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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
MAKING MUSIC ON RECORDS & EXCAVATING SHELLAC
We’re spinning jazz, country, blues, pop and roots music heard locally and globally for over a century on records and later on jukeboxes, in cafes, barrooms and juke joints. We’ll hear June Carter and Johnny Cash, New Orleans’ jazzmen Kermit Ruffins and Danny Barker, Robert Johnson, and the Rolling Stones…then and now. Plus we’ll travel the world from earlier in the 20th century in search of rare music on 78s as dug up by sonic researcher, Jonathan Ward, for his collection, “Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the Worlds Music.”
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: O'er the Waves Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Sony - Mr. Record Man Willie Nelson
And Then I Wrote… , Liberty - Juke Box Man Dick Curless
Capitol Collectors Series, Capitol - Juke Box Blues June Carter Cash
Keep on the Sunny Side–June Carter Cash: Her Life in Music, Columbia Records - Jackson Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
Keep on the Sunny Side–June Carter Cash: Her Life in Music, Columbia Records - Truck Drivin' Man Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Too Much Fun, UMG - Chicken Shack Boogie Amos Milburn
Down the Road Apiece - The Best of Amos Milburn, Aladdin - Juke Joint Johnnie Taylor
Gotta Get the Groove Back, Malaco - Instrumental: Juke Joint Sammy Price with the Rock Band with King Curtis and Mickey Baker
Rib Joint: Roots of Rock 'N' Roll , Savoy - Rib Joint Sammy Price with the Rock Band of King
Curtis and Mickey Baker Rib Joint: Roots of Rock 'N' Roll, Savoy - Sugar Shack Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs
Sugar Shack/Buddy/s Buddy, Ace - Canned Music Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
Original Music, Epic - Juke Box Saturday Night Glenn Miller
The Centennial Collection, BMG - Eh La Bas! Louis Nelson and His Palm Court Jazz Band
Jazz at the Palm Court Vol. 1, GHB - Drop Me Off in New Orleans Kermit Ruffins
Live at Vaughan's, Basin Street - Instrumental: Going Down to the River Mississippi Fred McDowell
Fred McDowell: The Alan Lomax Recordings, Odyssey - God's Own Jukebox Jesse Winchester
Third Down-110 to Go, Bearsville - Don't Rock the Jukebox Alan Jackson
Don't Rock the Jukebox, Arista - Far Away Eyes Rolling Stones
Some Girls, Promotone B.V. - Rolling Stone Blues Rolling Stones
Hackney Diamonds , Polydor - Closing Bed: Ninth Ward Blues Irvin Mayfield
Irvin Mayfield, Basin Street
HOUR two
- Blue Train John Coltrane
Blue Train, Blue Note - Phonograph Blues Robert Johnson
The Centennial Collection, Sony - Put Your Records On Corinne Bailey Rae
Corinne Bailey Rae, EMI - Instrumental: Zulema Waltz Santiago Jimenez Jr.
Familia y Tradicion, Rounder - Is Anybody Going to San Antone? Doug Sahm
Doug Sahm and His Band, Atlantic - Recordando a las Valientes Los Cadetes de Linares
Homenaje A Homero Guerrero…25 Aniversario, Zamic - Madame Young Linzay Young and Joel Savoy
Linzay Young and Joel Savoy, Valcour - Colinda Lawtell Playboys
Zodico: Louisiana Creole Music , Rounder - Carry-Go-Bring-Come The Skatalites
The Skatalite!, Push Music - Sweet and Dandy Toots and the Maytals
Sweet and Dandy, Beverley's - Instrumental: Garden of Love Don Drummond
Don Drummond - Greatest Hits, Treasure Isle - Segment: Jonathan Ward on Excavated Shellac
Listen - Closing Bed: Big Nick Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, Impulse