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!

  • Info
  • ABOUT
  • BEST OF
  • UPCOMING
  • ARCHIVE
  • SUPPORT
  • JOURNAL
  • STATIONS
  • MEDIA KIT
  • INDEX
  • STAFF
  • CONTACT
BROWSE BY DATE
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • 2003
  • 2002
  • 2001
  • 2000
  • 1999
  • 1998

SUPPORT GREAT STORYTELLING

We rely on your support to remain on air and online. Your contribution helps us bring you interviews with great American artists and the carefully curated music mix that you’ve enjoyed over the years.

Donate

 

AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM

HURRICANE - AUBREY GHENT

July 28th, 1999

Don your goulashes and batten down the hatches — it’s hurricane season in the Gulf South. Music to board up windows by and thoughts from the eye of the storm with sacred steel guitarist Aubrey Ghent, along with steamy sounds from Stevie Ray Vaughan, Charles Mingus, John Prine, and Marilyn Monroe.

  • Listen to Hour One
  • Listen to Hour Two

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: They Call Me Guitar Hurricane Stevie Ray Vaughan
    In the Beginning, Epic
  • El Ramplago Narciso Martinez
    Texas-Mexican Border Music Vol. 1, Arhoolie
  • Texas Tornado Doug Sahm
    The Best of Doug Sahm & the Sir Douglas Quintet 1968-1975, Mercury
  • When The Levee Breaks Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
    Mojo Workin' - Blues For the Next Generation, Columbia/Legacy
  • Bad Weather Sonny Landreth
    Outward Bound, Zoo/Praxis
  • L'Ouragon (The Hurricane) Michael & David Doucet
    Master of the Folk Violin, Arhoolie
  • L'Anne de Secont Set Alex Broussard
    French Music and Folk Song of Le Sud de la Louisianne, La Louisianne
  • Instrumental: Storm Warning Dr. John
    Mos' Scoscious - The Dr. John Anthology, Rhino
  • Rain Children Sons of Andros
    The Bahamas: Islands of Song, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Oh How It Rained Eddie Floyd
    The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles 1968-1971, Stax
  • Tidal Wave Dick Dale
    Better Shred Than Dead, Rhino
  • The Tide Is High The Paragons
    Island 40, Vol. 2: 1964-1969 Rhythm & Blues Beat, Island
  • Deep Water Willie Nelson and Ray Price
    San Antonio Rose, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Cake Left Out in the Rain Double Naught Spy Car
    Comb in Blue Water, 11 Foot Pole
  • INTERVIEW: Aubrey Ghent

    Listen
  • Troubled Waters Duke Ellington w/Ivie Anderson
    Daybreak Express, RCA
  • Quiet Storm Smokey Robinson
    A Quiet Storm, Motown
  • Eye of the Hurricane Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride, Mark Whitfield
    Fingerpainting: The Music of Herbie Hancock, Verve

HOUR two

  • Hurricane Connie Cannonball Adderley
    Compact Jazz: Cannonball Adderley, EmArcy
  • Hurricanes Carla & Esther Lightning Hopkins
    Po' Lightning, Arhoolie
  • Great Rain John Prine
    The Missing Years, Oh Boy
  • Been in the Storm So Long Mrs. Mary Pickney
    Been in the Storm So Long, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Rainy Night Lee Morgan
    Charisma, Blue Note
  • Instrumental: Typhoon Cootie Williams & his Orchestra
    The 1940s Mercury Sessions, Mercury
  • Florida Hurricane St. Louis Jimmy
    The Aristocrat of the Blues, MCA/Chess
  • Emotional Weather Report Tom Waits
    Nighthawks At the Diner, Asylum
  • INTERVIEW: John Guiney, National Hurricane Center
  • Instrumental: Hawaii 5-O The Ventures
    Monster Summer Hits - Wild Surf, Capitol
  • Heatwave Marilyn Monroe
    The Essential Recordings, Wienerworld
  • The I Of Hurricane Sue Charles Mingus
    Let My Children Hear Music, Columbia
  • Come Rain or Come Shine Sarah Vaughan
    Sarah Vaughan in Hi-Fi, Columbia
  • Walkin to New Orleans Fats Domino
    They Call Me the Fat Man…, Imperial
  • Louisiana 1927 Randy Newman
    Good Old Boys, Reprise
  • End Bed: Backwater Blues Edgar Hayes & the Stardusters
    Swing Time Records Story, Capricorn

THE LATEST STREAMS

  • September 20th, 2023

    SAN ANTONIO SOUNDS

    Listen
  • September 13th, 2023

    NEW ORLEANS JAZZ CLARINET, MANDE SONGS & LOUISIANA ZYDECO LIVE

    Listen
  • September 6th, 2023

    FROM GOSPEL TO GIGGING: GLADYS KNIGHT AND IRIS DEMENT

    Listen
A|R

  • Donate
A|R AMERICAN ROUTES
  • ABOUT
  • BEST OF
  • ARCHIVE
  • UPCOMING
  • SUPPORT US
  • JOURNAL
  • STATIONS
  • STAFF
  • CONTACT
  • Tulane University
  • NEA
  • PRX
  • New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund
  • Jim Hart