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LOVE IS STRANGE WITH JUDY COLLINS AND JIM LAUDERDALE
The dead of winter has us planning ahead for Valentine’s Day and life itself with songs of love—lost and found. Whether it’s from swooning crooners or heartbroken honky-tonkers, love has wedged itself prominently in the American songbook. We talk to two songwriters who specialize in matters of the heart: ’60s folk chanteuse Judy Collins and Americana songmaker Jim Lauderdale, a.k.a. “The King of Broken Hearts.” Plus we hear soulful sweet songs from the Pointer Sisters and the Four Tops, ballads of love on the rocks from George Jones and Tracy Chapman, and love confessions for “My Girl, Josephine” by Fats Domino and “Ophelia” by The Band. Join us for songs of love sad and happy, sexy and silly, careless and calculated on American Routes.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Both Sides Now Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will the Circle be Unbroken, Capitol - Love is Strange Mickey & Sylvia
Dirty Dancing (Soundtrack), RCA - You Were on My Mind Ian & Silvia
Long Long Time, Vanguard - Give Me One Reason Tracy Chapman
New Beginning, Elektra - Still Doing Time George Jones
The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country Disc 2, Legacy - Love Me Do The Beatles
The Beatles 1962-1966, Capitol - Who Do You Love? Bo Diddley
His Best, MCA - Instrumental: When She Loved Me Randy Newman
Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1, Nonesuch - SEGMENT: Judy Collins
Listen - Instrumental: Body and Soul Nat King Cole
The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio, Capitol - My Man Billie Holiday
Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday, Columbia/Legacy - My Guy Mary Wells
The Best of Mary Wells: The Millennium Collection , Motown - Finest Lovin' Man Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt, Warner Brothers - Time is On My Side Irma Thomas
I Wish Someone Would Care, Imperial - It's All Over Now Rebirth Brass Band
The Main Event: Live at the Maple Leaf, Louisiana Red Hot - Careless Love Wild Bill Davison and band with Bertha "Chippie" Hill
This is Jazz, the Historic Broadcasts Vol. 6, Jazzology Records - End Bed: Wonderful World Treme Brass Band
Sound of New Orleans: Best of the Brass Bands, Sound of New Orleans
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Careless Love Blues Danny Barker
The Fabulous Band of Danny Barker, Gramercy Jazz - You're the Cream in my Coffee Nat King Cole
The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio, Capitol - Sugar The Pointer Sisters
The Pointer Sisters, Blue Thumb - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) The Four Tops
The Ultimate Collection, Motown - Sugar Bee Cleveland Crochet and All the Sugar Bees
Cleveland Crochet and All the Sugar Bees, Goldband - Sugar Magnolia Grateful Dead
American Beauty, Warner Brothers - Instrumental: Sunshine Twist Jelly Roll Kings
Rockin' the Juke Joint Down, Earwig - He Was a Friend of Mine Willie Nelson
Brokeback Mountain: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Verve - Ring of Fire Johnny Cash
The Essential Johnny Cash, Columbia/Legacy - Marina Los Texmaniacs
Borders y Bailes, Smithsonian Folkways - My Girl Josephine Fats Domino
Antoine "Fats" Domino: The Legendary Imperial Recordings, Imperial - Ophelia The Band
Northern Lights, Southern Cross, Capitol - SEGMENT: Jim Lauderdale
Listen - Instrumental: Turn, Turn, Turn Bill Frisell
Guitar in the Space Age, Nonesuch - Touching the Ground Brandi Carlile
Give Up the Ghost, Columbia - She Belongs to Me Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia - Tomorrow is a Long Time Sandy Denny
Sandy, A&M - End Bed: It's All Over Now Baby Blue Grateful Dead
Dick's Picks Volume 9: The Grateful Dead Live at Madison Square Garden, Grateful Dead
