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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TOM WAITS & DAVE BRUBECK

January 23rd, 2008

We visit with two pianists and men of music, each eccentric in his own right. Since the early ’70s singer, songwriter and piano player Tom Waits has gone from anachronistic barfly and lounge singer to avant-vernacular iconoclast. Twentieth century jazz legend Dave Brubeck made his name by using odd, unconventional time signatures back when jazz was for dancing. And we radiate the 88s with some of the best piano music around.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Way Down in the Hole Tom Waits
    Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years, Island
  • Hang on St. Christopher Tom Waits
    Frank's Wild Years, Island
  • Mr. Highway Man Howlin' Wolf
    Memphis Days: The Definitive Edition, Vol.1, Bear Family
  • I Want a Butter and Eggman Louis Armstrong
    Butter & Eggman, Tomato
  • I'm Sharp When I Hit the Coast Joe Turner
    Savoy On Central Avenue, Savoy Jazz
  • Instrumental: Dansero Tab Smith
    Crazy Walk, Delmark
  • INTERVIEW: Tom Waits

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  • Instrumental: In Shades Tom Waits
    Heartattack And Vine, Elektra
  • Way Down in the Hole Blind Boys
    Spirit of the Century, Real World
  • Diamond in Your Mind Solomon Burke
    Don't Give Up On Me, Fat Possum
  • In The Wee Small Hours of The Morning Frank Sinatra
    In The Wee Small Hours, Capitol
  • Tom Traubert's Blues Tom Waits
    Small Change, Elektra

HOUR two

  • Open bed: Who Said That Dave Brubeck
    Dave Brubeck Time In, Columbia
  • Cow-Cow Boogie Ella Mae Morse
    Capitol: The Birth of a Label, Capitol
  • Red Hot Mama Deuce Spriggens
    Swing West! Vol. 3, Western Swing, Razor & Tie
  • Raggedy Ride The Four Blazes
    The United Records Story, Delmark
  • Thanks for the Boogie Ride Anita O'Day
    Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa: Let Me Off Uptown, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Dee's New Blues Ramsey Lewis Trio
    Consider the Source, Chess
  • He Done Her Wrong Dave Brubeck
    Time In, Columbia/Legacy
  • Baby Please Don't Go Mose Allison
    Allison Wonderland: The Anthology, Rhino
  • Old-Fashioned Morphine Jolie Holland
    Escondina, Anti
  • Blue Monk McCoy Tyner
    Nights of Ballads & Blue, Impulse
  • Instrumental: Unsquare Dance Dave Brubeck
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Further Out, Columbia
  • INTERVIEW: Dave Brubeck

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  • Rainy Weather Blues Amos Milburn
    Amos Milburn: Blues, Barrelhouse and Boogie-Woogie 1946-1955, Capitol
  • Louisiana 1927 Randy Newman
    The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1, Nonesuch
  • Basin St. Blues Harold "Duke" Dejan and Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    Preservation Hall Hot 4 with Duke Dejan,
  • End Bed: Closing Time Tom Waits
    Closing Time, Elektra

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