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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM

SMALL TOWN HIPSTERS: NANCY WILSON & DICKIE LANDRY

This week we’ll hear from folks that started in small towns and made it big, in jazz, blues, country and more. Jazz singer Nancy Wilson called Chillicothe, Ohio home before moving on to become one of the hippest vocalists around. Lafayette, Louisiana is home base for musical polymath Dickie Landry. The saxophone player was a founding member of the Phillip Glass ensemble, works with the swamp pop ensemble Lil’ Band O’ Gold and continues his own avant-garde musical experiments.

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Alligator Boogaloo Lou Donaldson
    Blue 45's, The Ultimate Jukebox, Blue Note
  • Way Down Home on the Farm Percy Mayfield
    His Tangerine and Atlantic Sides, Rhino
  • My Country Man Big Maybelle
    The Complete Okeh Sessions, 1952-1955, Epic
  • One Room Country Shack Mose Allsion
    Back Country Suite, Prestige
  • Unsquare Dance The Dave Brubeck Quartet
    Time Further Out, Columbia
  • Grey Eagle Allison Krauss
    Live Recording from Folk Masters Concert Series,
  • Instrumental: When It's Darkness on the Delta Country All Stars
    Jazz From the Hills, Bear Family
  • Love Me Elvis Presley
    The King of Rock 'N' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters, RCA
  • Black Coffee Peggy Lee
    Black Coffee, Verve
  • I'm Down to My Last Cigarette K.D. Lang
    Shadowland, Sire
  • 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
  • Instrumental: Wabash Cannonball Adderly
    Compact Jazz: Cannonball Adderly, PolyGram
  • SEGMENT: Nancy Wilson

    Listen
  • Trane's Slo Blues John Coltrane
    The Prestige Recordings, Prestige
  • Night Train James Brown
    Star Time, Polydor
  • Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes original recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed Sonny Landreth
    American Routes original recording,
  • Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry
    His Best, Volume 1, MCA/ Chess
  • On the Road Again Bob Dylan
    Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
  • 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
  • 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
  • Folks Back Home Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
    Down South... in the Bayou Country, Barclay
  • Le Grand Bleu The Bluerunners
    Le Grand Bleu, Louisiana Red Hot
  • SEGMENT: Dickie Landry

    Listen
  • Instrumental: Bayou Ponpon Richard Fontenot
    Cajun Country Guitar, Folkways
  • 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
  • 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
  • End Bed: Ramble Link Wray and the Wraymen
    Walkin' the Link, Epic

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