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