WILCO
An acoustic performance from Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett, who front the Chicago rock band Wilco. Tweedy and Bennett talk about writing music for the lyrics of Woody Guthrie. Plus a guided tour of the Mississippi River Valley in Missouri and Illinois with music by Miles Davis, Chuck Berry, and John Hartford.
HOUR ONE
Hard Traveling Woody Guthrie
Hard Traveling, Folkways
Watchin' the River Flow Bob Dylan
Greatest Hits Vol.2, Columbia
One Room Country Shack Mercy Dee Walton
One Room Country Shack, Specialty
One Room Country Shack Jimmy D Lane
Legacy, APO
Instrumental: Someday Some Morning Sometime Wilco & Billy Bragg
Mermaid Avenue Volume 2, Reprise
INTERVIEW: Wilco
Airline to Heaven Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett
How to Fight Loneliness Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett
Blues for Illinois Dr. Ross
Down Home Harp, Testament
Illinois Blues Cephas & Wiggins
Homemade, Alligator
Instrumental: Melville Two-Step Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
Home Music with Spirits, Arhoolie
Parlez Nous a Boire Lil' Band O' Gold
Lil Band O' Gold, Shanachie
Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee Malcolm Yelvington
Sun Singles Vol.1, Bear Family
Louisian-i-a Michael White
A Song for George Lewis, Basin Street
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Maple Leaf Rag Marcus Roberts
Joy of Joplin, Columbia
Show Me Missouri Blues Julia Lee
Ladies Sing The Blues Mercury Records 1945-1957, Mercury
You Came a Long Way From St. Louis June Christy
Big Band Specials, Blue Note
Missouri Valley Carson Robison & His Pioneers
Home Sweet Home On The Prairie, ASV
Long Hot Summer Day John Hartford
Mark Twang, Flying Fish
Illinois Blues Alvin Youngblood Hart
Territory, Hannibal
Missouri Low
Secret Name, Kranky
Instrumental: Dance Around Molly Jake Hockemeyer and Russ Orchard
I'm Old But I'm Awfully Tough, Missouri Friends of the Folk Arts
INTERVIEW: Barry Bergey
Missouri Moan Cab Calloway
Volume 1 1929-1930, Masters of Jazz
St. Louis Blues Ann Peebles & The Memphis Horns
River of Song, Folkways
Instrumental: All Blues Miles Davis
Kind of Blue, Columbia
Some Day My Prince Will Come Miles Davis
Some Day My Prince Will Come, Columbia
Johnsburg, Illinois Tom Waits
Swordfishtrombones, Island
Down the Road Apiece Chuck Berry
Chess Box, MCA
Rock Island Line Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Long Way From Home, MCA