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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
DR JOHN / PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
Sit down and visit with the Crescent City piano professor and hoodoo rock and roller Dr. John as he recalls his early days as a studio guitarist in New Orleans and the West Coast birth of the Night Tripper. And tag along as we drop by the place where time stands still, but the music jumps, Preservation Hall. Meet musicians, fans and the family that started it all.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Mess Around Dr. John
Gumbo, Atco - Junko Partner Dr. John
Gumbo, Atco - INTERVIEW: Dr. John
Listen - Ball the Wall Professor Longhair
New Orleans Piano, Atlantic - Instrumental: Memories of Professor Longhair Dr. John
Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack, Clean Cuts - INTERVIEW: Dr. John
- Ain’t It a Shame Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - INTERVIEW: Dr. John
- Tell Me How Do You Feel James Booker
New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live, Rounder - INTERVIEW: Dr. John
- Bopsody In Blues Edgar Blanchard and the Gondoliers
Troubles, Troubles: New Orleans Blues, Rounder - Don't You Just Know It Huey 'Piano' Smith
Having a Good Time with Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & His Clowns, Westside - INTERVIEW: Dr. John
- Huey Piano Smith Medley Dr. John
Gumbo, Atco - SEGMENT: Harold Battiste
- INTERVIEW: Dr. John
- I Been Hoodooed Dr. John
In the Right Place, Atco - Instrumental: Walkin' Home Donald Harrison w/Dr. John
Indian Blues, Candid - INTERVIEW: Dr. John
- In the Right Place Dr. John
In the Right Place, Atco - INTERVIEW: Dr. John
- INTERVIEW: Dr. John
- New Orleans Music Rebirth Brass Band
Hot Venom, Mardi Gras - INTERVIEW: Dr. John
- Goin’ Back to New Orleans Dr. John
Goin’ Back to New Orleans, Warner Bros. - INTERVIEW: Dr. John
- When the Saints Go Marching In Dr. John with Mavis Staples
N’Awlinz’: Dis, Dat or D’Udda, Blue Note
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Little Liza Jane Preservation Hall Band
Shake that Thing, Preservation Hall - Saturday Night Fish Fry Pearl Bailey and ‘Moms’ Mabley
Stars of the Apollo, Columbia - Stay All Night Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
For the Last Time, United Artists - It Don’t Mean a Thing The Elmer Snowden Quartet featuring Cliff Jackson
Harlem Banjo!, Riverside - Lady Be Good Martin, Bogan & Armstrong
The Barnyard Dance, Rounder - Lady, Be Good! Jones-Smith, Inc. (Count Basie Quintet)
I Got Rhythm: The Music of George Gerswhin, Smithsonian - Instrumental: Jumpin’ at the Woodside Merrill Moore
Boogie My Blues Away, Bear Family - INTERVIEW: Preservation Hall Jazz Band, with Sandy Jaffe & Ben Jaffe
Listen - Instrumental: Tom Cat Blues Wynton Marsalis
Mr. Jelly Lord: Standard Time Vol. 6, Columbia - Blues for New Orleans Duke Ellington
New Orleans Suite, Atlantic - Louisiana Percy Mayfield
Poet of the Blues, Specialty - Second Line on Monday Chuck Carbo
Life’s Ups and Downs, 504 - Streets of Glory Basil Gabbidon
Theo Beckford - Trench Town Ska, Jamaican Gold - Sunny Side of the Street Nellie Lutcher
Nellie Lutcher and Her Rhythm, Bear Family - My Blue Heaven Jerry Lee Lewis
Classic Jerry Lee Lewis, Bear Family - End Bed: High Society Louis Armstrong
The Complete RCA Victor Recordings, BMG
