AMERICAN ROUTES
Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland and Balla Kouyaté Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland and Balla Kouyaté June 7th, 2023 (Hour 1)
Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland and Balla Kouyaté

It’s Blueswomen, Jazzmen, African roots and branches. Chicago blues singer Shemekia Copeland‘s father, the late blues guitarist Johnny Copeland, brought her into his music as a child. As an adult, she found new ways to use blues to express her perspective. We’ll hear from some of Shemekia’s heroes including Etta James, Ruth Brown, Alberta Hunter and Big Mama Thornton. Then a conversation and performance by Boston-based Mandinka balafon player Balla Kouyaté and music inspired by and from the continent of Africa from Randy Weston, Miriam Makeba and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Shemekia Copeland photo by Mike White

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AMERICAN ROUTES LIVE! THE METERS, DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, AND BATON ROUGE BLUES FESTIVAL

August 27th, 2014

Time for some “Fire on the Bayou” at a rare reunion of New Orleans’ funk jam band and studio wizards, The Meters on stage at the Howlin’ Wolf. Then Drive-By Truckers bring their poetic and critical style of Southern rock a la Muscle Shoals, Alabama to New Orleans’ historic Civic Theatre. Finally we roll 80 miles upriver to the Baton Rouge Blues Festival, featuring dapper Mississippian Little Freddie King; Louisiana swamp blues guitarist Lil Buck Sinegal; Creole zydeco accordionist Jeffery Broussard; and Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens from New York. Turn on, tune in and chill out!

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  • Listen to Hour Two

HOUR ONE

  • Fire on the Bayou The Meters
    Recorded live at the Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans (2012),
  • Cissy Strut The Meters
    Recorded live at the Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans (2012),
  • Hey Pocky Way The Meters
    Recorded live at the Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans (2012),
  • Instrumental: Potato Hole Booker T. Jones
    Potato Hole, Anti-
  • Made Up English Oceans Drive-By Truckers
    Recorded live at the Civic Theatre, New Orleans (2014),
  • Marry Me Drive- By Truckers
    Recorded live at the Civic Theatre, New Orleans (2014),
  • Pauline Hawkins Drive-By Truckers
    Recorded live at the Civic Theatre, New Orleans (2014),
  • Instrumental: Hey Ya Booker T. Jones
    Potato Hole, Anti-
  • First Air of Autumn Drive-By Truckers
    Recorded live at the Civic Theatre, New Orleans (2014),
  • SEGMENT: Patterson Hood

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  • When He's Gone Drive-By Truckers
    Recorded live at the Civic Theatre, New Orleans (2014),
  • Natural Light Drive-By Truckers
    Recorded live at the Civic Theatre, New Orleans (2014),
  • Self Destructive Zones Drive-By Truckers
    Recorded live at the Civic Theatre, New Orleans (2014),

HOUR two

  • Hot Pants Little Freddie King
    recorded live at Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2014,
  • Walk the Walk Little Freddie King
    recorded live at Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2014,
  • Louisiana Train Little Freddie King
    recorded live at Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2014,
  • Down the Road I Go Lil' Buck Sinegal
    recorded live at Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2014,
  • Instrumental: Dust My Broom Henry Gray
    Watch Yourself, Lucky Cat
  • I Got Loaded Lil' Buck Sinegal
    recorded live at Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2014,
  • Heading For Home Lil' Buck Sinegal
    recorded live at Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2014,
  • Allons a Lafayette Jeffery Broussard
    recorded live at Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2014,
  • Promised Land Jeffery Broussard
    recorded live at Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2014,
  • Petit ou la Grosse Jeffery Broussard
    recorded live at Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2014,
  • Instrumental: Amazing Grace The Campbell Brothers
    Can You Feel It?, Rope a Dope
  • Lift Me Up Naomi Shelton &the Gospel Queens
    recorded live at Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2014,
  • Everybody Knows (River Song) Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
    recorded live at Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2014,
  • What More Can I Do Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
    recorded live at Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2014,
  • I Ain't No Stranger Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
    recorded live at Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2014,
  • End Bed: Instrumental Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
    recorded live at Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2014,

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