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This Week on American Routes:
May 7 - May 13, 2008 Big River of Sound: Music on the Mississippi The musical and cultural meanderings of the Mississippi River, from exploration and trade to romance. Jazz, ragtime, and levee work-songs along with blues, rockabilly, gospel, and country. Guests include the late Memphis soul man Rufus Thomas and ethnomusicologist David Evans, speaking about influential Delta guitarist Charley Patton. Also, we visit a river barge pilot rolling on the river. Web hosting by American Studies at Emory University. Produced at Basin Street Station in collaboration with University of New Orleans' School of Urban Planning and Regional Studies. Distributed and co-produced by American Public Media. |
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