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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
IN THE STUDIO
American Routes takes a peek at the producers, sidemen and record company moguls who can make or break a record. New Orleans saxophonist Harold Battiste talks about playing with Ornette Coleman, acting as music director for Sonny & Cher, and founding his own jazz and blues label. Plus the inside story on Muddy Waters’ much maligned, but imaginative, 1968 album Electric Mud, by producer Marshall Chess and musicians Pete Cosey and Louis Satterfield.
HOUR ONE
- The Music Goes Round and Round Paul Gayten
Creole Kings of New Orleans - The Chess Years, MCA - SEGMENT: Dixie Cups
- Iko, Iko Dixie Cups
The Red Bird Story, Charly - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans
Phil Spector: Back To Mono, abkco - Rose Room Benny Goodman & Charlie Christian
The Genius of the Electric Guitar, Columbia - Blues with Lips Hot Lips Page with the Count Basie Orchestra
Spirituals to Swing, Vanguard - Instrumental: The Fix (One Naughty Flat) Dr. John
More Gumbo Stew, Ace/AFO - SEGMENT: Harold Battiste
Listen - Instrumental: Marcho Rock & Roll Isidro Lopez
El Indio, Arhoolie - La Novia Antonia Conjunto Bernal & Mando Marroquin
Tejano Roots, Arhoolie - Wooly Bully Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
Best of, Rhino - Just Walkin' in the Rain The Prisonaires
Sun: The Singles Collection, Bear Family - Matchbox Carl Perkins
The Classic, Bear Family - Dirt Road Blues Bob Dylan
Time Out of Mind, Columbia - Orphan Girl Emmylou Harris
Wrecking Ball, Elektra - Harborcoat REM
Reckoning, IRS
HOUR two
- Fishing Blues Henry Thomas
Anthology of American Folk Music, Folkways - Single Girl, Married Girl Carter Family
In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family - I Be's Troubled Muddy Waters
Complete Plantation Recordings, MCA/Chess - I Just Want to Make Love to You Muddy Waters
His Best 1947-1955, MCA/Chess - SEGMENT: Marshall Chess, Pete Cosey, Louis Satterfield on Muddy Waters 'Electric Mud'
Listen - Instrumental: Black Satin / What If / Agharta Prelude Dub Miles Davis / Bill Laswell
Panthalassa - remixes of 70s Miles, Columbia - Black Satin Miles Davis / Bill Laswell
Panthalassa - remixes of 70s Miles, Columbia - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown Augustus Pablo
King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown, Shanachie - Soul-Kissing DJ Logic
The Anomaly, Ropeadope - Instrumental: Church of Logic Mediski Martin & Wood with DJ Logic
Combustication, Blue Note - Don't Worry Bout Me Lou Donaldson
Good Gracious, Blue Note - Don't Worry Bout Me Frank Sinatra
The Complete Capitol Singles Collection, Capitol - Sweet & Lowdown George Gershwin
Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls, Elektra - The Song Is Ended Mose Allison
I Don't Worry About a Thing, Rhino
