AMERICAN ROUTES
Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand March 22nd, 2023 (Hour 1)
Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand

Country singer Kelsey Waldon grew up in the Ohio River bottoms of Ballard County Kentucky-a place called “Monkey’s Eyebrow” where her family has farmed for generations. She tells us about her journey as a songwriter, and her friendship with another hero of Kentucky, John Prine. Then a live set of New Orleans jazz and its Caribbean cousins with the widely acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, Aurora Nealand and her quartet at Artisound Studios in New Orleans 9th Ward.

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MUSEUMS OF SOUND

May 14th, 2003

This week we look how music is enshrined at three spots around the country. In Memphis, the Stax Records Museum is opening this spring and we’ll hear stories from artists on the label like Isaac Hayes, the Bar-Kays, the Memphis Horns, and Rufus Thomas. Then we’ll head west and visit the massive Experience Music Project in the heart of downtown Seattle with it’s high-tech focus on rock and roll. Finally, Peggy Bulger of the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center tells us about their Save the Sounds project — preserving 50 of the most important recordings ever made. American Routes, where old sounds endure and new ones appear.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Soul Finger Bar-Kays
    Soul Finger, Stax
  • Hold On! I'm Comin' Sam & Dave
    The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
  • Memphis Train Rufus Thomas
    The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
  • Mr. Big Stuff Jean Knight
    The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Vol.2 1968-71, Stax
  • SEGMENT: Stax #1 with Rufus & Carla Thomas, Issac Hayes, Memphis Horns, Bar-Kays, Elvis Costello, Deanie Parker, Rob Bowman

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  • These Arms of Mine Otis Redding
    The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
  • Something Is Wrong With My Baby Sam & Dave
    The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
  • Instrumental: I Can't Turn You Loose Memphis Horns
    Memphis Horns, Cotillion
  • SEGMENT: Stax #2

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  • Respect Yourself Staple Singers
    The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Vol.2 1968-71, Stax
  • Instrumental: Big Chief Part 2 Professor Longhair with Earl King
    Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology, Rhino
  • CLIP: Earl King
  • Baby You Can Get Your Gun Earl King
    Earl's Pearls, West Side
  • Trick Bag Earl King
    Spirit of New Orleans: The Genius of Dave Bartholomew, EMI
  • SEGMENT: Experience Music Project with Bob Santelli, Ann Powers

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  • Come On (Let The Good Times Roll) Jimi Hendrix
    Electric Ladyland, MCA

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: One Dime Blues Etta Baker
    Hills of Home: 25 Years of Folk Music on Rounder Records, Rounder
  • Bourgeois Blues Taj Mahal
    Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly, Columbia
  • I Ain't Got No Home Bruce Springsteen
    Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Folkways with Mo Asch, Michael Asch, Ralph Rinzler, Tony Schwartz

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  • Instrumental: Pahko'ola Dance Song Yaqui and Deer Singers
    Wood That Sings: Indian Fiddle Music of the Americas, Folkways
  • Roving Gambler Country Gentlemen
    Country Songs Old and New, Folkways
  • Key to the Highway Memphis Slim
    The Folkway Years: 1959-1973, Folkways
  • SEGMENT: Save Our Sounds project with Peggy Bulger

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  • Instrumental: Now's The Time Charlie Parker
    The Savoy Story Volume One - Jazz, Savoy
  • Tiger Rag The Original Dixieland Five
    Masters of Jazz Vol.1: Traditional Classics, Rhino
  • In a Mellotone Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
    Centennial Edition: Complete RCA Victor Recordings 1927-1973 Box, RCA
  • CLIP: Nina Simone
  • I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl Nina Simone
    The Very Best of Nina Simone: Sugar in My Bowl, RCA
  • Take Me to the Water Nina Simone
    Ultimate Nina Simone, Verve
  • End Bed: Nite Life Mary Lou Williams
    Nite Life, Chiaroscuro

THE LATEST STREAMS

  • March 22nd, 2023

    REIMAGINING KENTUCKY COUNTRY MUSIC & NEW ORLEANS JAZZ WITH KELSEY WALDON AND AURORA NEALAND

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  • March 15th, 2023

    ST. PATRICK'S SINGERS, FIDDLERS AND PICKERS FROM IRELAND TO AMERICA

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  • March 8th, 2023

    TRUE BELIEVERS AND HARDWORKING TROUBADOURS: POST-PUNK FOLKSINGER, LEE BAINS, & SWAMP POP HERO, TOMMY MCLAIN

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