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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM

LOST FLORIDA

Travel down Stephen Foster’s mythical Suwanee River, stomp through the Everglades, and ride on the Orange Blossom Special to discover the lost Florida. With music from the late great yarn spinner Gamble Rogers, Cuban bassist Cachao, sacred steel guitarist Glenn Lee, southern rocker Wayne Cochran, blues pianist Ida Goodson and much more.

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Swanee River Rock Ray Charles
    The Genius Hits the Road, Rhino
  • Swanee Al Jolson
    From Gershwin's Time - The Original Sounds of George Gershwin, Sony Classical
  • Deep Down in Florida Muddy Waters
    Hard Again, Blue Sky/CBS
  • Rollin & Tumblin Moses Williams
    Drop on Down in Florida, Florida Folklife Program
  • Cuban Crime of Passion Jimmy Buffett
    A White Sport Coat & A Pink Crustacean, Dunhill/ABC
  • Bemba 'e Cuchara (Spoon Lips) Cachao
    Master Sessions Vol. 2, Sony
  • Instrumental: No Me Llores Mas Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos
    Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos, Atlantic
  • The Everglades television show theme
    Television's Greatest Hits: Black & White Classics, TVT
  • The Everglades Whitstein Brothers
    Trouble Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, Rounder
  • The Everglades Treat Her Right
    Treat Her Right, BMG
  • SEGMENT: historian Bill Roberston
  • Children's Dance Mary Youngblood
    Heartbeat 2: More Voices of First Nations Women, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Instrumental: Charles Bronson
    Smoke Signals Soundtrack, TVT
  • Florida Stomp Roy Eldridge & his Orchestra
    Roy Eldridge 1935-1940, Classics
  • Going Back to Miami Wayne Cochran
    Essential Southern Rock, House of Blues
  • Tallahassee Lassie Jan & Dean
    Surf City/Folk 'n Roll, One Way
  • Apalachicola, FLA Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters
    Their Complete Recordings Together, MCA/Decca

HOUR two

  • Call Him By His Name Glenn Lee
    Sacred Steel, Arhoolie
  • Florida Storm Southeast Alabama and Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention
    Drop on Down in Florida, Florida Folklife Program
  • One Finger Blues Ida Goodson
    Florida Music Train, Florida Folklife Program
  • Going Back to Florida Lightnin' Hopkins
    Lightnin' Hopkins, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Back Road Into Town The Staples Singers
    The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles 1972-1975, Stax
  • Instrumental: The Rocker Papa John Creach
    The Best of Papa John Creach, Buddah
  • SEGMENT: fiddler Willie Jones
  • Florida Blues Dog Watson & David Grisman
    Doc & Dawg, Acoustic Disc
  • Airstream Trailer Orgy Gamble Rogers
    Sorry Is As Sorry Does, Flying Fish
  • Miami Martin Mull
    Martin Mull, Capricorn
  • Mambo in Miami Cal Tjader
    Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz, Verve
  • Miami Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
    Rey Azucar, SDI
  • Instrumental: King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown Augustus Pablo
    In the Red Zone, Shanachie
  • Epstein's Doina Epstein Brothers
    The Soul of Klezmer, Network
  • Florida Jerry Seinfeld
    I'm Telling You For the Last Time, Universal
  • Old Man Blues Mose Allison
    Gimcracks and Gewgaws, Blue Note
  • Orange Blossom Special Rouse Brothers
    The Florida Music Train, Florida Folklife Program
  • Train Imitation Roger Matthews
    Florida Music Train, Florida Folklife Program
  • Zora Olu Dara
    From Natchez to New York, Atlantic
  • Florida Flo Fats Waller
    The Middle Years, Part 1: 1936-38, Bluebird
  • End Bed: Swanee River Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
    Nuages, ASV

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