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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
WORDS AND MUSIC
From creation to criticism, American Routes explores the relationship between language and sounds, words and music. Rock and roll originator Chuck Berry, alt country traditionalist Gillian Welch, and New Yorker music writer and novelist Nick Hornby (High Fidelity) give a variety of perspectives on the subject along with a mix of celebrated songwriters, storytellers, and literary heroes of American music.
HOUR ONE
- Roll Over Beethoven Chuck Berry
His Best Vol. 1, MCA - Write Me A Few Lines Mississippi Fred McDowell
Blues Masters, Vol.7: Blues Revival, Rhino - Cold Dog Soup Guy Clark
Cold Dog Soup, Sugar Hill - When I Paint My Masterpiece Emmylou Harris
Portrait, Reprise - She Belongs to Me Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home, Sony - Instrumental: Sunday Night Buttermilk Waltz The Black Crowes
Amorica, American - INTERVIEW: Chuck Berry
Listen - CLIP: from film "Hail, Hail, Rock and Roll"
- Cadillac Ranch Bruce Springsteen
The River, Sony - CLIP: from film "Hail, Hail, Rock and Roll"
- Carol Rolling Stones
England's Newest Hit Makers, ABCKO - Instrumental: Under My Thumb Pickin' On The Rolling Stones
Pickin' On The Rolling Stones, CMH - Tongue Tied Jill Charlie Feathers
Get With It, Revenant - My Mumblin' Baby Rudy Green
The Excello Story, Vol.2, Hip-O - Mumbles Clark Terry with Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson Trio + One, Clark Terry, Mercury - SEGMENT: Jack Kerouac
Readings By Jack Kerouac On the Beat Generation, Verve
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HOUR two
- I Could Write a Book Sarah Vaughan & Quincy Jones
You're Mine You, Capitol - It Ain't Necessarily So Eddie ‘Cleanhead' Vinson
Cleanhead's Back In Town, Rhino - Try a Little Tenderness Otis Redding
The Complete Stax/Volt 1959-67, Stax - Moses Smote The Water Golden Gate Quartet
Swing Down, Chariot, Sony - Six And Seven Books of Moses Toots and the Maytals
Time Tough: The Anthology, Island - Forgive Them Father Lauryn Hill
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Sony - Instrumental: The Sidewinder The Lee Morgan Quintet
Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz, Blue Note - INTERVIEW: Nick Hornby
Listen - The Man Who Couldn't Cry Johnny Cash
American Recordings, American - Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue, Elektra - Instrumental: Just Another Sucker On The Vine Tom Waits
Swordfishtrombones, Island - INTERVIEW: Gillian Welch
Listen - Your Cheatin' Heart Patsy Cline
The Patsy Cline Collection, MCA - The Song is Ended but the Melody Lingers On Dinah Washington
Great American Songwriters Vol.4: Irving Berlin, Rhino
