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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
ALABAMA BOUND
American Routes takes a trip through the music of the Yellowhammer State—Alabama. Visit the Muscle Shoals Sound studio and find out what’s in the water around “the Shoals” to make it a historic hotbed for R&B hits by Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and more. Also, a trip through Hank Williams’ childhood home in Georgiana, and W.C. Handy Music Festival in Florence. And music from Shelby Lynne, the Birmingham Sunlights and the Delmore Brothers.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Sweet Home Alabama Mark Thornton
Bluegrass Then and Now 25th Anniversary , CMH - Old Alabama B.B. and Group
Prison Songs Vol.1: Murderous Home , Rounder - The Last Words of Copernicus Sacred Harp Singers
Southern Journey Vol.1: Voices from the South , Rounder - Alabama The Louvin Brothers
The Louvin Brothers: Tragic Songs of Life , Capitol - Alabam' Cowboy Copas
30 Country Hits: History of Country Music , Gusto - When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabama Jubilaires
Freedom's Front Door: Music of the Ellis Island Era 1900-1930 , Soundies - Instrumental: Tuxedo Junction Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra
Masters of Jazz Vol.3: Big Bands of the '30s & '40s , Rhino - Excerpt of "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round"
Freedom Songs: Selma, Alabama , Folkways - Rough and Rocky Road Heavenly Gospel Singers
Birmingham Quartet Anthology , Clanka Lanka - It's Gonna Rain Birmingham Sunlights
Folk Masters , Smithsonian Folkways - Betty's Place Willie King
I Am the Blues , Willie King - They Call Me Big Mama Big Mama Thornton
Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings , MCA - Dark End of the Street Dan Penn
Do Right Man , Proper - You Left the Water Running Otis Redding
The Muscle Shoals Sound , Rhino - Instrumental: Dark End of the Street Ry Cooder
Boomer's Story , Reprise - SEGMENT: Muscle Shoals Sound
Listen - End Bed: Funky Broadway Jimmy Smith
Walk on the Wild Side , Verve
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Medley Excelsior Band of Mobile
Traditional Musics of Alabama, Vol.1 , AFA - SEGMENT: W.C. Handy Festival
Listen - Yellow Dog Blues Louis Armstrong
Plays W.C. Handy , Columbia/Legacy - Stars Fell on Alabama Billie Holiday
The Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years , Verve - I'm Alabama Bound Jelly Roll Morton
The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax , Rounder - Birmingham Randy Newman
Good Old Boys , Reprise - CLIP: Shelby Lynne
- Where I'm From Shelby Lynne
I Am Shelby Lynne , Mercury - Instrumental: Fattening Frogs For Snakes Mobile Strugglers
Mobile Strugglers & Louis James' String Band , American Music - Lost Highway Hank Williams
The Original Singles Collection... Plus , PolyGram - Montgomery in the Rain Steve Young
Seven Bridges Road , A&M - 72 (this highway's mean) Drive-By Truckers
Southern Rock Opera , Lost Highway - Instrumental: Cold Cold Heart Original Drifting Cowboys Band
Hank Williams Instrumentals , Landmark - SEGMENT: Hank Williams Boyhood Home & Museum
Listen - Pan American Hank Williams
The Original Singles Collection... Plus , PolyGram - I Saw the Light The Five Blind Boys of Alabama
I Saw the Light , Liquid 8 - I'm Going Back To Alabama The Delmore Brothers
Delmore Brothers, Vol.2: Later Years 1933-1952 , JSP - Oh, Suzanna Tony Schwartz
Camptown Races , Tony Schwartz
