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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AMERICAN ROUTES LIVE: WITH THE SOUL REBELS, LOST BAYOU RAMBLERS & MORE

October 2nd, 2019

We revel in the live sounds of New Orleans and South Louisiana. First, turn it up for the “New Sound of New Orleans” with the Soul Rebels brass band, live in conversation and performance, joined by “stretch music” trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah and preacher’s kid turned soul powerhouse Tonya Boyd-Cannon. Then, a listen back to favorite performances by the late swamp blues icon Lazy Lester, French blues supergroup Cowboy Stew, R&B hawkers James Hunter Six from England and young rising Kansas City guitarist and singer Samantha Fish—all at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival. Finally, it’s Cajun modernists the Lost Bayou Ramblers live at Preservation Hall in New Orleans’ French Quarter featuring songs from their Grammy winning CD “Kalenda.”

Photo by James Billeaudeau

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HOUR ONE

  • Rebelosis The Soul Rebels
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) The Soul Rebels
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • Can You Feel the Beat? The Soul Rebels
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • Instrumental: Red Clay Freddie Hubbard
    The Best of Freddie Hubbard, Pablo
  • SEGMENT: The Soul Rebels

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  • Let Your Mind Be Free The Soul Rebels
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • Instrumental Christian Scott with the Soul Rebels
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • Instrumental: Strasbourg-St. Denis Soul Rebels and Christian Scott
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • SEGMENT: Christian Scott

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  • Respected Destroyer Christian Scott with the Soul Rebels
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • Happy Tonya Boyd-Cannon with the Soul Rebels
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • SEGMENT: Tonya Boyd-Cannon

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  • You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman Tonya Boyd-Cannon
    American Routes original recording at the Acadiana Center for the Arts 2018,
  • Closing Bed: Caracas Lou Donaldson Good Gracious
    Blue Note,

HOUR two

  • Hip Hug Her Lazy Lester
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes,
  • They Call Me Lazy Lazy Lester
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes,
  • I'll Play the Blues for You
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes, Cowboy Stew
  • Sugar Coated Love Cowboy Stew
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes,
  • Instrumental: Gone For Good Samantha Fish
    Belle of the West, Ruf Records
  • Bony Moronie James Hunter Six
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes,
  • Favors James Hunter Six
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes,
  • Chills and Fever Samantha Fish
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes,
  • Need You More Samantha Fish
    Live recording at the 2018 Baton Rouge Blues Festival by American Routes,
  • Instrumental: Sabine Turnaround Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Live at Preservation Hall,
  • Granny Smith Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Live at Preservation Hall,
  • La valse de Balfa Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Live at Preservation Hall,,
  • Rice Pump Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Live at Preservation Hall,
  • Kalenda Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Live at Preservation Hall,
  • Closing Bed: Aloha Golden Meadow Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Live at Preservation Hall,

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