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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
THE NEW YEAR
Start your year out right with American Routes as we get a millennial crash course for Ninety-Nine.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Hello Mr. New Year The Coolbreezers
Hipsters' Holiday, Rhino - Happy New Year Lightning Hopkins
Lightning Hopkins, Arhoolie - Happy New Year To You Sun Ra & The Qualities
The Singles, Evidence - Bon Ton Roulet Clifton Chenier
Kwanzaa Music, Rounder - This Year Loudon Wainwright
Therapy, Silvertone - It Was a Very Good Year Frank Sinatra
The Very Good Years, Reprise - It Was a Very Good Beer Homer J. Simpson
Songs in the Key of Springfield, Rhino - Instrumental: One Mint Julep Ray Charles
Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection, Rhino - No More Alcohol Joe Liggins
Jumpin' Like Mad, Capitol Blues - Firewater Butch Hancock
Own & Own, Sugar Hill - Hangover Blues Rose Maddox
Maddox Brothers and Rose: Vol. 1, 1946-51, Arhoolie - Here Comes a Regular The Replacements
Tim, Sire - Freedom is in the Trying Jon Hendricks/Wynton Marsalis
Blood on the Fields, Columbia - Old Jim Crow Nina Simone
Nina Simone Sings Nina, Verve - Instrumental: Joyce No. 2 Johnson Mkhalali
Indestructible Beat of Soweto, Shanachie - Anonymous hoddu player from Senegal
- Rambin By Myself John Lee Hooker
The Complete '50s Chess Recordings, Chess - Sitting On Top of the World Moses Williams
live on Folkmasters, - Sitting On Top of the World Hubert Sumlin
Heart & Soul, Blind Pig - Ai Du Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder
Talking Timbuktu, Hannibal
HOUR two
- Happy Days Are Here Again Casa Loma Orchestra
The Great Depression: American Music in the '30s, Columbia/Legacy - Happy New Year Spike Jones & his City Slickers
Spike Jones Anthology, Rhino - New Year's Resolution Otis & Carla
Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding, Rhino - New Year's Resolution Lil' Son Jackson
The Complete Imperial Recordings, Capitol - Barroom Girls Gillian Welch
Revival, Almo - I Saw the Light Hank Williams
The Original Singles Collection, Polygram - The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise Les Paul & Mary Ford
All-Time Greatest Hits, Capitol - Instrumental: Meet Mr. Callaghan Les Paul
All Time Greatest Hits, Capitol - Passion Dance McCoy Tyner
The Best of McCoy Tyner, Blue Note - Spirit in the Dark Aretha Franklin
Spirit in the Dark, Atlantic/Rhino - The Rivers of Babylon The Melodians
By The Rivers of Babylon: Timeless Hymns of Rastafari, Shanachie - Meet the Boys on the Battlefront Wild Tchoupitoulas
New Orleans Party Classics, Rhino - Instrumental: 4th of July U2
Unforgettable Fire, Island - Girl from the North Country Bob Dylan
Nashville Skyline, Columbia - Tomorrow is a Long Time Sandy Denny
Sandy, A & M - O Day Georgia Sea Island Singers
Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder - Auld Lang Syne Olympia Brass Band
New Orleans Brass Bands: Down Yonder, Rounder - End Bed: Blackeyed Peas and Rice Hubert Laws
The Laws of Jazz/Flute By-Law, Rhino
