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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JOHNNY WINTER & JASON MORAN

August 12th, 2015

A visit with two native sons of the Texas Gulf Coast. Guitar slinger Johnny Winter grew up listening to the blues in Beaumont, Texas and took his talent for playing to the world. We talk with Winter about his Texas youth and his blues milestones. Jazz pianist Jason Moran started out in Houston playing classical music, but found his way to jazz through Thelonious Monk. We’ll learn more about his adventures in the NYC jazz scene.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Honky Tonk Johnny Winter
    Roots, Megaforce
  • Route 90 Clarence Garlow
    Lost Highways: American Road Songs 1920s-1950s, The Viper Label
  • Pipeliner Blues Moon Mullican
    Moon's Rock, Bear Family
  • Turtle Blues Big Brother and the Holding Company
    Cheap Thrills, Columbia/Legacy
  • Long Telephone Port Arthur Cleveland Crochet and All the Sugar Bees
    Cleveland Crochet and All the Sugar Bees, Goldband
  • Wrong Number Jon Cleary
    Occapella, FHQ
  • Nice and Easy Barbara Lynn
    The Crazy Cajun Recordings, Edsel
  • Instrumental: By the Light of the Silvery Moon Johnny Winter
    Winter Essentials 1960-1967, Fuel
  • SEGMENT: Johnny Winter

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  • The Red Rooster Howlin' Wolf
    The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions, Chess
  • Mojo Hand Lightnin' Hopkins
    The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins, Arhoolie
  • Have Blues, Will Travel Jerry Reed
    The NRC Years: 1958-1960, Studio634
  • Instrumental: Sonny's Whoopin' the Doop Sonny Terry
    Whoopin', Alligator
  • Hear My Train A Comin' Jimi Hendrix
    Blues, Experience Hendrix/Legacy
  • It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Bob Dylan
    Highway 61 Revisited, Sony
  • Southern Casey Jones Chuck Leavell
    Back to the Woods, Evergreen Art
  • Trouble in Mind George Jones
    Hank, Bob & Me, Fuel 2000
  • Lake Charles Lucinda Williams
    Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Mercury
  • End Bed: Last Night Johnny Winter
    White, Hot & Blue, TriStar Music

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Moran Tonk Circa 1936 Jason Moran
    Modernistic, Blue Note
  • Cane River Jimmy Witherspoon
    The Bluesville Years - Volume One: Big Blues Honks and Wails, Prestige/Fantasy
  • If You Love Me Like You Say Albert Collins
    Collins Mix, The Best of..., Virgin
  • Jelly Roll Charles Mingus
    Mingus Ah-Um, Columbia/Legacy
  • Dancers in Love Duke Ellington
    Piano Reflections, Capitol Jazz
  • Houston Jump Floyd Dixon
    Cow Town Blues: The Seminal 1948-1950, Ace
  • Instrumental: Chica Boo Lloyd Glenn
    Essential Blues Piano, HOB
  • SEGMENT: Jason Moran

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  • Dust My Brom Cassandra Wilson
    Loverly, Blue Note
  • Tou' Les Jours C'est Pas La Meme (Every Day Is Not the Same) Carol Fran
    Our New Orleans 2005: A Benefit Album, Nonesuch
  • Instrumental: Lutcher's Leap Nellie Lutcher
    Nelly Lutcher and Her Rhythm, Bear Family
  • Texas Woman Blues Taj Mahal
    The Essential Taj Mahal, Columbia/Legacy
  • Twin Guitar Boogie Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
    For the Last Time, Liberty
  • Sweet Texas Rose Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
    Down South in the Bayou Country, Sunnyside
  • Any-Kind-of-Man Victoria Spivey and Her Chicago Four
    Blues Masters Vol. 11: Classic Blues Woman, Rhino
  • Old Man Blues Mose Allison
    Gimcracks and Gewgaws, Blue Note
  • Lucky Old Sun Jerry Lee Lewis
    Sun Classics, Charly
  • End Bed: Rock House Parts 1 & 2 Ray Charles
    The Birth of Soul, Atlantic

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