Winter is Cool! No, It's Cold!!

American Routes combats cold, dark winter days with music and stories to keep you warm.  Virtuoso fiddler/violinist Mark O'Connor discusses his latest composition, American Seasons. Seamus Egan and Win Horan of the Irish-American band Solas take a musical journey from Philadelphia and Brooklyn to Ireland, and back.  Plus Mae Nagark on Eskimo music from the Inupiat village near Barrow, Alaska.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Winter Wonderland Sonny Rollins
The Complete RCA, BMG

Baby It's Cold Outside Ray Charles and Betty Carter
Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated to You, Rhino

Makin' Whoopee The Barry Sisters
Hebrew National Kosher Classics, RCA

Please Warm My Weiner Bo Carter
Please Warm My Weiner, Yazoo

Footprints In The Snow Bill Monroe
Bluegrass 1950-1958, Bear Family

Cold Cold Heart Jerry Lee Lewis
Duets, Sun

INTERVIEW: Charles Wolfe

Battle of New Orleans Jimmie Driftwood
Nashville at Newport, Vanguard

Eighth of January Tony Rice
Tony Rice, Rounder

Instrumental: Arkansas Traveler Mark O'Connor
The Championship Years, CMF

INTERVIEW: Mark O'Connor

Pauline (Pa Janvier) Beausoleil
Michael Doucet Dit Beausoleil, Swallow

Instrumental: Dinah Howard Armstrong
Louie Bluie, Blue Suit

Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning Mississippi Fred McDowell
15 Down Home Gospel Classics, Arhoolie

This Little Light of Mine Blind James Campbell & His Nashville Street Band
Blind James Campbell, Arhoolie

Cold Weather Blues Muddy Waters w/Buddy Guy
Folk Singer, MCA/Chess

Cold, Cold Heart Lucinda Williams
Hank Williams: Timeless, Lost Highway

Seasons of My Heart George Jones
Cup of Loneliness, The Classic Mercury Years, Mercury

HOUR TWO

Funk In Deep Freeze Hank Mobley
The Blue Note Years, Vol. 2, Blue Note

Cold, Cold Feeling T-Bone Walker
The Complete Imperial Recordings, 1950-1954, EMI

Four Seasons (Version 1) The Maytals
Never Grow Old, Heartbeat

Let the Four Winds Blow Roy Brown
The Complete Imperial Recordings, Capitol

Nine Below Zero Sonny Boy Williamson
His Best, Chess

Cold Dark Night Charlie Feathers
Uh Huh Honey, Norton

Instrumental: Winter Always Turns To Spring Bill Frisell
Ghost Town, Nonesuch

Ah hum mum ma Tudjatt
Heart Beat 2: More Voices of First Nations Women, Smithsonian Folkways

INTERVIEW: Mae Nagark and David Stone, from the village of Point Hope in northern Alaska

Igloo Betty Hutton
The Best of the RCA Years, One Way

Winter Moon Hoagy Charmichael
Great Jazz Vocalists Sing Hoagy Charmichael, Capitol

Intro No.1 / Reel Beatrice
The Brothers McMullen soundtrack, Arista

INTERVIEW: Seamus Egan and Win Horan of Solas

Rain & Snow Pentangle
A Maid That's Deep In Love, Shanachie

Winter's Come and Gone Gillian Welch
Live on American Routes, 1999, American Routes Original Recording

Here Comes The Sun George Harrison
Concert for Bangladesh, Apple

End Bed: Within You, Without You The Beatles
Anthology 2, Apple

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