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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
WORDS & MUSIC: RALPH ELLISON'S JAZZ-SHAPED AMERICA & JAMES TALLEY
Find the connections between the literary landscape and soundscape. We talk with Columbia University jazz scholar Robert O’Meally about the music writings of the Harlem Renaissance author best known for the novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison. And visit with songsmith and wordsmith James Talley.
HOUR ONE
- Chatter Box American Jazz Quintet
In the Beginning, AFO Classic - I'm Not Talking Mose Allison
Allison Wonderland: The Mose Allison Anthology, Rhino - Can't You Read Big Maceo
The King of Chicago Blues Piano, Arhoolie - Signifyin' Monkey Oscar Brown, Jr.
Sin & Soul... and Then More, Columbia - You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover Bo Diddley
His Best, Chess/MCA - Honey Hush The Johnny Burnette Trio
Rockabilly Boogie, Bear Family - Instrumental: Whistle Stop Mickey Baker
The Wildest Guitar, Sepia Tone - Words Solomon Burke
Home in Your Heart: The Best of Solomon Burke, Rhino/Atlantic - In My Diary The Moonglows
Blue Velvet: The Ultimate Collection, Chess/MCA - The Talk of the Town Little Jimmy Scott
The Savoy Years and More..., Savoy Jazz - Work House Blues Bessie Smith
Ralph Ellison: Living With Music, Columbia - Down Hearted Blues Jimmy Rushing and His Orchestra
Ralph Ellison: Living With Music, Columbia - Instrumental: Smarty, You Know It All Count Basie and His Orchestra
Vol.3: 1929-1937, Media 7 - SEGMENT: Robert O'Meally on Ralph Ellison
Listen - Flying Home Ella Fitzgerald
Masters of Jazz, Vol. 5: Female Vocal Classics, Rhino - Flying Home Johnny Otis and His Orchestra
Spirit of the Black Territory Bands, Arhoolie - End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording,
HOUR two
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter Lionel Ferbos & John Robichaux
Lars Endegran Presents Lionel Ferbos & John Robichaux, GHB - Take Me Back to Tulsa Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan
United Artists Hall of Fame, United Artists - W. Lee O'Daniel and the Light Crust Doughboys James Talley
Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got A Lot Of Love, Cimarron - SEGMENT: James Talley
Listen - Instrumental: Big Taters in a Sandy Land James Talley
Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got A Lot Of Love, Cimarron - Paperback Writer Charles River Valley Boys
Beatle Country, Elektra - Write me a Few of Your Lines / Kokomo Blues Bonnie Raitt
Takin' My Time, Warner Bros - Sad Letter Muddy Waters
More Real Folk Blues, Chess/MCA - Death Letter Cassandra Wilson
New Moon Daughter, Blue Note - The Letter Edged in Black Johnny Cash
Personal File, Columbia/Legacy - Instrumental: Future Shot At The Rainbow Peter Lang
The Thing At The Nursery Room Window, Takoma - Mansion on the Hill Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska, Columbia - Mansion on the Hill Hank Williams
The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury - Richard Cory Simon & Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence, Columbia - A Satisfied Mind Porter Wagoner
Greatest Songs, Curb - My Back Pages The Byrds
Younger Than Yesterday, Columbia/Legacy - End Bed: Anji Simon & Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence, Columbia
