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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
WINTER HOLIDAY: SOLSTICE, HANUKKAH, XMAS & KWANZAA
It’s that time of year, when the days are shorter and the nights are colder. Warm up to our sounds for the season. Classic songs to celebrate the winter holidays plus a visit to South Louisiana’s Christmas Eve bonfires lighting the way for Papa Noel along the Mississippi River.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Jingle Bells John Fahey
The Christmas Album John Fahey , Burnside - Urge For Going Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell Hits , Reprise - Winter Snow JJ Cale
Stay Around , Because Music - Two Winters Long Irma Thomas
Straight from the Soul , EMI - Cold Cold Winter Johnny Copeland
Catch Up with the Blues , Verve - Instrumental: Cold Winter Blues Shirley Scott
On A Clear Day , Impulse - Snowy Morning Blues James P. Johnson
Black Legends of Jazz , MCA - Winter Time Blues Big Maceo
Victor/Bluebird Recordings 1945-1947 , Bluebird - Cold Winter Blues James Kokomo Arnold
Kokomo Arnold: His 20 Greatest Songs , Wolf - Dark Scenes of Winter Texas Gladden
Portraits: Texas Gladden: Ballad Legacy , Rounder - Rain and Snow Del McCoury
35 Years of the Best of Bluegrass , Rebel - Cold Rain and Snow Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead , Warner Brothers - Girl from the North Country Bob Dylan
The Freewheeling Bob Dylan , Columbia - Angels in the Snow Judy Collins
Winter Stories , Wildflower Records - Instrumental: Return of the Grievous Angel Gram Parsons
The Complete Reprise Sessions , Warner - Each Season Changes You The Osborne Brothers
The Complete Osborne Brothers Collection , CMH - Chilly Winds Tommy Jarrell
Pickin on Tommy’s Porch , County - It's Christmas Time in Louisiana Johnnie Allen
Merry Cajun Christmas , Swallow - Segment: Xmas Bonfires
Listen - Closing Bed: Jingle Bells Booker T & the MGs
In the Christmas Spirit , Rhino Atlantic
HOUR two
- Open Bed: On the Kings Highway Andy Statman
Old Brooklyn , Shefa Records - Chanukah Prayer Carole King
A Holiday Carole , Rockingale Records - Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday Carole King
A Holiday Carole , Rockingale Records - Please Come Home for Christmas Charles Brown
Please Come Home for Christmas , King - Santa's Second Line New Birth Brass
A New Orleans Christmas , NYNO Records - Santa Claus is Coming to Town Bruce Springsteen
In Harmony 2 , Columbia - Instrumental: God Rest Ye Merry Gents Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings
It’s a Holiday Soul Party , Daptone Records - Santa Baby Eartha Kitt
The Essential Eartha Kitt , RCA - Merry Christmas Baby Chuck Berry
St. Louis to Liverpool , Chess - Pretty Paper Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson: The Demos Project, Vol. 2 , Sony - White Christmas Otis Redding
Otis Redding--King of Soul , Atlantic - Instrumental: Silver Bells Booker T & the MGs
Soul Christmas , Stax - River Herbie Hancock and Corinne Bailey Rae
River--The Joni Letters , Verve - Greensleeves John Coltrane Quartet
Ballads--The John Coltrane Quartet , Impulse - Last Month of the Year Fairfield Four
The Fairfield Four: Standing in the Safety Zone, Warner - Father Christmas Lord Invader
West Indian Folksongs for Children , Folkways - O Day The Georgia Sea Island Singers
Join the Band , Mississippi Records - Closing Bed: My Favorite Things John Coltrane
My Favorite Things , Atlantic
