February 2012
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In honor of Black History Month, we’re...
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http://americanroutes.wwno.org/mobile →
You can now listen to American Routes on the go with the mobile web player! All you have to do is go to our website (or follow the link above) on your smartphone, choose “listen to mobile web radio player,” and then you can stream the entire AR library of music and interviews, no matter where the road takes you.
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“After the pageant has gone glimmering, and the whirl of the midnight ball is...”
– Lafcadio Hearn, on the city’s slow return to normalcy after Mardi Gras.
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American Routes at the Movies
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This week on American Routes, we cue the music and dim the lights for great music moments in film. We’ll sit down with Joel and Ethan Coen, writers/directors of such iconic films as “True Grit,” “O Brother Where Art Thou?” and “The Big Lebowski” and discover the magical role of music in their movies. Then, conversation with cinéma-vérité masters D. A....
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WatchGreat footage of the North Side Skull and Bone Gang, singing in front of Tootie Montana’s house on Mardi Gras morning.
We followed the bone men this same Mardi Gras, as they woke up the neighborhood and warned us: “You better get your life together. Next time you see us, it’s too late to cry.” Listen to the audio here.
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Dance Your Blues Away on Mardi Gras Day
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We’re hitting the streets this week to celebrate - what else? - Mardi Gras! We’ll meet parade float builders, visit the Backstreet Cultural Museum in Treme, discover a skull and bone gang and baby dolls, follow Mardi Gras Indians and learn why flamingos flock to Baton Rouge this time of year.
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“Love is the keystone, the cornerstone of our society.”
– The Reverend Al Green on love, from our 2004 Valentine’s Day show.
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“Music was always around us. When we were really little my grandmother sang all...”
– Charles Neville, on growing up in a musical family.
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“Jazz, for the most part, encourages you to be in the moment and to explore new...”
– Herbie Hancock, on jazz and innovation.
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“With us as brothers, when we perform now on stage it’s like we start off,...”
– Charles Neville, on performing with his brothers.
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“Miles never told us what to play. If he said something having to do with music,...”
– Herbie Hancock talks about his relationship with Miles Davis, on this week’s American Routes.
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“As far as Mardi Gras Indians—the culture —is concerned, that...”
– Cyril Neville, on the influence of Mardi Gras Indian culture in New Orleans.
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“I’m still in love with the keyboard, but my viewpoint of what’s...”
– Herbie Hancock, on the present moment.
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Fire & Water: The Neville Brothers & Herbie...
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Jazz pianist Herbie Hancock joins us to talk about keeping his hardcore jazz credentials while breaking the pop barrier with “Watermelon Man.” Hancock recalls famous associations with Miles and more, including those on his River: the Joni Letters, a collection of Joni Mitchell tunes. Plus the four faces of New Orleans’ Mount Rushmore...
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“People ask, “Do you play klezmer? Do you play bluegrass? Do you play...”
– Andy Statman, on genre-hopping.
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“I’ve been singing for almost 10 years with this band. But I feel like...”
– Norah Jones, on singing honky-tonk music with The Little Willies.
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“Where I live in Brooklyn, I hear everything. On the train I took in here, we had...”
– The eclectic Andy Statman, on musical diversity in Brooklyn.