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This is American Routes live for Labor Day weekend with some favorite performances from our series of concerts created with the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park. To kick it off, we asked the Pine Leaf Boys to make a big journey across the Atchafalaya swamp from Lafayette and their South Louisiana Cajun prairie homeland down the Mississippi River to New Orleans to play on a live stream as the pandemic closed the dancehalls of French Louisiana. It’s “Pine Leaf Boy Two-Step” on American Routes.

This lunchtime conversation between the Director of nationwide powerhouse Accruent and local super-success-story Lucid's Chief Revenue Officer is brought to you by New Orleans ongoing entrepreneurial boom

This is American Routes with a live session of serious guitar slingers. Our revered guitar agitators of today are onstage in performance and conversation, recorded live at the National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD 2019. The players include Mississippi blues guitarist Eddie Cotton, Dieselbilly electric guitarist Bill Kirchen, Nashville Dobro übermensch Jerry Douglas, and house painter and guitar picker Steve Lewis. Bill Kirchen plays a style of guitar music he calls “Dieselbilly,” inspired by the sound and soundtrack image of 18-wheelers and truckers tastes on the road. He’s also known from his time as a Lost Planet Airman with Commander Cody. I asked Bill how he got into country music.

Back in the early days of television, the Public Broadcasting System blazed the trail in the genre of food TV with the one and only Julia Child, whose series, The French Chef, changed the way Americans cook and eat.On this week’s show, we sit down with PBS's newest sensation, Chef Kevin Belton, whose fourth series, Kevin Belton's Cooking Louisiana, is being aired in homes across the nation. Kevin shares what he learned while shooting his latest venture, which features food from across our delectable state.

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.

This week on Le Show, Harry Shearer reads from John F. Sopko's memo, “What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction.”

This week, Continuum features the music of Hildegard of Bingen.

This Continuum presents early music from four films.

Harry returns to the studio for a live broadcast of Le Show with News from America’s Longest War, Harry Reads the Trades, News of the Olympic Movement, The Apologies of the Week, News of the Warm, great music and more.

Thanks to the high cost of living in big cities and the advent of video communication there are some fascinating people living in New Orleans