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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NEA HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP CONCERT 2015

May 25th, 2016

Since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts has presented the fellowships – America’s most prestigious award for folk & traditional arts. We’ll hear music and conversation from Fellows in years gone by, like Doc Watson, Staple Singers, Clifton Chenier, Ralph Stanley, B.B. King, Flaco Jimenez and New Orleans’ own Treme Brass Band. Then we present the 2015 Fellows, many performing live from the stage at George Washington University, including the Gee’s Bend quilters, a circus aerialist, Piedmont bluesman, klezmer musicians, mariachis and more.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Dr. Michael White
    Blue Crescent, Basin Street Records
  • Christian's Automobile The Dixie Hummingbirds
    Thank You For One More Day, Peacock
  • Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Doc Watson
    Elementary Dr. Watson, Vanguard
  • CLIP: Ralph Stanley
  • Rank Stranger Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
    Classic Bluegrass, Rebel Records
  • I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water Brownie Ford
    Stories from Mountains, Swamps & Honky-Tonks, Flying Fish
  • (Going to) Kansas City Claude Williams
    Claude Williams Live at j's Volume I, Arhoolie
  • Instrumental: Viva Seguin Santiago Jimenez
    Tex Mex Fiesta, Arhoolie
  • La Porte Dans Arriere (The Back Door) Dewey Balfa, Marc Savoy & DL Menard
    En Bas Du Chene Vert, Arhoolie
  • Eh, 'Tite Fille Clifton Chenier
    Louisiana Blues & Zydeco, Arhoolie
  • Ay Te Dejo in San Antonio Flaco Jimenez
    Ay Te Dejo in San Antonio, Arhoolie
  • Descarga Cachao Israel "Cachao" Lopez
    Cachao, Epic
  • Silkene Pajamas Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers
    Tanz!, Epic
  • Instrumental: Slidin' and Glidin' B.B. King
    Spotlight on Lucille, Virgin
  • CLIP: B.B. King
  • Why I Sing the Blues B.B. King
    Do the Boogie! B.B. King's Early 50s Classics, Flair
  • Jump for Joy The Campbell Brothers
    Pass Me Not, Arhoolie
  • Sing On Treme Brass Band
    New Orleans Music!, Mardi Gras
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken Staples Singers
    Freedom Highway, Columbia/Legacy
  • Closing Bed: Spiritual Charlie Haden and Hank Jones
    Steal Away: Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs, Verve

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Instrumental Rahim AlHaj
    recorded live from the 2015 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
  • SEGMENT: Dan Sheehy
  • SEGMENT: Drink Small
  • SEGMENT: Gee's Ben Quilters
  • Instrumental: Swing Low Sweet Chariot Charlie Haden and Hank Jones
    Steal Away: Spiritual, Hyms and Folk Songs, Verve
  • SEGMENT: Yari Livan
  • SEGMENT: Gertrude "Yuki" Tsutsumi
  • SEGMENT: Dolly Jacobs, circus aerialist
  • Instrumental Rahim AlHaj
    recorded live from the 2015 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
  • SEGMENT: Sidonka Wadina
  • Klezmer Tune Michael Alpert and Brave Old World
    recorded live from the 2015 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
  • End Bed: Musical Finale 2015 National Heritage Fellows jam, featuring Mariachi Los Amigos, Brave New World, Rahim AlHaj, and Drink Small
    recorded live from the 2015 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,

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