Love is Strange with Jim Lauderdale and Judy Collins
Summer’s comings and goings have us revisiting songs of love found and lost. Whether it’s from swooning crooners or heartbroken honky-tonkers, love has wedged itself prominently in the American songbook. We talk to two songwriters who specialize in matters of the heart: ’60s folk chanteuse Judy Collins and Americana songmaker Jim Lauderdale, a.k.a. “The King of Broken Hearts.” Plus we hear soulful sweet songs from the Pointer Sisters and the Four Tops, ballads of love on the rocks from George Jones and Tracy Chapman, and love confessions for “My Girl, Josephine” by Fats Domino and “Ophelia” by The Band. Join us for songs of love sad and happy, sexy and silly, careless and calculated on American Routes.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Both Sides Now Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will the Circle be Unbroken, Capitol
Love is Strange Mickey & Sylvia
Dirty Dancing (Soundtrack), RCA
You Were on My Mind Ian & Silvia
Long Long Time, Vanguard
Give Me One Reason Tracy Chapman
New Beginning, Elektra
Still Doing Time George Jones
The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country Disc 2, Legacy
Love Me Do The Beatles
The Beatles 1962-1966, Capitol
Who Do You Love? Bo Diddley
His Best, MCA
Instrumental: When She Loved Me Randy Newman
Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1, Nonesuch
SEGMENT: Judy Collins
Instrumental: Body and Soul Nat King Cole
The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio, Capitol
My Man Billie Holiday
Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday, Columbia/Legacy
My Guy Mary Wells
The Best of Mary Wells: The Millennium Collection, Motown
Finest Lovin' Man Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt, Warner Brothers
Time is On My Side Irma Thomas
I Wish Someone Would Care, Imperial
It's All Over Now Rebirth Brass Band
The Main Event: Live at the Maple Leaf, Louisiana Red Hot
Careless Love Wild Bill Davison and band with Bertha "Chippie" Hill
This is Jazz, the Historic Broadcasts Vol. 6, Jazzology Records
End Bed: Wonderful World Treme Brass Band
Sound of New Orleans: Best of the Brass Bands, Sound of New Orleans
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Careless Love Blues Danny Barker
The Fabulous Band of Danny Barker, Gramercy Jazz
You're the Cream in my Coffee Nat King Cole
The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio, Capitol
Sugar The Pointer Sisters
The Pointer Sisters, Blue Thumb
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) The Four Tops
The Ultimate Collection, Motown
Sugar Bee Cleveland Crochet and All the Sugar Bees
Cleveland Crochet and All the Sugar Bees, Goldband
Sugar Magnolia Grateful Dead
American Beauty, Warner Brothers
Instrumental: Sunshine Twist Jelly Roll Kings
Rockin' the Juke Joint Down, Earwig
He Was a Friend of Mine Willie Nelson
Brokeback Mountain: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Verve
Ring of Fire Johnny Cash
The Essential Johnny Cash, Columbia/Legacy
Marina Los Texmaniacs
Borders y Bailes, Smithsonian Folkways
My Girl Josephine Fats Domino
Antoine "Fats" Domino: The Legendary Imperial Recordings, Imperial
Ophelia The Band
Northern Lights, Southern Cross, Capitol
SEGMENT: Jim Lauderdale
Instrumental: Turn, Turn, Turn Bill Firsell
Guitar in the Space Age, Nonesuch
Touching the Ground Brandi Carlile
Give Up the Ghost, Columbia
She Belongs to Me Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
Tomorrow is a Long Time Sandy Denny
Sandy, A&M
End Bed: It's All Over Now Baby Blue Grateful Dead
Dick's Picks Volume 9: The Grateful Dead Live at Madison Square Garden, Grateful Dead