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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March 14th, 2018

We’re on the road again, dialed into high-flying honky-tonk as we cruise through Texas cotton patches and Midwestern pastures of plenty. Starting off in Illinois farm country, we meet up with Margo Price, who followed her dreams of songwriting to Nashville, Tennessee. She put her name on the map with songs about growing up in rural America, and has since dug in her heels while singing about a landscape of gender and economic inequities. Then, we look in the rear view mirror to our 2000 in-studio performance and interview with Willie Nelson, who reminisces about his hometown of Abbott, Texas, and the “opera of voices” he heard in its fields. Plus, songs from Muhlenberg County, Butcher Hollow, New Orleans’ 9th Ward, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska and Hendrix’s Both Sides of the Sky.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Honky-Tonk Angels Buddy Emmons
    The Steel Guitar and Dobro Sounds of Shot Jackson and Buddy Emmons, Nashville Records
  • A Real Country Song Dale Watson
    Blackjack, Dale Watson
  • Coal Miner's Daughter Loretta Lynn
    Greatest Hits Vol. 2, MCA
  • 9 Pound Hammer John Prine
    Sweet Revenge, Atlantic
  • Knockin' on Your Screen Door John Prine
    The Tree of Forgiveness , Oh Boy
  • Tennessee Jed Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead Europe '72, Warner
  • Instrumental: West Coast Blues Merle Travis & Joe Maphis
    Country Music's Two Guitar Greats: Merle Travis & Joe Maphis, Capitol
  • SEGMENT: Margo Price

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  • Tennessee Arrested Development
    3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of, Capitol
  • Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine Margo Price
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  • Instrumental: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Merle Travis
    Strictly Guitar, Capitol
  • Pastures of Plenty Michael Hurley and Jon Neufeld
    Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie's 26 Northwest Songs, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Outlaw Blues Bob Dylan
    Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
  • Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight Marcia Ball
    Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight/I'll Be Doggone, Capitol
  • Walkin' to New Orleans Fats Domino
    The Legendary Imperial Recordings, Capital/EMI
  • Louisiana Percy Mayfield
    Percy Mayfield: Lost Love the Singles A's and B's, Jasmine
  • Closing Bed: Careless Love Seva Venet
    New Orleans Banjo, Vol. 1: Musieu Bainjo, Seva Venet

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Twin Guitar Boogie Bob Wills
    For the Last Time, Liberty
  • Wild, Wild Young Men Ruth Brown
    Miss Rhythm: Greatest Hits and More, Atlantic
  • Back in Business Beverly "Guitar" Watkins
    Back in Business, Music Makers
  • SEGMENT: Margo Price pt. 2

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  • Instrumental: Down Yonder Willie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Willie Nelson

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  • Instrumental: Sweet Angel Jimi Hendrix
    Both Sides of the Sky, Columbia Legacy
  • Lonesome Road Blues Cryin' Sam Collins
    Before the Blues Vol. 1, Yazoo
  • Johnny 99 Bruce Springsteen
    Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen
  • On the Road Again Canned Heat
    Boogie with Canned Heat, Liberty
  • Things I Used to Do Jimi Hendrix
    Both Sides of the Sky, Columbia Legacy
  • On My Way Luke Winslow King
    I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always, Bloodshot
  • Closing bed: Jungle Jimi Hendrix
    Both Sides of the Sky, Columbia Legacy

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