Spring into Easter with the Paschall Brothers, Charlie Louvin and the Santa Maria Produce Company
Body, soul and Earth are rejuvenated at this special time of year when winter turns to spring. Spend some of it with Virginia-based gospel group the Paschall Brothers, who perform an in-studio, a cappella set. Then meet Charlie Louvin, who along with brother Ira made up the Louvin Brothers. Famous for their familial harmonies as much as for their hellfire and brimstone tunes like “The Drunkard’s Grave,” and “Satan is Real,” Charlie recalls the brothers’ heyday and talks about getting his second wind as a performer. And take a ride with Shreveport, Louisiana’s Santa Maria Produce Company in their trucks covered by hand-painted reproductions of da Vinci’s Last Supper and other religious iconography.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Broadminded Louvin Brothers
When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of the Louvin Brothers, Razor & Tie
(I'm) Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs Elvis Presley
His Hand in Mine, RCA
The Ballad of John & Yoko John Lennon
The U.S. vs. John Lennon: Music from the Motion Picture, Capitol
Sin City The Flying Burrito Brothers
The Gilded Palace of Sin, Edsel
Milky White Way The Trumpeteers
Goodbye, Babylon, Dust-to-Digital
Up Above My Head Sharon Jones with Billy Rivers and the Angelic Voices of Faith
The Great Debaters: Music from & Recorded for the Motion Picture, Atlantic
Instrumental: Old Gospel Jackie McLean
New and Old Gospel, Blue Note
Swing Down Chariot (aka Let Me Ride) The Staple Singers
The Best of the Vee-Jay Years, Shout! Factory
Great Speckled Bird Lucinda Williams
Ramblin', Smithsonian Folkways
SEGMENT: Charlie Louvin
Instrumental: Just As I Am Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
When the Springtime Comes Again The Carter Family
In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family
Springtime Can Kill You Jolie Holland
Springtime Can Kill You, Anti
Sally Go 'Round the Roses The Jaynettes
Chess Rhythm & Roll, MCA/Chess
Just a Closer Walk With Thee Happyland Band
Saints' Paradise, Smithsonian Folkways
Down by the Riverside The Blind Boys of Alabama with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Allen Toussaint
Down in New Orleans, Time/Life
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: I'll be Satisfied and Christian Automobile Paschall Brothers
American Routes original recording
SEGMENT: Santa Maria Produce Company in Shreveport, LA
Shadrack Louis Prima
Ultra-Lounge: Wild, Cool & Swingin', Volume One, Capitol
Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Original Soul Sister, Proper
In the Sweet Bye and Bye Johnny Cash
Personal File, Columbia/Legacy
Instrumental: In the Sweet Bye and Bye George Lewis
The Atlantic Jazz New Orleans Sessions, Mosaic
Easter Parade Oscar Peterson
The Song is You: Best of the Verve Songbooks, Verve
It Might as Well Be Spring Jackie Terrason & Cassandra Wilson
Rendezvous, Blue Note
Carry Go Bring Come Justin Hines and the Dominoes
Jezebel, Island
You Gotta Move Sam Cooke
Night Beat, RCA
The Preacher Horace Silver
The Best of Horace Silver, Blue Note
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands Nina Simone & Her Trio
My Baby Just Cares for Me, Gambit
On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual) Bessie Smith
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Bessie Smith, Columbia/Legacy
SEGMENT: The Paschall Brothers in-studio performance
Get On Board, Little Children
Christian Automobile
This is a Mean Old World
End Bed: I'll be Satisfied Paschall Brothers
American Routes original recording