Blues Born and Learned: Bobby Rush & Sonny Landreth
Join us this week as we visit with the King of the Chitlin Circuit, Bobby Rush. The singer, songwriter, manager, harmonica player, guitarist and bus driver talks about a life in the blues and breaks down his famous stage show. Mississippi-born, Louisiana-bred guitarist Sonny Landreth drops by for a live set and reveals his special technique with the slide.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: 99 (Instrumental) Bobby Rush
Live at Ground Zero, Deep Rush
Darktown Strutters Ball Fats Waller
If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!, Bluebird/Legacy
Mama Told Me Not to Come Randy Newman
12 Songs, Reprise
I Like 'Em Fat Like That Louis Jordan
Let the Good Times Roll: 1938-1954, Bear Family
Fine Fat Daddy Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington Sings Bessie Smith, Verve
The Rumproller (Pt.1) Lee Morgan
Blue 45s: The Ultimate Jukebox, Blue Note
Bowlegged Woman and Knock Kneed Man (Part 1) Bobby Rush
It's Alright, Paula
Instrumental: Seven and 7 The Bo-Keys
The Royal Sessions, Yellow Dog
INTERVIEW: Bobby Rush
Instrumental: Fat Judy (Pt.1) ‘Big' John Patton
Blue 45s: The Ultimate Jukebox, Blue Note
Blues for Smedley Oscar Peterson Trio with Clark Terry
Oscar Peterson Trio + One, Clark Terry, Mercury
Chitlin' Hop Piano Red
Piano Red a.k.a. Dr. Feelgood: The Doctor's In!, Bear Family
So Round So Firm, So Fully Packed Merle Travis
The Best of Merle Travis: Sweet Temptation, Razor and Tie
Caledonia / Flip, Flop & Fly / Ragg Mop Re-birth Brass Band
Take it to the Street, Rounder
Tipitina (American Routes theme) Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Sonny Landreth live at American Routes studio
American Routes original recording
Highway Blues Clifton Chenier
Sings the Blues, Arhoolie
Deal Jerry Garcia
The Very Best of Jerry Garcia, Rhino
Last Fair Deal Gone Down Cephas & Wiggins
Somebody Told Me The Truth, Alligator
Mississippi River Blues Jimmie Rodgers
The Singing Brakeman, Bear Family
Going to New Orleans Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Outtakes, Vigo
Shake Your Moneymaker Elmore James
Blues Masters: The Very Best of Elmore James, Rhino
Instrumental: Allons a Lafayette Richard Fontenot
Cajun Country Guitar, Folkways
Allons a Lafayette Harry Choates
Fiddle King of Cajun Swing, Arhoolie
Grand Chenier Bluerunners
Le Grande Bleu, Louisiana Red Hot
INTERVIEW: Sonny Landreth
Instrumental: Sunny Jimmy Smith
Talkin' Verve Groovy!, Verve
Sitting on Top of the World Johnny Shines
Traditional Delta Blues, Biograph
Sittin' on Top of the World Bob Wills & Tommy Duncan
Hall of Fame, United Artists
I Saw the Light Five Blind Boys of Alabama
I Saw the Light, Liquid-8
That Lucky Old Sun The Isley Brothers
Shout: The RCA Sessions, RCA
End Bed: Hallelujah Anyhow Sonny Treadway
Sacred Steel Instrumentals, Arhoolie