo man, Detroit Brooks pays tribute to the Barker legacy with his band the Syncopated Percolators live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

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CHRISTMAS

December 23rd, 1998

Said the night wind to the little lamb, please Christmas don’t be late. Yuletide cheer, wondering winterlands and Santaclaustrophobia: music both sacred and secular for the season. “Merry Christmas, Baby!”

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Jingle Bells New Birth Brass Band
    A New Orleans Christmas, NYNO
  • Jingle Bells (Greetings from Esquivel) Esquivel
    Merry Xmas, Bar/None
  • What Will Santa Claus Say When He Finds Everybody Swinging? Louis Prima
    Yule B' Swingin', Hip-O
  • Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus George Jones & Tammy Wynette
    Christmas Party With Eddie G., Columbia/Legacy
  • Merry Christmas from the Family Robert Earl Keen
    Gringo Honeymoon, Sugar Hill
  • Be-Bop Santa Claus Babs Gonzalez
    Hipster Holiday, Rhino
  • Santa Claus Is Back In Town Elvis Presley
    The Complete '50s Masters, RCA
  • Christmas Morning Detroit Jr.
    Christmas Party With Eddie G., Columbia/Legacy
  • Instrumental: Skallelujah Joe Ferry
    I've Gotcha Covered Vol.2, Shanachie
  • Happy Christmas Toots & the Maytals
    Natty & Nice, Rhino
  • I See Mary and Joseph Joseph Spence
    Bahamian Guitarist, Arhoolie
  • Christmas Island Bob Atcher & the Dinning Sisters
    Christmas Cocktails 2, Capitol
  • Breaking Up Christmas Norman Edmonds & friends
    Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder
  • The Rebel Jesus/Skyline Jig Jackson Browne & the Chieftains
    The Bells of Dublin, RCA
  • Instrumental: I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Grappelli & Menuhin
    Very Best of Grappelli & Menuhin, Angel
  • SEGMENT: Charles Brown
  • We Free Kings Rahsaan Roland Kirk
    We Free Kings, Mercury
  • Go Tell It On A Mountain Zion Harmonizers
    A Creole Christmas, Epic

HOUR two

  • Jingle Bells Hollyridge Strings
    Christmas Cocktails, Capitol
  • Swingin' Them Jingle Bells Fats Waller
    Fractions Fingering - The Early Years, Part 3 - 1936, RCA Victor
  • (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag Kay
    Christmas Cocktails, Capitol
  • Christmas & New Years Blues Tampa Red
    The Bluebird Recordings 1934-1936, RCA
  • Christmas in Prison John Prine
    Sweet Revenge, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Holiday for Strings Eddie Bush
    Legends of Ukelele, Rhino
  • Aguinaldo Jibaro Familia Colon
    Folkmasters, Folkways
  • Blue Xmas (To Whom It may Concern) Miles Davis & Bob Dorough
    Jingle Bell Jazz, Columbia
  • Christmas Man Blues Chippie Hill
    When Women Sang the Blues, Arhoolie
  • You're All I Want for Christmas The Persuasions
    You're All I Want for Christmas, Bullseye Blues
  • I Don't Want You Just for Christmas Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas
    Must Be Santa, Rounder
  • Instrumental: Dance of the Fairy Plum Martha Argerich & Nicolas Economou
    The Nutcracker, Deutsche Grammophone
  • Pretty Paper Willie Nelson
    Pretty Paper, Columbia
  • White Christmas Otis Redding
    Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding, Atlantic
  • Sherburne (While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night) Sacred Harp Singers
    Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder
  • God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Paquito D'Rivera
    Jingle Bell Jazz, Columbia
  • Cherry Tree Carol Pentangle
    Solomon's Seal, Castle
  • Silent Night Dr. John
    Plays Mac Rabennack, Clean Cuts
  • Eggnog The Twang
    Yule Train, Metaphor
  • End Bed: conclusion of Mummer's Play
    Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder

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