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GUILTY PLEASURES DELUXE
Somewhere on our journey over the past two decades at American Routes, we started talking about “guilty pleasures” shows, where old free form radio roots called for the pleasure of old favorites and new discoveries. But since we broadcast from New Orleans, we’ll drop the word guilty and roll on with the Stones and Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys, Our Native Daughters and Tina Turner, a bootleg tape of Doug Sahm from 70s underground days, and the Mexican American accordion squeeze of Los Texmaniacs.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Rockin' At Cosimo's Lee Allen
The Aladdin Records Story, Proper - Occapella Lee Dorsey
Night People—The Best of Lee Dorsey, Sunset Blvd Records - Iko Iko Dixie Cups
Chapel of Love, Sun Entertainment - Ursuline Second Line New Orleans Night Crawlers
Atmosphere, Threadhead Records - Jazz Party Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra/Tonya Boyd-Cannon
Jazz Party—Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Troubador Jazz - Instrumental: Twin Guitar Boogie Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys—For the Last Time, United Artists - Country Honk Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed, ABKCO - Bob Wills is Still the King Rolling Stones
YouTube, - Bob Wills Boogie Bob Wills
The Essential Bob Wills 1935-1947, Columbia Classics - Brain Cloudy Blues Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
The Essential Bob Wills 1935-1947, Columbia Classic - Lonesome On'ry and Mean Waylon Jennings
Lonesome On'ry and Mean, RCA Victor - Mean Mean Man Wanda Jackson
Rockin' with Wanda, Capitol - Instrumental: Bandera Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Sony - The Rains Came Doug Sahm
Live at the Bijou Cafe—WMMR-FM Broadcast, - Mexico Americano Los Texmaniacs
Cruzando Borders, Smithsonian Folkways - Born on the Bayou Creedence Clearwater
Bayou Country, Fantasy - Proud Mary Ike & Tina Turner
Ike & Tina Turner—Workin' Together, Liberty - Black Myself Our Native Daughters
Austin City Limits, Live - End Bed: Blues On Purpose Nina Simone
I Put a Spell on You, Verve
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Blowin' in the Wind Jack McDuff
Tobacco Road—Brother Jack McDuff, Atlantic - Up Above My Head Sister Rosetta Tharp
Gospel Train, Verve - My Baby Just Cares for Me Nina Simone
Little Girl Blue, Bethlehem - Nightflyer Allison Russell
Outside Child, Fantasy - That's How I Got to Memphis Solomon Burke
Nashville, Shout Factory - Crying Roy Orbison
Crying, Monument - Instrumental: Thirty Five-Thirty Willie Mitchell Combo
The Memphis Rhythm & Blues Sound of Willie Mitchell 1958-1961, Stomper Time Records - I Can't Stand the Rain Ann Peeble
I Can't Stand the Rain, Hi Records - Everything Is Gonna Be Alright Don Bryant
I'll Go Crazy, Hi Records - Night Train to Memphis Jerry Lee Lewis
The Sun Records Sound of Jerry Lee Lewis—30 Country Classics, Sun Records - Memphis Chuck Berry
The Great 28, UMG - Tell it to Me Baby Willie Mitchell with the Four Kings
The Memphis Rhythm & Blues Sound of Willie Mitchell 1958-1961, Stomper Time Records - Feelin' Good Little Junior Park
Sun BBQ, Sun Records - Take Me to the River Al Green
Al Green Explores Your Mind, Hi Records - Instrumental: All Blues Miles Davis, John Coltrane & Cannonball Adderly
Kind of Blue, Impulse - A Love Supreme—Part 1, Acknowledgement John Coltrane
A Love Supreme/John Coltrane, Verve - Sea of Love Cookie and the Cupcakes
By Request, Jin Records - Sea of Love Cat Power
The Covers Record, Matador - The Dolphins Fred Neil
Fred Neil, Capital - End Bed: Cantaloupe Island Herbie Hancock
Empyrean Isles, Blue Note