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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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MUSICAL MEMORIES WITH JOE ELY & ROSCOE ROBINSON

October 31st, 2018

We reach for “mystic chords of memory” with singer-songwriter Joe Ely and gospel/soul man Roscoe Robinson to hear about the ground they’ve covered as veteran touring musicians. Joe starts us off in Lubbock, Texas, where he grew up, and tells of railroading across America, running off with the circus, musical explorations with the Flatlanders and his role in Austin’s Cosmic Cowboy scene. Roscoe, now in his 91st orbit around the sun, remembers his childhood in Dermott, Arkansas, the family’s migration north, traveling the gospel circuit through the Jim Crow South, taking the stage at the Apollo Theater and his life-long spiritual journey. We spin travel tunes from artists’ influences like Buddy Holly, Flaco Jimenez and the Staple Singers; plus, some pre-election reflection songs from Johnny Cash, Lauryn Hill and Keb Mo.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Treat Me Like a Saturday Night Joe Ely
    Joe Ely, MCA
  • Down the Line Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery
    Down the Line/I Wanna Play House With You, Coral
  • Road Hawg Joe Ely
    Full Circle: The Lubbock Tapes, Rack'Em Records
  • Waiting for a Train Jimmie Rodgers
    Blue Yodel No. 4/Waiting for a Train, Victor
  • Windmills and Water Tanks Joe Ely
    Full Circle: the Lubbock Tapes , Rack'Em Records
  • Waymore's Blues Waylon Jennings
    Dreaming My Dreams, RCA Victor
  • Instrumental: Red River Valley Quebe Sisters
    Texas Fiddlers, self-released
  • Streets of Laredo Marty Robbins
    More Greatest Hits, Columbia
  • Across the Border Line Flaco Jimenez
    Partners, Reprise
  • SEGMENT: Joe Ely

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  • Instrumental: Lupus #1 Tom Morell and the Time Warp Top Hands
    Wolf Tracks, Shanachie
  • Deep Eddy Blues Jimmie Dale Gilmore
    Don't Look for a Heartache, Hightone
  • Borderless Love The Flatlanders
    Hills and Valleys, New West
  • Standin' at a Big Hotel Joe Ely
    Full Circle: the Lubbock Tapes , Rack'Em Records
  • Dallas Joe Ely
    Musta Notta Gotta Lotta, MCA
  • White Freightliner Blues Joe Ely and Joel Guzman
    Live Cactus!, Rack'Em Records
  • End Bed: San José Snooks Eaglin
    Snooks Eaglin with his New Orleans Friends, Sonet

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: The Preacher Jimmy Smith
    Jimmy Smith Retrospective, Blue Note
  • Freedom Highway The Staple Singers
    Freedom Highway, Legacy
  • I Shall Be Released Blind Boys of Alabama
    Almost Home, BBOA
  • SEGMENT: Roscoe Robinson

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  • Instrumental: The National Anthem: OG Can UC Carla Bley Big Band
    Looking for America, Watt
  • Forgive Them Father Lauryn Hill
    The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Ruffhouse
  • Be Careful How You Vote Sunnyland Slim
    Be Careful How You Vote, Earwig
  • Hard Times Johnny Cash
    Unearthed, American Recordings
  • Once They Banned Imagine Drive-By Truckers
    American Band, ATO Records
  • Instrumental: The House I Live In Sonny Rollins
    Sonny Rollins 1956, Giants of Jazz
  • I Pity the Poor Immigrant Marion Williams
    The New Message, Atlantic
  • Soy Mexico Americano Los Cenzontles
    Raza de Oro, Cenzontles
  • America the Beautiful Keb Mo
    Freedom: Songs From the Heart of America, Columbia/Legacy
  • A Change Is Gonna Come Terence Trent D'Arby and Booker T. & the MGs
    Freedom: Songs From the Heart of America, Sony
  • Closing Bed: America the Beautiful The Happyland Band
    Saints' Paradise: Trombone Shout Bands from the United House of Prayer, Smithsonian Folkways

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