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

DOWNHOME IN THE BIG CITY: NORAH JONES & ANDY STATMAN

June 10th, 2015

We’ll spend time with two eclectic NYC-based musicians who mix up country with jazz and other traditions. Multi-instrumentalist Andy Statman comes from a family steeped in Jewish musical traditions, but got the bluegrass bug playing with David Grisman and Tony Trischka. We’ll talk about his explorations of bluegrass, klezmer, free jazz and now duets with tea kettles. Then singer and pianist Norah Jones, known for her own personal stamp on jazz, shares the country side of life in her recent work with The Little Willies. Plus lots of “citified” country songs and downhome urban tunes.

  • Listen to Hour One
  • Listen to Hour Two

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Tommy Rockwood The Little Willies
    For the Good Times, Milking Bull
  • Dixie Fried Carl Perkins
    Sun: The Singles Collection, Vol. 2, Bear Family
  • Dixie Chicken Little Feat
    Dixie Chicken, Warner Bros.
  • Goin' Back to the City Onie Wheeler
    Ain't I'm a Dog: 25 More Rockabilly Rave-Ups, Columbia/Epic/Legacy
  • First City The Little Willies
    For the Good Times, Milking Bull
  • She Ain't for Nobody Roosevelt Sykes
    The Honeydripper, Prestige
  • Instrumental: Down Yonder Willie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
  • Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You) Waylon Jennings
    The Essential Waylon Jennings, BMG/RCA
  • Night Life The Little Willies
    The Little Wilies, Milking Bull
  • Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Norah Jones

    Listen
  • Instrumental: Cold, Cold Heart Bill Frisell
    The Willies, Nonesuch
  • Cold, Cold Heart Dinah Washington
    Jazz Masters 19: Dinah Washington, Verve
  • I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Al Green
    Country Meets Soul, Cream/Hi
  • I Can't Get You Off of My Mind Bob Dylan
    Hank Williams: Timeless, Lost Highway
  • I'm a Long Gone Daddy Hank III
    Hank Williams: Timeless, Lost Highway
  • Forget Me Not The Civil Wars
    Baron Hollow, Sensibility
  • Lonestar Norah Jones
    Come Away With Me, Blue Note
  • End Bed: Bandera Willie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger, Columbia

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Ocean Parkway After Dark Andy Statman
    Old Brooklyn, Shefa
  • Silkene Pajamas (Take #3) Dave Tarras
    TANZ! With Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers, Epic/Legacy
  • Rag Mama Jim Kweskin Jug Band
    Greatest Hits!, Vanguard
  • Sunny Side of the Mountain Jimmy Martin
    The King of Bluegrass, Country Music Foundation, Inc.
  • Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning Vassar Clements
    Living With the Blues, Acoustic Disc
  • New York Town Ramblin' Jack Elliott
    Hard Travelin': Songs by Woody Guthrie and Others, Fantasy
  • I Was Young When I Left Home Jenny Scheinman
    Jenny Scheinman, Koch
  • Instrumental: I Want to Go Home Bill Frisell
    The Willies, Nonesuch
  • 116th and Lennox Jackie McLean
    Swing, Swang, Swingin', Blue Note
  • SEGMENT: Andy Statman

    Listen
  • Instrumental: The Sudbury Nickel John Doe & the Sadies
    Country Club, Yep Roc
  • The Devil Never Sleeps Iron & Wine
    The Shepherd's Dog, Sub Pop
  • Promised Land Chuck Berry
    The Chess Box, Chess/MCA
  • Return of the Grievous Angel Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris
    GP/Grievous Angel, Reprise
  • I Dreamed of a Hill-billy Heaven Cowboy Copas
    Mister Country Music, Starday
  • That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) Louis Armstrong
    Highlights From His Decca Years, Decca
  • End Bed: Like It Is Erroll Garner
    That's My Kick & Gemini, TelArchive

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