Families in Music

The family that plays together stays together, and this week on American Routes we have a couple of them. First up, it’s 12 and Shorty, better known as James and Troy Andrews, brothers and horn players with a long New Orleans musical lineage. Rockers and brothers Cody and Willy Braun, of Reckless Kelly, and their father Muzzie share their memories of being in a cowboy family band.

HOUR ONE

"Wynton Speaks" and "Cain and Abel" The Marsalis Family
The Marsalis Family: A Jazz Celebration, Marsalis Music/Rounder

Brotherly Love Louis Jordan
Let the Good Times Roll, Bear Family

Thank You Mama, Thank You Papa Dixie Cups
Teen Anguish, Vol. 1, Charly

Mama and Papa Earl King
Come On: The Complete Imperial Recordings, Okra-Tone

Mama Don't Allow Billie and DeDe Pierce
Gulf Coast Blues, Arhoolie

Instrumental: Bourbon Street Parade James and Troy Andrews
American Routes original recording

INTERVIEW: James and Troy Andrews

Stranger in My Own Home Town Percy Mayfield
His Tangerine and Atlantic Sides, Rhino

Little Sister Elvis Presley
From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential 60's Masters, RCA

Sister's Coming Home Willie Nelson
Phases and Stages, Atlantic

Instrumental: Cousin Sally Brown The Doc Watson Family
The Doc Watson Family, Folkways

I Had a Real Good Mother and Father Gillian Welch
Soul Journey, Acony

That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine The Everly Brothers
Classic Everly Brothers, Bear Family

Valse de Balfa The Balfa Brothers
Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music, Vol. 1 & 2, Swallow

Mom and Dad's Waltz Jerry Lee Lewis
The Locust Years…, Bear Family

My Blue Heaven Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family

HOUR TWO

Open Bed: Devil's Dream Sid Hemphill
Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia, Rounder

My Daddy's Blues Jessie Mae Hemphill
Feelin' Good, High Water/HMG

If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Fantasy

If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again The Paramount Singers
Work & Pray On, Arhoolie

Swanee River Rock Billy Lee Riley
The Sun Years, SAAR

Instrumental: Old Folks at Home Gremoli
The Solstice Sessions, Dargason Music

I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home Doc & Merle Watson
Home Sweet Home, Sugar Hill

Daddy Frank (the Guitar Man) Merle Haggard
The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology, Razor & Tie

INTERVIEW: Willy and Cody Braun of Reckless Kelly, and Muzzie Braun

Instrumental: Home Sweet Home Doc & Merle Watson
Home Sweet Home, Sugar Hill

Blue Railroad Train Delmore Brothers
Brown's Ferry Blues, County

Train Song The Holmes Brothers
Righteous!, Rounder

Green Green Grass of Home Porter Waggoner
The Essential Porter Waggoner, RCA

I'm Goin' Home Ervin Webb, with prisoners
Southern Journey Vol. 3: 61 Highway Mississippi, Rounder

Glory, Glory Pops Staples
Father Father, Virgin

End Bed: End of My Journey The Campbell Brothers featuring Katie Jackson
Pass Me Not, Arhoolie

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