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MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH US! AMERICAN ROUTES INDEPENDENCE DAY: THEN AND NOW
This July 4th weekend, we dive into the record crates to bring you music of celebration, hope and critique from Nina Simone, Randy Newman, Sly Stone and Jon Batiste. Then, the July 4th roots of American Routes as we go back to the 1990s, deep in the archive, for highlights from The American Roots Independence Day concerts at the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Join us for spectacular stage performances by the urbane blues hero Charles Brown, the Texas Playboys with Johnny Gimble playing Western swing, Mexican-American Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Young Tuxedo Brass with New Orleans jazz, and Hawaiian music and song of slack-key guitar master Ledward Kaapana.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Stars and Stripes Forever Eubie Blake
Eighty Six Years of Eubie Blake, Columbia - US Blues Grateful Dead
From the Mars Hotel, Warner - Long Walk to DC The Staples Singers
Soul Folk Action, Concord - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free Nina Simone
Nina Simone—Silk & Soul, Sony - Dixie Flyer Randy Newman
Randy Newman Songbook Vol. II, Nonesuch - If I Had a Hammer Toussaint McCall
Nothing Takes the Place of You, Fuel 2000 - Dance to the Music Sly and the Family Stone
Dance to the Music, Sony - Freedom Jon Batiste
We Are, Verve - Instrumental: Pipeline/Ghostriders Ledward Kaapana
YouTube, - Surfin' USA Beach Boys
Surfin' USA, Capitol - Back in the USA Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry Twist, UMG - Only in America Jay and the Americans
Come a Little Bit Closer: the Best of Jay & the Americans, Capitol - Across the Borderline Freddy Fender
The Golden Voices of the Texas Gulf Coast, - The Dreamer Jackson Browne feat. Los Cenzontles
The Dream Single, Inside Recordings - One Time, One Night in America Los Lobos
By the Light of the Moon, Warner - Instrumental: March! For Martin Luther King John Fahey
The Yellow Princess, Vanguard - I Shall Be Released Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 2, Columbia - Carry It On Joan Baez
One Day at a Time, Vanguard - Man in Black Johnny Cash
The Essential Johnny Cash, Sony - Blowin' in the Wind Stevie Wonder
Up-Tight, Motown - End Bed: America the Beautiful Happyland Band
Trombone Shout Bands from the United House of Prayer, Folkways
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Do What You Wanna Bob French and the Young Tuxedo Jazz Band
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 2000 Original Recording, - Henry Butler Patriotic Melody Bob French and the Young Tuxedo Jazz Band
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 2000 Original Recording, - Texas Playboys Theme/Take Me Back to Tulsa The Texas Playboys
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 1993 Original Recording, - Faded Love The Texas Playboys
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 1993 Original Recording, - San Antonio Rose The Texas Playboys
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 1993 Original Recording, - Instrumental: Radio Hula Ledward Kaapana and Clyde "Kindy" Sproat
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 1998 Original Recording, - My Companion the Horse Ledward Kaapana and Clyde "Kindy" Sproat
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 1998 Original Recording, - Mauna Loa Slack-key Ledward Kaapana and Clyde "Kindy" Sproat
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 1998 Original Recording, - Guadalajara Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 1993 Original Recording, - El Parrandero Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 1993 Original Recording, - Jalisco Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 1993 Original Recording, - Viva Mexico, Viva America! Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 1993 Original Recording, - Instrumental: Just Playin' Kermit Ruffins, Irvin Mayfield, Wendell Brunious, Lery Jones, Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown
A Beautiful World, Basin Street - Going Down Slow Charles Brown
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 1993 Original Recording, - Drifting Blues Charles Brown
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 1993 Original Recording, - Seven Long Days Charles Brown
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 1993 Original Recording, - End Bed: Instrumental Charles Brown
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washinton DC 1993 Original Recording,