Make American Routes Great Again: Stronger Together... in Songs and Stories
This week on American Routes, we’re here to Make American Routes Great Again! Stronger Together… in Songs & Stories. With just a few days left before relief or disbelief in our diverse democracy… we bring you ghosts of elections past and present… And the words of lofty American songmakers Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, Los Lobos and Bruce Springsteen. We’ll give a smidgeon of equal time to politicians from both parties whose sounds take to the podium and the stage: Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander on piano and Tim Kaine from Virginia on harmonica.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: The Preacher Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith Retrospective, Blue Note
This Land Is Your Land Sharon Jones
Naturally, Daptone
Be Careful How You Vote Sunnyland Slim
Be Careful How You Vote, Earwig
Fortunate Son Creedence Clearwater Revival
Chronicle, Fantasy
Political World Carolina Chocolate Drops
Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan, Amnesty International
Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues Bob Dylan
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased), Columbia
Instrumental: Watergate Blues Modern Jazz Quartet
Echoes, Pablo
I Pity the Poor Immigrant Marion Williams
The New Message, Atlantic
Plane Wreck at Los Gatos Bruce Springsteen
Til We Outnumber 'em: Songs of Woody Guthrie, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum/Woody Guthrie Foundation
Soy Mexico Americano Los Cenzontles
Raza de Oro, Cenzontles
Only in America Jay and the Americans
God Bless the USA, MCA
One Time One Night Los Lobos
By the Light of the Moon, Warner Bros.
Instrumental: Stars and Stripes Forever / Sweethearts on Parade The Kalima Brothers
Legends of the Ukelele, Rhino
No Banker Left Behind Ry Cooder
Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, Nonesuch
Prohibition Blues Jorma Kaukonen
Blue Country Heart, Columbia
Franklin Roosevelt's Back Again Cox Brothers
Old Time Southern Dance Music, Old Timey
Guitar Pickin' President Jimmie Martin
Jimmie Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys, Bear Family
CLIP: Tim Kaine
End Bed: Stars and Stripes Forever Eubie Blake
The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake, Columbia
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Happy Days Are Here Again Casa Loma Orchestra
Songs of the Depression, Bear Family
Roosevelt in Trinidad The Atilla
Roosevelt in Trinidad, Rounder Records
The only thing we have to fear... Franklin Delano Roosevelt
20th Century Time Capsule, Buddha Records
No Depression Carter Family
In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family
Hard Times Come Again No More Johnny Cash
Unearthed, American Recordings
CLIP: Robert Byrd
CLIP: Roland Cheramie
Instrumental: The House I Live In Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins 1956, Giants of Jazz
Mr. President Have Pity on the Working Man Randy Newman
Good Ol' Boys, Warner
Mr. President Big Boy Henry
Work's Many Voices Vol. 1, JEMF/DownHome Music
What's Going On Marvin Gaye
What's Going On, Tamla
The Day After Tomorrow Tom Waits
Real Gone, ANTI
For What It's Worth Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield, ATCO
Once They Banned Imagine Drive-By Truckers
American Band, ATO Records
Instrumental: The Beautiful American Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
The Great Summit, Blue Note
Long Walk to DC Staple Singers
Soul Folk in Action, Stax
The Times They Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A-Changin', Columbia
A Change Is Gonna Come Terrence Trent Darby with Booker T & the MG's
Freedom: Songs From the Heart of America, Sony
End Bed: America the Beautiful The Happyland Band
Saints' Paradise: Trombone Shout Bands from the United House of Prayer, Smithsonian Folkways