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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
AMERICAN ROUTES GOES TO THE MOVIES
Get your popcorn and tell the guy next to you to pipe down, as American Routes features soundtracks and songs from great films. Cine noir to spaghetti western, King Creole to Pulp Fiction, music makes the movie. Nick will talk with director Jim Jarmusch about the soundtracks to Mystery Train, Down By Law and Ghost Dog. And producer T Bone Burnett lets us behind the scenes of O Brother, Where Art Thou. Shhh… down in front please!
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Superman Main Title John Williams
John Williams Greatest Hits 1969-1999, Sony Classical - I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow The Soggy Bottom Boys w/Dan Tyminski
O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Mercury - CLIP: from Hang ‘Em High
- Lester Leaps In Charlie Parker
Bird DVD, Warner Bros. - The Harder They Come Jimmy Cliff
The Harder They Come, Mango - Across 110th Street Bobby Womack & Peace
Across 110th Street soundtrack, Ryko - Surf Rider The Lively Ones
Pulp Fiction soundtrack, MCA - CLIP: from 007 Dr. No
- James Bond Theme (from Dr. No) Monty Norman Orchestra
The Best of Bond…James Bond, Capitol - Instrumental: I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (Instrumental) Norman Blake
O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, Mercury - INTERVIEW: T Bone Burnett
Listen - Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris & Alison Krauss
O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack, Mercury - Instrumental: Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club, Nonesuch - Guantanemera Celia Cruz
The Mambo Kings soundtrack, Elektra - Chan, Chan Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club, Nonesuch - Paris, Texas Ry Cooder
Music By Ry Cooder, Warner Bros. - Jockey Full of Bourbon Tom Waits
Beatiful Maladies, Island - INTERVIEW: Jim Jarmusch
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HOUR two
- Bed: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Main Title) Ennio Morricone
Anthology: A Fistful of Film Music, BMG/Rhino - The Comancheros Main Title Elmer Bernstein
Great Composers: Elmer Bernstein, Varese Saraband - Temporarily Humbolt County Firesign Theater
The best of Firesign Theater: Shoes for Industry!, Columbia/Legacy - John Wayne's Teeth Eaglebear Singers
Smoke Signals soundtrack, TVT - Titoli (from A Fistful of Dollars) Ennio Morricone
Anthology: A Fistful of Film Music, BMG/Rhino - There'll Be Some Changes Made Dick Hyman Group featuring Howard Alden
Sweet & Lowdown soundtrack, Sony Classical - Pink Panther Henry Mancini & His Orchestra
Lounging at the Nick at Niteclub, Sony - Instrumental: Baby Elephant Walk (from Hatari) Henry Mancini
Greatest Hits, RCA - Bed: Grover's Gorner (from Our Town) Aaron Copland
He Got Game soundtrack: the Music of Aaron Copland, Sony - Azure Ella Fitzgerald
Malcolm X soundtrack, WB - INTERVIEW: Don Lee Keith
Listen - Farewell to Storyville Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong
New Orleans soundtrack, The Soundtrack Factory - King Creole Elvis Presley
King Creole, RCA - Bed: Ma ‘Tit Fille Buckwheat Zydeco
The Big Easy soundtrack, Mango - Instrumental: Hang ‘Em High Booker T. & The MGs
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Box, Stax - Up on Cripple Creek The Band
The Last Waltz, Warner Bros. - Act Naturally Buck Owens
The Very Best of Buck Owens Vol.1, Rhino - Last Kind Word Blues Geechie Wiley
Crumb soundtrack, Ryko - Catfish Blues Big Jack Johnson
Deep Blues DVD, Fox Lorber - Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days Louis Prima & the Witnesses
Big Night soundtrack, TVT - I Wanna be Loved By You Marilyn Monroe
The Essential Recordings, Music Club - My Mammy (from The Jazz Singer) Al Jolson
Warner Bros. 75 Years of Film Music Box, Rhino - As Time Goes By Dooley Wilson
Casablanca soundtrack, Rhino - End Bed: You Oughta Be In Pictures Matt Sakakeeny
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