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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
MARDI GRAS
The music of Carnival across the Americas, with glances at the surrounding history and customs, plus tape from New Orleans’ celebration: brass bands, parades, Mardi Gras Indians, Creole cowboys and more.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Do Whatcha Wanna - Pt. 3 Rebirth Brass Band
Mardi Gras Party, Rhino - Louisiana Percy Mayfield
Creole Kings of New Orleans, Speciality Records - New Orleans Elvis Presley
King Creole, RCA - Jockamo AKA Iko-Iko Larry Williams
Creole Kings of New Orleans, Speciality Records - Big Chief Rebirth Brass Band
Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc - New-Way-Pocky-Way Young Guardians of the Flame
New Way Pocky Way, First Tribe - Instrumental: Mardi Gras Zydeco Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas
Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc - La Danse de Mardi Gras Steve Riley
Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc - Beau's Mardi Gras Beau Jocque
Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc - Mascarade Folk Research Center of St. Lucia
Musical Traditions of St. Lucia, Folkways - Quadrille Figure # 6 Blinky and the Roadmasters
Crucian Scratch Band Music, Rounder - F.D.R. in Trinidad Ry Cooder
Into the Purple Valley, Warner - The Road Lord Kitchener
Volume 1 1959-1964: Ska's the Limit, Island - Meet de Boys on the Battlefront Wild Tchoupitoulas
New Orleans Party Classics, Rhino - Instrumental: (Somebody Got) Soul, Soul, Soul Wild Magnolias
The Wild Magnolias, Polydor - SEGMENT: Mardi Gras Indians
Listen - Indian Red Donald Harrison, Jr.
Indian Blues, Candid
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Longhair's Blues-Rhumba Professor Longhair
New Orleans Piano, Atlantic - Mardi Gras Mambo The Meters
Mardi Gras in the New Orleans II, Mardi Gras Records - Mambo # 8 Prez Prado
A Carnival of Cuban Music: Routes to Rhythm Vol 1, Rounder - Siboney Xavier Cugat and Bing Crosby
A Carnival of Cuban Music: Routes to Rhythm Vol 1, Rounder - Bamboula (Danse des negres) Amiram Rigai
American Piano Music, Folkways - Mardi Gras in New Orleans Professor Longhair
New Orleans Piano, Atlantic - Instrumental: New Second Line Olympia Brass
Mardi Gras in the New Orleans II, Mardi Gras Records - SEGMENT: Mardi Gras Parades
- Street Parade Earl King
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, MG Records - Kooks on Parade Stanton Moore
All Kooked Out, Fog City - Instrumental: Cuando Vuelvo A Tu Lado Alfredo Rodriguez
Cuba Linda, Hannibal - La Fiesta Campesina Los Pleneros de la 21
Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, Shanachie - Maman Rosin Boudreax Beausoleil
Mardi Gras Party, Rounder - Hot Tamale Baby Marcia Ball
Hot Tamale Baby, Rounder - Tourist Leggo King Short Shirt
Ghetto Vibes, Charlies Records - Little Liza Jane Dirty Dozen Brass Band
New Orleans Party Classics, - SEGMENT: Clean Up Crew
- End Bed: Tee-Nah-Nah Tuts Washington
Louisiana Spice, Rounder
