Wednesday, 7/4/12

 rock ’n’ roll

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 gospel

 blues

 jazz

A world without American music: what would it sound like?

The Blasters, “American Music,” Champaign, Ill., 1985

(Originally posted 7/5/10.)

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Merle Haggard, “Lonesome Fugitive,” Buck Owens Ranch Show, 1966

(Originally posted 4/6/12.)

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Slim and the Victory Aires, “Alright Now,” Paducah, Ky., 2008

(Originally posted 3/11/12)

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Johnny Shines (1915-1992), vocals, guitar; David “Honeyboy” Edwards (1915-2011), guitar; Big Walter Horton (1917-1981), harmonica; “For The Love of Mike,” 1978

(Originally posted 10/4/11.)

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Von Freeman, tenor saxophone; Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone (first solo); Willie Pickens, piano; Dan Shapera, bass; Robert Shy, drums; “Oleo” (S. Rollins), Chicago (Chicago Jazz Festival), 1988

(Originally posted 5/3/12.)

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lagniappe

radio

All Pops, all day:

Tune in on July 4th, Independence Day . . . as we celebrate the professed (although according to historians, not actual) birthday of Jazz great and American Hero, the trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong, by playing 24 hours straight of his music, from midnight to midnight.

—WKCR-FM (broadcasting from Columbia University)

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encore*

Dave Alvin with the Blasters, “4th of July,” Berwyn, Ill. (Fitzgerald’s), 2010

*By popular demand (see Comments).