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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
FROM BACKROADS TO BACKATOWN: DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS AND TROMBONE SHORTY
Follow American Routes as we travel the back roads for some new Southern sounds. The Drive-By Truckers have been up and down the highways since the mid-90s, delivering their unique mix of social commentary, old-fashioned storytelling and rock n’ roll, between stops in their hometowns of Muscle Shoals, AL and Athens, GA. We sit down with the band in uptown New Orleans to learn more about their journey in music and fascination with the South. Then we head backatown to catch up with New Orleans’ own Troy Andrews, a.k.a. Trombone Shorty, to hear about how he mixes trad jazz, rock and hip-hop to create ‘Superfunkrock.’
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: She Breaks Booker T. and the Drive-by Truckers
Potato Hole, Anti - Ode to Billy Joe Tammy Wynette
Take Me To Your World-I Don’t Want to Play House, Koch - You Are My Sunshine Ray Charles
The Complete Country & Western Recordings 1959-1986, Rhino - Tell Mama Etta James
The Muscle Shoals Sound, Rhino - Mama Don't Like My Man Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
I Learned the Hard Way, Daptone - Thank You Mama, Thank You Papa Dixie Cups
Best of the Dixie Cups, Laserlight - Instrumental: Let Me Know Hank Jones
The Talented Touch/ Porgy and Bess, Okra-tone - You're the Kind of Trouble Holmes Brothers
Feed My Soul, Alligator - I Walk the Line Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash: The Legend, Columbia - Eight Men, Four Women O.V. Wright
The Soul of O.V. Wright, MCA - Guilty Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Reprise - The Last Time Bettye LaVette
The Scene of the Crime, Anti - Instrumental: A Hunk of Funk Gene Dozier and the Brotherhood
The Minit Records Story, EMI - SEGMENT: Drive-By Truckers
Listen - Alabama Neil Young
Harvest, Reprise - I'll Take You There Staples Singers
The Muscle Shoals Sound, Rhino
HOUR two
- Open Bed: In the 6th Trombone Shorty
Backatown, Verve - Music Goes Round and Round Ella Fitzgerald
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!, Verve - Big Ten Inch Record Bull Moose Jackson
Risque Rhythm: Nasty 50s R&B, Rhino - I've Got the Blues for You Al Collins Orchestra
The Best of Ace Records: The R&B Hits, Scotti Bros - Trombone Cholly Bessie Smith
The Essential Bessie Smith, Columbia - West End Blues Louis Armstrong
Jazzin' the Blues, Forlane - Instrumental: South Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
The Swing Era: Kid Ory, The Best of Jazz - I Got Mine Kermit Ruffins
Livin' a Treme Life, Basin Street - Ooh Poo Pah Doo, Part 1 Jesse Hill
The Minit Records Story, EMI - Heart of Steel Irma Thomas & Galactic
Yay-Ki-Ma, Anti - SEGMENT: Trombone Shorty
Listen - Instrumental: Flowing River Bennie Green
Trombone By Three, Prestige - Willie Baby Willie Colon
The Player, Fania - Wooly Bully Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs
The Best of Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs, Rhino - Shout Bamalama Otis Redding and the Pinetoppers
Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding, Rhino - Salt of the Earth Bettye LaVette
Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, Anti - America Andre Williams
That's All I Need, Bloodshot - End Bed: Egg Radio Bill Frisell
Gone, Just Like a Train, Nonesuch
