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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
WORDS - STEVE EARLE
Sounds of the South in words and music: The Tennessee Williams Festival… add your voice to the Stella-calling contest (friends and family of Marlon Brando are prohibited from participating). Also, a talk with country singer Steve Earle about his life and the songwriter’s craft, and music from Smokey Robinson, Skip James, Leonard Cohen, Dinah Washington and William S. Burroughs.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Our Love is Here to Stay: Ella and Louis Sing Gershwin, Verve - Why Baby Why George Jones
Super Hits, Epic - Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues Skip James
Complete Early Recordings, Yazoo - People Are Strange The Doors
Strange Days, Elektra - Cotton Eyed Joe Adolph Hofner
South Texas Swing, Arhoolie - Uncle Bud Boozoo Chavis
Zydeco Trail Ride, Maison de Soul - Big Bad John Jimmy Dean
Classic Country Music, Smithsonian Collection of Recordings - John Henry The Johnson Mountain Boys
At the Old Schoolhouse, Rounder - Instrumental: Stella By Starlight Illinois Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet, Columbia/Legacy - I Could Write A Book Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington, Mercury - Write Me a Few Lines Fred McDowell
Delta Blues, Arhoolie - The Letter Box Tops
Billboard Top Rock 'n' Roll Hits - 1967, Rhino - INTERVIEW: Steve Earle
- Guitar Town Steve Earle
Ain't Ever Satisfied - The Steve Earle Collection, Hip-O - Hometown Blues Steve Earle
Train a Comin', Winter Harvest - You Know the Rest Steve Earle
El Corazon, E-Squared/Warner Brothers - Taney Town Steve Earle
El Corazon, E-Squared/Warner Brothers - Telephone Road Steve Earle
El Corazon, E-Squared/Warner Brothers - Instrumental: Pepper Returns Art Pepper
Jazz Profile: Art Pepper, Blue Note - San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation) Jack Kerouac
Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation, Verve - Dot's Groovy Chet Baker
Jazz Profile: Chet Baker, Blue Note - Hit the Road Jack Ray Charles
The Genius Hits the Road, Rhino - Words of Advice Material & William S. Burroughs
Hallucination Engine, Axiom - End Bed: Guitar Boogie Shuffle The Ventures
Guitar Player Presents Legends of Guitar - Rock: The ‘50s, Vol. 1, Rhino
HOUR two
- Stella By Starlight Johnny Hartman
All Of Me, Bethlehem - Ooo Baby Baby Smokey Robinson
The Best of Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Motown - Hallelujah Leonard Cohen
Various Positions, Columbia - I Want a Lavender Cadillac The Wolverines with Bea Baker
OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957, Epic/OKeh/Legacy - One Piece at a Time Johnny Cash
The Essential Johnny Cash, Columbia - Pass You By Gillian Welch
Revival, Almo - Instrumental: Chicago Stomp Pinetop Perkins
Portrait of a Delta Bluesman, Omega - Buddy Bolden's Blues Jelly Roll Morton
Last Sessions - The Complete General Recordings, Commodore - Birmingham Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Reprise - Alabama Song Marianne Faithful
20th Century Blues, RCA - 912 Greens Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Me & Bobby McGee, Rounder - Johnny Be Good Chuck Berry
The Chess Box, MCA/Chess - Instrumental: Hydroplane Ben Vaughan
Instrumental Stylings, Bar/None - (don't go back to) Rockville REM
Reckoning, I.R.S. - Tangled Up In Blue Bob Dylan
Blood On the Tracks, Columbia - End Bed: Vaseline Machine Gun Leo Kottke
Standing In My Shoes, Private Music
