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American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey January 13th, 2021 (Hour 1)
American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey

We go live in concert and conversation with two New Orleans artists each of whom bring their family heritage forward into contemporary music. Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla has called New Orleans home for many years, but her family ties are to Haiti. She draws on French Creole roots for inspiration, as well as from the poetry of Langston Hughes. Then jazz saxophonist Big Chief Donald Harrison, whose musical journey includes time in New York with drummer Art Blakey’s band, talks about “Afro-New Orleans” culture and demonstrates how to bring soul, funk, and Black carnival traditions into modern jazz.

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GET RHYTHM: A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH

September 5th, 2007

It’s a two-hour tribute in song and story to the Man in Black. We’ll hear from his family, friends and associates on the contradictions—preacher, outlaw, loving family man, rockabilly rebel—that made the man. Voices include Rosanne Cash; son John Carter Cash; sister Joanne Yates; bassist and original member of the Tennessee Two Marshall Grant; guitarist Johnny Western; producer Rick Rubin; long time manager Lou Robin; writer and critic Michael Streissguth; and, of course, Johnny Cash.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash
    The Legend, Columbia
  • Get Rhythm Johnny Cash
    The Legend, Columbia
  • Post: Big River Johnny Cash
    The Man in Black 1954-1958, Bear Family
  • Big River Johnny Cash
    Legend, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Growing Up
  • POST: Pickin' Time Johnny Cash
    The Legend, Columbia
  • Country Trash Johnny Cash
    Solitary Man, American
  • Five Feet High and Rising Johnny Cash
    The Man in Black 1959-1962, Bear Family
  • SEGMENT: Tennessee Two
  • POST: Wide Open Road Johnny Cash
    Man In Black 1954-1958, Bear Family
  • POST: Intro Tennessee Two from "I Got Stripes" Johnny Cash
    Live Recordings From The Louisiana Hayride, Scene
  • Luther Played the Boogie Johnny Cash
    Legend, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Sun Records

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  • Hey Porter Johnny Cash
    Man In Black 1954-1958, Bear Family
  • POST: Cry, Cry, Cry Johnny Cash
    Man In Black 1954-1958, Bear Family
  • SEGMENT: I Walk the Line
  • POST: I Walk the Line Johnny Cash
    The Man in Black 1954-58, Bear Family
  • POST: I Walk the Line Johnny Cash emcee intro
    Live Recordings From The Louisiana Hayride, Scene
  • Instrumental: I Walk The Line Red Rhodes & the Roadrunners
    Dobro Album, Crownstar
  • SEGMENT: Family
  • POST: Don't Take Your Guns to Town Johnny Cash
    Man In Black 1954-1958, Bear Family
  • POST: A Satisfied Mind Johnny Cash
    Kill Bill: Vol.2 Original Soundtrack, Maveric
  • Tennessee Flat Top Box Rosanne Cash
    Hits 1979-1989, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Faith
  • POST: Great Speckled Bird Johnny Cash
    Legend, Columbia
  • CLIP: from the Johnny Cash Franklin Bible Sessions
  • BED: By the Side of the Road John Fahey
    Of Rivers and Religion, Warner
  • Daddy Sang Bass Johnny Cash
    The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-83, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Ring of Fire Chas Williams
    Ring of Fire, Chas Williams
  • SEGMENT: Drugs
  • POST: Ring of Fire Johnny Cash
    The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-83, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: June
  • Jackson Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
    The Legend, Columbia
  • POST: Wildwood Flower Carter Family
    In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family
  • CLIP: June Carter introduces Carter Family onstage
    Johnny Cash - The Man, His World, His Music DVD, Cherry Red
  • If I Were A Carpenter Johnny and June Carter Cash
    The Legend, Columbia
  • End Bed: Minor Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes original recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Ring of Fire Johnny Cash
    The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983, Columbia
  • POST: Ring of Fire (Spanish version) Johnny Cash
    The Man in Black: The International Johnny Cash, Bear Family
  • POST: Rueda De Fuego Mingo Saldivar
    Y Sus Tremendos Cuatro Espadas, Rounder
  • POST: Dub is My Occupation King Tubby
    Dub Like Dirt, Blood & Fire
  • POST: Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash
    Live at Folsom Prison, Sony
  • POST: Crescent City Blues Gordon Jenkins
    Seven Dreams, Dacca
  • SEGMENT: Prison
  • POST: Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash
    Live at Folsom Prison, Sony
  • POST: I Got Stripes Johnny Cash
    Live at Folsom Prison, Sony
  • A Boy Named Sue Johnny Cash
    Live at San Quentin, Sony
  • POST: Doing My Time Johnny Cash
    The Essential Johnny Cash, Sony
  • SEGMENT: Original Outlaw
  • POST: Cocaine Blues Johnny Cash
    Live at Folsom Prison, Sony
  • POST: The One On The Right Is The One On The Left Johnny Cash
    The Man In Black: 1963-1969 Plus, Bear Family
  • What is Truth Johnny Cash
    The Legend, Columbia
  • The Man in Black Johnny Cash
    The Man In Black: 1963-1969 Plus, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Nashville Skyline Rag Bob Dylan
    Nashville Skyline, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Dylan
  • POST: I Still Miss Someone Johnny Cash
    Nashville at Newport, Vanguard
  • POST: It Ain't Me Babe Johnny Cash
    The Man In Black: 1963-1969 Plus, Bear Family
  • POST: I Walk the Line Bob Dylan
    The Dylan/Cash Sessions, Spank
  • Girl From The North Country Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash
    Nashville Skyline, Columbia
  • CLIP: from film "The Night Rider" (And More Bears) DVD
  • POST I Still Miss Someone Emmylou Harris
    Portraits, Reprise
  • POST: Cry, Cry, Cry Elvis Costello & the Attractions
    Almost Blue, Columbia
  • POST: Get Rhythm Little Richard
    Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash, Lucky Dog
  • One Piece at a Time Johnny Cash
    The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Delia Elizabeth Cotton
    Shake Sugaree, Smithsonian Folkways
  • SEGMENT: American Recordings

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  • I Won't Back Down Johnny Cash
    American III: Solitary Man, American
  • POST: Delia's Gone Johnny Cash
    American Recordings, American
  • Before My Time Johnny Cash
    American III: Solitary Man, American
  • POST: Hurt Johnny Cash
    American IV: The Man Comes Around, American
  • SEGMENT: Sickness/Death of June
  • Flesh and Blood Johnny Cash
    Unearthed, American
  • SEGMENT: Remembrances
  • "Black Cadillac" Rosanne Cash
    Black Cadillac, Capitol
  • Bed: "Green Green Grass of Home" Allen Shelton
    Shelton Special, Rounder
  • "Wayfaring Stranger" Johnny Cash
    American III: Solitary Man, American

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