Resolutions for a New Year
American Routes tests your resolve with music about food, drink and the good life, as well as songs that ask us to keep our promises to ourselves and one another. Tempting visits with some of New Orleans great cooks from Commander's Palace restaurant to Tee Eva's Praline Shop. Artists featured for their topical tunes include Cab Calloway, Otis Redding and Southern Culture on the Skids.
HOUR ONE
Pork Chops And Mustard Greens Ernie Andrews w/ Maxwell Davis Orchestra
Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin', Capitol
All That Meat And No Potatoes Louis Armstrong
Satch Plays Fats, Columbia/Legacy
Red Beans Professor Longhair
BBQ Soul-a-Bration, Rhino
Fried Neck Bones And Some Home Fries Willie Bobo
BBQ Soul-a-Bration, Rhino
Instrumental: Captain Bacardi Antonio Carlos Jobim
The Man From Ipanema, Verve
INTERVIEW: Lally Brennan & Jamie Shannon of Commander's Palace
Oleo Miles Davis & Modern Jazz Giants
Bag's Groove, Fantasy
Hey Good Lookin Mose Allison
Allison Wonderland, Rhino
Hold Tight Andrews Sisters
Cream of the Andrews Sisters, Past
Instrumental: Salt Peanut Dizzy Gillespie
YardBird Suite: The Ultimate Charlie Parker Collection, Rhino
INTERVIEW: Leah Chase of Dooky Chase Restaurant
A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But A Bird Cab Calloway and his Orchestra
DinerMite - The Swingin' Diner!, Sony
When You Want Chili Bus Moten & His Men
Kansas City Blues, Capitol
Givin' Up Food For Funk (Parts 1 & 2) The J.B.'s
Funky Good Time: The Anthology, Polygram
Polk Salad Annie Tony Joe White
The Best of, Warner
Too Much Pork for Just One Fork Southern Culture On The Skids
Ditch Diggin, Safe House
HOUR TWO
New Year's Resolution Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
The Definitive Otis Redding, Rhino
I Want a Tall Skinny Papa Rosetta Tharpe & Lucky Millinder
Lucky Millinder & His Orshestra 1941/1947, EPM
So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed Merle Travis
Guitar Rags and a Too Fast Past, Bear Family
Skin and Bone Kinks
Muswell Hillbillies, RCA
Big Legged Mama's Are Back In Style Taj Mahal
Mean Old World: The Blues from 1940 to 1944 Vol. 4, Smithsonian Folkways
Instrumental: Chicken Shack Little Walter
Blues With A Feeling, MCA/Chess
Nobody In Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll like Mine Bessie Smith
The Complete Recordings Vol.1, Columbia
I Like Pie, I Like Cake The Four Clefs
The Jive is Jumpin', West Side
INTERVIEW: Tee Eva of Tee Eva's Pie and Praline Shop
Shortnin Bread Lee Dorsey
Golden Classics, Collectables
Church Lyle Lovett
Joshua Judges Ruth, MCA
Instrumental: Go Down Moses Grant Green
Jazz Profile, Blue Note
Bucket's Got a Hole In It (Kermit Ruffins' BBQ Turkey Recipe) Kermit Ruffins
Swing This, Basin St.
The Fat Man Fats Domino
Out Of New Orleans, Bear Family
Jambalaya Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis, Sun Classics
End Bed: The Way You Look Tonight Erroll Garner Trio
Giants of Jazz, Sarabandas