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Live with Piano Prince Davell Crawford and Native American Songs and Sounds from Pow-Wow to Pop Live with Piano Prince Davell Crawford and Native American Songs and Sounds from Pow-Wow to Pop October 4th, 2023 (Hour 1)
Live with Piano Prince Davell Crawford and Native American Songs and Sounds from Pow-Wow to Pop

It’s an American Routes live session with the Piano Prince of New Orleans, Davell Crawford, a fine singer and wily raconteur who grew up in Lafayette and New Orleans. We’ll also hear some of his and our piano heroes from South Louisiana and beyond: James Booker, Professor Longhair, and Ray Charles, as well as Davell’s grandfather, Sugar Boy Crawford. Then, it’s our tribute to Indigenous Peoples Day, the second Monday of October, with an array of Native American voices and music from the Black Lodge Singers, Dennis Banks, Link Wray, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Redbone. Plus archival and current conversations with Assiniboine Cree Singers from Montana, French-speaking Houmas from Louisiana and vocal harmonies from the women of Ulali.

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WHAT'S COOL?

July 24th, 2002

American Routes poses the question: “What is cool?” A style, a state of mind, the perfect horn riff, just chillin’? Some guests from the past year offer their answers, including Merle Haggard, Yo La Tengo, McCoy Tyner, T-Bone Burnett and Ray Charles. All backed up, of course, by our “cool” music mix (depicted: clarinet player Don Byron and Yale art historian of “coolness” Robert Farris Thompson).

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Fever The Three Suns
    Cocktail Mix, Vol.1: Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy, Rhino
  • But I Was Cool Oscar Brown Jr.
    Sin & Soul… And Then Some, Sony
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? : Mose Allison
  • The 7th Son Mose Allison
    Alison Wonderland: The Mose Allison Anthology, Rhino
  • I'm a Woman Peggy Lee
    The Best of Miss Peggy Lee, Capitol
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? - Listener Bruce Hirsch
  • Rocket 69 Todd Rhodes & Orchestra
    Risque Rhythm Nasty ‘50s R&B, Rhino
  • Cool, Cool Ways (Sexy Ways) Jerry Lee Lewis
    Classic, Bear Family
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? - Merle Haggard
  • The Bottle Let Me Down Merle Haggard
    The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977, Razor & Tie
  • Instrumental: Movin' Bill Black's Combo
    The Best of Bill Black's Combo: The Hi Years, Hi
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? - Jack Johnson
  • Have Mercy Baby Jelly Roll Kings
    Rockin' the Juke Joint Down, Earwig
  • Til The Money Runs Out John Hammond Jr.
    Wicked Grin, PointBlank
  • Instrumental: You Name It Memphis Slim
    The Folkway Years 1959-1973, Folkways
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? - John Hammond Jr.
  • Hit That Jive Jack King Cole Trio
    An Introduction to Nat King Cole 1936-1947, Best of Jazz
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? - Don Byron & John Sinclair

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  • All Blues Miles Davis
    Kind of Blue, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? - Ray Charles
  • Catch a Falling Star Perry Como
    Pure Gold, RCA
  • This Little Girl of Mine Ray Charles
    Genius & Soul, Rhino
  • Sit Down Servant The Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama
    The Sermon, Specialty
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? - The Blind Boys of Alabama
  • Run On The Blind Boys of Alabama
    Spirit of the Century, RealWorld

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Hansel and Pretzel Henri Rene & His Orchestra
    Cocktail Mix, Vol.1: Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy, Rhino
  • Cool Jerk The Capitols
    Beg, Scream & Shout! The Big Ol' Box of ‘60s Soul, Rhino
  • Cool Del Close & John Brent
    Beat Generation, Rhino
  • Reaching Into In Ken Nordine
    The Best of Word Jazz, Vol.1, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? -Yo La Tengo
  • One PM Again Yo La Tengo
    And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, Matador
  • On the Sunny Side of the Street Willie Nelson
    Stardust, Sony
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? -Willie Nelson
  • But Not for Me Chet Baker
    Best of Chet Baker Sings, Capitol
  • Instrumental: Gentlemen Fela Kuti
    The Best Best of,
  • SEGMENT: Robert Farris Thompson, Yale professor of African and African-American Art History

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  • Que Lindo el Mambo Tito Puente
    Mambo Cubano: The Golden Age of Cuban Music 1940-1960, Proper
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? -Jim Jarmusch
  • He's Funny That Way Lester Young w/ Billie Holiday
    Ken Burns Jazz: Lester Young, Verve
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? -McCoy Tyner
  • Blues Back McCoy Tyner
    Reaching Fourth, Impulse
  • Instrumental: Splat James Taylor Quartet
    Message From The Godfather, Ubiquity
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? - Bob Moog
  • Boogie On Reggae Woman Stevie Wonder
    Original Musiquarium, Motown
  • I've Got Love if You Want It Slim Harpo
    The Best Of, Hip-O
  • Hip Shake Rolling Stones
    Exile On Main St., Virgin
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? - listener Don Johnson
  • SEGMENT: What's Cool? - T Bone Burnett
  • I'll Fly Away Gillian Welch & Alison Krauss
    Down From The Mountain, Lost Highway
  • End Bed: The Wondering Texan Biller & Wakefield
    The Hot Guitars of Biller & Wakefield, High Tone

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