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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MUSEUMS OF SOUND

May 14th, 2003

This week we look how music is enshrined at three spots around the country. In Memphis, the Stax Records Museum is opening this spring and we’ll hear stories from artists on the label like Isaac Hayes, the Bar-Kays, the Memphis Horns, and Rufus Thomas. Then we’ll head west and visit the massive Experience Music Project in the heart of downtown Seattle with it’s high-tech focus on rock and roll. Finally, Peggy Bulger of the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center tells us about their Save the Sounds project — preserving 50 of the most important recordings ever made. American Routes, where old sounds endure and new ones appear.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Soul Finger Bar-Kays
    Soul Finger, Stax
  • Hold On! I'm Comin' Sam & Dave
    The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
  • Memphis Train Rufus Thomas
    The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
  • Mr. Big Stuff Jean Knight
    The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Vol.2 1968-71, Stax
  • SEGMENT: Stax #1 with Rufus & Carla Thomas, Issac Hayes, Memphis Horns, Bar-Kays, Elvis Costello, Deanie Parker, Rob Bowman

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  • These Arms of Mine Otis Redding
    The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
  • Something Is Wrong With My Baby Sam & Dave
    The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68, Stax
  • Instrumental: I Can't Turn You Loose Memphis Horns
    Memphis Horns, Cotillion
  • SEGMENT: Stax #2

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  • Respect Yourself Staple Singers
    The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Vol.2 1968-71, Stax
  • Instrumental: Big Chief Part 2 Professor Longhair with Earl King
    Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology, Rhino
  • CLIP: Earl King
  • Baby You Can Get Your Gun Earl King
    Earl's Pearls, West Side
  • Trick Bag Earl King
    Spirit of New Orleans: The Genius of Dave Bartholomew, EMI
  • SEGMENT: Experience Music Project with Bob Santelli, Ann Powers

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  • Come On (Let The Good Times Roll) Jimi Hendrix
    Electric Ladyland, MCA

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: One Dime Blues Etta Baker
    Hills of Home: 25 Years of Folk Music on Rounder Records, Rounder
  • Bourgeois Blues Taj Mahal
    Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly, Columbia
  • I Ain't Got No Home Bruce Springsteen
    Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Folkways with Mo Asch, Michael Asch, Ralph Rinzler, Tony Schwartz

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  • Instrumental: Pahko'ola Dance Song Yaqui and Deer Singers
    Wood That Sings: Indian Fiddle Music of the Americas, Folkways
  • Roving Gambler Country Gentlemen
    Country Songs Old and New, Folkways
  • Key to the Highway Memphis Slim
    The Folkway Years: 1959-1973, Folkways
  • SEGMENT: Save Our Sounds project with Peggy Bulger

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  • Instrumental: Now's The Time Charlie Parker
    The Savoy Story Volume One - Jazz, Savoy
  • Tiger Rag The Original Dixieland Five
    Masters of Jazz Vol.1: Traditional Classics, Rhino
  • In a Mellotone Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
    Centennial Edition: Complete RCA Victor Recordings 1927-1973 Box, RCA
  • CLIP: Nina Simone
  • I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl Nina Simone
    The Very Best of Nina Simone: Sugar in My Bowl, RCA
  • Take Me to the Water Nina Simone
    Ultimate Nina Simone, Verve
  • End Bed: Nite Life Mary Lou Williams
    Nite Life, Chiaroscuro

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