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ROUTES MARCH ON: BRASS BANDS & CAJUN YOUTHS
Visit with musicians taking Louisiana roots music forward into the 21st century. Brass Bands like Soul Rebels, Rebirth and Hot 8 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.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed 1: Bourbon St. Parade Paul Barbarin
Atlantic Jazz: New Orleans, Atlantic - Open Bed 2: Get Up Hot 8 Brass Band
Rock With the Hot 8, Louisiana Red Hot - Alexander's Ragtime Band Bessie Smith
The Essential Bessie Smith, Columbia/Legacy - Cannabis Leaf Rag 1 Nicholas Payton
Sonic Trance, Warner Bros. - West End Blues Louis Armstrong
The Complete Hot Fives and Sevens Recordings, Columbia/Legacy - Music Goes 'Round and 'Round Paul Gayten
Chess King of New Orleans - The Chess Years, MCA/Chess - Little Boy Blue Robert Lockwood Jr. with Otis Spann
Essential Blues Guitar, HOB - Instrumental: Charlie Dozen The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
This is Jazz 30, Columbia - SEGMENT: New Orleans Brass Bands
Listen - Instrumental: Walking Through the Streets of the City Paul Barbarin
The Atlantic New Orleans Jazz Sessions, Atlantic - When He Calls Me I Will Answer Howard Armstrong
Louie Bluie, Blue Suit - We Will March Through the Streets of the City The Carter Family
Sunshine in the Shadows, Rounder - Streets of the City Johnny St. Cyr w/ Sister Elizabeth Eustis
Johnny St. Cyr, American Music - When the Saints Go Marching In Eddie Bo
Our New Orleans, Nonesuch - Ninth Ward Blues Irvin Mayfield
Irvin Mayfield, Basin Street
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Pine Leaf Boy Two-step Pine Leaf Boys
- Travailler C'est Trop Dur Coteau
Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder - Walking to Louisiana Clifton Chenier
Bon Ton Roulet, Arhoolie - They Call me Lazy Lazy Lester
The Excello Story, Volume 2: 1955 - 1957, Hip-O - Work Work Work Lee Dorsey
Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection, Arista - Work Song Cannonball Adderly
Greatest Hits, Milestone - Instrumental: John Henry Etta Baker
Railroad Bill, Sire - Young Man's Blues Mose Allison
Mose Allison's Greatest Hits, Prestige - Three Cool Cats The Coasters
50 Coastin' Classics, Rhino - Wild Wild Young Men Ruth Brown
Atlantic Rhythm & Blues: 1947 - 1974, Atlantic - Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young Faron Young
Rebels & Outlaws: Music from the Wild Side of Life, Capitol - C Jam Blues Ole Rasmussen & His Nebraska Cornhuskers
Swing West! Volume 3: Western Swing, Razor & Tie - Instrumental: Forth Worth Drag Auldridge, Brozman & Grisman
Tone Poems III, Acoustic Disc - If I Needed You Townes Van Zandt
The Late Great Townes Van Zandt, United Artist - Poor Girl's Blues Jolie Holland
Escondida, ANTI - Sur Le Borde De L'Eau (On the Water's Edge) Blind Uncle Gaspard
Gaspard/Lachney/J. Bertrand: Early American Cajun Music, Yazoo - SEGMENT: Pine Leaf Boys
Listen - End Bed: Jig Cadjin Pine Leaf Boys
Les Blues de Musicien, La Louisiane
