SUPPORT GREAT STORYTELLING
We rely on your support to remain on air and online. Your contribution helps us bring you interviews with great American artists and the carefully curated music mix that you’ve enjoyed over the years.
Donate
AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
CORONA STAY AT HOME COMPANION VOL 2: SOUNDS OF SOLACE
It’s a new edition of our Corona “Stay at Home Companion” with sounds of solace and uplift to see us through solitude and the unknown. From Blue Skies and the Milky White Way to downhome and earthly struggles with Mavis Staples and Elvis, Bill Monroe, and Louis Armstrong.
HOUR ONE
- Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting Charles Mingus
Blues and Roots, Atlantic - Let's Get Together Staple Singers
Faith and Grace: A Family Journey 1953-1976, Concord - Trouble in My Way Swan Silvertones
Singin’ in My Soul: Gospel Greats, Vee-Jay - Marching On Kyshona Armstrong
Listen, Kyshona Armstrong/Tone Tree Music - When the Saints Go Marchin' In Kermit Ruffins and Irvin Mayfield
Beautiful World, Basin St. Records - Instrumental: Follow Your Heart John McLaughlin
My Goal's Beyond, Douglas - Stuff That Works Guy Clark
Dublin Blues, Dualtone - Lean on Me Bill Withers
Still Bill, Columbia - Touch of Gray Grateful Dead
In the Dark, Warner Brothers - Instrumental: Ripple David West
Pickin’ on the Grateful Dead: A Tribute, CMH - Way Over Yonder Carole King
Tapestry, Sony - Wayfaring Stranger Bill Monroe
The Gospel Spirit, MCA - It's a Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Leon Russell
Leon Russell and the Shelter People, Shelter - Rainin' in My Heart Slim Harpo
Slim Harpo Sings "Rainin' in My Heart", Excello - I Won't Have to Cry No More Sensational Barnes Brothers
Nobody's Fault But My Own, Bible & Tire Recording Co. - Hurry Sundown Little Richard
Get Down With It!: The OKeh Sessions, Sony - End Bed: Blue Horizon Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses
A Tribute to Sidney Bechet: Live at Preservation Hall, New Orleans, Aurora Nealand
HOUR two
- Open Bed: 'Dark Sacred Night,' Dauphin Island, Alabama American Routes original recording
- The Sound of Silence Simon and Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence, Columbia - Michael Row the Boat Ashore Johnny Rivers
Johnny Rivers Rocks the Folk, Imperial - Many Rivers Steve Young
Seven Bridges Road, Reprise - Many Rivers to Cross Jimmy Cliff
The Harder They Come, Island - Rivers of Babylon Melodians
The Harder They Come, Island - Instrumental: The Exodus Song Booker T & the MGs
Doin' Our Thing, Atlantic - Send Me a Sign Cory Henry and Robert Randolph
Art of Love, Cory Henry - Angel from Montgomery Bonnie Raitt
Streetlights, Warner Brothers - We'll Meet Again Johnny Cash
American IV: The Man Comes Around, American Recordings - Goin' to Sit Down On the Banks of the River Rev. Gary Davis
Harlem Street Singer, Fantasy - Twelve Gates to the City Cephas and Wiggins
Cool Down, Alligator Records - Instrumental: Pretty Stars Bill Frisell
Music IS, Okeh - I Bid You Goodnight Aaron Neville
Warm Your Heart, A&M Records - Milky White Way Elvis Presley
His Hand in Mine--By Elvis, RCA - When I Get to Heaven John Prine
The Tree of Forgiveness, Oh Boy - Blue Skies Ella Fitzgerald
Get Happy, Verve - What a Wonderful World Louis Armstrong
What a Wonderful World, Decca - Closing Bed: Creole Love Call Ellis Marsalis
Duke in Blues, Sony
