After the Storm
American Routes host Nick Spitzer takes you in story and song to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Nick blends music and commentary that describes the place of storms and floods in the history and culture of the city and region. Featured are classic blues about broken levees and broken hearts, celebratory jazz funerals and memories of the city in song. Artists include Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Fats Domino and Randy Newman, among others. Also tales of hurricanes past in Cajun music and a visit with the leader of a Cajun rescue flotilla, Lafayette, LA public radio station manager Dave Spizale.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Minor Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes recording
Louisiana 1927 Randy Newman
Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1, Nonesuch
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen Mahalia Jackson
Essential Mahalia Jackson, Sony
Down by the Riverside Snooks Eaglin
Country Boy in New Orleans, Arhoolie
When the Levee Breaks Memphis Minnie
Memphis Minnie: Queen of the Blues, Columbia
It's Raining Irma Thomas
Sweet Soul Queen of New Orleans: The Irma Thomas Collection, Razor & Tie
Rainin' in My Heart Slim Harpo
Raining in My Heart, Excello
Instrumental: Mes Enfants/My Children Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
Happytown, Rounder
INTERVIEW: Dave Spizale
River's Gonna Go Gator Beat
River's Gonna Go, Globe
Higher Ground Stevie Wonder
Innervisions, Motown
To the River Smiley Lewis
Shame, Shame, Shame, Bear Family
Rivers of Babylon Melodians
The Harder They Come, Island
Dear Old Southland Dr. John
N'Awlinz Dis Dat or D'udda, Blue Note
The Lost Souls (Of Southern Louisiana) Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Open Up: Whatcha Gonna Do For the Rest of Your Life, Columbia
End Bed: Minor Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes recording
HOUR TWO
Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet
Blue Horizon: The Sidney Bechet Story, Proper
Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Seven
Back Water Blues Bessie Smith
The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3, Columbia/Legacy
Stormy Weather Phil Phillips
Eddie's House of Hits: The Story of Goldband Records, Ace
Louisiana Percy Mayfield
Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty
Instrumental: L 'Ouragon Beausoleil
La Danse de la Vie, Rhino
L 'annee de Cinquante Sept Alex Broussard
The Best of La Louisiane Records, La Louisiane
Grand Chenier Bluerunners
Le Grand Bleu, Louisiana Red Hot
Hurricane Bobby and the Rockers
Can't Stop Rockin', Bobby and the Rockers
The Lakes of the Ponchartrain Jim Smoak & the Louisiana Honeydrippers
Bayou Bluegrass, Arhoolie
Box of Rain Grateful Dead
American Beauty, Warner Brothers
Instrumental: Blues in My Sleep James Cotton
Deep in the Blues, Verve
Hurricanes Carla and Esther Lightnin' Hopkins
Po' Lightnin', Arhoolie
Born on the Bayou Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bayou Country, Fantasy
Death Letter Cassandra Wilson
New Moon Daughter, Blue Note
When the Saints Go Marching In Helen Humes
2005 Southern Music CD, Oxford American
Walking to New Orleans Fats Domino
The Best of Fats Domino, EMI
Louisiana 1927 Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Warner Bros.
End Bed: Down by the Riverside Sam Morgan's Jazz Band
Recorded in New Orleans, 1925-1928, Jazz Oracle