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HOLIDAY SOUL AND SPIRIT: LIVE FROM PRESERVATION HALL WITH IRMA THOMAS & THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA
For this special holiday edition of American Routes, we get into the spirit of the season with live performances by Irma Thomas, the Soul Queen of New Orleans, and gospel greats the Blind Boys of Alabama at Preservation Hall in the French Quarter. Blind Boys’ founding member Jimmy Carter tells of his long life on the road through the Jim Crow South and around the world, and Irma Thomas describes her gospel roots and soul music’s role in protest and healing. Plus, we keep the holiday festivities going with a joyous jukebox of blues and jazz, Cajun and country, solstice and seasonal tunes.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Bourbon Street Parade Preservation Hall Legacy Quintet
Live recording from Preservation Hall, - Hindustan Preservation Hall Legacy Quintet
Live recording from Preservation Hall, - Just a Little While to Stay Here Preservation Hall Legacy Quintet
Live recording from Preservation Hall, - SEGMENT: Jimmy Carter
Listen - Instrumental: Brother Soul Lou Donaldson
Say It Loud, Blue Note - Amazing Grace Blind Boys of Alabama
Live recording from Preservation Hall, - Uncloudy Day The Blind Boys of Alabama with Preservation Hall Legacy Quintet
Live recording from Preservation Hall, - I'll Fly Away Blind Boys of Alabama
Live recording from Preservation Hall, - Instrumental: Alligator Bogaloo Lou Donaldson
Alligator Bogaloo, Blue Note - SEGMENT: Irma Thomas
Listen - Love Don't Change Irma Thomas
Live recording from Preservation Hall, - Wish Someone Would Care Irma Thomas
Live recording from Preservation Hall, - You Can Have My Husband But Please Don't Mess With My Man Irma Thomas
Live recording from Preservation Hall, - If I Had a Hammer Irma Thomas and the Blind Boys of Alabama
Live recording from Preservation Hall, - Closing Bed: Wade in the Water Hank Jones and Charlie Hayden
Steal Away, Verve
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Christmas Blues Ramsey Lewis
The Joy of Christmas Past, GNP - Faraway Christmas Blues Johnny Otis
The Johnny Otis R&B Caravan Savoy Recordings, Savoy - Baltimore Oriole Bob Dorough
Devil May Care, Bethlehem Archives - CLIP: Bob Dorough
Listen - Blue Christmas Lumineers
Blue Christmas- Single, Lumineers - Merry Christmas Baby Charles Brown
Blue Yule: Christmas Blues and R&B Classics, Rhino - Instrumental: Greensleeves Jimmy Smith
Christmas Cookin' , Verve - Christmas in Vietnam Johnny & Jon
Merry Christmas Baby, Ronn - SEGMENT: Chuck Siler
Listen - Santa Claus is Skaing to Town Granville Williams Orchestra
Natty and Nice, A Reggae Christmas, Rhino - Christmas Is A Coming Leadbelly
Leadbelly Sings for Children, Smithsonian Folkways - J'ai Vu le Loup, Le Renard et la Belette Balfa Brothers
Balfa Brothers Play More Traditional Music, Swallow - Bachata en Navidad La Sonora Matancera featuring Celia Cruz
Celebremos Nochebuena con Sonora Matancera, Codigo Music - Feliz Navidad Los Straightjackets
'Tis the Season for Los Straightjackets, Yep Roc - Instrumental: Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) Duke Ellington
Three Suites, Columbia - Sherburne (While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night) Sacred Harp Singers
Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder - Cherry Tree Carol Pentangle
Solomon's Seal, Reprise - Greensleeves John Coltrane
The Best of John Coltrane: His Greatest Years, Vol. 2, Impulse - O Day Bessie Jones/ Georgia Sea Island Singers
Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder - End Bed: Auld Lang Syne John Fahey
John Fahey Christmas Soli, Fantasy
