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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
JOHNNY WINTER & JASON MORAN
A visit with two native sons of the Texas Gulf Coast. Guitar slinger Johnny Winter grew up listening to the blues in Beaumont, Texas and took his talent for playing to the world. We talk with Winter about his Texas youth and his blues milestones. Jazz pianist Jason Moran started out in Houston playing classical music, but found his way to jazz through Thelonious Monk. We’ll learn more about his adventures in the NYC jazz scene.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Honky Tonk Johnny Winter
Roots, Megaforce - Route 90 Clarence Garlow
Lost Highways: American Road Songs 1920s-1950s, The Viper Label - Pipeliner Blues Moon Mullican
Moon's Rock, Bear Family - Turtle Blues Big Brother and the Holding Company
Cheap Thrills, Columbia/Legacy - Long Telephone Port Arthur Cleveland Crochet and All the Sugar Bees
Cleveland Crochet and All the Sugar Bees, Goldband - Wrong Number Jon Cleary
Occapella, FHQ - Nice and Easy Barbara Lynn
The Crazy Cajun Recordings, Edsel - Instrumental: By the Light of the Silvery Moon Johnny Winter
Winter Essentials 1960-1967, Fuel - SEGMENT: Johnny Winter
Listen - The Red Rooster Howlin' Wolf
The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions, Chess - Mojo Hand Lightnin' Hopkins
The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins, Arhoolie - Have Blues, Will Travel Jerry Reed
The NRC Years: 1958-1960, Studio634 - Instrumental: Sonny's Whoopin' the Doop Sonny Terry
Whoopin', Alligator - Hear My Train A Comin' Jimi Hendrix
Blues, Experience Hendrix/Legacy - It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited, Sony - Southern Casey Jones Chuck Leavell
Back to the Woods, Evergreen Art - Trouble in Mind George Jones
Hank, Bob & Me, Fuel 2000 - Lake Charles Lucinda Williams
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Mercury - End Bed: Last Night Johnny Winter
White, Hot & Blue, TriStar Music
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Moran Tonk Circa 1936 Jason Moran
Modernistic, Blue Note - Cane River Jimmy Witherspoon
The Bluesville Years - Volume One: Big Blues Honks and Wails, Prestige/Fantasy - If You Love Me Like You Say Albert Collins
Collins Mix, The Best of..., Virgin - Jelly Roll Charles Mingus
Mingus Ah-Um, Columbia/Legacy - Dancers in Love Duke Ellington
Piano Reflections, Capitol Jazz - Houston Jump Floyd Dixon
Cow Town Blues: The Seminal 1948-1950, Ace - Instrumental: Chica Boo Lloyd Glenn
Essential Blues Piano, HOB - SEGMENT: Jason Moran
Listen - Dust My Brom Cassandra Wilson
Loverly, Blue Note - Tou' Les Jours C'est Pas La Meme (Every Day Is Not the Same) Carol Fran
Our New Orleans 2005: A Benefit Album, Nonesuch - Instrumental: Lutcher's Leap Nellie Lutcher
Nelly Lutcher and Her Rhythm, Bear Family - Texas Woman Blues Taj Mahal
The Essential Taj Mahal, Columbia/Legacy - Twin Guitar Boogie Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
For the Last Time, Liberty - Sweet Texas Rose Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Down South in the Bayou Country, Sunnyside - Any-Kind-of-Man Victoria Spivey and Her Chicago Four
Blues Masters Vol. 11: Classic Blues Woman, Rhino - Old Man Blues Mose Allison
Gimcracks and Gewgaws, Blue Note - Lucky Old Sun Jerry Lee Lewis
Sun Classics, Charly - End Bed: Rock House Parts 1 & 2 Ray Charles
The Birth of Soul, Atlantic
