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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
ROBBIE FULKS & BETTYE LAVETTE
Join us for the sounds and stories of estranged country singer and songwriter Robbie Fulks. And R&B vixen Bettye LaVette takes us from the Motor City to Muscle Shoals, and Beale Street to Bourbon Street, as she recounts nearly 50 years of singing R&B.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Touch My Heart Lloyd Green
The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green, Koch - Sitting on Top of the World Doc Watson
Trouble in Mind: The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection, 1964-1998, Sugar Hill - Happy Woman Blues Lucinda Williams
Happy Woman Blues, Smithsonian Folkways - Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Elizabeth Cotten
Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, Folkways - Lonesome Road Blues Muddy Waters
The Chess Box, MCA/Chess - This Old Road Kris Kristofferson
This Old Road, New West - End of the Road Jerry Lee Lewis
Classic Jerry Lee Lewis, Bear Family - Instrumental: Pan Handle Rag Leon McAuliffe & His Western Swing Band
Heroes of country Music, Vol.1: Legends of Western Swing, Rhino - INTERVIEW: Robbie Fulks
Listen - Great Speckled Bird Johnny Cash
Love, God, Murder, Columbia/American/Legacy - Paper Wings Gillian Welch
Revival, Almo Sounds - Wild Side of Life Charlie Feathers
Get With It: Essential Recordings 1954-69, Revenant - instrumetnal: Great Speckled Bird Auldridge, Brozman & Grisman
Tone Poems III, Acoustic Disc - It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Kitty Wells
In the Country of Country, Compass - The Wild Side of Life / It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Robert 'Bilbo' Walker
Promised Land, Rooster Blues - Stealin', Stealin' Memphis Jug Band
When the Sun Goes Down: The First Time I Met the Blues, Bluebird - I'm a Woman Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band
Greatest Hits!, Vanguard - Country Honk Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed, ABKCO
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Soul Serenade Willie Mitchell
Hi Records: The Hi Records R&B Years, Hi - Work With Me Annie Hank Ballard
Sexy Ways: The Best of Hank Ballard & the Midnighters, Rhino - Roll with Me Henry Ettta James
R&B Dynamite, Flair/Virgin - Brown Eyed Handsome Man Buddy Holly
The Buddy Holly Collection, MCA - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You Louis Prima and Keely Smith
Ultra-Lounge: Wild, Cool and Swingin', Vol. 1, Capitol - Someday, You'll Be Sorry Johnny St. Cyr
Johnny St. Cyr, American Music - Instrumental: Bogalusa Strut John Rankin
Guitar Gumbo, STR - Release Me Clifton Chenier
King of the Bayous, Arhoolie - He'll Have To Go Ry Cooder
Chicken Skin Music, Reprise - INTERVIEW: Bettye LaVette
Listen - Instrumental: Al's Theme Allen Toussiant
The Complete ‘Tousan' Sessions, Bear Family - All These Things Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint
The River in Reverse, Verve - Sea of Love Cookie and the Cupcakes
King of Swamp Pop, Ace - Walking to New Orleans Dr. John
Sing Me Back Home: The New Orleans Social Club, Burgundy - One Step at a Time Fats Domino
Alive and Kickin', Tipitina's Foudation - This Little Light of Mine Sam Cooke
At the Copa, ABKCO - End Bed: Sunday Mornin' Grant Green
Sunday Morning, Blue Note
