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MAKE AMERICAN ROUTES GREAT AGAIN: STRONGER TOGETHER... IN SONGS AND STORIES
This week on American Routes, we’re here to Make American Routes Great Again! Stronger Together… in Songs & Stories. With just a few days left before relief or disbelief in our diverse democracy… we bring you ghosts of elections past and present… And the words of lofty American songmakers Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, Los Lobos and Bruce Springsteen. We’ll give a smidgeon of equal time to politicians from both parties whose sounds take to the podium and the stage: Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander on piano and Tim Kaine from Virginia on harmonica.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: The Preacher Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith Retrospective, Blue Note - This Land Is Your Land Sharon Jones
Naturally, Daptone - Be Careful How You Vote Sunnyland Slim
Be Careful How You Vote, Earwig - Fortunate Son Creedence Clearwater Revival
Chronicle, Fantasy - Political World Carolina Chocolate Drops
Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan, Amnesty International - Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues Bob Dylan
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased), Columbia - Instrumental: Watergate Blues Modern Jazz Quartet
Echoes, Pablo - I Pity the Poor Immigrant Marion Williams
The New Message, Atlantic - Plane Wreck at Los Gatos Bruce Springsteen
Til We Outnumber 'em: Songs of Woody Guthrie, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum/Woody Guthrie Foundation - Soy Mexico Americano Los Cenzontles
Raza de Oro, Cenzontles - Only in America Jay and the Americans
God Bless the USA, MCA - One Time One Night Los Lobos
By the Light of the Moon, Warner Bros. - Instrumental: Stars and Stripes Forever / Sweethearts on Parade The Kalima Brothers
Legends of the Ukelele, Rhino - No Banker Left Behind Ry Cooder
Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, Nonesuch - Prohibition Blues Jorma Kaukonen
Blue Country Heart, Columbia - Franklin Roosevelt's Back Again Cox Brothers
Old Time Southern Dance Music, Old Timey - Guitar Pickin' President Jimmie Martin
Jimmie Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys, Bear Family - CLIP: Tim Kaine
- End Bed: Stars and Stripes Forever Eubie Blake
The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake, Columbia
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Happy Days Are Here Again Casa Loma Orchestra
Songs of the Depression, Bear Family - Roosevelt in Trinidad The Atilla
Roosevelt in Trinidad, Rounder Records - The only thing we have to fear... Franklin Delano Roosevelt
20th Century Time Capsule, Buddha Records - No Depression Carter Family
In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family - Hard Times Come Again No More Johnny Cash
Unearthed, American Recordings - CLIP: Robert Byrd
- CLIP: Roland Cheramie
- Instrumental: The House I Live In Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins 1956, Giants of Jazz - Mr. President Have Pity on the Working Man Randy Newman
Good Ol' Boys, Warner - Mr. President Big Boy Henry
Work's Many Voices Vol. 1, JEMF/DownHome Music - What's Going On Marvin Gaye
What's Going On, Tamla - The Day After Tomorrow Tom Waits
Real Gone, ANTI - For What It's Worth Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield, ATCO - Once They Banned Imagine Drive-By Truckers
American Band, ATO Records - Instrumental: The Beautiful American Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
The Great Summit, Blue Note - Long Walk to DC Staple Singers
Soul Folk in Action, Stax - The Times They Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A-Changin', Columbia - A Change Is Gonna Come Terrence Trent Darby with Booker T & the MG's
Freedom: Songs From the Heart of America, Sony - End Bed: America the Beautiful The Happyland Band
Saints' Paradise: Trombone Shout Bands from the United House of Prayer, Smithsonian Folkways
