AMERICAN ROUTES
Songs as Poems; Poems as Songs Songs as Poems; Poems as Songs August 10th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Songs as Poems; Poems as Songs

We listen for poetry in music and music in poetry, songs as poems and poems as songs with Langston Hughes, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Ken Nordine. Plus, a visit to New York’s City Lore with poet-folklorist Steve Zeitlin, who rides the POEMobile to the People’s Poetry Gathering and then back to New Orleans to meet Louisiana’s poet laureate, Mona Lisa Saloy.

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THE NATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL

June 6th, 2012

Celebrate the National Folk Festival with American Routes. For over 70 years, the National Folk Festival has traveled from coast to coast, bringing the music of the people to the people. We’ll head to the old mining town of Butte, Montana to meet the folks who recently put on the show and the city that came out to see them. Then we’ll mine the archives and listen in on classic moments from past National Folk Festivals. All this plus music to get you in the summer festival frame of mind.

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  • Listen to Hour Two

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Cincinnati Shout Rabbit Muse
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • I'm Beginning to See the Light Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Driftin' Blues Charles Brown
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Buffalo Gals Wylie and the Wild West
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • La Ti Da Marcia Ball
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Instrumental: Steel Guitar Rag Speedy West and the Oklahoma Swing Band
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • SEGMENT: Joe Wilson

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  • La Terre De Mon Grandpere (My Grandfather's Land) Beausoleil
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Paradise John Prine
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Blackland Farm Bill Neely
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • In the Jailhouse Now John Jackson
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Instrumental: Old Jimmy Sutton Greg Hooven and the Backstep Band
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Talking 'Bout a Good Time Moving Hall Stars
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • (Somebody Got) Sew, Sew, Sew The Wild Magnolias
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Pot Pourri Barachois
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Johnny's Gone for a Soldier Solas
  • King George IV (Medley) Cape Breton Fiddlers
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Jolie Bassette Geno Delafose & French Rockin' Boogie
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • End Bed: La Hache A Deaux Taillants Bruce Daigrepont
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Take the A Train Quebe Sisters
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Froggy Went a Courtin' Peg Leg Sam
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • He May Be Your Man Edith Wilson and Little Brother Montgomery
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Muskrat Ramble Bob French and the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • SEGMENT: Butte, Montana with Bill Richards at the Old Berkley Pit, Tim & Karen Laity at Joe's Pasty Shop, and singer Albert James

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  • Instrumental: San Antonio Rose The Quebe Sisters
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Semi-Truck Bill Kirchen and Too Much Fun
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Down, Down, Down Rose Maddux and the Southern Mountain Boys
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Hey Bartender, There's a Big Bug in My Beer Warner Williams
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Every Which-A-Way The Quebe Sisters
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Llegaron Los Camperos (The Countrymen Arrived) Mariachi Los Camperos de Nat Cano
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Instrumental: Paul Barbarin's Second Line Treme Brass Band
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • SEGMENT: Rev. John Wilkins

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  • Drinking of the Wine The Menhaden Chanteymen
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • Wally Alabega's Carousel Blinky and the Roadmasters
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,
  • End Bed: Indian on a Stomp The Balfa Brothers
    Recorded live at the National Folk Festival,

THE LATEST STREAMS

  • August 10th, 2022

    SONGS AS POEMS; POEMS AS SONGS

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  • August 3rd, 2022

    CARIBBEAN CRUISE & SOUTH LOUISIANA SOJOURN: GARIFUNA GUITARIST AURELIO & CREOLE ACCORDIONIST CEDRIC WATSON

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  • July 27th, 2022

    THE FOLK REVIVAL REVISITED

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