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

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.

This is American Routes, following the roots of doo-wop music into rock and roll as part of the life of singer and songmaker Dion DiMucci. Dion was born into a Bronx, New York Italian family in 1939. His father was in vaudeville. Dion gained notoriety as a singer with an appearance on American Bandstand. Back in the neighborhood, he made street music called doo-wop. I asked Dion how an immigrants’ son from the Bronx was able to channel the Southern music of his youth into doo-wop and rock and roll.

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

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.

This week on Continuum, hosts Milton Scheuermann, Jr and Thais St. Julian present a program devoted to the various aspects of medieval love.Milton Scheuermann, JrThis Continuum is a program devoted to the various aspects of medieval love. The performers are three noted ensembles specializing in early music, namely our own New Orleans Musica da Camera, Sequentia and the Boston Camerata. Recordings used are Maiden, Mother, Muse (New Orleans Musica da Camera) - Centaur CRC 2434, Dante and the Troubadours (Sequentia) - Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 05472-7727-2, and Tristan et Iseult (The Boston Camerata) - Erato ECD 75528.

We've been digging in the archives for a series of live concerts between 1993-2001 in front of a million people annually on the National Mall from the Washington Monument to the White House fence and millions more on public radio nationwide. It was the roots of American Routes. I was lucky enough to serve as artistic director for the concerts, sometime stage and radio host. Coming up we'll hear the late bluesy pianoman/singer Charles Brown and band, Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Hawaiian slack key guitar music and Western swing from the Texas Playboys. First, from New Orleans, it’s the Original Tuxedo Brass band, with pianist Henry Butler.

Come along for an historic jaunt around New Orleans, as we visit great nightclubs including the legendary Uptown institution Tipitina’s, founded by fourteen close friends in 1977, who wanted a place to hang out and hear players like Professor Longhair, Dr. John, James Booker, and the Neville Brothers. Some years ago, one of the original Tipitina’s founders, Jeanne Dumestre, told us about a 1973 letter that indirectly led to the founding of the club.