Memorial Day
Join American Routes for the year’s first official road trip holiday, Memorial Day. To commemorate it, we’ll visit roadside sites that are sacred: a shrine to Our Lady of the Highways and the grave of Jimi Hendrix. Plus an early traveler in rockabilly and rock ‘n’ roll; James Burton tells some tales.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Suzie Q James Burton
The Guitar Sound of James Burton, A&M
Key to the Highway Dinah Washington
Back to the Blues, Roulette
One for the Highway James Booker
Classified, Rounder
Be My Chauffeur Clifton Chenier
Clifton Sings the Blues, Arhoolie
I Want to Be Your Driver Chuck Berry
His Best Vol. 2, Chess
Motivatin' Man Red Simpson
Country Western Truck Drivin Singer, Razor & Tie
Six Days on the Road Dave Dudley
Legends of Guitar - Country Vol. 2, Rhino
Instrumental: Johnny B Goode James Burton
The Guitar Sound of James Burton, A&M
INTERVIEW: James Burton
Return of the Grievous Angel Gram Parsons
GP/Grevious Angel, Warner
Instrumental: Back Home Indiana Merrill Moore
Boogie My Blues Away, Bear Family
99 and 1/2 Dorothy Love Coates
Oxford American Sampler 1999, Oxford American
99 and 1/2 Won't Do Wilson Pickett
A Man and a Half, Rhino
Don't Let the Devil Ride Joe May
Men of Gospel, Peacock
V-8 Ford Blues Mose Allison
Alison Wonderland, Rhino
Travelin' Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith
Blue Bash, Verve
The Long and Winding Road Aretha Franklin
Young Gifted and Black, Rhino
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Moon, Turn The Tides… gently gently away Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland, MCA
So Many Roads, So Many Trains Otis Rush
Chess Blues Classics 1957 to 1967, MCA
On the Road Again Canned Heat
Blues Masters, Vol. 7: Blues Revival, Rhino
SEGMENT: grave of Jimi Hendrix
Instrumental: Capitaine Corey Harris
Downhome Sophisticate, Rounder
Me and the Devil Blues Robert Johnson
King of the Delta Blues Singers, Sony
Highway Patrolman Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska, Sony
The Devil Had A Hold Of Me Gillian Welch
Hell Among the Yearlings, Almo
Wreck on the Highway Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will the Circle Be Unbroken, EMI
SEGMENT: Our Lady of The Highways roadside shrine
Wayfaring Stranger Eva Cassidy
Songbird, Blix St.
Instrumental: Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Pickin' On The Grateful Dead
Pickin' On The Grateful Dead, CMH
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Elizabeth Cotten
Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, Folkways
Long Road to Travel Lonnie Johnson
Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection, Folkways
Country Honk Rolling Stones
Let it Bleed, ABCKO
Lost Highway Hank Williams
Complete, MGM
End of the Road Jerry Lee Lewis
Classic Vol. 1, Bear Family
End Bed: Sugarfoot Rag Junior Brown
Junior High, Curb