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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AMERICAN ROUTES LIVE ON NEW YEAR'S

December 26th, 2007

Ring in the new year with some of our favorite live music from 2007. We’ll have a set from New Orleans’ trumpet player Kermit Ruffins, joined by an all-star Crescent City band featuring vocalist Thais Clark. Lafayette, Louisiana’s Pine Leaf Boys bring rock and roll energy to their own version of traditional Cajun music. Step into a holiday soiree of reels, jigs and waltzes by French fiddlers in Westbrook, Maine. And pull up a seat for a club set from singer and banjo player Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders. It’s a festive set of live music that will keep you swinging well into 2008.

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  • Listen to Hour Two

HOUR ONE

  • Les Ognons Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • Dinah Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • Creole Blues / Tin Roof Blues Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • Instrumental: Sweet Georgia Brown Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • INTERVIEW: Don Vappie
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • Look at Me Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • Salee Dame Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • Instrumental: Stella By Starlight Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • Mon Coeur Fait Mal Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • J'ai Perdu Ma Chance Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • INTERVIEW: Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Ma Petit Femme Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Pine Leaf Boys Two-Step Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • End Bed: Piano Medley David Torkanowsky
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: St. Ann's Reel French fiddlers, Ben Guillamette, Jeannette Jarry and Lucien Mathieu
    live French fiddle party in Westbrook, ME,
  • Golden Slippers / Redwing French fiddlers, Ben Guillamette, Jeannette Jarry and Lucien Mathieu
    live French fiddle party in Westbrook, ME,
  • La Ronfleuse Gobeil (The Snoring Miss Gobeil) French fiddlers, Ben Guillamette, Jeannette Jarry and Lucien Mathieu
    live French fiddle party in Westbrook, ME,
  • Instrumental: Piano Medley David Torkanowsky
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Struttin' with Some BBQ Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Basin Street Blues Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • INTERVIEW: Kermit Ruffins and Trombone Shorty
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Paper Moon Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Ain't Misbehavin' Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Instrumental: Caldonia Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Sweet Georgia Brown Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers, featuring Thais Clark
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • INTERVIEW: Thais Clark
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Wild Women Don't Get the Blues Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers, featuring Thais Clark
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Down by the Riverside / When The Saints Go Marching In Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers, plus Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • End Bed: Basin Street Blues Henry Butler
    American Routes original recording,

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