Will The Circle Be Unbroken: Country Strings and Jazz Vibes
We'll re-visit the moment when the "California long-hairs" took over a Nashville studio to pay tribute to aging country heroes. American Routes look back at the 1972 LP Will The Circle Be Unbroken with John McEuen of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and his memories of those historic sessions. Then, a conversation with another musician familiar with Nashville - jazz vibraphone master Gary Burton. Plus a visit with Jake Shimabukuro, for whom any genre is a fine match for the ukelele.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Wabash Cannonball Bashful Brother Oswald, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Junior Husky and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
Grand Ol' Opry Song Jimmy Martin and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
Tennessee Stud Doc Watson and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
9 Pound Hammer Merle Travis and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
Green, Green Grass of Home Joan Baez
David's Album, Vanguard
Keep On the Sunny Side Moher Maybelle Carter and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
Instrumental: Down Yonder Doc Watson and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Columbia
You Ain't Going Nowhere The Byrds
Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Columbia
Teach Your Children The Country Gentlemen
35 Years of the Best Bluegrass, Rebel
Honky-Tonk Blues The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
To Be Alone With You Bob Dylan
Nashville Skyline, Columbia
Instrumental: Cannonball Rag Merle Travis and Junior Husky
Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
SEGMENT: John McEuen
Grayson County Blues No Speed Limit
Bluegrass Lullaby, Virginia Humanities Foundation
Georgie Buck Carolina Chocolate Drops
Carolina Chocolate Drops: Heritage, Music Maker
I Saw the Light Roy Acuff and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Staple Singers
Freedom Highway, Columbia
End Bed: The End of the World The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Move Gary Burton
For Hamp, Red, Bags and Cal, Concord
Flying Home Lionel Hampton with Benny Goodman
The Essential Benny Goodman, Columbia/ Bluebird
Velociraptor Tom Morrell and the Time-Warp Tophands
Go Uptown: How the West was Swung Vol. V, WR Records
Muskrat Candlelight Willis Alan Ramsey
Willis Alan Ramsey, Koch
Our Day Will Come Ruby and the Romantics
Our Day Will Come: The Very Best of Ruby and the Romantics, RPM
Windshield Wipers Ken Nordine
Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure's Wink, Asphodel
Blues in B Flat Modern Jazz Quartet
Aristocrates du Swing, Warner/ Rhino
Instrumental: Green Mountains - Arise, Her Eyes (Live at Montreaux) Gary Burton
Alone at Last, Rhino Atlantic
SEGMENT: Gary Burton
Happy Time Tim Buckley
Morning Glory: The Tim Buckley Anthology, Elektra
Ill Bill Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet
In the World of Mallets, Basin Street
Instrumental: Wear a Lei Tom Morrell and the Time-Warp Tophands
No Peddlers Allowed: How the West Was Swung Vol. VII, Warner/Reprise
SEGMENT: Jake Shimabukuro
Cowboy Hula (Na Cowboy) Nani Lim Yap & Friends
Songs of the Hawaiian Cowboy, Warner Western
Over the Rainbow/ It's a Wonderful World Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Meet Joe Black soundtrack, Universal
End Bed: Sailin' on to Hawaii Bashful Brother Oswald, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Jr. Huskey
Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol