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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
ELIXIRS
Music and insights on coffee and controlled substances that are mood fixers, elixers, mental enhancers or downright downers. From Absinthe to Zoloft, listen in to hear what we brew up in this stimulating realm that’s part of everyday life in America.
HOUR ONE
- Smoke, Smoke, Smoke Johnny Bond
Hillbilly Boogie, Sony - Light Up & Listen radio commercial from Doc Watson show
- Smoke Rings Les Paul & Mary Ford
All-Time Greatest Hits, Capitol - Forty Cups of Coffee Danny Overbea
Chess Blues Guitar, MCA/Chess - Java Jive The Modernaires
Dinermite, Sony - La Cucaracha Orquesta Pajaro Azul
Tex-Mex Vol.1, Folklyric - Marihuana Boogie Lalo Guererro
Recuerdos, Lalo - Instrumental: If You're A Viper Kermit Ruffins
The Big Butter & Egg Man, Justice - If Youse a Viper Rosetta Howard
The Official Sampler, Official - INTERVIEW: James Hughes
Listen - Ko Ko Charlie Parker
Yardbird Suite, Rhino - Instrumental: Smoke Rings Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
Nuages, ASV - Kickin the Gong Around Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra
Marijuana Madness: The Best of Reefer Songs 1927-1947, Fuel - Hong Kong Blues Hoagy Carmichael
The Classic Hoagy, Smithsonian - Prelude for Bernard Suares Irene Herrmann/Paul Bowles
Sonata, etc…, Koch - Bad Liver & A Broken Heart Tom Waits
Beautiful Maladies, Island - Sam Stone John Prine
Great Days, Rhino - Dead Flowers Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers, Virgin
HOUR two
- Stranger in My Own Home Town Elvis Presley
From Nashville to Memphis Vol 4, RCA - Turtle Blues Janis Joplin/ Big Brother & the Holding Company
Cheap Thrills, Sony - Dumb Nirvana
In Utero, Geffen - Better Must Come Delroy Wilson
Tougher Than Tough, Mango - Pusherman Curtis Mayfield
People Get Ready, Rhino - Instrumental: He Loved Him Madly Miles Davis / mixed by Bill Laswell
Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974, Columbia - Round Midnight Miles Davis
Round About Midnight, Columbia - Wackey Dust Chick Webb/Ella Fitzgerald
Reefer Songs, Jass - Cocaine Habit Blues Memphis Jug Band
Ruckus Juice and Chitlins Vol. 1, Yazoo - Casey Jones Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, Warner - Cocaine Blues Johnny Cash
Live at Folsom Prison, Sony - Instrumental: The Penny Opus No.1 Hank Penny
Crazy Rhythm: The Standard Transcriptions, Bloodshot - INTERVIEW: Hank Thompson Hank Thompson
- The Drunkard's Room The Louvin Brothers
Satan is Real, Capitol - Lord I've Tried Bill Landford & the Landfordaires
There Will Be No Sweeter Sound, Okeh
