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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
MUSEUMS OF SOUND
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.
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
Listen - 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
Listen - 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
Listen - 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
Listen - 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
Listen - 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