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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
JUNIOR BROWN
Guitar wizard Junior Brown on music and life in the South, on the highway, and on the instrument he invented: the guit-steel.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Slippin & Slidin Little Richard
The Specialty Story, Specialty - Slide and Dip It Beau Jocque
Check It Out, Lock It In, Crank It Up!, Rounder - Cry Baby Janis Joplin
Pearl, Columbia - Waltz Across Texas Ernest Tubb
Retrospective Vol. 2, MCA - Instrumental: Underwater Chase Al Caiola
Cocktail Capers, Capitol - Have You Met Miss Jones Frank Sinatra
Swing Along With Me, Reprise - Have You Met Miss Jones McCoy Tyner Trio
Reaching Fourth, Impulse - Me and Mrs. Jones Billy Paul
From Philly with Love, Legacy/Epic - Willie and Laura Mae Jones Dusty Springfield
Dusty in Memphis, Rhino - INTERVIEW: Junior Brown
- Highway Patrol Junior Brown
Junior High, Curb - Sugarfoot Rag Junior Brown
- My Baby Don't Dance To Nothing But Ernest Tubb Junior Brown
12 Shades of Brown, Curb - Instrumental: Purple Haze Kronos Quartet
Released 1985-1995, Nonesuch - Third Stone From the Sun Jimi Hendrix
Are You Experienced?, MCA - I'm Movin On Ray Charles
Genius & Soul - The 50th Anniversary Collection, Rhino - Sounds (Movin' On) Betty Carter
Betty Carter, Verve
HOUR two
- Go Tell It On The Mountain Marcus Roberts
The Collected Marcus Roberts, RCA - Life is a Struggle Johnny Adams
Won't Cry, Rounder - The Real Me Johnny Adams
Johnny Adams Sings Doc Pomus: The Real Me, Rounder - Autumn Leaves Miles Davis
Ballads & Blues, Blue Note - Instrumental: La Rielera Beto Villa
Father of Orquesta Tejana, Arhoolie - In Case You Return Chelo Silva
Tejano Roots: The Women, Arhoolie - Tanguedia III Astor Piazzolla and The New Tango Quintet
Tango: Zero Hour, Nonesuch - All She Wants to Do Is Rock Wynonie Harris
Bloodshot Eyes: The Best of Wynonie Harris, Rhino - Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again & Again & Again Lyn Collins
James Brown's Original Funky Divas, Polydor - Instrumental: Take Me Out To The Ballgame George Rabbai
Soundtrack to Baseball, Elektra/Nonesuch - Take Me Out To the Ballgame Doc & Merle Watson
Baseball's Greatest Hits, Rhino - A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request Steve Goodman
Affordable Art, Red Pajamas - Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? Count Basie & his Orchestra w/Taps Miller
Baseball's Greatest Hits, Rhino - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Cowboy Junkies
Trinity Sessions, RCA - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Hank Williams
The Original Singles Collection...Plus, Polydor - Jambalaya The Meters
Good Old Funky Music, Rounder - End Bed: The Bounce Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers
Essential Blues Harmonica, HOB
