American Routes ®

Blues from piano queen Marcia Ball and talk about her life in the Louisiana-Texas borderlands.

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A conversation with the mountain guitar legend Doc Watson, who recently celebrated his 75th birthday.

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Summer showers here in New Orleans and the Gulf South with a flow of music about water, rivers, weather and... matters of the heart. We'll talk with jazz trumpeter Nicholas Payton about his recent Grammy with his musical partner, the late Doc Cheatham.

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Street beats from tap to rap, boogie to soul, surf to jazz... as well as a chat with drummer D.J. Fontana, the man who kept time for Elvis Presley.

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