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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM

FAMILIES IN MUSIC

The family that plays together stays together, and this week on American Routes we have a couple of them. First up, it’s 12 and Shorty, better known as James and Troy Andrews, brothers and horn players with a long New Orleans musical lineage. Rockers and brothers Cody and Willy Braun, of Reckless Kelly, and their father Muzzie share their memories of being in a cowboy family band.

HOUR ONE

  • "Wynton Speaks" and "Cain and Abel" The Marsalis Family
    The Marsalis Family: A Jazz Celebration, Marsalis Music/Rounder
  • Brotherly Love Louis Jordan
    Let the Good Times Roll, Bear Family
  • Thank You Mama, Thank You Papa Dixie Cups
    Teen Anguish, Vol. 1, Charly
  • Mama and Papa Earl King
    Come On: The Complete Imperial Recordings, Okra-Tone
  • Mama Don't Allow Billie and DeDe Pierce
    Gulf Coast Blues, Arhoolie
  • Instrumental: Bourbon Street Parade James and Troy Andrews
    American Routes original recording,
  • INTERVIEW: James and Troy Andrews

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  • Stranger in My Own Home Town Percy Mayfield
    His Tangerine and Atlantic Sides, Rhino
  • Little Sister Elvis Presley
    From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential 60's Masters, RCA
  • Sister's Coming Home Willie Nelson
    Phases and Stages, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Cousin Sally Brown The Doc Watson Family
    The Doc Watson Family, Folkways
  • I Had a Real Good Mother and Father Gillian Welch
    Soul Journey, Acony
  • That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine The Everly Brothers
    Classic Everly Brothers, Bear Family
  • Valse de Balfa The Balfa Brothers
    Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music, Vol. 1 & 2, Swallow
  • Mom and Dad's Waltz Jerry Lee Lewis
    The Locust Years…, Bear Family
  • My Blue Heaven Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Devil's Dream Sid Hemphill
    Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia, Rounder
  • My Daddy's Blues Jessie Mae Hemphill
    Feelin' Good, High Water/HMG
  • If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
    Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Fantasy
  • If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again The Paramount Singers
    Work & Pray On, Arhoolie
  • Swanee River Rock Billy Lee Riley
    The Sun Years, SAAR
  • Instrumental: Old Folks at Home Gremoli
    The Solstice Sessions, Dargason Music
  • I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home Doc & Merle Watson
    Home Sweet Home, Sugar Hill
  • Daddy Frank (the Guitar Man) Merle Haggard
    The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology, Razor & Tie
  • INTERVIEW: Willy and Cody Braun of Reckless Kelly, and Muzzie Braun

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  • Instrumental: Home Sweet Home Doc & Merle Watson
    Home Sweet Home, Sugar Hill
  • Blue Railroad Train Delmore Brothers
    Brown's Ferry Blues, County
  • Train Song The Holmes Brothers
    Righteous!, Rounder
  • Green Green Grass of Home Porter Waggoner
    The Essential Porter Waggoner, RCA
  • I'm Goin' Home Ervin Webb, with prisoners
    Southern Journey Vol. 3: 61 Highway Mississippi, Rounder
  • Glory, Glory Pops Staples
    Father Father, Virgin
  • End Bed: End of My Journey The Campbell Brothers featuring Katie Jackson
    Pass Me Not, Arhoolie

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