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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
THE SOUNDS OF SOLACE
Many have sought solace in music since the sadness and conflict of September 11, 2001. American Routes honors veterans of war, fire, and emergency service with music appropriate to the nation’s mood on this first anniversary of the tragedy. Merle Haggard, Gillian Welch and American Routes listeners tell us what songs have helped them get through this past year, and timeless songs from John Coltrane, the Carter Family and Jimmy Cliff offer a chance for meditation.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Amazing Grace Donald Harrison
Nouveau Swing, Impluse - Acknowledgement John Coltrane
A Love Supreme, Impulse - The House I Live In The Ravens
Old Man River, Savoy - My Father's House Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska, Sony - No Depression In Heaven Carter Family
In The Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family - Instrumental: Amazing Grace John Fahey
America, Takoma - SEGMENT: Gillian Welch
Listen - Revelator Gillian Welch
Time (The Revelator), Acony - Jesus is a Dying Bedmaker John Fahey
America, Takoma - Amazing Grace Cephas & Wiggins
recorded live for Folkmasters, - Instrumental: Over the Rainbow Art Tatum
Ultimate Art Tatum, Verve - Please Send Me Someone To Love James Booker
New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live!, Rounder - Going Home Randy Newman
Bad Love, Dreamworks - Balm in Gilead Paul Robeson
Songs of Free Men 1940-1945, Pearl - Remember Me Beaufort NC Sea Chanteymen
recorded live for Folkmasters,
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Follow Your Heart Joe Farrell Quartet/John McLaughlin
Joe Farrell Quartet, CTI - In a Silent Way Miles Davis
In a Silent Way, Sony - Let It Be Aretha Franklin
Queen of Soul - The Atlantic Recordings, Atlantic - Many Rivers to Cross Jimmy Cliff
The Harder They Come Original Soundtrack, Island - Rivers of Babylon The Melodians
The Harder They Come Original Soundtrack, Island - Instrumental: Could You Be Loved Monty Alexander
Stir It Up: The Music of Bob Marley, TelArc - Freedom Road Josh White
Free and Equal Blues, Folkways - Chimes of Freedom Bob Dylan
Another Side of Bob Dylan, Sony - This World Is Not My Home Monroe Brothers
What Would You Give…?, Rounder - SEGMENT: Merle Haggard
Listen - Instrumental: Schizoozy Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor
Appalachia Waltz, Sony Classical - String Quartet No.4 (Amazing Grace) Ben Johnston/Kronos Quartet
Released 1985-1995, Nonesuch - Imagine Neil Young
recorded live for America: A Tribute to Heroes, - My Country ‘Tis of Thee Billy Preston
I Wrote A Simple Song, A&M - End Bed: The Long Road Eddie Vedder with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture Dead Man Walking, Columbia
