AMERICAN ROUTES
San Antonio Sounds San Antonio Sounds September 20th, 2023 (Hour 1)
San Antonio Sounds

The great Texas river city is a mix of Mexican, German, Anglo and African American cultures, among others. Home to the Texas Conjunto Festival and the International Accordion Festival, San Antonio is best known for Tex-Mex or Tejano music played by squeeze box masters like Flaco Jimenez, Narciso Martinez and Mingo Saldivar among many. We’ll speak with Flaco, who in collaborations with Doug Sahm, Ry Cooder, and Los Super Seven, has carried the music worldwide. “Chicano brown-eyed soul” performers like Sunny and the Sunliners and other groups describe music that connected New Orleans and Louisiana Swamp Pop with San Antonio and East Los Angeles. We’ll also talk with Vox organ legend Augie Meyers who worked in the high hippie era with Doug Sahm as part of the Sir Douglas Quintet and later in the Texas Tornadoes. The conversation comes full circle with Max Baca, the leader and bajo sexto player of Los Texmaniacs who was influenced by both Flaco and Doug Sahm. The Grammy-winning family band sticks with tradition, but finds ways to include country, blues and rock. Plus music from Sam the Sham, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Freddy Fender and Willie Nelson. ¡Vamos!

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SWEET INSPIRATION: DAN PENN & TRUDY LYNN

January 19th, 2022

Singer Songwriter Dan Penn is the master behind so many well loved R&B songs, from James and Bobby Purify’s “I’m Your Puppet” to Aretha Franklin’s “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man” and Alex Chilton and the Box Tops “Cry Like a Baby,” and many more. We’ll talk with him about his prolific catalog of songs, plus stories behind the scenes at Fame Records in Muscle Shoals and American Recordings in Memphis, and scoring his very first with a rockabilly Conway Twitty. Then, from Houston’s Fifth Ward, it’s Blues singer Trudy Lynn who got her start as a high schooler singing with Albert Collins and Archie Bell and the Drells before going on to her own career in blues and R&B.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Sweet Inspiration King Curtis
    Sweet Soul, Atlantic
  • Shame, Shame, Shame Jimmy Reed
    Solid Gold, Vol. 1, Liquid Eight
  • Cold, Cold Heart Hank Williams
    Turn Back the Years: The Essential Hank Williams Collection, UMG
  • SEGMENT: Dan Penn

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  • Is a Bluebird Blue? Conway Twitty
    It's Only Make Believe/The MGM Years, Mercury
  • So Many Reasons Dan Penn
    So Many Reasons: More Fame Recordings, Ace
  • Instrumental: Ram-Bunk-Shush Bill Doggett
    28 Big Ones, Gusto Records
  • You Really Know How to Hurt a Guy Jimmy Hughes
    The Best of Jimmy Hughes, Fame
  • I'm Your Puppet James and Bobby Purify
    James and Bobby Purify, RCA
  • Do Right Woman, Do Right Man Aretha Franklin
    I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Atlantic
  • You Left the Water Running Otis Redding
    Southern Soul #1: True Love Travels on a Gravel Road, Warner
  • Sweet Inspiration The Sweet Inspirations
    The Sweet Inspirations, Atlantic
  • Steal Away Jimmy Hughes
    The Best of Jimmy Hughes, Fame
  • Instrumental: Cry Like a Baby The Memphis Horns
    Memphis Horns, Atlantic
  • The Dark End of the Street James Carr
    The Complete Goldwax Singles, Ace
  • Tearjoint Dan Penn
    Nobody's Fool, RCA
  • Cheater Man Irma Thomas
    Something Good: The Muscle Shoals Sessions, UMG
  • Cry Like a Baby Box Tops
    Cry Likes a Baby, Arista
  • The Letter Box Tops
    The Letter/Neon Rainbow, Sundazed
  • Sweet Inspiration Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham
    Moments fron This Theatre-Live, Last Music Company
  • End Bed: Walkin' with the Duke The Mar-Keys
    The Great Memphis Sound, Atlantic

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Kissing in the Dark Trudy Lynn
    I'll Sing the Blues for You, Connor Ray Music
  • Crazy Blues Mamie Smith
    Crazy Blues: The Best Of Mamie Smith, Sony
  • Kind Hearted Woman Blues Robert Johnson
    The Centennial Collection, Sony
  • Lady Be Good Martin Bogan and the Armstrongs
    Barnyard Dance, Rounder
  • Lady Sings the Blues Billie Holiday
    Lady Sings the Blues, Verve
  • Careless Love Dinah Washington
    Dinah Sings Bessie Smith, Verve
  • Instrumental: Last Affair - Instrumental Lightnin' Hopkins
    The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins (Expanded Edition), Tradition Records
  • Stormy Monday Bobby Blue Bland
    Turn on Our Love Light--The Duke Recordings, UMG
  • Texas Flood Stevie Ray Vaughn
    The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble, Sony
  • Sunday Morning Clarence Garlow
    Bayou Blues Blasters: Goldband Blues, Ace
  • I'm a Good Woman Barbara Lynn
    Barbara Lynn--Movin' on a Groove, Demon Music Group
  • Honey Hush aka Talkin Woman Blues Albert Collins
    Ice Pickin', Alligator
  • Instrumental: Avalanche Albert Collins
    The Most Essential Texas Blues, Alligator Records
  • SEGMENT: Trudy Lynn

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  • End Bed: Blues Keep Knockin' Trudy Lynn
    Blues Keep Knockin', Connor Ray Music

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