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May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now June 29th, 2022 (Hour 1)
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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ROBBIE FULKS & BETTYE LAVETTE

June 25th, 2008

Join us for the sounds and stories of estranged country singer and songwriter Robbie Fulks. And R&B vixen Bettye LaVette takes us from the Motor City to Muscle Shoals, and Beale Street to Bourbon Street as she recounts nearly 50 years of singing R&B.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Touch My Heart Lloyd Green
    The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green, Koch
  • Sitting on Top of the World Doc Watson
    Trouble in Mind: The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection, 1964-1998, Sugar Hill
  • Happy Woman Blues Lucinda Williams
    Happy Woman Blues, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Elizabeth Cotten
    Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, Folkways
  • Lonesome Road Blues Muddy Waters
    The Chess Box, MCA/Chess
  • This Old Road Kris Kristofferson
    This Old Road, New West
  • End of the Road Jerry Lee Lewis
    Classic Jerry Lee Lewis, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Pan Handle Rag Leon McAuliffe & His Western Swing Band
    Heroes of country Music, Vol.1: Legends of Western Swing, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Robbie Fulks

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  • Great Speckled Bird Johnny Cash
    Love, God, Murder, Columbia/American/Legacy
  • Paper Wings Gillian Welch
    Revival, Almo Sounds
  • Wild Side of Life Charlie Feathers
    Get With It: Essential Recordings 1954-69, Revenant
  • Instrumental: Great Speckled Bird Auldridge, Brozman & Grisman
    Tone Poems III, Acoustic Disc
  • It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Kitty Wells
    In the Country of Country, Compass
  • The Wild Side of Life / It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Robert 'Bilbo' Walker
    Promised Land, Rooster Blues
  • Stealin', Stealin' Memphis Jug Band
    When the Sun Goes Down: The First Time I Met the Blues, Bluebird
  • I'm a Woman Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band
    Greatest Hits!, Vanguard
  • Country Honk Rolling Stones
    Let It Bleed, ABKCO

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Soul Serenade Willie Mitchell
    Hi Records: The Hi Records R&B Years, Hi
  • Work With Me Annie Hank Ballard
    Sexy Ways: The Best of Hank Ballard & the Midnighters, Rhino
  • Roll with Me Henry Ettta James
    R&B Dynamite, Flair/Virgin
  • Brown Eyed Handsome Man Buddy Holly
    The Buddy Holly Collection, MCA
  • I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You Louis Prima and Keely Smith
    Ultra-Lounge: Wild, Cool and Swingin', Vol. 1, Capitol
  • Someday, You'll Be Sorry Johnny St. Cyr
    Johnny St. Cyr, American Music
  • Instrumental: Bogalusa Strut John Rankin
    Guitar Gumbo, STR
  • Release Me Clifton Chenier
    King of the Bayous, Arhoolie
  • He'll Have To Go Ry Cooder
    Chicken Skin Music, Reprise
  • SEGMENT: Bettye LaVette

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  • Instrumental: Al's Theme Allen Toussiant
    The Complete 'Tousan' Sessions, Bear Family
  • All These Things Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint
    The River in Reverse, Verve
  • Sea of Love Cookie and the Cupcakes
    King of Swamp Pop, Ace
  • Walking to New Orleans Dr. John
    Sing Me Back Home: The New Orleans Social Club, Burgundy
  • One Step at a Time Fats Domino
    Alive and Kickin', Tipitina's Foundation
  • This Little Light of Mine Sam Cooke
    At the Copa, ABKCO
  • End Bed: Sunday Mornin' Grant Green
    Sunday Morning, Blue Note

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