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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
FACE THE MUSIC AND VOTE! AMERICAN ROUTES 2020 ELECTION SHOW
By mail, by ballot box, by pulling a lever or pushing a button on November 3rd, Americans will exercise their democratic right to vote for President, Senators, Congresspeople and, in many local elections, for legislators and judges to mosquito control officers and dogcatchers. It’s a big one folks! So we’ve created a soundtrack in words and music to get you to the polls. With jazz and gospel takes on American anthems; cool versions of civil rights songs like “If I Had a Hammer” and “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”; blues treatments warning “Be Careful How You Vote!”; a soul variation on “This Land is Your Land”; and songs about revolution… and restraint. It’s time to face the music and vote!
Vote! image used with permission by Globe Collection and Press at MICA
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Star Spangled Banner Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra
Make American Great Again!, Troubadour Jass Records - Mr. President Have Pity on the Working Man Randy Newman
Good Old Boys , Warner - Political Science Natalie Merchant
Rarities: 1998-2017, Nonesuch - Every Man a King Randy Newman
Good Old Boys , Warner - Vote 'Em Out Willie Nelson
Vote 'Em Out Single , Sony - Vote, Baby Vote Deee-lite
Infinity Within , Elektra - Compared to What John Legend and The Roots
Wake Up, Sony - Instrumental: Lift Every Voice and Sing Hank Crawford and Jimmy McGriff
The Best of Hank Crawford and Jimmy McGriff , Fantasy - I Wish I knew How It Would Feel to be Free Nina Simone
Silk and Soul , RCA - Be Careful How You Vote Sunnyland Slim
Be Careful How You Vote , Airway Records - Lift Every Voice and Sing Southern Sons
1940s Vocal Groups: Southern Sons and Richmond’s Harmonizing Four , Document - This Land is Your Land Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Naturally , Daptone Records - Instrumental: Rebel Rouser Bill Frisell
Guitar in the Space Age, Songtone LLC - The Man in Black Johnny Cash
The Man in Black , Columbia - Crawl Into the Promised Land Rosanne Cash
Crawl Into the Promised Land Single , Blue Note - For What It's Worth Staple Singers
Freedom Highway , Epic - Fortunate Son Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival , Fantasy - U.S. Blues Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel , WB - Yes We Can Part 1 Lee Dorsey
Yes We Can and Then Some , Polydor - One Love/People Get Ready Bob Marley and the Wailers
Exodus, Island - Closing Bed: Stripes Otha Turner and the Afrossippi Allstars
Otha Turner and the Afrossippi Allstars , Birdman Records
HOUR two
- Open Bed: America the Beautiful The Happyland Band
Saints Paradise: Trombone Shout Band of the United House of Prayer , Smithsonian Folkways - If I Had a Hammer Toussaint McCall
Nothing Takes the Place of You, Fuel 2000 - Right to Rock Trini Lopez
Right To Rock single , Volk Records - V.O.T.E. (Public Service Announcement) Chris Stamey with Yo La Tengo
V.O.T.E , Yep Roc - El Mexicano Los Cenzontles
American Roulette , Los Centzontles - Will the Wolf Survive Los Lobos
How Will the Wolf Survive , Slash - Instrumental: Kerr's Negro Jig Carolina Chocolate Drops
Leaving Eden , Nonesuch - Think About Your Fellow Man The Cate Brothers
Voices of Americana: When Love Comes , Demon Music Group - Old King Coal Sturgill Simpson
Cuttin’ Grass Vol 1: The Butcher Shop Sessions , High Top Mountain Records - Breadline Blues 2008 Del McCoury, Mac Wiseman, Tim O'Brien, and Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Moneyland, McCoury Music - I Pity the Poor Immigrant Marion Williams
The New Message , Atlantic - Political World Carolina Chocolate Drops
Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan , Amnesty International - The New Mr. President Big Boy Henry
Work's Many Voices Vol.1 LP , JEMF - Funky President (People It's Bad) James Brown
Star Time , Polydor - Instrumental: We Shall Overcome Bill Frisell
Valentine , Blue Note - Alabama John Coltrane
The Gentle Side of John Coltrane , Impulse - Tryin' Times Roberta Flack
First Take , Atlantic - Tryin' Times Ernest Franklin
Holy Spirit: Spiritual Soul and Gospel Funk from Shreveport’s Jewel Records , Harmless - The Times They Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A-Changin' , Columbia - Closing bed: Blues for Langston and LaRue Charles Lloyd
Vanished Gardens , Blue Note
