AMERICAN ROUTES
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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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December 6th, 2006

It’s a two-hour walk through streets of the city as we dive into two great eras of New Orleans music. First, it’s the 1940s and 50s R&B hit factory with studio man Cosimo Matassa; producer, arranger, trumpet player Dave Bartholomew; drummer Earl Palmer and more. There’s also a chat with The Meters—Art Neville, George Porter, Leo Nocentelli and Zigaboo Modeliste—in which we get to the bottom of the bottom, find out what’s in the pocket, and get a definition of funk from the four men who continue to dish it out.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: "Fats Domino Blues" and "I'm In Love Again" Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Ain't It a Shame Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Country Boy Dave Bartholomew
    1947-50, Jazz Classics
  • SEGMENT: Stardust

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  • Stardust Dave Bartholomew
    1947-50, Jazz Classics
  • 3x7=21 Jewel King
    Genius of Dave Bartholomew, EMI
  • Instrumental: Dreaming Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • The Fat Man Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Slippin' and Slidin' Little Richard
    The Specialty Sessions, Specialty
  • SEGMENT: Beat

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  • Rip It Up Little Richard
    The Specialty Sessions, Specialty
  • I'm Walkin Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Let the Four Winds Blow Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Blueberry Hill Mose Allison
    Back Country Suite, Prestige
  • Blueberry Hill Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • I'm Gonna be a Wheel Someday Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Down The Road Smiley Lewis
    Shame, Shame, Shame, Bear Family
  • One Night Elvis Presley
    1950s Masters, RCA
  • In the Night Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
  • Blue Monday Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes original recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Chicken Strut The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
  • Fiyo on the Bayou The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
  • A Message From the Meters The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Beginnings

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  • Ease Back The Meters
    The Meters, Sundazed
  • Fortune Teller Benny Spellman
    Fortune Teller - Golden Classics, Collectables
  • Working In a Coal Mine Lee Dorsey
    Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collecion, Arista
  • Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky From Now On Lee Dorsey
    Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collecion, Arista
  • Instrumental: Cissy Strut Rod Piazza
    Bluesman, LMI
  • I Been Hoodood Dr. John
    In The Right Place, ATCO
  • Sophisticated Cissy The Meters
    The Meters, Sundazed
  • Cissy Strut The Meters
    The Meters, Sundazed
  • Look-Ka-Py-Py The Meters
    Look-Ka-Py-Py, Sundazed
  • They All Asked for You The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Vol.2, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Drums on Fire Donald Harrison, Jr.
    Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. presents The New Sounds of Mardi Gras, FOMP
  • Hey Pocky Way The Meters
    Rejuvenation, Sundazed
  • Here Dey Come Wild Tchoupitoulas
    Wild Tchoupitoulas, Island
  • SEGMENT: The Rolling Stones/Paul McCartney

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  • Africa The Meters
    Uptown Rulers! Live on the Queen Mary, Rhino
  • Stormy The Meters
    The Meters, Sundazed
  • Cissy Strut (Live) The Meters
    Live Recording from 2005 New Orleans Jazz Fest,

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