Memorial Day with the NEA National Heritage Fellows: Michael White, Beausoleil, Monk Boudreaux, Del McCoury, Koko Taylor and many more...
American Routes celebrates Memorial Day weekend with a sonic feast from National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellows—recipients of America’s most prestigious folk & traditional arts award. We’ll hear music and conversation from past Fellows: bluegrass picker Del McCoury, rockabilly Wanda Jackson, sacred steel guitarists, The Campbell Brothers, and late blues singer Koko Taylor. The 2016 Fellows included: Mardi Gras Indian Chief Monk Boudreaux, Irish accordionist Billy McComiskey, and Mexican-American singer Artemio Posadas. Other awardees range from basket makers in Kentucky and the Penobscot tribe in Maine to traditional wind instrumentalists from South Dakota and Laos.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Stealing Time Eddie Pennington
Walks the Strings... And Even Sings, Folkways
John Henry John Jackson
American Routes original studio recording,
Barack Obama Boogie Henry Gray & The Cats
Times Are Getting Hard , Lucky Cat
CLIP: Koko Taylor
I Got What It Takes Koko Taylor
What It Takes: The Chess Years , MCA
CLIP: Wanda Jackson
Hard Headed Woman Wanda Jackson
Vintage Collection, Capitol
Everyday Is Not the Same Carol Fran
Live at the 2013 National Heritage Fellowship Concert ,
Instrumental: The Prison Bars Beausoleil
Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
Chez Varise Connor Beausoleil
Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
Opihi Moe Moe Ledward Kaapana
Live at the 2011 National Heritage Fellowship Concert ,
SEGMENT: Del McCoury
I Feel Like the Blues Moving In Del McCoury Band
Live at the 2010 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
Instrumental: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Dr. Michael White with Jason Marsalis
Blue Crescent, Basin Street
Wayfaring Stranger David Ivey
Live at the 2013 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
Shout When You're Feeling Blue The Paschall Brothers
Live at the 2012 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Staple Singers
Freedom Highway, Columbia/Legacy
Jump for Joy The Campbell Brothers
Pass Me Not, Arhoolie
End Bed: Like It Is Jerry Douglas
Restless on the Farm, Sugar Hill
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: The Diamond Billy McComiskey with Mick Moloney and Liz Carroll
Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
SEGMENT: Leona Waddell
El Pediero Artemio Posadas
Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert ,
La Pentenera Artemio Posadas
Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert ,
SEGMENT: Bounxeung Synanonh
Instrumental: Blues for the Orient Yusef Lateef
Eastern Sounds, Prestige
SEGMENT: Bryan Akipa
SEGMENT: Clarissa Rizal
SEGMENT: Monk Boudreaux
Instrumental: Thanksgiving Hawk Henries
Keeping the Fire: Eastern Woodlands Flute, self-released
SEGMENT: Theresa Secord
SEGMENT: Michael Vlahovich
SEGMENT: Billy McComiskey
The Traveling Irishman Billy McComiskey
Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert ,
End Bed: The Commodore Reel Bill McComiskey with Liz Carroll and Mick Moloney
Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,