Five hours hours of uninterrupted instrumental music to celebrate Independence Day.
Wordless Echoes – American Landscapes 2015
Five hours of continuous instrumental soundscapes celebrating Independence Day.
Every independence week we take a trek from sea to shining sea and all those other places to create a soundscape of America. In this special On-Line Only stream we’ll hear evocations of the desert southwest, the Appalachian trail, and Maine forests. Imagine yourself staring at the red skies of Sedona, paddling down the Swannanoa River in North Carolina or traveling the Frio River in Texas. Those are only a few of the locations we’ll be wandering in a soundscape of Ambient Americana. This is our way of celebrating the Fourth of July Weekend. Less dangerous than fireworks and healthier than whatever you have on the grill.
But weaving all through the five hours is the ambient Americana side of the show, that sound that merges western and country influences with ambient production and moods. It’s a sound that effectively began with Ry Cooder’s Paris, Texas soundtrack but it has continued over the years with artists like Lanterna, Bruce Kaphan and Bill Frisell. It’s something you might imagine as the score to Once Upon a Time in the West or Hell On Wheels.
It’s a five-hour soundscape that includes Scott August, Paul Winter, Philip Aaberg, Tycho, Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays, R. Carlos Nakai, Patrick O’Hearn and more. So saddle-up and get ready for a unique kind of music for Independence weekend. It’s Ambient Americana at Echoes On-Line.
| Start Time | Group Name | Song Name | Album Name |
| 0:00:00 | Steve Roach & Roger King | Gone West | Dust to Dust |
| 0:06:46 | Phil Keaggy | From Shore to Shore | The Wind and Wheat |
| 0:09:45 | Eric Tingstad | Tennessee Rain | Mississippi |
| 0:12:46 | Sumner McKane | The Bloody Bozeman | Select Visual History |
| 0:21:18 | Ry Cooder | Paris Texas | Music by Ry Cooder |
| 0:24:05 | The Beyman Brothers | Shelter Island | Memories of Summer as a Child |
| 0:28:28 | Dean and Dudley Evenson | Sonora Celebration | Desert Dawn Song |
| 0:33:54 | Mars Lasar | Vision Quest | The Music of Olympic National Park |
| 0:38:54 | Steve Tibbets | Desert | Steve Tibbets |
| 0:43:31 | Lanterna | Monticello Farm | Backyards |
| 0:46:09 | Bill Frisell | Going to California | Big Sur |
| 0:49:17 | Carl Weingarten | Western Overnight | Life Under Stars |
| 0:54:00 | California Guitar Trio | Portland Rain | Andromeda |
| 0:58:27 | David Cullen | Sedona Red Sky | Guitar Travels |
| 1:02:24 | Al Petteway & Amy White | Swannanoa | Land of the Sky |
| 1:07:01 | Harold Budd | The Photo of Santiago McKinn | By the Dawn’s Early Light |
| 1:13:45 | Glenn Jones | Bergen County Farewell | Ricochets: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Vol. 20 |
| 1:17:19 | Charlie Haden | Is This America | Rambling Boy |
| 1:20:46 | Balmorhea | Truth | Echo Location: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Vol. 17 (v/a)* |
| 1:30:28 | Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson |
Of Time and the Frio | Frio Suite |
| 1:37:08 | Andrew York | Pine Cove | Denouement |
| 1:39:29 | David Pritchard | Light Between Oceans | Among the Missing |
| 1:44:58 | Will Ackerman | Hawk Circle | Meditations |
| 1:49:51 | Jeff Pearce | With Evening Above | With Evening Above |
| 1:53:33 | Phil Keaggy | Tennessee Morning | 220 |
| 1:57:18 | Jeff Oster | Haleakala | Released |
| 2:01:26 | Mars Lasar | Yosemite Valley | Yosemite |
| 2:05:19 | Saul Stokes | Fields | Fields |
| 2:16:30 | Jill Haley | Sipapu Emergence | Mesa Verde Soundscapes |
| 2:19:33 | Scott August | Turquoise Trail | Hidden Journey |
| 2:26:20 | Soulfood & Ra Music | Taos Dream | Café Santa Fe |
| 2:31:57 | Jonathan Elias | American River | American River |
| 2:36:50 | Philip Aaberg | High Plains | Live from Montana |
| 2:40:54 | Michael Gettel | Sucia/Shallow Bay | San Juan Suite |
| 2:50:40 | Jeff Greinke | Scenes From A Train | Scenes From A Train |
| 2:56:27 | Nalepa | The Fourth of July | Flatlands |
| 3:01:17 | Brian Reitzell | Auto Music 2 | Auto Music |
| 3:07:36 | Tycho | Montana | Awake |
| 3:12:48 | Vicki Richards | Riding the Thermals (Everglades) | She Vanishes |
| 3:17:39 | Kaya Project | Arizona Morning Cocoon | Desert Phase |
| 3:24:19 | Tom Caufield | A Low Mist Over the Land | It Happens to Eve |
| 3:28:54 | John Fahey | Sunflower River Blues | The Best of John Fahey vol2 |
| 3:32:11 | Stephen Bennett | Song for Tsenacommacah | Music from Tsenacommacah |
| 3:35:35 | William Tyler | The Green Pastures | Behold the Spirit |
| 3:39:31 | Raygun Ballet | The Land is Rich/Pilgrimage | Big California |
| 3:47:08 | Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays | As Falls Wichita So Falls Wichita Falls |
As Falls Wichita So Falls Wichita Falls |
| 4:07:28 | Lex Nichols | The North Rim | Into The Canyon |
| 4:12:59 | R. Carlos Nakai | Spiral Passage | Canyon Trilogy (Deluxe Platinum Edition) |
| 4:16:09 | Bruce Cockburn | The End of All Rivers | Slice O’ Life |
| 4:21:20 | Richard Leo Johnson and Greg Bendian |
Where the Rivers Meet | Who Knew Charlie Shoe? |
| 4:23:51 | Patrick O’Hearn | Northwest Passage | So Flows the Current |
| 4:28:02 | Tom Griesgraber and Bert Lams |
Prairie Suite | Unnamed Lands |
| 4:35:19 | Paul Winter | River Run | Canyon |
| 4:41:50 | Nicholas Gunn | Entering Twin Falls | Music of the Grand Canyon |
| 4:45:54 | Jeff Oster | Big Sur | At Last |
| 4:51:40 | David Darling | Sweet River | 8 String Religion |
| 4:58:23 | George Winston | High Plains Lullaby | Montana – A Love Story |
| 5:02:17 | Bruce Kaphan | High Desert | Slider |