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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
EAST TEXAS/WEST LOUISIANA
Explore the musical territory of the Texas-Louisiana border: It’s a fertile frontier where country, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, jazz, blues and boogie merge into one another. American Routes visits the flashy zydeco accordion man Nathan Williams; Shreveport, Louisiana, singer Dale Hawkins tells stories of his early rockabilly hit “Suzy Q”; and 90-year-old jazz pianist/songstress Nellie Lutcher talks about growing up in southwest Louisiana, then playing music in the other LA — Los Angeles.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Houston Boogie Clifton Chenier
Bon Ton Roulet, Arhoolie - Allons a Grand Coteau (Let's Go To Grand Coteau) Clifton Chenier
Bogalusa Boogie, Arhoolie - Spoon Bread Lil Band of Gold
- Northeast Texas Women Willis Allen Ramsey
Willis Allen Ramsey, Koch - Lake Charles Lucinda Williams
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, Mercury - Cripple Creek The Band
The Band, Capitol - Instrumental: Texas Hop Pee Wee Crayton
Blues Masters Vol.3: Texas Blued, Rhino - INTERVIEW: Nellie Lutcher
Listen - All Star Strut Charlie Christian
The Genius of the Electric Guitar, Sony - Gulf Coast Special Adolph Hofner and His Orchestra
OKeh Western Swing, Epic - Instrumental: Blues De Port Arthur Le Trio Cadien
Le Trio Cadien, Rounder - Blues de Texas Dennis McGee
The Complete Early Recordings 1929-1930, Yazoo - Texas Blues Robert Pete Williams
I'm Blue As A Man Can Be, Vol.1, Arhoolie - Mean Ol' Lonesome Train Lightnin' Slim
The Excello Story, Vol.2: 1955-1957, Hip-O - Me and Bobby McGee Janis Joplin
Greatest Hits, Columbia/Legacy
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Draggin' The Bow Harry Choates
Freddie King of Cajun Swing, Arhoolie - Last Town I Painted George Jones
Cup of Loneliness: The Mercury Years, Mercury - Little Liza Jane Hot Club of Cowtown
Dev'lish Mary, Hightone - I Got Loaded Lil' Bob & The Lollipops
Lafayette Soul Show, Kent - Groovin' Illinois Jacquet
Flying Home The Best of the Verve Years, Verve - Going Back to Louisiana Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
Back to Bogalousa, Blue Thumb - SEGMENT: Nathan & Zydeco Cha Cha's
Listen - Instrumental: Ponderosa Stomp Lazy Lester
House Rockin' & Hip Shakin' Vol.4: Bayou Blues Harp, Hip-O - My Little Queen Bee (Got A Brand New King) Slim Harpo
Slim Harpo Sings Raining in My Heart, Hip-O - Lonesome Cabin Blues Mercy Dee Walton
One Room Country Shack, Specialty - Pipeliner Blues Moon Mullican
Sings His All Time Greatest, King - INTERVIEW: Dale Hawkins
Listen - Instrumental: Texas Flood Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Texas Flood, Epic/Legacy - Storm in Texas (AKA Texas Flood) Whispering Smith
House Rockin' & Hip Shakin', Vol.4: Bayou Blues Harp, Hip-O - Call It Stormy Monday T-Bone Walker
The Very Best of T-Bone Walker: Blues Masters, Rhino - Long Telephone Port Arthur Cleveland Crochet
Cleveland Crochet & All The Sugar Bees, Goldband - Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight Marcia Ball
Circuit Queen, Capitol - End Bed: Beaumont Rag The Hackberry Ramblers
Cajun Boogie, Flying Fish
