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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EMMYLOU HARRIS & YO LA TENGO

May 14th, 2008

Gifted singer Emmylou Harris takes a new trip down old country roads as the self-searching “Red Dirt Girl”. We speak with her about growing up between South and North, her days on the road with Gram Parsons, and her atmospheric music today. Also, the purposefully unrooted band Yo La Tengo of Hoboken, New Jersey tracks their 15 years of luminous music and improvisatory life.

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HOUR ONE

  • We'll Sweep Out the Ashes in the Morning Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris
    Gram Parsons & the Fallen Angels Live, Rhino
  • Used to Be Olu Dara and Cassandra Wilson
    Neighborhoods, Atlantic
  • They Can't Take that Away from Me Louis Prima and Keely Smith
    Together, Jasmine
  • I Ain't Got Nobody Tiny Bradshaw
    Anthology of Scat Singing Vol.3 1933-1941, Media 7
  • Instrumental: Rose Room Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
    Nuages, ASV
  • Why Don't You Do Right? Lil Green
    Essential Women In Blues, HoB
  • Mansion on the Hill Bruce Springsteen
    Nebraska, Columbia
  • One of These Days Emmylou Harris
    Portraits, Warner Bros
  • SEGMENT: Emmylou Harris

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  • Instrumental: Vaseline Machine Gun Leo Kottke
    Standing In My Shoes, BMG
  • If I Could Only Win Your Love Louvin Brothers
    When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of, Razor & Tie
  • My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble R.L. Burnside
    Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down, Fat Possum
  • Cowboy Boots Alvin Youngblood Hart
    Start With the Soul, Hannibal
  • To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) Ryan Adams
    Heartbreaker, Bloodshot
  • Dot Com Blues Jimmy Smith
    Dot Com Blues, Verve
  • Sad Little Girl Les McCann
    Talkin Verve, Verve

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Last Days of Disco Yo La Tengo
    And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out, Matador
  • My True Love (Voyage d'amour) Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
    Bayou Ruler, Rounder
  • Do Re Mi John Mellencamp
    Folkways: A Vision Shared, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Best of Broadside Box Set
  • Links on the chain Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs
    Best of Broadside, Folkways
  • Business Pete Seeger
    Best of Broadside, Folkways
  • Mississippi Goddam Nina Simone
    Best of Broadside, Folkways
  • We'll never turn back Pete Seeger
    Best of Broadside, Folkways
  • John Brown Bob Dylan
    Best of Broadside, Folkways
  • INTERVIEW: Sis Cunningham
  • My Oklahoma home (it blowed away) Sis Cunningham
    Best of Broadside, Folkways
  • Baby, I've Been Thinking (aka "Society's Child") Janis Ian (Blind Girl Grunt)
    Best of Broadside 1962-1988, Folkways
  • Instrumental: Windy & Warm Doc Watson
    Foundation, Sugar Hill
  • Long Lonely Nights Clyde McPhatter
    Treasure of Love and Other Hits, Flashback
  • Round Midnight Sun Ra & His Astro Infinity Orchestra w/ Hatty Randolph
    Greatest Hits, Evidence
  • Sunday Morning Velvet Underground
    Velvet Underground & Nico, Verve
  • Our Way to Fall Yo La Tengo
    And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out, Matador
  • SEGMENT: Yo La Tengo
  • Instrumental: Sleepy Time Raymond Scott
    Soothing Sound For Baby Vol.1, Basta
  • Boff Boff (Mop Mop) Coleman Hawkins w/ Leonard Feather's All Stars
    Jackson Pollack, Jazz, Moma - Museum Music
  • I Got a Break, Baby T-Bone Walker
    Jackson Pollack, Jazz, Moma - Museum Music
  • It Ain't My Fault Forgotten Souls Brass Band
    Forgotten Souls Brass Band, NONE

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