A program full of American Roots Music. This episode is ‘all over the map’, it’s about cities, towns, and states in American roots music.
American roots music is full of songs about places across the vast United States. We hear songs about longing for the city and feeling homesick for a region, about places that form the backdrop for great stories, and locations that have become synonymous with love — lost or found.
Playlist
- Wilbert Harisson – Kansas City – 2:30
(CD: Wilbert Harrison – Kansas city : Greatest hits & rarities – 2014) - Jerry Lee Lewis – What’s made Milwaukee famous – 2:36
(CD: Jerry Lee Lewis – Another place anther time – 2005) - Marty Robins – Streets of Laredo – 2:47
(CD: Gunfighter ballads and trail songs [remastered] ; vol.1 & 2 – 2012) - Clayton Love – St. Louis Blues – 3:52
(CD: Clayton Love – Come on Home Blues – 2006) - Snooks Eaglin – St. Pete’s Florida Blues – 3:04
(CD: Snooks Eaglin with his New Orleans Friends – 1978) - Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys – Blue Moon of Kentucky – 2:07
(CD: Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys – The Definitive Collection – 2005) - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys – Take Me Back to Tulsa – 2:12
(CD: Bob Wills & His Texas Playbos – The Tiffany Transcriptions vol. 2 – 1988) - Chuck Berry – Sweet Little Sixteen – 3:02
(CD: The Absolutely Essential Chuck Berry – 2014) - Johnny Cash & June Carter – Jackson – 2:46
(CD: Ring of fire : The legend of Johnny Cash – 2012) - Otis Redding – Sitting at the Dock of a Bay – 2:40
(CD: Otis Redding – Dock of the Bay Sessions – 2018) - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Mean Old Frisco – 2:46
(CD: Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Hometown Blues – 1990) - Tom Waits – I Wish I was in New Orleans – 4:53
(CD: Tom Waits – Small Change – 1989) - Louis Armstrong – Do You Know what it Means – 3:39
(CD: Louis Armstrong – The Armstrong Box – 2011) - Harry Choates – Valse de Lake Charles – 2:49
(CD: Bayou two-step : Cajun hits from Louisiana 1929-1962 – 2015) - Clifton Chenier – Louisiana Stomp – 2:50
(CD: Clifton Chenier – King of Louisiana blues & zydeco – 2026) - The Band – Cripple Creek – 4:41
(CD: The Band – 2019) - Bonnie Raitt – Angel from Montgomery – 5:16
(CD: Bonnie Raitt – Road Tested – 1995)
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