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