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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October 13th, 2004

American Routes takes a peek at the producers, sidemen and record company moguls who can make or break a record. New Orleans saxophonist Harold Battiste on playing with Ornette Coleman, acting as music director for Sonny & Cher, and founding his own jazz and blues label. Plus the inside story on Muddy Waters’ much maligned, but imaginative, 1968 album Electric Mud, by producer Marshall Chess and musicians Pete Cosey and Louis Satterfield.

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HOUR ONE

  • The Music Goes Round and Round Paul Gayten
    Creole Kings of New Orleans - The Chess Years, MCA
  • INTERVIEW: Dixie Cups
  • Iko, Iko Dixie Cups
    The Red Bird Story, Charly
  • Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans
    Phil Spector: Back To Mono, abkco
  • Rose Room Benny Goodman & Charlie Christian
    The Genius of the Electric Guitar, Columbia
  • Blues with Lips Hot Lips Page with the Count Basie Orchestra
    Spirituals to Swing, Vanguard
  • The Fix (One Naughty Flat) Dr. John
    More Gumbo Stew, Ace/AFO
  • INTERVIEW: Harold Battiste

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  • Instrumental: Marcho Rock & Roll Isidro Lopez
    El Indio, Arhoolie
  • La Novia Antonia Conjunto Bernal & Mando Marroquin
    Tejano Roots, Arhoolie
  • Wooly Bully Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
    Best of, Rhino
  • Just Walkin' in the Rain The Prisonaires
    Sun: The Singles Collection, Bear Family
  • Matchbox Carl Perkins
    The Classic, Bear Family
  • Dirt Road Blues Bob Dylan
    Time Out of Mind, Columbia
  • Orphan Girl Emmylou Harris
    Wrecking Ball, Elektra
  • Harborcoat REM
    Reckoning, IRS

HOUR two

  • Fishing Blues Henry Thomas
    Anthology of American Folk Music, Folkways
  • Single Girl, Married Girl Carter Family
    In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family
  • I Be's Troubled Muddy Waters
    Complete Plantation Recordings, MCA/Chess
  • I Just Want to Make Love to You Muddy Waters
    His Best 1947-1955, MCA/Chess
  • INTERVIEW: Marshall Chess, Pete Cosey, Louis Satterfield on Muddy Waters ‘Electric Mud'

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  • Instrumental: Black Satin / What If / Agharta Prelude Dub Miles Davis / Bill Laswell
    Panthalassa - remixes of 70s Miles, Columbia
  • Black Satin Miles Davis / Bill Laswell
    Panthalassa - remixes of 70s Miles, Columbia
  • King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown Augustus Pablo
    King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown, Shanachie
  • Soul-Kissing DJ Logic
    The Anomaly, Ropeadope
  • Instrumental: Church of Logic Mediski Martin & Wood with DJ Logic
    Combustication, Blue Note
  • Don't Worry Bout Me Lou Donaldson
    Good Gracious, Blue Note
  • Don't Worry Bout Me Don't Worry Bout Me
    The Complete Capitol Singles Collection, Capitol
  • Sweet & Lowdown George Gershwin
    Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls, Elektra
  • The Song Is Ended Mose Allison
    I Don't Worry About a Thing, Rhino

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