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WINTER IS COOL! NO, IT'S COLD!!
American Routes combats cold, dark winter days with music and stories to keep you warm. Virtuoso fiddler/violinist Mark O’Connor discusses his composition, American Seasons. Seamus Egan and Win Horan of the Irish-American band Solas take a musical journey from Philadelphia and Brooklyn to Ireland, and back. Plus Mae Nagark on Eskimo music from the Inupiat village near Barrow, Alaska.
HOUR ONE
- Open bed: Winter Wonderland Sonny Rollins
The Complete RCA, BMG - Baby It's Cold Outside Ray Charles and Betty Carter
Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated to You, Rhino - Makin' Whoopee The Barry Sisters
Hebrew National Kosher Classics, RCA - Please Warm My Weiner Bo Carter
Please Warm My Weiner, Yazoo - Footprints In The Snow Bill Monroe
Bluegrass 1950-1958, Bear Family - Cold Cold Heart Jerry Lee Lewis
Duets, Sun - INTERVIEW: Charles Wolfe
- Battle of New Orleans Jimmie Driftwood
Nashville at Newport, Vanguard - Eighth of January Tony Rice
Tony Rice, Rounder - Instrumental: Arkansas Traveler Mark O'Connor
The Championship Years, CMF - INTERVIEW: Mark O'Connor
Listen - Pauline (Pa Janvier) Beausoleil
Michael Doucet Dit Beausoleil, Swallow - Instrumental: Dinah Howard Armstrong
Louie Bluie, Blue Suit - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning Mississippi Fred McDowell
15 Down Home Gospel Classics, Arhoolie - This Little Light of Mine Blind James Campbell & His Nashville Street Band
Blind James Campbell, Arhoolie - Cold Weather Blues Muddy Waters w/Buddy Guy
Folk Singer, MCA/Chess - Cold, Cold Heart Lucinda Williams
Hank Williams: Timeless, Lost Highway - Seasons of My Heart George Jones
Cup of Loneliness, The Classic Mercury Years, Mercury
HOUR two
- Funk In Deep Freeze Hank Mobley
The Blue Note Years, Vol. 2, Blue Note - Cold, Cold Feeling T-Bone Walker
The Complete Imperial Recordings, 1950-1954, EMI - Four Seasons (Version 1) The Maytals
Never Grow Old, Heartbeat - Let the Four Winds Blow Roy Brown
The Complete Imperial Recordings, Capitol - Nine Below Zero Sonny Boy Williamson
His Best, Chess - Cold Dark Night Charlie Feathers
Uh Huh Honey, Norton - Instrumental: Winter Always Turns To Spring Bill Frissell
Ghost Town, Nonesuch - Ah hum mum ma Tudjatt
Heart Beat 2: More Voices of First Nations Women, Smithsonian-Folkways - INTERVIEW: Mae Nagark and David Stone, from the village of Point Hope in northern Alaska
Listen - Igloo Betty Hutton
The Best of the RCA Years, One Way - Winter Moon Hoagy Charmichael
Great Jazz Voaclists Sing Hoagy Charmichael, Capitol - Instrumental: Intro No.1 / Reel Beatrice Seamus Egan
The Brothers McMullen Soundtrack, Arista - INTERVIEW: Seamus Egan and Win Horan of Solas
Listen - Rain & Snow Pentangle
A Maid That's Deep In Love, Shanachie - Winter's Come and Gone Gillian Welch
Live on American Routes, 1999, - Here Comes The Sun George Harrison
Concert for Bangladesh, Apple - End Bed: Within You, Without You The Beatles
Anthology 2, Apple
