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Memorial Day with the 2022 National Heritage Fellows

For Memorial Day, we’re celebrating the 2022 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows. Great musicians, storytellers, artisans and advocates, who have received our nation’s highest honor in traditional arts with these new honorees: Richmond gospel family, The Legendary Ingramettes; Navajo Diné weaver and sheep rancher, TahNibaa Naataanii; Washington DC step choreographer, C. Brian Williams; Excelsior Brass Band of Mobile, Alabama; master Hawaiian Hale builder Francis “Palani” Sinenci; Tibetan Opera singer and dancer Tsering Wangmo Satho; Flamenco dancer Eva Encinias; Bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland; St. Croix Quelbe flute player and bandleader, Stanley Jacobs; and New Orleans Black-masking craftsman, stilt dancer and musician, Shaka Zulu. Plus music from former fellows Doc Watson, Cedric Burnside, Clifton Chenier, Flaco Jiménez, Andy Statman, Dr. Michael White and Wanda Jackson, among others.

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SWINGING WITH THE MOCKINGBIRDS AND MILK COWS: LOS CENZONTLES AND THE HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN

September 29th, 2021

Deep in the heart of Texas, we visit with western swing trio the Hot Club of Cowtown, who started out in the bright lights of New York City and made a way to becoming a local favorite in Austin, Texas. We talk about hot clubs, 78 record collectors and hear songs about milk cows from some of the band’s favorite musicians. Then the Bay Area’s Los Cenzontles celebrate their Mexican American roots through teaching and performance, and collaborate with artists like Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne. It’s milk cows and mockingbirds on American Routes.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield Hot Club of Cowtown
    Dev'lish Mary, Craft Recordings
  • A Big Ball's in Cowtown Hoyle Nix and His West Texas Cowboys
    Out There: Wild and Wondrous Roots of Rock 'n' Roll, Vol. 1, Viper
  • Milk Cow Blues Willie Nelson and Francine Reed
    Willie Nelson—Milk Cow Blues, Island
  • Cow Cow Boogie Ella Mae Morse
    Ella Mae Morse—Collectors' Series, Capitol
  • Milk Cow Blues Kokomo Arnold
    Milk Cow Blues, Milestones
  • Milk Cow Blues Doc Watson with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. III, Capitol Nashville
  • Instrumental: Milk Cow Blues George Lewis
    George Lewis, SVP
  • I Got Rhythm Lester Young and His Kansas City Six
    Lester Young: The Kansas City Sessions, Verve
  • Boogie Woogie Country Girl Big Joe Turner
    Shake Rattle and Rock, Rhino
  • Let's Rock Bob Wills
    The Country Music Hall of Fame, MCA Nashville
  • Milkcow Blues Elvis Presley
    A Date with Elvis, Sony
  • Fan It Lightnin' Hopkins
    Lightnin' Hopkins, Smithsonian Folkways Records
  • Fan It Milton Brown
    Western Swing Classics: Vol. 2, Red Devil Records
  • Instrumental: Djangology Django Reinhardt Quintette du Hot Club de France featuring Stéphane Grappelli
    Djangology: Django Reinhardt Quintette du Hot Club de France featuring Stéphane Grappelli, BMG
  • Stompin' at Decca Hot Club of France
    Parisian Swing, Avid Records
  • Keep Knockin' But You Can't Come In Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies
    Kings of Western Swing, Fuel 2000
  • Take Me Back to Tulsa Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
    Together Again, Capitol Texas
  • Segment: Hot Club of Cowtown

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  • End Bed: Faded Love Hot Club of Cowtown
    What Makes Bob Holler, Proper
  • Across the Border Line Freddy Fender w/ Ry Cooder
    Music by Ry Cooder, Warner

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Josefinita Los Cenzontles, Atilano Lopez
    Cuatro Maestros, Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
  • Paloma Negra Chavela Vargas
    Homenaje a una Grande, Sony
  • Contrabando Y Traición Los Tigres del Norte
    15 Súper Corridos, Discos Amor
  • Los Laureles Linda Rondstadt
    Canciones de mi Padre, Elektra/Asylum Records
  • Chicas Patas Boogie Lalo Guerrero
    Pachuco Boogie, Arhoolie
  • La Bamba Los Lobos
    La Bamba, Slash
  • La Morena Grupo Mono Blanco
    ¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos from Veracruz, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Instrumental: Patricia Ry Cooder y Manuel Galbán
    Mambo Sinuendo, Nonesuch
  • Peanut Vendor Billie and DeDe Pierce
    Billie and DeDe and their Preservation Hall Band, Preservation Hall
  • Mi Tesoro Los Cenzontles & Preservation Hall All-Stars
    YouTube,
  • You Will Cry Los Cenzontles, Ruben Moreno
    Shades of Brown, Los Cenzontles
  • Instrumental: Migration Los Cenzontles David Hidalgo
    Regeneration, Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
  • Segment: Los Cenzontles

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  • End Bed: Caballo Viejo Ry Cooder y Manuel Galbán
    Mambo Sinuendo, Nonesuch

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