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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BLUES BORN AND LEARNED: SONNY LANDRETH & BOBBY RUSH

October 15th, 2008

Join us this week as we visit with the King of the Chitlin’ Circuit, Bobby Rush. The singer, songwriter, manager, harmonica player, guitarist and bus driver talks about a life in the blues and breaks down his famous stage show. Mississippi-born, Louisiana-bred guitarist Sonny Landreth drops by for a live set and reveals his special technique with the slide.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: 99 (Instrumental) Bobby Rush
    Live at Ground Zero, Deep Rush
  • Darktown Strutters Ball Fats Waller
    If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!, Bluebird/Legacy
  • Mama Told Me Not to Come Randy Newman
    12 Songs, Reprise
  • I Like 'Em Fat Like That Louis Jordan
    Let the Good Times Roll: 1938-1954, Bear Family
  • Fine Fat Daddy Dinah Washington
    Dinah Washington Sings Bessie Smith, Verve
  • The Rumproller (Pt.1) Lee Morgan
    Blue 45s: The Ultimate Jukebox, Blue Note
  • Bowlegged Woman and Knock Kneed Man (Part 1) Bobby Rush
    It's Alright, Paula
  • Instrumental: Seven and 7 The Bo-Keys
    The Royal Sessions, Yellow Dog
  • SEGMENT: Bobby Rush

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  • Instrumental: Fat Judy (Pt.1) Big' John Patton
    Blue 45s: The Ultimate Jukebox, Blue Note
  • Blues for Smedley Oscar Peterson Trio with Clark Terry
    Oscar Peterson Trio + One, Clark Terry, Mercury
  • Chitlin' Hop Piano Red
    Piano Red a.k.a. Dr. Feelgood: The Doctor's In!, Bear Family
  • So Round So Firm, So Fully Packed Merle Travis
    The Best of Merle Travis: Sweet Temptation, Razor and Tie
  • Caledonia / Flip, Flop & Fly / Ragg Mop Re-birth Brass Band
    Take it to the Street, Rounder
  • Tipitina (American Routes theme) Allen Toussaint
    American Routes original recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Sonny Landreth
    live at American Routes studio,
  • Highway Blues Clifton Chenier
    Sings the Blues, Arhoolie
  • Deal Jerry Garcia
    The Very Best of Jerry Garcia, Rhino
  • Last Fair Deal Gone Down Cephas & Wiggins
    Somebody Told Me The Truth, Alligator
  • Mississippi River Blues Jimmie Rodgers
    The Singing Brakeman, Bear Family
  • Going to New Orleans Bob Dylan
    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Outtakes, Vigo
  • Shake Your Moneymaker Elmore James
    Blues Masters: The Very Best of Elmore James, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Allons a Lafayette Richard Fontenot
    Cajun Country Guitar, Folkways
  • Allons a Lafayette Harry Choates
    Fiddle King of Cajun Swing, Arhoolie
  • Grand Chenier Bluerunners
    Le Grande Bleu, Louisiana Red Hot
  • SEGMENT: Sonny Landreth

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  • Instrumental: Sunny Jimmy Smith
    Talkin' Verve Groovy!, Verve
  • Sitting on Top of the World Johnny Shines
    Traditional Delta Blues, Biograph
  • Sittin' on Top of the World Bob Wills & Tommy Duncan
    Hall of Fame, United Artists
  • I Saw the Light Five Blind Boys of Alabama
    I Saw the Light, Liquid-8
  • That Lucky Old Sun The Isley Brothers
    Shout: The RCA Sessions, RCA
  • End Bed: Hallelujah Anyhow Sonny Treadway
    Sacred Steel Instrumentals, Arhoolie

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