Rock 'n' Routes
The sound of rock continues to dominate the musical spirit of America. Loud and anthemic, many artists eventually come to and pass through rock ‘n’ roll from country, folk, R&B, even gospel. American Routes takes a look at three roots musicians who rock: Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna veteran Jorma Kaukonen talks about his recent acoustic work, Texas trio The Flatlanders (Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock and Joe Ely) get into their electric side, and New Orleans’ own Lloyd Price shows how his R&B roots helped give birth to rock ‘n’ roll.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Guitar Slim Guitar Slim
Sufferin' Mind, Specialty
Rock & Roll Music Chuck Berry
His Best, MCA
Promised Land The Band
Moondog Matinee, Capitol
Rockin' Chair Daddy Harmonia Frank
The Great Original Recordings of Harmonica Frank, Puritan
So Lets Rock Bob Wills
Country Music Hall of Fame Series: Bob Wills, MCA
Instrumental: Tall Cool One The Wailers
Hot Rod Rock: Big Boss Instrumentals, Right Stuff
Rock My Soul Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
The Very Best of The Golden Gate Quartet, World Pacific
Rock With It Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
RCA Victor Blues and Rhythm Review, RCA
In the Night Professor Longhair
New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
Saturday Night Fish Fry Louis Jordan
Let the Good Times Roll, Bear Family
INTERVIEW: Lloyd Price
Instrumental: Greedy G Brentford All Stars
100% Dynamite!, Soul Jazz
Rock Steady The Marvels
100% Dynamite!, Soul Jazz
Funky Mama Lou Donaldson
Blue 45s, Blue Note
None of Us are Free Solomon Burke
Don't Give Up on Me, Epitaph
I Never Picked Cotton Johnny Cash
Unchained, American
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Wavin' My Heart Goodbye The Flatlanders
Live on American Routes
Wild Wild Young Men Ruth Brown
Blues Masters Vol 14: More Jump Blues, Rhino
Rub Me Baby Cedell Davis & Friends
When Lightnin' Struck the Pine, fasthorse
New, New Minglewood Blues Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, Warner
If I Had My Way Blind Willie Johnson
Roots of Rap, Yazoo
Hear My Train a Comin' Jimi Hendrix
Blues, MCA
Smokestack Lightnin' Howlin' Wolf
His Best 1955-1962, MCA
Moon, Turn The Tides…gently gently away Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland, MCA
INTERVIEW: Jorma Kaukonen
I Wanna Sing That Rock n Roll Gillian Welch
Time (The Revelator), Acony
Honky-Tonk Man Johnny Horton
The Essential, Sony
Instrumental: Grinding Gears Biller & Wakefield
The Hot Guitars of Biller & Wakefield, HMG
INTERVIEW: The Flatlanders
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad Woody Guthrie
This Land is Your Land Vol.1, Folkways
California Stars Wilco
Mermaid Avenue, Elektra
End Bed: Radar Link Wray & the Wraymen
Walkin' With Link, Epic