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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
WAY OUT WEST
Saddle up for a musical romp across mountains and valleys, deserts and and plains as we “cross the deserts fair, and breathe the mountain air.” We’ll visit with cowboy and Indian poets, meet the inhabitants of a movie set ghost town, and hear music from Sonny Rollins, Judy Collins, Aaron Copland, and Patsy Montana.
HOUR ONE
- Big Balls in Cowtown Bob Wills & Texas Playboys
Hall of Fame, MCA - Cow Cow Boogie Ella Mae Morse
Jumpin' Like Mad, Capitol - Crooked Trail to Holbrook Slim Critchlow
Cowboy Songs, Arhoolie - I'm A Cowboy Danny Barker
Save the Bones, - Hey Cowboy Lee Hazelwood
Cowboy in Sweden, Smells Like Records - SEGMENT: Ghost Town/Movie Set
- Music Bed: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Ennio Morricone
A Fistful of Film Music, Rhino - Instrumental: The Open Prairie Again London Symphony Orchestra
He Got Game: The Music of Aaron Copland, Sony - Mexican Dances New York Philharmonic
Bernstein Century: Appalachian Spring, Sony - Billy the Kid Marty Robbins
Ridin' West Vol.2, Sony - Adios Agelita Rivas Las Rancheritas
Tejano Roots: The Women, Arhoolie - I'm an Old Cowhand The Sons of the Pioneers
Songs of the West, Rhino - I'm an Old Cowhand Sonny Rollins
Way Out West, Fantasy - Cowboys to Girls The Intruders
Beg, Scream & Shout, Rhino - Instrumental: I'm an Old Cowhand Jimmy Smith
Ultimate Jimmy Smith, Verve - INTERVIEW: Elizabeth Ebert
- Coyote Joni Mitchell
Hejira, Warner - Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
HOUR two
- Open Bed: The Magnificent Seven Al Caiola
Songs of the West, Rhino - The West Ain't What it Used to Be Carson Robinson & His Pioneers
Howdy, ASV - I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart Marcia Ball
Circuit Queen, Polydor - I Left My Sugar (In Salt Lake City) Peggy Lee
Blues Cross Country, Capitol - Along the Navajo Trail Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Oklahoma Hills Hank Thompson
Hillbilly Fever Vol. 4, Rhino - Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' Alfred Drake
Star Spangled Rhythm, Smithsonian - Instrumental: Water Night Red Thunder
Makoce Wakan, Eagle Thunder Records - INTERVIEW: Hank Real Bird
- Music Bed: Moonlight Dance Robert Tree Cody
Dreams From the Grandfather, Canyon - Glitter Nights Geraldine Barney
Heartbeat, Smithsonian - Unknown Legend Neil Young
Harvest Moon, Geffen - Instrumental: Cortez the Killer Neil Young
Decade, Reprise - When I Was a Cowboy Lead Belly
Goodnight Irene, Rykodisc - Ragtime Cowboy Joe Foy Willing & the Riders of the Purple Sage
Songs of the West, Rhino - Blood on the Saddle Tex Ritter
Rebels & Outlaws, Capitol - Take Me Back to My Boots & Saddle Screamin' Jay Hawkins
I Put a Spell on You, Collectables - Office Cowboy David Byrne
Rei Momo, Warner - INTERVIEW: Harry Taylor
- Music Bed: Texas Two Step Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys
Country Music Hall of Fame Series, MCA - Happy Trails Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
Songs of the West, Rhino
