From Backroads to Backatown: Drive-By Truckers and Trombone Shorty
Follow American Routes as we travel the back roads for some new Southern sounds. The Drive-By Truckers have been up and down the highways since the mid-90s, delivering their unique mix of social commentary, old-fashioned storytelling and rock n’ roll, between stops in their hometowns of Muscle Shoals, AL and Athens, GA. We sit down with the band in uptown New Orleans to learn more about their journey in music and fascination with the South. Then we head backatown to catch up with New Orleans’ own Troy Andrews, a.k.a. Trombone Shorty, to hear about how he mixes trad jazz, rock and hip-hop to create ‘Superfunkrock.’
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: She Breaks Booker T. and the Drive-by Truckers
Potato Hole, Anti
Ode to Billy Joe Tammy Wynette
Take Me To Your World-I Don’t Want to Play House, Koch
You Are My Sunshine Ray Charles
The Complete Country & Western Recordings 1959-1986, Rhino
Tell Mama Etta James
The Muscle Shoals Sound, Rhino
Mama Don't Like My Man Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
I Learned the Hard Way, Daptone
Thank You Mama, Thank You Papa Dixie Cups
Best of the Dixie Cups, Laserlight
Instrumental: Let Me Know Hank Jones
The Talented Touch/ Porgy and Bess, Okra-tone
You're the Kind of Trouble Holmes Brothers
Feed My Soul, Alligator
I Walk the Line Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash: The Legend, Columbia
Eight Men, Four Women O.V. Wright
The Soul of O.V. Wright, MCA
Guilty Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Reprise
The Last Time Bettye LaVette
The Scene of the Crime, Anti
Instrumental: A Hunk of Funk Gene Dozier and the Brotherhood
The Minit Records Story, EMI
SEGMENT: Drive-By Truckers
Alabama Neil Young
Harvest, Reprise
I'll Take You There Staples Singers
The Muscle Shoals Sound, Rhino
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: In the 6th Trombone Shorty
Backatown, Verve
Music Goes Round and Round Ella Fitzgerald
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!, Verve
Big Ten Inch Record Bull Moose Jackson
Risque Rhythm: Nasty 50s R&B, Rhino
I've Got the Blues for You Al Collins Orchestra
The Best of Ace Records: The R&B Hits, Scotti Bros
Trombone Cholly Bessie Smith
The Essential Bessie Smith, Columbia
West End Blues Louis Armstrong
Jazzin' the Blues, Forlane
Instrumental: South Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
The Swing Era: Kid Ory, The Best of Jazz
I Got Mine Kermit Ruffins
Livin' a Treme Life, Basin Street
Ooh Poo Pah Doo, Part 1 Jesse Hill
The Minit Records Story, EMI
Heart of Steel Irma Thomas & Galactic
Yay-Ki-Ma, Anti
SEGMENT: Trombone Shorty
Instrumental: Flowing River Bennie Green
Trombone By Three, Prestige
Willie Baby Willie Colon
The Player, Fania
Wooly Bully Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs
The Best of Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs, Rhino
Shout Bamalama Otis Redding and the Pinetoppers
Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding, Rhino
Salt of the Earth Bettye LaVette
Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, Anti
America Andre Williams
That's All I Need, Bloodshot
End Bed: Egg Radio Bill Frisell
Gone, Just Like a Train, Nonesuch