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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
THE ROAD WITH DON WALSER
Midsummer night dreams, songs of the open road, and the “Pavarotti of the Plains” — Texas honky-tonker Don Walser.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Choo Choo Ch'Boogie Louis Jordan
The Greatest Hits - No Moe!, Mercury - On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe Judy Garland
Too Marvelous for Words - Songs of Johnny Mercer, ASV - Life On the Road Wayne Hancock
That's What Daddy Wants, Ark 21 - When I Take My Vacation in Harlem Tampa Red
The Bluebird Recordings 1934-1936, RCA - Echoes of Harlem (Cootie's Concerto) Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra 1935-1936, Classics - Instrumental: Smokie Part 2 Bill Black Combo
Hi Times - The R & B Years, Hi/The Right Stuff - Le chemin gravaille Jackie Caillier & the Cajun Cousins
From Porch Cajun Music, Lanor - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Lucinda Williams
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Mercury - Everybody Does it in Hawaii Jimmie Rodgers
On the Way Up, 1929, Rounder - The Hula Hula Boys Warren Zevon
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - An Anthology, Rhino - Lovely Hula Hands Junior Brown
Junior High, MCG/Curb - Na Ka Pueo Ledward Kaapana
Led Live, Solo, Dancing Cat - Instrumental: Diamond Head The Ventures
Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol. 5: Surf, Rhino - INTERVIEW: Don Walser
- Texas Top Hand Don Walser
Texas Top Hand, Watermelon - Hot Rod Mercury Don Walser
Down At The Sky-Vue Drive-In, Watermelon/Sire - The Devil's Great Grandson Don Walser
Down At The Sky-Vue Drive-In, Watermelon/Sire - Rose Marie Don Walser
Down At The Sky-Vue Drive-In, Watermelon/Sire - Hearts Made of Stone Don Walser
Down At The Sky-Vue Drive-In, Watermelon/Sire - Rolling Stone from Texas Don Walser
Rolling Stone from Texas, Watermelon - When I Was a Cowboy Lead Belly
Goodnight Irene, Smithsonian Folkways
HOUR two
- Indiana Illinois Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet, Epic/Legacy - Big Road Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt, Warner Brothers - Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down Bessie Smith
The Essential Bessie Smith, Columbia/Legacy - Chicago Bound Jimmy Rogers
The Complete Chess Recordings, MCA/Chess - Goin' to Chicago Joe Williams
The Best of Joe Williams, Blue Note - Instrumental: Rich Woman Yockamo All-Stars
Dew Drop Out, Hannibal - Gonna Take You Downtown Beau Jocque
Gonna Take You Downtown, Rounder - Downtown Neil Young & Pearl Jam
Mirror Ball, Reprise - Janitor Drives a Cadillac Papa John Creach
Papa John Creach, Grunt - Swing Low Sweet Cadillac Dizzy Gillespie
The Champ, Savoy Jazz - Maybelline Chuck Berry
His Best, Volume 1, MCA/Chess - Diesel On my Tail Jim & Jesse
Truckers' Jukebox - Top Radio Requests, Epic - Instrumental: Dented Fender Roy Clark
Guitar Player Presents Legends of Guitar - Country Vol. 2, Rhino - Going Up to the Country and Paint My Mailbox Blue Taj Mahal
The Real Thing, Columbia - Miss the Mississippi and You Doc Watson
Memories, Sugar Hill - Muddy Water Madeline Peyroux
Dreamland, Atlantic - 5 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days Louis Prima
Capitol Collection Series, Capitol - The End of Our Road Gladys Knight & the Pips
The Sound of Young America - 1968, Motown - End Bed: Buster Browne Willie Mitchell
Hi Times, Hi/The Right Stuff
