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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
HARD TIMES AND HONKY TONKS: DALE WATSON, DAVID RAWLINGS AND GILLIAN WELCH
The sounds may seem old but the songs are not. This week on American Routes we visit with a few musicians who are known for crafting modern country music from old-time inspirations. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings share with us how they fit “an electric peg into an acoustic hole.” Then conversation with Austin’s king of the honky-tonks, Dale Watson, who literally wears his musical inspirations on his sleeve.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Rocky Run Jerry Stuart, Pete Kuykendall, Smiley Hobbs & Tom Gray
Classic Bluegrass, vol. 2, Smithsonian Folkways - Blame it All on Nashville Pee Wee King
Country Cowboy Classics, Goldenlane - Nashville Cats The Lovin' Spoonful
Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, Buddha - Blue The Louvin Brothers
Country Love Ballads, Capitol - Blues Stay Away From Me Doug Sahm and Band
Doug Sahm and Band, Atlantic - When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again Big Al Downing
Heavy Sugar: Pure Essence of New Orleans R&B, Fantastic Voyage - Instrumental: John Henry/ Worried Blues Doc and Merle Watson
Guitar Album, Flying Fish - SEGMENT: Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
Listen - Unknown Blues Tarter & Gay
The Bristol Sessions: The Big Bang of Country Music 1927-1928, Bear Family - Tennessee Jed The Grateful Dead
Europe '72, Warner Bros. - Instrumental: Hard Times Stanley Brothers
Friend of Old Time Music: The Folk Arrival 1961-1965, Folkways - Hard Travelin' Woody Guthrie
My Dusty Road, Rounder - Elvis Presley Blues Gillian Welch
Time the Revelator, Acony - When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again Elvis Presley
The King of Rock 'N' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters, RCA - Hard Times Come Again No More Mavis Staples
Beautiful Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster, American Roots - Sugar Mountain Neil Young
Decade, Reprise - End Bed: One of these Days Bill Frisell
Nashville, Nonesuch
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Pedal Paddle Lloyd Green
The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green, KOCH - Settin' the Woods on Fire Hank Williams
The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury - Around and Around Chuck Berry
His Best, Volume 1, MCA/ Chess - I Love to Rock n Roll Eddie Bo
Heavy Sugar: Pure Essence of New Orleans R&B, Fantastic Voyage - Moran Tonk Circa 1936 Jason Moran
Modernistic, Blue Note - Don't You Know Ray Charles
Genius and Soul: 50th Anniversary Collection, Rhino - Instrumental: Honky Tonk King Curtis
The Best of King Curtis, Capitol - Stomp and Holler Hayes Carll
KMAG YOYO & Other American Stories, Lost Highway - Maggie's Farm Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia - Country Boy Johnny Cash
The Man in Black: 1954-1958, Sony - SEGMENT: Dale Watson
Listen - Instrumental: Honky Tonk Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
The Man, Verve - Everybody's Movin' Glen Glenn
Glen Rocks, Bear Family - Boogie Woogie Country Girl Big Joe Turner
Definitive Blues Collection, Rhino - Sister's Coming Home/ Down at the Corner Beer Joint Willie Nelson
Phases and Stages, Atlantic - Close Up the Honky Tonks Buck Owens
The Buck Owens Collection, Rhino - Paper Wings Gillian Welch
Revival, Almo Sounds - End Bed: Last Date Floyd Cramer
RCA Country Legends, Buddha
