Routes March On: Brass Bands & Cajun Youths

Visit with musicians taking Louisiana roots music forward into the 21st century. Brass Bands like Soul Rebels, Rebirth and Hot 8 can be found everywhere in the streets and clubs of the Crescent City, mixing rap and funk with older traditional numbers. While over in Cajun country, the Pine Leaf Boys swap accordions and fiddles for guitars, moving back and forth between Cajun and zydeco tunes and new originals.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed 1: Bourbon St. Parade Paul Barbarin
Atlantic Jazz: New Orleans, Atlantic

Open Bed 2: Get Up Hot 8 Brass Band
Rock With the Hot 8, Louisiana Red Hot

Alexander's Ragtime Band Bessie Smith
The Essential Bessie Smith, Columbia/Legacy

Cannabis Leaf Rag 1 Nicholas Payton
Sonic Trance, Warner Bros.

West End Blues Louis Armstrong
The Complete Hot Fives and Sevens Recordings, Columbia/Legacy

Music Goes 'Round and 'Round Paul Gayten
Chess King of New Orleans - The Chess Years, MCA/Chess

Little Boy Blue Robert Lockwood Jr. with Otis Spann
Essential Blues Guitar, HOB

Instrumental: Charlie Dozen The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
This is Jazz 30, Columbia

SEGMENT: New Orleans Brass Bands

Instrumental: Walking Through the Streets of the City Paul Barbarin
The Atlantic New Orleans Jazz Sessions, Atlantic

When He Calls Me I Will Answer Howard Armstrong
Louie Bluie, Blue Suit

We Will March Through the Streets of the City The Carter Family
Sunshine in the Shadows, Rounder

Streets of the City Johnny St. Cyr w/ Sister Elizabeth Eustis
Johnny St. Cyr, American Music

When the Saints Go Marching In Eddie Bo
Our New Orleans, Nonesuch

Ninth Ward Blues Irvin Mayfield
Irvin Mayfield, Basin Street

HOUR TWO

Open Bed: Pine Leaf Boy Two-step Pine Leaf Boys

Travailler C'est Trop Dur Coteau
Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder

Walking to Louisiana Clifton Chenier
Bon Ton Roulet, Arhoolie

They Call me Lazy Lazy Lester
The Excello Story, Volume 2: 1955 - 1957, Hip-O

Work Work Work Lee Dorsey
Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection, Arista

Work Song Cannonball Adderly
Greatest Hits, Milestone

Instrumental: John Henry Etta Baker
Railroad Bill, Sire

Young Man's Blues Mose Allison
Mose Allison's Greatest Hits, Prestige

Three Cool Cats The Coasters
50 Coastin' Classics, Rhino

Wild Wild Young Men Ruth Brown
Atlantic Rhythm & Blues: 1947 - 1974, Atlantic

Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young Faron Young
Rebels & Outlaws: Music from the Wild Side of Life, Capitol

C Jam Blues Ole Rasmussen & His Nebraska Cornhuskers
Swing West! Volume 3: Western Swing, Razor & Tie

Instrumental: Forth Worth Drag Auldridge, Brozman & Grisman
Tone Poems III, Acoustic Disc

If I Needed You Townes Van Zandt
The Late Great Townes Van Zandt, United Artist

Poor Girl's Blues Jolie Holland
Escondida, ANTI

Sur Le Borde De L 'Eau (On the Water's Edge) Blind Uncle Gaspard
Gaspard/Lachney/J. Bertrand: Early American Cajun Music, Yazoo

SEGMENT: Pine Leaf Boys

End Bed: Jig Cadjin Pine Leaf Boys
Les Blues de Musicien, La Louisiane

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