


SUPPORT GREAT STORYTELLING
We rely on your support to remain on air and online. Your contribution helps us bring you interviews with great American artists and the carefully curated music mix that you’ve enjoyed over the years.
Donate
AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
MUSIC AND WORDS OF WISDOM: A CORONA STRAY FROM HOME COMPANION, VOL. 3
We walk the line of isolation and go outside carefully with music and words of wisdom for contemplation, comfort and hope. It’s a Corona Stray from Home Companion, in conversations with a few of our favorite artists including Tejano accordionist Flaco Jimenez and the late Ray Charles — both speaking of their families’ role in helping them emerge as great musical citizens. We harken to the creative wisdom of jazz, locally and globally, with the late pianist Dave Brubeck whose travels abroad as a soldier and later with Louis Armstrong lead him to “Take Five” and other worldly sounds. And we take to the streets with New Orleans Original Pinettes Brass Band, the first such women’s jazz ensemble today. Plus: music from Bob Dylan, Nina Simone and John Prine.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Rockhouse Ray Charles
The Atlantic Hits, Warner - Segment: Ray Charles
Listen - 2020 Vision Danny Schmidt
2020 Vision single, Live Once Records - 20/20 Vision Jimmy Martin
Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys, Bear Family - Isn't that So Jesse Winchester
First Down, and 110 to Go, Bearsville Records - Instrumental: Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Etta Baker
Railroad Bill, Music Maker Recordings - I Knew I Could Fly Our Native Daughters
Our Native Daughters, Smithsonian Folkways - Tomorrow is a Long Time Sandy Denny
Sandy, Universal-Island Records - Hoping Machine Jay Farrar, Will Johnson and Anders Parker
New Multitudes, Rounder - Isolation Dirty Projectors
Isolation single , Domino Recording Company - Only the Lonely Roy Orbison
Lonely and Blue, Monument - Instrumental: Juarez Flaco Jimenez
Flaco Jimenez - "Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio" y mas, Arhoolie - Segment: Flaco Jimenez
Listen - Blues Stay Away from Me Doug Sahm and His Band
Doug Sahm and His Band, Atlantic - Sunday Morning Coming Down Los Cenzontles
Los Cenzontles--Covers 2, Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center - End Bed: Sleep Walk Flaco Jiménez and Steve Jordan
Flaco Jiménez vs. Steve Jordan-The Battle of La Bamba, Joey Records
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Bourbon Street Parade Young Tuxedo Brass
Jazz Begins, Atlantic - Rainy Day Women #12 x 35 Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde, Columbia - Illegal Smile John Prine
John Prine , Atlantic - Me, Myself and I Memphis Slim
The Bluebird Recordings 1940-1941, BMG - My Baby Just Cares for Me Nina Simone
Nina Simone--Mood Indigo: The Complete Bethlehem Singles, Bethlehem - It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got that Swing Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington--Recording Together for the First Time, Roulette - Instrumental: Unsquare Dance Dave Brubeck Quartet
Time Further Out, Columbia - Segment: Dave Brubeck
Listen - Blue Monk Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk, Atlantic - Instrumental: Blue Monk Abbey Lincoln
Abbey Sings Abbey, Verve Int'l - Segment: The Original Pinettes Brass Band
Listen - End Bed: Baby The Original Pinettes Brass Band
American Routes original recording from the 2014 Treme Creole Gumbo Festival,