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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
SOUNDS IN THE SPIRIT OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
We celebrate the work and life of Dr. King through the sounds of freedom, including two guests who have added their own voices to that choir. Sixties soul queen Fontella Bass used her gospel background and voice to make freedom statements of her own, such as her biggest hit “Rescue Me.” Scholar, critic and hepcat Albert Murray tells us how African-Americans have used blues and jazz as a springboard to a better place—and why Duke Ellington called him the “unsquarest person I know.” Plus music from John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, the Staples Singers and more.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Change is Gonna Come King Curtis
The Best of King Curtis, Capitol - Freedom Train James Carr
The Essential James Carr, Razor & Tie - Change It Kathleen Cleaver
Black Power: Music of a Revolution, Shout! Factory - Freedom Train Honeyboy Edwards, Floyd Jones, Kansas City Red, Sunnyland Slim & Big Walter Horton
Old Friends, Earwig - Gospel Train Wright Brothers Gospel Singers
Negro Spirituals and Gospel Songs, Blues Encore - Song of the Underground Railroad The John Coltrane Quartet
The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions, Impulse - Instrumental: Lift Every Voice and Sing Reginald R. Robinson
Euphonic Sounds, Delmark - Why? (Am I Treated So Bad) The Staple Singers
The Gospel Sound, Columbia/Legacy - Address To Civil Rights Marchers in Washington D.C. Martin Luther King
Great Speeches of the 20th Century, Rhino - I'm Free At Last Southern Sons
Negro Spirituals and Gospel Songs Vol.2, Blues Encore - Get Your Rights, Jack CORE Freedom Singers
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966, Folkways - INTERVIEW: Fontella Bass
- Instrumental: Redemption Song Monty Alexander w/ Special Guest Ernest Ranglin
Rocksteady, Telarc - Cole, Cooke & Redding Wilson Pickett
A Man and a Half, Rhino - A Change is Gonna Come Otis Redding
Otis Blue, ATCO - Blowin' in the Wind Sam Cooke
At the Copa, ABKCO - The Man in Black Johnny Cash
The Man in Black, 1963-1969, Bear Family - Will the Circle Be Unbroken Jerry Lee Lewis
Classic Jerry Lee Lewis, Bear Family
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Happy Go Lucky Local Duke Ellington
Blues Masters, Vol. 13: New York City Blues, Rhino - Ofay and Oxford Gray Louis Jordan
The Hoy Hoy Collection: Rock Before Elvis, Stash - It Ain’t Necessarily So Mary Lou Williams
Black Christ of the Andes, Folkways - Straighten Up and Fly Right Nat King Cole
The Unforgettable, Capitol - Go Down Moses Ebony Three
Negro Spirituals & Gospel Songs Vol.1, Blues Encore - Joshua Fit the Battle Elvis Presley
His Hand in Mine, RCA - At The Cross Sonny Treadway
Sacred Steel Traditional Sacred African-American Steel Guitar Music in Florida, Arhoolie - Jim Crow Blues Lead Belly
Bourgeois Blues, Folkways - When a Black Man’s Blue Duke Ellington
Centennial Edition: The Compete RCA/Victor Recordings 1927-1973, RCA - INTERVIEW: Albert Murray
Listen - Instrumental: We Shall Not Be Moved Just Cause
Standards, Water Street Music - Uncle Sam Says Josh White
Living in the House of Blues: Defiance Blues, HOB - Down by the Riverside Snooks Eaglin
Country Boy In New Orleans, Arhoolie - War No More (AKA Down by the Riverside) The Maytals
Presenting the Maytals: Never Grow Old, Heartbeat - Martin Luther King Indians of the Nation
Indians of the Nation: United We Stand Divided We Fall, Indians of the Nation - Down by the Riverside Preservation Hall Jazz Band
The Best of the Early Years, Preservation Hall - End Bed: Hymn to Freedom Oscar Peterson
Night Train, Verve
