The Art of Music: Richie Havens, Peter Max & Hatch Show Print 

American Routes delves into the colorful convergence of art and music… from artist-musicians to painterly album covers and audacious poster art. Richie Havens was one such artist turned musician. We’ll learn about his tenure as a Greenwich Village portraitist and his legendary opening act at Woodstock. Then conversation with artist Peter Max, known for his pop-art colors, cosmic subjects and iconic album covers. And a visit to Nashville’s Hatch Show Print, who printed posters for musicians from Bessie Smith to Johnny Cash, for a primer on the art of letterpress.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Mood Indigo Thelonius Monk
Plays Duke Ellington, Riverside

Blue Monday Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family

Blue Monk McCoy Tyner
Nights of Ballads & Blues, Impulse!

Azure Ella Fitzgerald
Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook, Verve

Blues on the Ceiling Fred Neil
Bleecker & MacDougal, Elektra

Red House Jimi Hendrix
The Ultimate Experience, MCA

Instrumental: Grunion Run The Hollywood Persuaders
Frank Zappa: Cucamonga, Rhino

SEGMENT: Richie Havens

Tombstone Blues Richie Havens
I’m Not There Soundtrack, Sony

Honey Now Gillian Welch
Hell Among the Yearlings, Almo

Instrumental: Going Across the Prairie Kirk Brandenberger and Art Rosenbaum
Art of Field Recording Vol. II, Dust to Digital

A Picture from Life's Other Side Woody Guthrie
My Dusty Road, Rounder

Silver and Gold Neil Young
Silver and Gold, Reprise

Yellow Light Eleni Mandell
Afternoon, Zedtone

What Light? Wilco
Sky Blue Sky, Nonesuch

Here Comes the Sun Beatles
Abbey Road, Capitol

Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes Original Recording

HOUR TWO

Open Bed: Little Wing Jimi Hendrix
The Ultimate Experience, MCA

SEGMENT: Peter Max

Blue in Green Miles Davis
Kind of Blue, Columbia

Blue Joni Mitchell
Blue, Reprise

Instrumental: Mood Indigo Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins, Impulse!

When I Paint My Masterpiece Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits – Volume II, Columbia

Mona Lisa Carl Mann
Memphis Rocks: Rockabilly in Memphis 1954-1968, Smithsonian

Crazy Arms Patsy Cline
The Last Sessions, Decca

Little Red Rooster Sam Cooke
Greatest Hits, RCA

Instrumental: The Blob Duke Levine
Beneath the Blue, Loud, Loud Music

The W. S. Wolcott Medicine Show The Band
Across the Great Divide, Capitol

The Great Medical Menagerist Harmonica Frank
Blues Classics: Daisy, Charlie

SEGMENT: Hatch Show Print

Get Rhythm Johnny Cash
The Man in Black: 1954-1958, Bear Family

The Man in Black Johnny Cash
The Man in Black: 1954-1958, Bear Family

End Bed: Ahmad's Blues Ahmad Jamal
The Legendary Okeh and Epic Recordings, Epic/Legacy