American Routes ~ Looking for America: Elvis Costello and Carla Bley

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		June 15th, 2011 ~ We're seeking out the "American" in American music with two eclectic artists: Elvis Costello and Carla Bley. For British songman Elvis Costello, American music has shaped much of his musical creativity. We'll hear about his love of American country and blues, his musical upbringing in Liverpool, and his current fascination with P.T. Barnum. For the inventive and eccentric jazz composer Carla Bley, the National Anthem proves an unlikely source of inspiration. Bley brings wry humor to a conversation about the challenges of writing for her very big bands, her early days as a cigarette girl in NYC jazz clubs, and why America might be famous for baked beans. Listen To Hour 1 Listen To Hour 2 Share This

Hour One		Hour Two		Helpful Links
Open Bed: Brilliant Mistake Elvis Costello King of America, Rhino Hidden Shame Elvis Costello Secret, Profane & Sugarcane, Hear Music American Music The Blasters American Music, Hightone Promised Land Chuck Berry His Best, Volume 2, MCA/ Chess I've Been Everywhere Johnny Cash Unchained, American I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks Striking It Rich, MCA Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle Screamin' Jay Hawkins Cow Fingers and Mosquito Pie, Sony Sulphur to Sugarcane Elvis Costello Secret, Profane & Sugarcane, Hear Music Instrumental: Weeper's Dream Elvis Costello and the Attractions Trust, Rykodisc SEGMENT: Elvis Costello Listen Nowhere to Go Allen Toussaint The Complete 'Tousan' Sessions, Bear Family Dixie Flyer Randy Newman American Routes original recording, Instrumental: Latch On Fats Waller and His Rhythm Fractious Fingering/ The Early Years Part 3, 1936, BMG Don't Stop the Music George Jones The Classic Mercury Years, Mercury Blues a Catin Bonsoir, Catin Blues a Catin, Bridgetown Matchbox (I'm Gonna Forget About You) Ike Turner King Cobra/ The Chicago Sessions, Fuel 2000 Cryin' Blues Charles Mingus Blues and Roots, Atlantic End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint American Routes Original Recording,		Open Bed: Ida Lupino Paul Bley Trio Closer, ESP-Disk I'm Nuts About Screwy Music Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra The Swinging Mr. Lunceford, Empress Jump For Joy Herb Jeffries with Duke Ellington A Brief History of Herb Jeffries, Warner Brothers SEGMENT: Carla Bley Listen Instrumental: H.C.Q Strut Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli The Ultimate Collection, Prism Leisure You Gotta Pay the Band Abbey Lincoln and Stan Getz You Gotta Pay the Band, Gitanes Jazz Falling Rain Blues Lonnie Johnson Lonnie Johnson: Complete Folkways Recordings, Smithsonian Folkways I Love the Life I Live Mose Allison Retrospective, Columbia If It Ain't Got That Swing The Modern Jazz Quartet The Modern Jazz Quartet, Warner Music France Little Bells Paul Burch Still Your Man, Ramseur Instrumental: California Cotillion Mike Seeger True Vine, Smithsonian Folkways Fifty Miles of Elbow Room F.W. McGee Anthology of American Folk Music, Smithsonian Folkways The Breakman's Blues Jimmie Rodgers First Sessions, 1927-1928, Rounder Freight Train Elizabeth Cotten Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, Smithsonian Folkways No Depression in Heaven The New Lost City Ramblers 50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go?, Smithsonian Folkways Roll On Son Volt American Central Dust, Rounder End Bed: Fuller Blues Sam McGee Grand Dad of the Country Guitar Pickers, Arhoolie

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