American Routes: radio show from New Orleans


	"America is woven of many strands, I would recognize them and let it so remain.... Our fate is to become one and yet many." -- Ralph Ellison Each week, Nick Spitzer covers vast musical and cultural ground on American Routes, a public radio program based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hear blues and jazz, roots rock and soul, Cajun and country, zydeco and Tejano... and beyond. Plus stories and conversations with musicians and everyday people, known and unknown. Explore the roots of popular music and popular roots music... on American Routes, from American Public Media. Listen to and remember Isaac Hayes and Jerry Wexler on American Routes.
After the Storm Washboard Slim The Imagination Movers Johnny Cash Shelby Lynne Michael Hurley	This Week on American Routes: August 13 - August 19, 2008 John Prine Join us for a two-hour visit with John Prine as he walks us through his life--from urban Illinois backwards to Muhlenberg County, Kentucky--and catalog. For over 35 years, the singer and guitarist has written and performed songs which present a slightly off-kilter and darkly humorous look at working class America. We'll also talk agitprop with the man who has written Vietnam-era protest songs like "Take the Star Our of the Window" and "Sam Stone," and environmental broadsides such as "Paradise." There's also performances of Prine's songs by others and more in this two-hour visit with one of America's leading songwriters. Web hosting by American Studies at Emory University. Produced at Basin Street Station in collaboration with Tulane University. Co-produced and distributed by American Public Media.







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