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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
NEW BLUES & BLUEGRASS: CEDRIC BURNSIDE & SHADOWGRASS
Facing the hot season head on, we hit up juke joints, dancehalls and folk festivals to get our fill of hot licks from blues and bluegrass musicians, oldtimers and newcomers alike. We talk shop with Mississippi Hill Country bluesman Cedric Burnside about playing music alongside his grandfather R.L. Burnside, finding his voice and translating old school sounds for a new generation. Then we head to the Montana Folk Festival to hear the bluegrass bonafides of ShadowGrass and talk with the young Appalachian upstarts about balancing their tour schedule with junior high school. Plus, fife and drum music from Otha Turner & the Afrosippi Allstars, surrealist blues rock a la Captain Beefheart and old-time and rockabilly picking from Doc Watson.
HOUR ONE
- Dog Days of August Cephas and Wiggins
Richmond Blues, Smithsonian Folkways - Open Bed: Hard to Stay Cool Cedric Burnside
Benton County Relic, Single Lock Records - Me and the Devil Blues Robert Johnson
Single, Vocalion - Love in Vain The Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed, Decca - Lonesome Train on a Lonesome Track Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio
Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio, Coral - Lo Yo Yo Stuff Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Clear Spot, Reprise - Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning Aretha Franklin
Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington, Sony Music - Instrumental: The "In" Crowd Ramsey Lewis
The In Crowd, Argo - Young Man's Blues Mose Allison
Mose Allison Sings, Prestige - Women Be Wise Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt, Warner Brothers - Blues for the Night Owl Ramsey Lewis Trio
Blues for the Night Owl/Hello, Cello!, Argo - One for the Highway James Booker
Classified, Rounder - Guitar Highway Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee Sing, Smithsonian Folkways - Instrumental: Outlaws Bill Frisell
Blues Dream, Elektra Nonesuch - Station Blues Otha Turner and the Afrossippi Allstars
From Senegal to Senatobia, Birdman - SEGMENT: Cedric Burnside
Listen - Amen James Booker
Classified, Rounder
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Train 45 ShadowGrass
Recorded at the 2018 Montana Folk Festival, Montana Public Radio - Black Mountain Rag Doc Watson
Black Mountain Rag, Rounder - Shake, Rattle and Roll Doc Watson
Docabilly, Sugar Hill - Little Red Rooster Sam Cooke
Night Beat, RCA Victor - Milk Cow Blues Bob Wills
Millenium Collection- 20th Century Masters, MCA Nashville - Instrumental: Grey Eagle Presley Barker
Just-Ten, CD Baby - SEGMENT: ShadowGrass
Listen - White Freightliner Blues ShadowGrass
Recorded at the 2018 Montana Folk Festival, Montana Public Radio - Call Me the Breeze ShadowGrass
Recorded at the 2018 Montana Folk Festival, Montana Public Radio - Instrumental: Pretty Stars Were Made to Shine Bill Frisell
Blues Dream, Elektra Nonesuch - Picture Show John Prine
The Missing Years, Oh Boy - Act Naturally Buck Owens
The Best of Buck Owens, Capitol - One Time One Night Los Lobos
By the Light of the Moon, Warner Brothers - Streets of Baltimore Gram Parsons (and Emmylou Harris)
GP, Reprise - Them Dance Hall Girls Fraser & DeBolt
Fraser & DeBolt with Ian Guenter, Fallout - Bright Lights Big City Neil Young
Everybody's Rockin', Geffen - Small Town Talk Boz Scaggs
A Fool to Care, Columbia - Closing Bed: Walking Home Donald Harrison with Dr. John
Indian Blues, Candide
