In the Studio
American Routes takes a peek at the producers, sidemen and record company moguls who can make or break a record. New Orleans saxophonist Harold Battiste on playing with Ornette Coleman, acting as music director for Sonny & Cher, and founding his own jazz and blues label. Plus the inside story on Muddy Waters’ much maligned, but imaginative, 1968 album Electric Mud.
HOUR ONE
The Music Goes Round and Round Paul Gayten
Creole Kings of New Orleans - The Chess Years, MCA
INTERVIEW: Dixie Cups
Iko, Iko Dixie Cups
The Red Bird Story, Charly
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans
Phil Spector: Back To Mono, abkco
Rose Room Benny Goodman & Charlie Christian
The Genius of the Electric Guitar, Columbia
Blues with Lips Hot Lips Page with the Count Basie Orchestra
Spirituals to Swing, Vanguard
The Fix (One Naughty Flat) Dr. John
More Gumbo Stew, Ace/AFO
INTERVIEW: Harold Battiste
Instrumental: Marcho Rock & Roll Isidro Lopez
El Indio, Arhoolie
La Novia Antonia Conjunto Bernal & Mando Marroquin
Tejano Roots, Arhoolie
Wooly Bully Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
Best of, Rhino
Just Walkin' in the Rain The Prisonaires
Sun: The Singles Collection, Bear Family
Matchbox Carl Perkins
The Classic, Bear Family
Dirt Road Blues Bob Dylan
Time Out of Mind, Columbia
Orphan Girl Emmylou Harris
Wrecking Ball, Elektra
Harborcoat REM
Reckoning, IRS
HOUR TWO
Fishing Blues Henry Thomas
Anthology of American Folk Music, Folkways
Single Girl, Married Girl Carter Family
In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family
I Be's Troubled Muddy Waters
Complete Plantation Recordings, MCA/Chess
I Just Want to Make Love to You Muddy Waters
His Best 1947-1955, MCA/Chess
INTERVIEW: Marshall Chess, Pete Cosey, Louis Satterfield on Muddy Waters ‘Electric Mud'
Instrumental: Black Satin / What If / Agharta Prelude Dub Miles Davis / Bill Laswell
Panthalassa - remixes of 70s Miles, Columbia
Black Satin Miles Davis/Bill Laswell
Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974, Columbia
King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown Augustus Pablo
King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown, Shanachie
Soul-Kissing DJ Logic
The Anomaly, Ropeadope
Instrumental: Church of Logic Medeski Martin & Wood with DJ Logic
Combustication, Blue Note
Don't Worry Bout Me Lou Donaldson
Good Gracious, Blue Note
Don't Worry Bout Me Don't Worry Bout Me
The Complete Capitol Singles Collection, Capitol
Sweet & Lowdown George Gershwin
Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls, Elektra
The Song Is Ended Mose Allison
I Don't Worry About a Thing, Rhino