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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
COUNTRY CROSSOVER
Blues, rock, soul, and jazz… all with a little twang of country. This show features artists who take elements of the great country tradition, mix them up and make them their own. Nick talks with a living legend of old time country, Ralph Stanley. Also hear an interview and a short live set from young House of God steel guitarist Robert Randolph. Plus a talk with Cajun country elders the Hackberry Ramblers, and the down-home rock sound of the Sadies out of Canada.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Daybreak In Dixie The Stanley Brothers
Angel Band: The Classic Mercury Recordings, Mercury - When The Saints Go Marchin' In Jerry Lee Lewis
Classic, Bear Family - You Win Again Fats Domino
From Where I Stand, Warner - Big Beaver Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
San Antonio Rose, Bear Family - At A Dixie Roadside Diner Duke Ellington
Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA/Victor, RCA - My Blue Eyed Jane Jimmie Rodgers
The Singing Brakeman, Bear Family - Instrumental: Kentucky Mandolin Bill Monroe
The Country Music Hall of Fame Series, MCA - INTERVIEW: Ralph Stanley
Listen - Cash on the Barrelhead Dolly Parton
The Grass is Blue, Sugar Hill - Little Cabin on the Hill Elvis Presley
Walk a Mile in My Shoes, RCA - Tennessee Jed Grateful Dead
Europe '72, Rhino - Instrumental: Pass the Chutney The Sadies
Tremendous Efforts, Bloodshot - INTERVIEW: The Sadies
Listen - Boppin' the Blues Carl Perkins
Memphis Rocks, Smithsonian - Country Boy Freddy King
Hideaway, Rhino - Black Mountain Rag Chet Atkins
Galloping Guitar, Bear Family - Nashville Cats Lovin' Spoonful
Anthology, Rhino
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Pan American Blues Deford Bailey
From Where I Stand: The Black Experience In Country Music, Warner - SEGMENT: country from on and off-center
- The Ballad of Jed Clampett Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
Beverly Hillbillies, Columbia - A Little Bit Country Donnie & Marie Osmond
Featuring Songs From Their Television Show, Polydor - Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere Peter Grudzien
Songs in the Key of Z, Vol. 1: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music, Key of Z Records - Thank God I'm a Country Boy John Denver
Back Home Again, RCA - I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool Barbara Mandrell
Standing Room Only, Pair - Down Yonder We Go Ballin' Smiley Lewis
Shame, Shame, Shame, Bear Family - It Makes No Difference Now Ray Charles
The Complete Country & Western Recordings 1959-1986, Rhino - Instrumental: At The Cross Sonny Treadway
Sacred Steel, Arhoolie - INTERVIEW: Robert Randolph
Listen - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Al Green
Country Meets Soul, Hi - When Something Is Wrong With My Baby Charlie Rich
Country Meets Soul, Hi - One More Night Bob Dylan
Nashville Skyline, Sony - Screen Door Uncle Tupelo
89/93: An Anthology, Sony - Acadian Two-Step Coteau
Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder - INTERVIEW: Luderin Darbonne and Edwin Duhom of Hackberry Ramblers
Listen - Crawfish Jambalaya Clifton Chenier
Out West, Arhoolie - He'll Have to Go David Isaacs
The Complete UK Upsetter Singles, Trojan - Wagon Wheels Sonny Rollins
Way Out West, AP - End Bed: Progressive Country Music For A Hollywood Flapper Hank Penny
Crazy Rhythm: The Standard Transcriptions, Bloodshot
