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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JERRY GARCIA

August 2nd, 2000

A tribute to the late guitarist Jerry Garcia who passed away 5 years ago this month. Based on an interview with Garcia from his 1989 visit to the Smithsonian Institution.

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HOUR ONE

  • Big Railroad Blues Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers
  • Big Railroad Blues Cannon's Jug Stompers
    Ruckus Juice & Chittlins -The Great Jug Bands - Classic Recordings of the 1920's and 30's Vol.1, Yazoo
  • You Win Again Hank Williams
    The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury
  • You Win Again Grateful Dead
    Europe '72, Vol. 1, Warner Brothers
  • INTERVIEW: Who are the Deadheads? /montage Wash DC 1990
  • Playing In The Band Grateful Dead
  • Truckin' Wailing Souls
    Fire on the Mountain 2... Reggae Celebrates the Grateful Dead, Pow-Wow
  • Instrumental: Truckin' The Truckin' Telecasters
    Pickin' On The Grateful Dead...A Tribute, CMH Records
  • INTERVIEW: Jerry Garcia

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  • Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Guthrie
  • Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Grateful Dead
  • Ramblin' Ornette Coleman
    Beauty is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings, Rhino
  • Turn On Your Love Light Bobby 'Blue' Bland
    Turn On Your Love Light, MCA/Duke
  • Instrumental: Turn On Your Love Light Grateful Dead
    Fillmore East 2-11-69, Arista Records
  • My Heart Skips A Beat Buck Owens
    Together Again/My Heart Skips A Beat, Sundazed
  • Glendale Train New Riders of the Purple Sage
    New Riders of the Purple Sage, Columbia
  • Red Rooster Howlin' Wolf
    Howlin' Wolf, Chess/MCA
  • New Speedway Boogie Grateful Dead
    Workingman's Dead, Warner Brothers

HOUR two

  • St. Stephen Grateful Dead
    Fillmore East 2-11-69, Arista Records
  • SEGMENT: Deadheads #2: Security Guard
  • I Fought the Law Bobby Fuller Four
    Hot Rod Rebels, The Right Stuff
  • Beat it On Down the Line Jesse Fuller
    Lone Cat Sings and Plays Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals and Blues, Fantasy
  • Beat it On Down the Line Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers
  • Instrumental: Friend Of The Devil Pickin' On The Grateful Dead
    Pickin' On The Grateful Dead ...A Tribute, CMH Records
  • INTERVIEW: Jerry Garcia
  • Acadian Two Step Coteau
    45 rpm, Booray
  • Bertha Los Lobos
    Deadicated, Arista
  • Instrumental: Hiko-Hiko Donald Harrison
    Indian Blues, Candid
  • 16th St. Baptist Church Branford Marsalis
    Requiem, Columbia
  • Iko-Iko Young Guardians of the Flame
    Young Guardians of the Flame, First Tribe Records
  • Ripple Jane's Addiction
    Deadicated, Arista
  • Uncle John's Band Grateful Dead
    Workingman's Dead, Warner Brothers
  • End Bed: Morning Dew Grateful Dead
    Europe '72, Warner Brothers

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