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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
LIVE WITH PIANO PRINCE DAVELL CRAWFORD AND NATIVE AMERICAN SONGS AND SOUNDS FROM POW-WOW TO POP
It’s an American Routes live session with the Piano Prince of New Orleans, Davell Crawford, a fine singer and wily raconteur who grew up in Lafayette and New Orleans. We’ll also hear some of his and our piano heroes from South Louisiana and beyond: James Booker, Professor Longhair, and Ray Charles, as well as Davell’s grandfather, Sugar Boy Crawford. Then, it’s our tribute to Indigenous Peoples Day, the second Monday of October, with an array of Native American voices and music from the Black Lodge Singers, Dennis Banks, Link Wray, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Redbone. Plus archival and current conversations with Assiniboine Cree Singers from Montana, French-speaking Houmas from Louisiana and vocal harmonies from the women of Ulali.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Ain't That A Shame Davell Crawford
Dear Fats, I Love You, Davell Crawford - One for the Highway James Booker
Classified, Rounder - Tipitina Professor Longhair
Professor Longhair: New Orleans Piano, Atlantic - Early in the Morning Ray Charles
The Great Hits of Ray Charles Recorded on 8 Track Stereo, Atlantic - Jock-A-Mo James "Sugar Boy" Crawford
Chess New Orleans, Chess - Blue Monday Fats Domino
They Call Me the Fat Man (The Legendary Imperial Recordings), Capitol - Instrumental: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording, - SEGMENT: Davell Crawford
Listen - Song for James Davell Crawford
American Routes original recording, - Morning Star Davell Crawford
American Routes original recording, - Don't Ever Be Blue Davell Crawford
American Routes original recording, - Round and Round Davell Crawford
American Routes original recording, - Ain't That a Shame Davell Crawford
American Routes original recording, - Instrumental: Organ Instrumental Davell Crawford
American Routes original recording, - I Know the Lord Will Make a Way Davell Crawford
American Routes original recording, - Drown in My Own Tears Davell Crawford
American Routes original recording, - Blues Organ Davell Crawford
American Routes original recording, - Let them Talk Davell Crawford
American Routes original recording, - We Shall Gather by the River Davell Crawford
American Routes original recording, - End Bed: Careless Love Davell Crawford
Dear Fats, I Love You , Davell Crawford
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Sacred Directions Bryan Akipa
Songs from the Black Hills, Tom Bee/Soar - Red Sky, Blue Mountain Samantha Crain
You Had Me at Goodbye, Ramseur - Big Rock Samantha Crain
Under Branch & Thorn & Tree, Ramseur - SEGMENT: Assiniboine Cree Singers
Listen - It's My Way Buffy Sainte-Marie
It’s My Way, Vanguard - Comanche Link Wray & the Wraymen
Link Wray: Slinky! The Epic Sessions: 1958-1960, Sony - Instrumental: Finale Medley Lawrence Houle
Wood that Sings—Indian Fiddle Music of the Americas, Smithsonian Folkways - SEGMENT: Ulali
Listen - Bacon Ridge Jig Lawrence 'Teddy Boy' Houle
Old Time Fiddling by Lawrence ‘Teddy Boy’ Houle, Sunshine - Eagle Island Blues: Athapaskan Love Song Bill Stevens, Frances Williams, and Lisa Jaeger
Wood That Sings: Indian Fiddle Music of the Americas, Smithsonian Folkways - Stadium Pow Wow Halluci Nation
Stadium Pow Wow, Radicalized - One Eyed Ford Dennis Banks
Nowa Cumig: At the Center of the Universe, Dennis Banks - Come and Get Your Love Redbone
Come and Get Your Love - Remixes - EP, Sony - Instrumental: First Voices R. Carlos Nakai, Black Lodge, William Eaton
Ancestral Voice, Canyon Records - Crow Hop Black Lodge Singers
Pow Wow Songs - Recorded Live in Arizona, Canyon - Sponge Bob Square Pants Black Lodge
MORE Kids’ Pow-Wow Songs, Canyon - SEGMENT: Houmas
Listen - Closing Bed: Singing to the Four Directions Bryan Akipa
Song of the Aspen, Red Cedar Flute