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BLUES BORN AND LEARNED: BOBBY RUSH & SONNY LANDRETH
Join us this week as we visit with the King of the Chitlin Circuit, Bobby Rush. The singer, songwriter, manager, harmonica player, guitarist and bus driver talks about a life in the blues and breaks down his famous stage show. Mississippi-born, Louisiana-bred guitarist Sonny Landreth drops by for a live set and reveals his special technique with the slide.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: 99 (Instrumental) Bobby Rush
Live at Ground Zero, Deep Rush - Darktown Strutters Ball Fats Waller
If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It, Bluebird/Legacy - Mama Told Me Not to Come Randy Newman
12 Songs, Reprise - I Like 'Em Fat Like That Louis Jordan
Let the Good Times Roll: 1938-1954 , Bear Family - Fine Fat Daddy Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington Sings Bessie Smith, Verve - The Rumproller (Pt. 1) Lee Morgan
Blue 45s: The Ultimate Jukebox, Blue Note - Bowlegged Woman and Knock Kneed Man (Part 1) Bobby Rush
It's Alright, Paula - Instrumental: Seven and 7 The Bo-Keys
The Royal Sessions, Yellow Dog - SEGMENT: Bobby Rush
Listen - Instrumental: Fat Judy (Pt. 1) 'Big' John Patton
Blue 45s: The Ultimate Jukebox, Blue Note - Blues for Smedley Oscar Peterson Trio with Clark Terry
Oscar Peterson Trio + One, Clark Terry, Mercury - Chitlin' Hop Piano Red
Piano Red a.k.a. Dr. Feelgood: The Doctor's In!, Bear Family - So Round So Firm, So Fully Packed Merle Travis
The Best of Merle Travis: Sweet Temptation, Razor and Tie - Caledonia / Flip, Flop & Fly / Ragg Mop Rebirth Brass Band
Take it to the Street, Rounder - Tipitina (American Routes theme) Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording,
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Sonny Landreth live at American Routes studio
- Highway Blues Clifton Chenier
Sings the Blues, Arhoolie - Deal Jerry Garcia
The Very Best of Jerry Garcia, Rhino - Last Fair Deal Gone Down Cephas & Wiggins
Somebody Told Me the Truth, Alligator - Mississippi River Blues Jimmie Rodgers
The Singing Brakeman, Bear Family - Going to New Orleans Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Outtakes, Vigo - Shake Your Moneymaker Elmore James
Blues Masters: The Very Best of Elmore James, Rhino - Instrumental: Allons a Lafayette Richard Fontenot
Cajun Country Guitar, Folkways - Allons a Lafayette Harry Choates
Fiddle King of Cajun Swing, Arhoolie - Grand Chenier Bluerunners
Le Grande Bleu, Louisiana Red Hot - SEGMENT: Sonny Landreth
Listen - Instrumental: Sunny Jimmy Smith
Talkin' Verve Groovy!, Verve - Sitting on Top of the World Johnny Shines
Traditional Delta Blues, Biograph - Sittin' on Top of the World Bob Wills & Tommy Duncan
Hall of Fame, United Artists - I Saw the Light Five Blind Boys of Alabama
I Saw the Light, Liquid-8 - That Lucky Old Sun The Isley Brothers
Shout: The RCA Sessions, RCA - End Bed: Hallelujah Anyhow Sonny Treadway
Sacred Steel Instrumentals, Arhoolie
