what a great show. i always hear or learn something new. and it's about american roots music and it's done so well. and written well! none of that kenburns/npr bleeeeech-ness, you know. here where i am they play american routes and then nancy wilson's awesome jazz show right after it. they are both so great. and i hate lots of stuff!
tonight on american routes was the "small town hipsters" show. cool cats who grew up in one horse towns.
and nick spitzer rules. as does nancy wilson.
here's what they played tonight:
February 7 - February 13, 2007
Hour One
Open Bed: "Alligator Boogaloo" Lou Donaldson
Blue 45’s, The Ultimate Jukebox (Blue Note)
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"Way Down Home on the Farm" Percy Mayfield
His Tangerine and Atlantic Sides (Rhino)
"My Country Man" Big Maybelle
The Complete Okeh Sessions, 1952-55 (Epic)
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"One Room Country Shack" Mose Allison
Back Country Suite (Prestige)
"Unsquare Dance" The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Time Further Out (Columbia)
"Grey Eagle" Alison Krauss
live recording from Folk Masters Concert Series
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instrumental: "When It’s Darkness on the Delta" Country All Stars
Jazz From the Hills (Bear Family)
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"Love Me" Elvis Presley
The King of Rock ‘N’ Roll: The Complete 50’s Masters (RCA) Box
"Black Coffee" Peggy Lee
Black Coffee (Verve)
"I’m Down to My Last Cigarette" k.d. lang
Shadowland (Sire)
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"Dayton, Ohio" Randy Newman
Sail Away (Reprise)
"Lazybones" Leon Redbone
No Regrets (Sugar Hill)
"Small Town Boy" Louis Jordan
Let the Good Times Roll (Bear Family) Box
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instrumental:"Wabash" Cannonball Adderley
Compact Jazz: Cannonball Adderley (PolyGram)
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SEGMENT: Nancy Wilson
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"Trane’s Slo Blues" John Coltrane
The Prestige Recordings (Prestige) Box
"Night Train" James Brown
Star Time (Polydor) Box
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"Tipitina" Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording
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Hour Two
Open Bed: Sonny Landreth live at American Routes
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"Johnny B. Goode" Chuck Berry
His Best, Volume 1 (MCA/Chess)
"On the Road Again" Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home (Columbia)
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"The Natural Facts " Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Gospel of the Blues (MCA/Decca)
"Tear it Up" Charlie Feathers
Uh Huh Honey (Norton)
instrumental: "Almost Persuaded" Lloyd Green
The Little Darlin’ Sound of Lloyd Green (KOCH)
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"Streets of Baltimore" Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris
The Complete Reprise Sessions (Reprise/Rhino)
"Bright Lights Big City" Jimmy Reed
Blues Masters: The Very Best of Jimmy Reed (Rhino)
"Do Right Woman, Do Right Man " Dan Penn
Do Right Man (Sire)
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"Folks Back Home" Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown
Down South… in the Bayou Country (Barclay) LP
"Le Grand Bleu" The Bluerunners
Le Grand Bleu (Louisiana Red Hot)
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SEGMENT: Dickie Landry
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instrumental: "Bayou Ponpon" Richard Fontenot
Cajun Country Guitar (Folkways) LP
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"Down South Blues" Muddy Waters
The Aristocrat of the Blues: the Best of Aristocrat Records (MCA/Chess)
"Slow Rollin’ Low" Waylon Jennings
Nashville Rebel (RCA Nashville/Legacy)
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"Green River" Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)
"Driver 8" R.E.M.
And I Feel Fine… The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982 - 1987 (EMI)
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End Bed: "Ramble" Link Wray & The Wraymen
Walkin’ With Link (Epic)
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 11 February 2007 05:40 (eighteen years ago)
i didn't check if there was a thread. sorry! the show has been on for a long time, but i've only heard it this year and last. you gotta grab great radio wherever and whenever you can.
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 11 February 2007 05:42 (eighteen years ago)
good call. i dig this show too. usually anything music related on npr makes me wince (the shins review i heard recently for example). he did a touching post-katrina thing too where he went back to his soggy house.
― artdamages (artdamages), Sunday, 11 February 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)
yeah, nick spitzer knows what he's talking about. i always hear something interesting on this show.
― Emily Bjurnhjam (Emily Bjurnhjam), Sunday, 11 February 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)
Both AR & Nancy Wilson's shows are incredible.
Everyone should listen to them.
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 11 February 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)
spitzer is one of those rare people with cred up the wazoo (louisiana state folklorist! check out his bio on the american routes site) who is also so smooth and conversational. i love super-smart people who can be like that. he was a DJ for years on radio. i guess that explains it.
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 11 February 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)
The DC NPR station that carried it just went all classical and dumped the show. I'll have to find it online. One nit-picky criticism--sometimes I wish Spitzer could be edgier or more pop in his selections--perhaps I have missed it, but I'd love to hear more of the rap-influenced zydeco bands and rap-influenced New Orleans brass bands on his show (plus Spanish-speaking groups from the southwest doing hybrid stuff or even alt/indie bands doing stuff with roots). But I do like the show, and I used to see him around in DC when he did stuff for the Smithsonian Folklife Fest that I always enjoyed, so I have lots of respect for his accomplishments.
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Sunday, 11 February 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)
you asked for it, you got it:
February 28 - March 6, 2007
Routes March On: Brass Bands & Cajun Youths
Visit with two groups of musicians taking Louisiana roots music forward into the 21st century. The Hot 8 Brass Band can be found everywhere in the streets and clubs of the Crescent City, mixing rap and funk with older traditional numbers. While over in Cajun country, the Pine Leaf Boys swap accordions and fiddles for guitars moving back and forth between Cajun and zydeco tunes and new originals.
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 11 February 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)
Excellent. Now I just have to find it online (I guess I can just try to find some other radio station that carries it, and which also broadcasts online). If only another DC public radio station would pick it up. I want to hear it in my car!
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)