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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
AFTER THE STORM X: DOG DAYS OF AUGUST
It’s hurricane season on the Gulf Coast. To commemorate it we gather songs made post-Katrina and Rita… as well as some enduring classics. Dr. John makes a soapbox of his piano and speaks out in song against the governmental missteps following our country’s greatest unnatural disaster. New Orleans jazz clarinetist Dr. Michael White joins us to talk about his new songs in traditional style made following the loss of his home and musical instruments to the flood. Plus the huge influx of talented outsiders is revealed in interviews with New Yorkers who have, post-storm, become New Orleanians—what brought them to and keeps them in the Crescent City.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Wade in the Water Ramsey Lewis
Chess Soul: A Decade of Chicago's Finest, MCA/Chess - Summertime Toussaint McCall
Nothing Takes the Place of You: The Ronn Recordings, Fuel 2000 - Too Hot to Sleep Eilen Jewell
Letters from Sinners and Strangers, Signature Sounds - Dog Days of August Cephas and Wiggins
From Richmond to Atlanta, Bullseye Blues Basic - Katrina, Katrina James Andrews & Friends
New Orleans, New Orleans, Independent Release CD single - Instrumental: Summertime Sidney Bechet
Ken Burns Jazz: Sidney Bechet, Columbia - Hey Pocky Way The Neville Brothers & the Meters
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans, Rhino DVD - Storm Warning Dr. John
Medical School: the Early Sessions of Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack, MCI - NY/NO CLIP: Artist Skylar Fein
Listen - Wade in the Water Eva Cassidy
Songbird, Blix Street - Down by the Riverside Papa Celestin's New Orleans Band
Marie Laveau, GHB - Instrumental: Wade in the Water Little Sonny
Essential Blues Harmonica, House of Blues - NY/NO CLIP: Clubgoers in New York
Listen - Drop Me Off In New Orleans Kermit Ruffins
Live at Vaughan's, Basin Street - Basin Street Blues Ray Charles
The Genius Hits the Road, Rhino - NY/NO CLIP: Writer-Walker Nathan Deuel
Listen - I'm Walkin' Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - Streets of the City Johnny St. Cyr with Sister Elizabeth Eustis
Johnny St. Cyr, American Music - End Bed: Basin Street Blues Henry Butler
American Routes original recording,
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Wade: Hurricane Suite I. Storm Warning Dr. John and the Lower 911
Sippiana Hericane, EMI - Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
The River in Reverse, Verve - What's Happening Brother The Dirty Dozen Brass Band feat. Bettye LaVette
What's Going On, Shout! Factory - SEGMENT: Dr. John
Listen - Instrumental: Do You Know What It Means (To Miss New Orleans) Don Vappie
Papa Don's New Orleans Jazz Band, Vappielle - Wade in the Water The Golden Gate Quartet
Swing Down, Chariot, Columbia - NY/NO CLIP: Writer Larry Blumenfeld and Social Worker Helene Greece
Listen - Make a Better World James Booker
Junco Partner, Rykodisc - Instrumental: New Orleans Joys Tom McDermott
Live in Paris, STR - Katrina James 'Blood' Ulmer
Bad Blood in the City, Hyena - St. James Infirmary Cassandra Wilson
Loverly, Blue Note - SEGMENT: Dr. Michael White
Listen - When the Saints Go Marching In The Georgia Peach
GoodBye, Babylon, Dust to Digital - When the Saints Go Marching In Eddie Bo
Our New Orleans 2005: A Benefit Album, Nonesuch - End Bed: Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans Tuts Washington
New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder
