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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
RECORD MAVENS: DAN AUERBACH AND JOEL SAVOY TAKE ON THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
Traveling at the speed of 45 RPM, we sink into the record grooves of some of our favorite songs and talk to the studio wizards who produced them. First stop is Nashville, home to Music Row as well as Easy Eye Sound, the recording studio of Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach. We talk with Auerbach about his journey in music, from hearing vinyl on his parents’ turntable in Akron, Ohio, to cutting records with some of Nashville’s legendary session players. Then we head to French Louisiana to chat with Cajun music maven Joel Savoy of Valcour Records about documenting and expanding the region’s traditional sounds. Heading east to the Fertile Crescent of American music and our hometown, we remember New Orleans’ Harold Battiste, who started All For One Records—the first African American owned label in the South—and arranged hits for Sam Cooke, Dr. John and Sonny & Cher, among others. Plus, more jukebox gold from Little Anthony & the Imperials, June Carter and the Lovin’ Spoonful.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: My Mind is Ramblin' The Black Keys
Sunday Nights: The Songs of Jr. Kimbrough, Fat Possum - Stay All Night Junior Kimbrough
All Night Long, Fat Possum - Honey Hush Johnny Burnette
Rockabilly Boogie, Bear Family - Jockey Full of Bourbon Tom Waits
Rain Dogs, Island - Hoboken Saturday Night The Insect Trust
Hoboken Saturday Night, Atco - Instrumental: "The Lonely One" Duane Eddy
Have 'Twangy' Guitar, Will Travel, Jamie - SEGMENT: Dan Auerbach
Listen - Cold Pillows Shannon Shaw
Shannon in Nashville, Easy Eye Sound - You Don't Have to Do Right Robert Finley
Goin' Platinum, Easy Eye Sound - Son of a Preacher Man Dusty Springfield
Dusty in Memphis, American Sound Studios - Instrumental: Grandma's Boogie Lightnin' Hopkins
Grandma's Boogie/I Love You Baby, Herald Records - Uncle Stan, the Hip Hit Record Man Lightnin' Hopkins
Found My Baby Crying/Uncle Stan, the Hip Hit Record Man, Jewel - Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man The Rolling Stones
Singles Collection: The London Years, Abkco - Nashville Cats The Lovin' Spoonful
Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, Bell Sound Studios and Columbia Studios - Juke Box Man Dick Curless
The Drag 'Em Off the Interstate, Sock It To 'Em Hits of Dick Curless, Razor & Tie - Mr. Record Man Willie Nelson
Nite Life: Greatest Hits & Rare Tracks 1959-1971, Rhino - Closing Bed: Unchained Melody Duane Eddy
Twangy Guitar Silky Strings, RCA Victor
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Reel de Coquin Linzay Young & Joel Savoy
Reel de Coquin, Valcour - Paul Daigle Sur le Juke Box Bonsoir, Catin
Blues a Catin, Bridgetown Records - Juke Box Blues June Carter Cash
Keep on the Sunny Side: June Carter Cash- Her Life in Music, Columbia - A Prayer and a Juke Box Little Anthony & the Imperials
The Best of Little Anthony and the Imperials, Rhino - Phonograph Blues Robert Johnson
The Complete Recordings, Columbia - Big Ten-Inch Record Bull Moose Jackson with Tiny Bradshaw's Orchestra
Risque Rhythm: Nasty '50s R&B , Rhino - Instrumental: Pine Grove Blues Wilson Savoy
The Best of Valcour Records 2006-2011, Valcour - SEGMENT: Joel Savoy
Listen - When I Die Marc Broussard
I Wanna Sing Right: Rediscovering Lomax in the Evangeline Country, Valcour - Junko Partner Dr. John
Gumbo, ATCO - Instrumental: The Big B.N. The AFO Executives & Tammy Lynn
Compendium, AFO Records - You Send Me Sam Cooke
Songs by Sam Cooke, Keen - I Know Barbara George
Gumbo Stew, AFO - Baby Don't Go Sonny and Cher
Baby Don't Go, Reprise - Olde Wine AFO Executives
Gumbo Stew, AFO - CLIP: Henry Butler
- Closing Bed: Basin Street Blues Henry Butler
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