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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EAST TEXAS/WEST LOUISIANA

October 12th, 2005

Explore the musical territory of the Texas-Louisiana border: It’s a fertile frontier where country, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, jazz, blues and boogie merge into one another. American Routes visits the flashy zydeco accordion man Nathan Williams; Shreveport, Louisiana, singer Dale Hawkins tells stories of his early rockabilly hit “Suzy Q”; and jazz pianist/songstress Nellie Lutcher talks about growing up in southwest Louisiana, then playing music in the other LA – Los Angeles.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Houston Boogie Clifton Chenier
    Bon Ton Roulet, Arhoolie
  • Allons a Grand Coteau (Let's Go To Grand Coteau) Clifton Chenier
    Bogalusa Boogie, Arhoolie
  • Spoon Bread Lil Band of Gold
    Demo,
  • Northeast Texas Women Willis Allen Ramsey
    Willis Allen Ramsey, Koch
  • Lake Charles Lucinda Williams
    Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, Mercury
  • Cripple Creek The Band
    The Band, Capitol
  • Texas Hop Pee Wee Crayton
    Blues Masters Vol.3: Texas Blues, Rhino
  • INTERVIEW: Nellie Lutcher

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  • All Star Strut Charlie Christian
    The Genius of the Electric Guitar, Sony
  • Gulf Coast Special Adolph Hofner and His Orchestra
    OKeh Western Swing, Epic
  • Instrumental: Blues De Port Arthur Le Trio Cadien
    Le Trio Cadien, Rounder
  • Blues de Texas Dennis McGee
    The Complete Early Recordings 1929-1930, Yazoo
  • Texas Blues Robert Pete Williams
    I'm Blue As A Man Can Be, Vol.1, Arhoolie
  • Mean Ol' Lonesome Train Lightnin' Slim
    The Excello Story, Vol.2: 1955-1957, Hip-O
  • Me and Bobby McGee Janis Joplin
    Greatest Hits, Columbia/Legacy

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Draggin' The Bow Harry Choates
    Freddie King of Cajun Swing, Arhoolie
  • Last Town I Painted George Jones
    Cup of Loneliness: The Mercury Years, Mercury
  • Little Liza Jane Hot Club of Cowtown
    Dev'lish Mary, Hightone
  • I Got Loaded Lil' Bob & The Lollipops
    Lafayette Soul Show, Kent
  • Groovin' Illinois Jacquet
    Flying Home The Best of the Verve Years, Verve
  • Going Back to Louisiana Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
    Back to Bogalousa, Blue Thumb
  • INTERVIEW: Nathan & Zydeco Cha Cha's
  • Instrumental: Ponderosa Stomp Lazy Lester
    House Rockin' & Hip Shakin' Vol.4: Bayou Blues Harp, Hip-O
  • My Little Queen Bee (Got A Brand New King) Slim Harpo
    Slim Harpo Sings Raining in My Heart, Hip-O
  • Lonesome Cabin Blues Mercy Dee Walton
    One Room Country Shack, Specialty
  • Pipeliner Blues Moon Mullican
    Sings His All Time Greatest,
  • INTERVIEW: Dale Hawkins
  • Texas Flood Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
    Texas Flood, Epic/Legacy
  • Storm in Texas (AKA Texas Flood) Whispering Smith
    House Rockin' & Hip Shakin' Vol.4: Bayou Blues Harp, Hip-O
  • Call It Stormy Monday T-Bone Walker
    The Very Best of T-Bone Walker: Blues Masters, Rhino
  • Long Telephone Port Arthur Cleveland Crochet
    Cleveland Crochet & All The Sugar Bees, Goldband
  • Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight Marcia Ball
    Circuit Queen, Capitol
  • End Bed: Beaumont Rag The Hackberry Ramblers
    Cajun Boogie, Flying Fish

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