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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
LOST FLORIDA
Travel down Stephen Foster’s mythical Suwanee River, stomp through the Everglades, and ride on the Orange Blossom Special to discover the lost Florida. With music from the late great yarn spinner Gamble Rogers, Cuban bassist Cachao, sacred steel guitarist Glenn Lee, southern rocker Wayne Cochran, blues pianist Ida Goodson and much more.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Swanee River Rock Ray Charles
The Genius Hits the Road, Rhino - Swanee Al Jolson
From Gershwin's Time - The Original Sounds of George Gershwin, Sony Classical - Deep Down in Florida Muddy Waters
Hard Again, Blue Sky/CBS - Rollin & Tumblin Moses Williams
Drop on Down in Florida, Florida Folklife Program - Cuban Crime of Passion Jimmy Buffett
A White Sport Coat & A Pink Crustacean, Dunhill/ABC - Bemba 'e Cuchara (Spoon Lips) Cachao
Master Sessions Vol. 2, Sony - Instrumental: No Me Llores Mas Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos, Atlantic - The Everglades television show theme
Television's Greatest Hits: Black & White Classics, TVT - The Everglades Whitstein Brothers
Trouble Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, Rounder - The Everglades Treat Her Right
Treat Her Right, BMG - SEGMENT: historian Bill Roberston
- Children's Dance Mary Youngblood
Heartbeat 2: More Voices of First Nations Women, Smithsonian Folkways - Instrumental: Charles Bronson
Smoke Signals Soundtrack, TVT - Florida Stomp Roy Eldridge & his Orchestra
Roy Eldridge 1935-1940, Classics - Going Back to Miami Wayne Cochran
Essential Southern Rock, House of Blues - Tallahassee Lassie Jan & Dean
Surf City/Folk 'n Roll, One Way - Apalachicola, FLA Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters
Their Complete Recordings Together, MCA/Decca
HOUR two
- Call Him By His Name Glenn Lee
Sacred Steel, Arhoolie - Florida Storm Southeast Alabama and Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention
Drop on Down in Florida, Florida Folklife Program - One Finger Blues Ida Goodson
Florida Music Train, Florida Folklife Program - Going Back to Florida Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins, Smithsonian Folkways - Back Road Into Town The Staples Singers
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles 1972-1975, Stax - Instrumental: The Rocker Papa John Creach
The Best of Papa John Creach, Buddah - SEGMENT: fiddler Willie Jones
- Florida Blues Dog Watson & David Grisman
Doc & Dawg, Acoustic Disc - Airstream Trailer Orgy Gamble Rogers
Sorry Is As Sorry Does, Flying Fish - Miami Martin Mull
Martin Mull, Capricorn - Mambo in Miami Cal Tjader
Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz, Verve - Miami Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Rey Azucar, SDI - Instrumental: King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown Augustus Pablo
In the Red Zone, Shanachie - Epstein's Doina Epstein Brothers
The Soul of Klezmer, Network - Florida Jerry Seinfeld
I'm Telling You For the Last Time, Universal - Old Man Blues Mose Allison
Gimcracks and Gewgaws, Blue Note - Orange Blossom Special Rouse Brothers
The Florida Music Train, Florida Folklife Program - Train Imitation Roger Matthews
Florida Music Train, Florida Folklife Program - Zora Olu Dara
From Natchez to New York, Atlantic - Florida Flo Fats Waller
The Middle Years, Part 1: 1936-38, Bluebird - End Bed: Swanee River Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
Nuages, ASV
