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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
MUSIC FOR EASTER, PASSOVER AND SPRING - AND CONVERSATION WITH REV. AL GREEN
Spring is in the air! We explore the vernal season and its garden of delights with meditative jazz, soul serenades and sunny reggae rhythms. Reverend Al Green tells about growing up in rural Arkansas, how music saves souls and his journey from the stage to the pulpit. Plus bunny hops, bops and boogies; Easter parades; songs of rebirth and romance; and jazz & Jamaican celebrations of Passover.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Strawberry Soul Willie Mitchell
Soul Serenade, Capitol - Love & Happiness Al Green
Anthology, Hi - Take Me to the River Talking Heads
Sand in the Vaseline, Sire - The Preacher Horace Silver
The Blue Note Years, Blue Note - Backwoods Preacher Man Tony Joe White
The Best of Tony Joe White, Warner - Instrumental: The Preacher Jimmy Smith
The Master, Blue Note - SEGMENT: Al Green
Listen - Feast of the Passover Lee Scratch Perry
Arkology, Island - The Israelites Desmond Dekker and the Aces
The Harder They Come, Island - Rivers of Babylon The Melodians
The Harder They Come, Island - Elijah Dorothy Love Coates
The Great Gospel Women, Schanachie - Instrumental: Go Down Moses Grant Green
Jazz Profile, Blue Note - SEGMENT: Steven Bernstein
- Manishtana Steven Bernstein
Diaspora Soul, Tzadik - Do Lord Preservation Hall Brass Band
In the Sweet Bye and Bye, Sony - Closing Bed: Ya'aleh Andy Statman and David Grisman
New Shabbos Waltz, Acoustic Disc
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Easter Parade Oscar Peterson
The Song is You, Verve - Easter Parade Judy Garland
Her Greatest Movie Hits, Rhino - Easter Parade Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Cheek to Cheek: The Irving Berlin Songbook, Verve - Big Butter & Egg Man Kermit Ruffins
Big Butter & Egg Man, Justice - Instrumental: Dead Ranch Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell Quartet, Nonesuch - Resurrection Blues Cassandra Wilson
Traveling Miles , Blue Note - Love Ritual Al Green
Anthology , Hi - SEGMENT: Al Green Part II
Listen - Instrumental: I Said No Sé
Quelle Aventure, Instinct - Easter Bunny Boogie Willie Brown
Jumpin' the Blues, Ace - The Bunny Mitchell Froom
Dopamine, Atlantic - SEGMENT: Rabbits
- Excerpt: Bunny Hop Mary Ann Meanus and Verbena Green
Heartbeat: Voices of First Nations Women, Smithsonian - Excerpt: Peter Cottontail Gene Autry
The Gene Autry Collection , Rhino - Excerpt: Rabbit Foot Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson
Anthology of American Folk Music, Smithsonian - Old Uncle Rabbit Hettie Godfrey
Afro-American Blues and Game Songs, Rounder - Rabbit Blues Smokey Babe
Shake 'em Down: The Real Country Blues, Arhoolie - Spring is Here Charlie Byrd
The Savoy Story, Savoy - When the Springtime Comes Again The Carter Family
When the Roses Bloom In Dixieland, Rounder - Spring & All Greg Brown
Slant 6 Mind, Red House - Closing Bed: Sand Hill Cranes Recorded by Carolyn Johnsen of Nebraska Public Radio
- Closing Bed: Flying The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour, Apple
