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Routes Rock & Cajun Stardom: Boz Scaggs & Jimmy C. Newman

We trace stardom back to its source, traversing the roots and routes that led small town musicians to national fame. Pop icon Boz Scaggs and the late Cajun honky-tonk man Jimmy C. Newman took very different paths to the stage but carried with them the sounds they grew up hearing. Boz Scaggs achieved mainstream success with his own platinum records as well as his work with Steve Miller and Duane Allman. We talk to him about his 6+ years performing on the road and how he came into his own by reconnecting with the blues he heard as a kid in “Nowhere, Texas.” Then, we remember the late Jimmy C. Newman, who took the sounds of French Louisiana to the Grand Ole Opry and put Cajun music and culture on the map. Son Gary Newman, producer Joel Savoy and musician Kelli Jones tell of his legacy and their tribute album, Farewell, Alligator Man. Plus, we trace Hank Williams’ “Jambalaya” back to its Cajun origins, served up with tunes from Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and Professor Longhair.

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MEMORIAL DAY

May 22nd, 2002

Join American Routes for the year’s first official road trip holiday, Memorial Day. To commemorate it, we’ll visit roadside sites that are sacred: a shrine to Our Lady of the Highways and the grave of Jimi Hendrix. Plus an early traveler in rockabilly and rock ‘n’ roll; James Burton tells some tales.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Suzie Q James Burton
    The Guitar Sound of James Burton, A&M
  • Key to the Highway Dinah Washington
    Back to the Blues, Roulette
  • One for the Highway James Booker
    Classified, Rounder
  • Be My Chauffeur Clifton Chenier
    Clifton Sings the Blues, Arhoolie
  • I Want to Be Your Driver Chuck Berry
    His Best Vol. 2, Chess
  • Motivatin' Man Red Simpson
    Country Western Truck Drivin Singer, Razor & Tie
  • Six Days on the Road Dave Dudley
    Legends of Guitar - Country Vol. 2, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Johnny B Goode James Burton
    The Guitar Sound of James Burton, A&M
  • INTERVIEW: James Burton

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  • Return of the Grievous Angel Gram Parsons
    GP/Grevious Angel, Warner
  • Instrumental: Back Home Indiana Merrill Moore
    Boogie My Blues Away, Bear Family
  • 99 and 1/2 Dorothy Love Coates
    Oxford American Sampler 1999, Oxford American
  • 99 and 1/2 Won't Do Wilson Pickett
    A Man and a Half, Rhino
  • Don't Let the Devil Ride Joe May
    Men of Gospel, Peacock
  • V-8 Ford Blues Mose Allison
    Alison Wonderland, Rhino
  • Travelin' Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith
    Blue Bash, Verve
  • The Long and Winding Road Aretha Franklin
    Young Gifted and Black, Rhino

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Moon, Turn The Tides… gently gently away Jimi Hendrix
    Electric Ladyland, MCA
  • So Many Roads, So Many Trains Otis Rush
    Chess Blues Classics 1957 to 1967, MCA
  • On the Road Again Canned Heat
    Blues Masters, Vol. 7: Blues Revival, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: grave of Jimi Hendrix

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  • Instrumental: Capitaine Corey Harris
    Downhome Sophisticate, Rounder
  • Me and the Devil Blues Robert Johnson
    King of the Delta Blues Singers, Sony
  • Highway Patrolman Bruce Springsteen
    Nebraska, Sony
  • The Devil Had A Hold Of Me Gillian Welch
    Hell Among the Yearlings, Almo
  • Wreck on the Highway Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, EMI
  • SEGMENT: Our Lady of The Highways roadside shrine

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  • Wayfaring Stranger Eva Cassidy
    Songbird, Blix St.
  • Instrumental: Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Pickin' On The Grateful Dead
    Pickin' On The Grateful Dead, CMH
  • Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Elizabeth Cotten
    Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, Folkways
  • Long Road to Travel Lonnie Johnson
    Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection, Folkways
  • Country Honk Rolling Stones
    Let it Bleed, ABCKO
  • Lost Highway Hank Williams
    Complete, MGM
  • End of the Road Jerry Lee Lewis
    Classic Vol. 1, Bear Family
  • End Bed: Sugarfoot Rag Junior Brown
    Junior High, Curb

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