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American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey January 13th, 2021 (Hour 1)
American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey

We go live in concert and conversation with two New Orleans artists each of whom bring their family heritage forward into contemporary music. Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla has called New Orleans home for many years, but her family ties are to Haiti. She draws on French Creole roots for inspiration, as well as from the poetry of Langston Hughes. Then jazz saxophonist Big Chief Donald Harrison, whose musical journey includes time in New York with drummer Art Blakey’s band, talks about “Afro-New Orleans” culture and demonstrates how to bring soul, funk, and Black carnival traditions into modern jazz.

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January 25th, 2012

Whether you’re spinning 45s, 78s, or LPs, you’ll discover gold in the vinyl this week on American Routes. We check in with the record label dedicated to resurrecting lost sounds for the digital age, Dust to Digital. For some soul sides, we hear from Gabriel Roth, founder of Daptone Records, who’s re-imaging classic soul with the band Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. We’ll also talk to the man who got the Bossa Nova on record and started the Impulse label, jazz producer Creed Taylor. Then it’s off to Ville Platte for a conversation with Cajun recordman Floyd Soileau of Swallow Records. Plus tunes to get the jukebox shaking!

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Honky Tonk - Pt. 1 Bill Doggett
    Rites of Rhythm & Blues Volume Two, Motown
  • Good Rockin' Tonight Elvis Presley
    The Singles Collection, Volume 1, Sun
  • Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) James Brown
    Messing with the Blues, Polydor
  • SEGMENT: Sharon Jones and Gabriel Roth

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  • Instrumental: Tough Talk The Jazz Crusaders
    At The Lighthouse '68, Pacific Jazz
  • El Is a Sound of Joy Sun Ra & The Arkestra
    Delmark Records: 50 Years of Jazz and Blues, Delmark
  • (Every Time I Hear That) Mellow Saxophone Roy Montrell
    The Specialty Story, Specialty
  • Up Tight, Good Man Laura Lee
    The Muscle Shoals Sound, Rhino
  • Everybody Needs Love Drive-By Truckers
    Go-Go Boots, ATO
  • I Want to Be With You Always Buddy Miller and Patty Griffin
    Buddy Miller's The Majestic Silver Strings, New West
  • Instrumental: Moanin' Ray Charles
    Genius+Soul=Jazz, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Creed Taylor

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  • Girl from Ipanema Antonio Carlos Jobim
    Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Man from Ipanema, Verve
  • Follow Your Heart Joe Farrell Quartet with John McLaughlin
    Joe Farrell Quartet, CTI
  • End Bed: Again, Never Donald Harrison
    Free to Be, Impulse

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: We're Ready Junior Wells
    Hoodoo Man Blues, Delmark
  • Goodbye Babylon The Black Keys
    Magic Potion, Nonesuch
  • The Devil's in the Jukebox Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs
    God Willin' & The Creek Don’t Rise, Stone Dwarf
  • God's Own Juke Box Jesse Winchester
    Third Down, 110 to Go, Stony Plain
  • I Got A Home In That Rock The Silvertone Singers of Cincinnati
    The Excello Story: Vol. 1, Hip-O
  • SEGMENT: Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital

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  • Instrumental: Tired of Me The Crystal String Ramblers
    How Low Can You Go? Anthology of the String Bass 1925-1941, Dust-to-Digital
  • Radio King Golden Smog
    Stay Golden, Smog: The Best Of Golden Smog – The Rykodisc Years, Rhino
  • Mr. Record Man Willie Nelson
    Nite Life: Greatest Hits & Rare Tracks (1959-1971), Rhino
  • Juke Box Blues June Carter
    Keep on the Sunny Side: June Carter Cash – Her Life In Music, Columbia
  • Juke Box Mama Sonny Landreth
    The Road We're On, Sugar Hill
  • Instrumental: Swallow Two-Step Jambalaya Cajun Band
    Cajun Dance Favorites, Swallow
  • Let's Do the Cajun Twist Randy & the Rockets
    Swamp Gold Volume 1, JIN
  • I Got Loaded Lil' Bob & the Lollipops
    Swamp Gold Volume 1, JIN
  • SEGMENT: Floyd Soileau of Swallow Records

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  • Opelousas Sostan Rufus Jagneaux
    Swamp Gold Volume 1, JIN
  • Allons Danser Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys
    Friday at last, Swallow
  • End Bed: Return of the Creole Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys
    Return of the Creole, Maison de Soul

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