American Routes Goes to the Movies
Think all the glamour is in Hollywood? This week on American Routes we’re going to the movies. John Sayles, writer-director of such classic films as “Lonestar” and “Matewan” talks about how he uses music to evoke emotion. Quebequois director Andre Gladu shares his documentary vision and stories of following music along the Mississippi and French Louisiana. Plus composer Thomas Newman takes us behind the scenes of Altman’s “The Player,” Disney’s “Wall-E” and more.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Introduction Charlie Haden Quartet West
Haunted Heart, Polydor/PolyGram France
Since I Met You Baby Ivory Joe Hunter
Lone Star: Original Soundtrack, Daring
Saturday Night at the Movies The Drifters
All-Time Greatest Hits, K-Tel
Movie Magg Carl Perkins
The Classics, Bear Family
Picture Show John Prine
The Missing Years, Oh Boy
The Monument Valley Drive-By Truckers
Brighter Than Creation's Dark, New West
Johnny Too Bad The Slickers
The Harder They Come: Original Soundtrack, Island
Hello Stranger Barbara Lewis
Talk to Me: Music from the Motion Picture, Atlantic
Instrumental: Yekermo Sew Mulatu Astatke
Broken Flowers: Music from the Film, Decca
I Can't Be Satisfied Jeffery Wright
Cadillac Records: Music from the Motion Picture, Special Deluxe Edition, Sony BMG
Gotta Serve Somebody Shirley Caesar
Masked and Anonymous: Music from the Motion Picture, Sony
INTERVIEW: John Sayles
Instrumental: Lagrimas De Acero Duke Levine, Evan Harlan, Marshall Wood and Tim Jackson
Lone Star: Original Soundtrack, Daring
Sad Movies Make Me Cry Gloria Crawford
Trojan Sixties Box Set, Sanctuary
Act Naturally The Beatles
Help!, EMI
Ingrid Bergman Billy Bragg
Mermaid Avenue, Elektra
Matinee Damien Jurado
Where Shall You Take Me, Secretly Canadian
Ballad of a Teenage Queen Johnny Cash
The Man in Black, 1954-1958 Box, Bear Family
End Bed: When I Fall in Love Dianne Reeves
Good Night, and Good Luck, Concord
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Repair Ward Thomas Newman
Wall-E: Soundtrack, Walt Disney
If I Had a Talking Picture of You Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders
The History of Pop Radio, International Music Co
La Vie en Rose Louis Armstrong
Wall-E: Soundtrack, Walt Disney
Chantez les Bas Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt Box, Bear Family
INTERVIEW: Andre Gladu
Instrumental: Always There Rebirth Brass Band
Rebirth For Life, Tipitina's
You Don't Know What You Mean (To a Lover Like Me) The Sugarman 3 featuring Lee Fields
Soul Men Soundtrack, Stax
Generique Miles Davis
Jazz in Paris: Ascenseur Pour L 'echafaud, Universal Jazz France
One for My Baby Dianne Reeves
Good Night, and Good Luck, Concord
INTERVIEW: Thomas Newman
Instrumental: 72 Degrees and Sunny Thomas Newman
Wall-E: Soundtrack, Walt Disney
All the World is Green Tom Waits
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Original Soundtrack, Hollywood
Living Proof Cat Power
My Blueberry Nights: Music from the Motion Picture, BlueNote
Audrey Dave Brubeck
The Essential Dave Brubeck, Columbia
As Time Goes By Billie Holiday
The Complete Commodore Recordings, GRP
End Bed: As Time Goes By Dave McKenna
Dave "Fingers" McKenna, Chiaroscuro