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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
SPRING
New season, new music in the air! In addition to a lively spring mix of music, we’ll bring you the sounds of the birds in Belize, the bees in urban New Orleans… and the man who sings like a frog. New Orleans R&B star Clarence “Frogman” Henry tells us about his amphibious voice, his collection of frogs, and hanging out with the Beatles on tour in ’64.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Ain't Got No Home The Band
Moondog Matinee, Capitol - Froggie Went a Courtin' Doc Watson
Home Again!, Vanguard - Miss Froggie Warren Smith
Complete Sun Singles Vol. 2, Bear Family - Ain't Got No Home Sleepy LaBeef
Larger Than Life, Bear Family - Frog Sounds
Sounds of North American Frogs, Folkways - INTERVIEW: Clarence 'Frogman' Henry
Listen - Froggy Bottom Jimmy Witherspoon with Jay McShann And His Band
Goin' to Kansas City Blues, RCA - I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water Lou Rawls
Anthology, Capitol - Instrumental: A Sleepin' Bee Bill Evans
Verve Jazz Masters 5, Verve - Honey Bee Blues Silas Hogan
Swamp Blues, Excello - Honey Bee Muddy Waters
His Best 1947-1955, MCA/Chess - SEGMENT: Beekeeper Jay Martin
- Honey, Honey Gary Tollett
West Texas Bop, Ace - Wolverton Mountain Clyde King
Columbia Country Classics Vol.3: Americana, Columbia - Old Man From The Mountain Merle Haggard
The Lonesome Fugitive: Anthology 1963-1977, Razor & Tie - Instrumental: Foggy Mountain Special Lester Flatt
Foggy Mountain Breakdown, CMH - Away Out On The Mountain Jimmie Rodgers
Singing Brakeman, Bear Family - You're A Flower Bloomin' In The Wildwood Harry & Jeanie West
Country Bluegrass, Prestige - Way Behind The Sun Pentangle
Light Flight: The Anthology, Castle - Stormy Weather Billie Holiday
The Collection, Verve
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Sounds from 'Peterson Field Guides: Bird Songs Houghton Mifflin and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Tree Top Serenade Carson Robison & His Pioneers
Home, Sweet Home on the Prairie, ASV - Starting a New Life Van Morrison
Tupelo Honey, Warner - Hey! Baby Buckwheat Zydeco
Five Card Stud, Island - Possum up a Simmon Tree Snooks Eaglin
Country Boy Down in New Orleans, Arhoolie - Slide (sic - Sly) Mongoose Count Lasher's Calypso Quintet
Boogu Yagga Gal, Heritage - SEGMENT: Birds of Belize
- Instrumental: Rain Forest John Fahey
Return of the Repressed: The John Fahey Anthology, Rhino - Before the Next Teardrop Falls Freddie Fender
45 rpm, ABC - The Rains Came Doug Sahm
The Roots of Doug Sahm, Music Club - Rain Charlie Feathers
Uh Huh Honey, Norton - Little Rain Jimmy Reed
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood soundtrack, Sony - I Can't Stand The Rain Cassandra Wilson
The Blue Note Years 1939-1999, Blue Note - Rain Down Rain Big Maybelle
The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-55, Epic/Legacy - Didn't it Rain The Ward Singers
Great Gospel Groups: Over in Glory, MCA - Instrumental: Over the Rainbow Art Pepper
Jazz Profile: Art Pepper, Blue Note - Come Rain or Come Shine John Coltrane
The Prestige Recordings, Prestige - When the Sun Comes Out Ella Fitzgerald
The Harold Arlen Songbook Vol. 2, Verve - End Bed: Over the Rainbow Claude Williams
Swingin' The Blues, Rounder
