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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SPRING AWAKENING: A CORONA GLOBAL COMPANION

April 8th, 2020

It’s a Spring Awakening and we’ve got songs about bunny hops, rockin’ robins, and fragrant flowers but also lonely hours, gospel prayers and sad losses. In hopes that the real and surreal can commingle with joy and hope in our Corona Global Companion for your consideration and pleasure, including music from Gillian Welch, Stevie Wonder, Bob Wills and Fats Waller… as well as our recently passed musical heroes and friends, the late John Prine and Ellis Marsalis.

Mural and image by Ranna Zahra McSwain

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Echo of Spring Willie "The Lion" Smith
    The Spirit of Ragtime, ASV
  • Spring Cleaning Fats Waller
    The Centennial Collection, BMG
  • (Me And My Baby) Doin' The Bunny Hop Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
    Boot Heel Drag: The MGM Years, Mercury
  • Bunny Bread Sunpie Barnes
    American Routes Original Recording from French Quarter Fest 2019,
  • Bunny Hop Dance Mary Ann Meanus and Verbena Green
    Heartbeat - Voices Of First Nations Women, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Rockin' Robin Bobby Day
    Rockin’ Robin Bobby Day, Class Records
  • Instrumental: One Dime Blues Etta Baker
    Blues Routes, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Acony Bell Gillian Welch
    Revival, Acony
  • Hello in There John Prine
    John Prine, Atlantic
  • Give Me the Roses While I Live Ralph Stanley
    Old Country Church , Rebel
  • Sally Go Round the Roses Pentangle
    Basket of Light , Transatlantic
  • Green Garden Laura Mvula
    Sing to the Moon, Sony
  • Light Blue Ellis Marsalis
    Open Letter to Thelonious Deluxe Edition, Nu Jazz
  • Instrumental: Old Time Spiritual Mary Lou Williams
    Mary Lou’s Mass, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Highlands Bob Dylan
    Time Out of Mind, Columbia
  • Closing Bed: Appalachia Waltz Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer & Mark O'Connor
    Appalachia Waltz, Sony

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Birdsong in Coastal Alabama American Routes original recording
  • One of These Days Neil Young
    Harvest Moon, Reprise
  • Blowin' in the Wind Stevie Wonder
    Uptight, Tamla
  • Down By the Riverside Mahalia Jackson
    The Essential Mahalia Jackson, Sony
  • Why Me Kris Kristofferson
    Jesus Was a Capricorn, Monument
  • Old Ship of Zion James Cleveland
    The Soul of James Cleveland, Savoy
  • Instrumental: Blues Walk Lou Donaldson
    The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions 1957-60, Blue Note
  • I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Al Green
    Al Green--Call Me, Hi
  • Those Lonely Nights Dr. John
    Gumbo, Atlantic
  • In My Room The Beach Boys
    Surfer Girl, Capitol
  • Isolation John Lennon
    Plastic Ono Band, EMI
  • 21st Century USA Drive-By Truckers
    The Unraveling, ATO Records
  • Wooden Ships David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash
    Crosby, Still and Nash, Atlantic
  • All My Trials Charles Lloyd and the Marvels
    I Long to See You--Charles Lloyd and the Marvels, Blue Note
  • Instrumental: Do You Know What it Means Ellis Marsalis
    Heart of Gold, Sony
  • Times Like These Jack Johnson
    On and On, Universal
  • Hard Times Come Again No More Emmylou Harris
    At the Ryman, Warner
  • Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans Louis Armstrong
    "Sugar"-The Best of the Complete RCA Recordings, RCA
  • Closing Bed: "We Shall Walk Thru the Streets of the City" Joe Lastie Jr. and The Lastie Family Gospel Singers
    Joe Lastie Jr. and The Lastie Family Gospel Singers, Preservation Hall Recordings

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