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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ROCK 'N' ROUTES

October 2nd, 2002

The sound of rock continues to dominate the musical spirit of America. Loud and anthemic, many artists eventually come to and pass through rock ‘n’ roll from country, folk, R&B, even gospel. American Routes takes a look at three roots musicians who rock: Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna veteran Jorma Kaukonen talks about his recent acoustic work, Texas trio The Flatlanders (Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock and Joe Ely) get into their electric side, and New Orleans’ own Lloyd Price shows how his R&B roots helped give birth to rock ‘n’ roll.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Guitar Slim Guitar Slim
    Sufferin' Mind, Specialty
  • Rock & Roll Music Chuck Berry
    His Best, MCA
  • Promised Land The Band
    Moondog Matinee, Capitol
  • Rockin' Chair Daddy Harmonia Frank
    The Great Original Recordings of Harmonica Frank, Puritan
  • So Lets Rock Bob Wills
    Country Music Hall of Fame Series: Bob Wills, MCA
  • Instrumental: Tall Cool One The Wailers
    Hot Rod Rock: Big Boss Instrumentals, Right Stuff
  • Rock My Soul Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
    The Very Best of The Golden Gate Quartet, World Pacific
  • Rock With It Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
    RCA Victor Blues and Rhythm Review, RCA
  • In the Night Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
  • Saturday Night Fish Fry Louis Jordan
    Let the Good Times Roll, Bear Family
  • INTERVIEW: Lloyd Price

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  • Instrumental: Greedy G Brentford All Stars
    100% Dynamite!, Soul Jazz
  • Rock Steady The Marvels
    100% Dynamite!, Soul Jazz
  • Funky Mama Lou Donaldson
    Blue 45s, Blue Note
  • None of Us are Free Solomon Burke
    Don't Give Up on Me, Epitaph
  • I Never Picked Cotton Johnny Cash
    Unchained, American

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Wavin' My Heart Goodbye The Flatlanders
    Live on American Routes,
  • Wild Wild Young Men Ruth Brown
    Blues Masters Vol 14: More Jump Blues, Rhino
  • Rub Me Baby Cedell Davis & Friends
    When Lightnin' Struck the Pine, fasthorse
  • New, New Minglewood Blues Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead, Warner
  • If I Had My Way Blind Willie Johnson
    Roots of Rap, Yazoo
  • Hear My Train a Comin' Jimi Hendrix
    Blues, MCA
  • Smokestack Lightnin' Howlin' Wolf
    His Best 1955-1962, MCA
  • Moon, Turn The Tides…gently gently away Jimi Hendrix
    Electric Ladyland, MCA
  • INTERVIEW: Jorma Kaukonen

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  • I Wanna Sing That Rock n Roll Gillian Welch
    Time (The Revelator), Acony
  • Honky-Tonk Man Johnny Horton
    The Essential, Sony
  • Instrumental: Grinding Gears Biller & Wakefield
    The Hot Guitars of Biller & Wakefield, HMG
  • INTERVIEW: The Flatlanders

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  • Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land Vol.1, Folkways
  • California Stars Wilco
    Mermaid Avenue, Elektra
  • End Bed: Radar Link Wray & the Wraymen
    Walkin' With Link, Epic

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