MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH US! AMERICAN ROUTES INDEPENDENCE DAY THEN & NOW
This July 4th weekend, we dive into the record crates to bring you music of celebration, hope and critique from Nina Simone, Randy Newman, Sly Stone and Jon Batiste. Then, the July 4th roots of American Routes as we go back to the 1990s, deep in the archive, for highlights from The American Roots Independence Day concerts at the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Join us for spectacular stage performances by the urbane blues hero Charles Brown, the Texas Playboys with Johnny Gimble playing Western swing, Mexican-American Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Young Tuxedo Brass with New Orleans jazz, and Hawaiian music and song of slack-key guitar master Ledward Kaapana.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Stars and Stripes Forever Eubie Blake
Eighty Six Years of Eubie Blake, Columbia
US Blues Grateful Dead
From the Mars Hotel, Warner
Long Walk to DC The Staple Singers
Soul Folk Action, Concord
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free Nina Simone
Nina Simone-- Silk & Soul, Sony
Dixie Flyer Randy Newman
Randy Newman Songbook Vol II, Nonesuch
If I Had a Hammer Toussaint McCall
Nothing Takes thhe Place Of You, Fuel 2000
Dance to the Music Sly and the Family Stone
Dance to the Music, Sony
Freedomm Jon Batiste
We Are, Verve
Instrumental: Pipeline/Ghostriders Ledward Kaapana
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Surfin' USA Beach Boys
Surfin' USA, Capitol
Back in the USA Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry Twist, UMG
Only in America Jay and the Americans
Come a Little Bit Closer: the Best of Jay & the Americans, Capitol
Across the Borderline Freddy Fender
The Golden Voices of the Texas Gulf Coast,
The Dreamer Jackson Browne (featuring Los Cenzontles)
The Dreamer Single, Inside Recordings
One Time, One Night in America Los Lobos
By the Light of the Moon, Waner
Instrumental: March! For Martin Luther King John Fahey
The Yellow Princess, Vanguard
I Shall Be Released Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol 2, Columbia
Carry It On Joan Baez
One Day at a Time, Vanguard
Man in Black Johnny Cash
The Essential Johnny Cash, Sony
Blowin' in the Wind Stevie Wonder
Up-Tight, Motown
End Bed: America the Beautiful Happyland Band
Trombone Shout Bands from the United House of Prayer, Folkways
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Do What You Wanna Bob French and the Young Tuxedo Jazz Band
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 2000 Original Recording
Henry Butler Patriotic Medley Bob French and the Young Tuxedo Jazz Band
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 2000 Original Recording
Texas Playboys Theme/Take Me Back to Tulsa The Texas Playboys
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording
Faded Love The Texas Playboys
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording
San Antonio Rose The Texas Playboys
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording
Instrumental: Radio Hula Ledward Kaapana and Clyde "Kindy" Sproat
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1998 Original Recording
My Companion the Horse Ledward Kaapana and Clude "Kindy" Sproat
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1998 Original Recording
Mauna Loa Slack-key Ledward Kaapana and Clyde "Kindy" Sproat
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1998 Original Recording
Guadalajara Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording
El Parrandero Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording
Jalisco Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording
Viva Mexico, Viva America! Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording
Instrumental: Just Playin' Kermit Ruffins, Irvin Mayfield, Wendell Brunious, Lery Jones, Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown
A Beautiful World, Basin Street
Going Down Slow Charles Brown
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording
Drifting Blues Charles Brown
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording
Seven Long Days Charles Brown
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording
End Bed: Instrumental Charles Brown
American Roots Fourth of July Concert in Washington DC 1993 Original Recording