The Sounds of Solace
Many have sought solace in music since the sadness and conflict of September 11. American Routes honors Veterans of war, fire, and emergency service with music appropriate to the nation’s mood on this Veteran’s Day. Merle Haggard, Gillian Welch and American Routes listeners tell us what songs have helped them get through this fall, and we’ll hear meditative songs from John Coltrane, the Carter Family and Jimmy Cliff.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Amazing Grace Donald Harrison
Nouveau Swing, Impulse
Acknowledgement John Coltrane
A Love Supreme, Impulse
The House I Live In The Ravens
Old Man River, Savoy
My Father's House Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska, Sony
No Depression In Heaven Carter Family
In The Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family
Instrumental: Amazing Grace John Fahey
America, Takoma
SEGMENT: Gillian Welch
Revelator Gillian Welch
Time (The Revelator), Acony
Jesus is a Dying Bedmaker John Fahey
America, Takoma
Amazing Grace Cephas & Wiggins
recorded live for Folkmasters
Instrumental: Over the Rainbow Art Tatum
Ultimate Art Tatum, Verve
Please Send Me Someone To Love James Booker
New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live!, Rounder
Going Home Randy Newman
Bad Love, Dreamworks
Balm in Gilead Paul Robeson
Songs of Free Men 1940-1945, Pearl
Remember Me Beaufort NC Sea Chanteymen
recorded live for Folkmasters
My Country ‘Tis of Thee Billy Preston
I Wrote A Simple Song, A&M
End Bed: The Long Road Eddie Vedder with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture Dead Man Walking, Columbia
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Follow Your Heart Joe Farrell Quartet/John McLaughlin
Joe Farrell Quartet, CTI
In a Silent Way Miles Davis
In a Silent Way, Sony
Let It Be Aretha Franklin
Queen of Soul - The Atlantic Recordings, Atlantic
Many Rivers to Cross Jimmy Cliff
The Harder They Come Original Soundtrack, Island
Rivers of Babylon The Melodians
The Harder They Come Original Soundtrack, Island
Instrumental: Could You Be Loved Monty Alexander
Stir It Up: The Music of Bob Marley, TelArc
Freedom Road Josh White
Free and Equal Blues, Folkways
Chimes of Freedom Bob Dylan
Another Side of Bob Dylan, Sony
This World Is Not My Home Monroe Brothers
What Would You Give…?, Rounder
SEGMENT: Merle Haggard
Instrumental: Schizoozy Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor
Appalachia Waltz, Sony Classical
String Quartet No.4 (Amazing Grace) Ben Johnston/Kronos Quartet
Released 1985-1995, Nonesuch
Imagine Neil Young
recorded live for America: A Tribute to Heroes