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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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GOING DOWN THE ROAD... WOODY GUTHRIE IN WORDS AND MUSIC

June 22nd, 2016

American Routes heralds our nation’s greatest roving troubadour and social commentator, Woody Guthrie. We’ll visit with friends and relatives who share tales of Guthrie’s trials and triumphs, from Okemah, Oklahoma to Coney Island, New York. Guthrie’s children, Nora and Arlo, reflect on their father’s life, scholar Guy Logsdon discusses Guthrie’s Dust Bowl days and Pete Seeger shares the backstory to Woody’s anthem for the “down and outers.” Plus music and memories from Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Moses Asch, Bob Dylan and so many others.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad Woody Guthrie
    My Dusty Road, Rounder
  • Philadelphia Lawyer Rose Maddox
    Sing a Little Song of Heartache, Bear Family
  • I. Oklahoma
  • excerpt: Oklahoma Hills James Talley
    Woody Guthrie and Songs of My Oklahoma Home, Cimarron
  • excerpt: Hen Cackle Woody Guthrie
    Muleskinner Blues, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Hard Travelin' Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways
  • II. From Pampa, TX to Los Angeles
  • excerpt: Big City Ways Woody Guthrie
    Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, Smithsonian Folkways
  • excerpt: I Ain't Got No Home (In This World Anymore) Woody Guthrie
    Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection , Smithsonian Folkways
  • I Ain't Got No Home Bruce Springsteen
    A Vision Shared , Columbia
  • excerpt: I Ain't Got Nobody Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1 , Smithsonian Folkways
  • Instrumental: Square Dance Medley Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Cisco Houston
    My Dusty Road, Rounder
  • III. Dust Bowl and Grapes of Wrath
  • excerpt: Talking Dust Bowl Blues Woody Guthrie
    Dust Bowl Ballads, BMG
  • Pastures of Plenty Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. I, Smithsonian Folkways
  • excerpt: The Ballad of Tom Joad Woody Guthrie
    Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centenial Collection , Smithsonian Folkways
  • excerpt: I Don't Feel at Home on the Bowery No More Jimi Zhivago
    My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town , Woody Guthrie Publications Inc.
  • excerpt: Hard Times Woody Guthrie
  • Sowing on the Mountain The Flatlanders
    Hills and Valleys, Nonesuch
  • Instrumental: Train Breakdown Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Cisco Houston
    My Dusty Road , Rounder
  • excerpt: Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportees) Los Super Seven
    Los Super Seven, RCA
  • IV. Greed
  • excerpt: Do Re Mi Woody Guthrie
    Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, Smithsonian Folkways
  • California Stars Billy Bragg & Wilco
    Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions, Nonesuch
  • End Bed: Blood of the Lamb Billy Bragg & Wilco
    Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions, Nonesuch

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: So Long It's Been Good to Know You Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways
  • I. This Land is Your Land
  • Will Geer Reading Woody Guthrie Will Geer
    Folkways: The Original Vision, Smithsonian Folkways
  • This Land is Your Land Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
    Naturally, Daptones
  • excerpt: This Land Is Your Land Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
  • excerpt: When the World Is On Fire The Carter Family
    In The Shadow of the Clinch Mountain , Bear Family
  • excerpt: This Land is Your Land Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recording, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Instrumental: This Land is Your Land Arlo Guthrie with the Dillards
    32 Cents Postage Due , Rising Sun Records
  • II. NYC
  • excerpt: "New York Town" Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
  • excerpt: Hard Ain't It Hard Jimi Zhivago and Boo Reiners
    My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town, Woody Guthrie Publications Inc.
  • excerpt: People's Hootenany Woody Guthrie & Almanac Singers
    Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection , Smithsonian Folkways
  • excerpt: I Know the Night Jackson Browne, Rob Wasseman & Woody Guthrie
    My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town , 429 Records
  • excerpt: I'm Blowin' Down This Old Dusty Road Woody Guthrie
    Dust Bowl Ballads, BMG
  • excerpt: So Long It's Been Good To Know You Woody Guthrie w. Cisco Houston
    That's Why We're Marching: World War II and the American Folk Song Movement, Smithsonian Folkways
  • excerpt: Untitled Jimi Zhivago
    My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town, Woody Guthrie Publications Inc.
  • We Shall Be Free Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
    Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Folkways
  • Instrumental: Not Fade Away/ Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead , Rhino
  • Vigilante Man Ry Cooder
    Into the Purple Valley, Reprise
  • Pretty Boy Floyd Bob Dylan
    Folkways: A Vision Shared, Columbia
  • III. Woody as a writer
  • excerpt: Hard Ain't It Hard Jimi Zhivago and Boo Reiners
    My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town , Woody Guthrie Publications Inc.
  • excerpt: Bound for Glory Jimi Zhivago
    My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town, Woody Guthrie Publications Inc.
  • Talking Hard Work Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Why, Oh Why Woody Guthrie
    Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, Smithsonian Folkways
  • IV. Fighting Huntington's
  • excerpt: Talkin' New York Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan, Columbia
  • excerpt: Ramblin' Round Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
  • End Bed: Raincrow Bill Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Cisco Houston
    My Dusty Road, Rounder

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