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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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AFTER THE STORM III: WE KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS

November 2nd, 2005

This week we continue to look eastward from our refuge in Acadiana back to New Orleans, the land of dreams, as south Louisiana continues to rebuild in sound and spirit. Join us as members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band share their thoughts on rebuilding the city; plus learn what it means to Check Your Bucket with a live set by piano professor and carpenter Eddie Bo.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans Tuts Washington
    New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder
  • Just Walkin' in the Rain The Prisonaires
    Sun Records: The 50th Anniversary Collection, BMG Heritage
  • Rain Shower Olu Dara
    In the World: From Natchez to New York, Atlantic
  • High Water Everywhere, Part I Charley Patton
    Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The World of Charley Patton, Revenant
  • High Water (For Charley Patton) Bob Dylan
    Love and Theft, Columbia
  • I Can't Help From Cryin' Sometime Staples Singers
    Great Day, Milestone
  • Instrumental: Requiem for John Hurt John Fahey
    Requia, Vanguard
  • Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) Kermit Ruffins
    Kermit Ruffins, Putumayo
  • Do You Know What it Means To Miss New Orleans Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward) Tom Waits
    Small Change, Asylum
  • Instrumental: The Lost Souls (Of Southern Louisiana) The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
    This Is Jazz: 30, Columbia
  • INTERVIEW: Roger Lewis and Gregory Davis of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band

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  • Ninth Ward Blues Irvin Mayfield
    Irvin Mayfield, Basin Street
  • Mean Old World Sam Cooke
    Night Beat, RCA
  • The House of the Rising Sun The Animals
    The Complete Animals, EMI
  • Amazing Grace The Blind Boys of Alabama
    Spirit of the Century, Real World
  • Minor Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    Our New Orleans, Nonesuch

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: When the Saints Go Marching In Jimmy Smith
    Prayer Meetin', Blue Note
  • Come On In My Kitchen Cassandra Wilson
    Blue Light 'Til Dawn, Blue Note
  • Feel Like Going Home Muddy Waters
    Folk Singer, MCA/Chess
  • Okie Dokie Stomp Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
    The Original Peacock Recordings, Peacock
  • Folks Back Home Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
    Down South in the Bayou Country, Barclay
  • Instrumental: Tous Les Deux Pour La Meme Richard Fontenot
    Cajun Country Guitar, Smithsonian/Folkways
  • Acadian Two-Step Coteau
    Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder
  • Crescent City Lucinda Williams
    Lucinda Williams, Koch
  • Les Tete Fille Lafayette Happy Fats and His Rayne-Bo Ramblers
    Harry Choates: Devil In the Bayou, Bear Family
  • Stay A Little Longer Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
    San Antonio Rose, Bear Family
  • Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans Louis Armstrong with Jack Teagarden
    What a Wonderful World, Project 3
  • Basin Street Blues Duke Ellington
    The Complete Capitol Recordings of Duke Ellington, Mosaic
  • Instrumental: Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans Don Vappie
    Papa Don's New Orleans Jazz Band, Vapielle
  • INTERVIEW: Eddie Bo

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  • You Are My Sunshine Eddie Bo
    live at American Routes,
  • Check Your Bucket Eddie Bo
    live at American Routes,
  • When the Saints Go Marching In Eddie Bo
    live at American Routes,
  • When the Saints Go Marching In Nicholas Payton
    Gumbo Nouveau, Verve

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