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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THANKSGIVING: NEA NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWS 2018

November 21st, 2018

As part of our annual Thanksgiving tradition, we celebrate America’s diverse heritage by spotlighting this year’s National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellows—recognized for their excellence in folk and traditional arts. Live in concert, Texas guitar maven and singer Barbara Lynn commands the stage with her brand of Gulf Coast rhythm & blues; old-time fiddler Eddie Bond shreds Appalachian-style; Don & Cindy Roy from Gorham, Maine, punch out French reels; and New York City cultural documentarian Ethel Raim sings a Yiddish song of her own. We talk tradition and technique with Native American basket-weaver Kelly Church; Palestinian embroiderer Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim; rodeo tailor Manuel Cuevas; Chicana altarista Ofelia Esparza and African American quilter Marion Coleman. And we revisit performances and conversations with past NEA fellows like Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Ledward Ka’apana, circus aerialist Dolly Jacobs, soul singer Mavis Staples and the late guitar virtuoso Doc Watson, among others.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Gray Eagle Eddie Bond and the Bogtrotters
    American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert ,
  • Big-Eyed Rabbit Eddie Bond and the Bogtrotters
    American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert ,
  • Breaking Up Christmas Eddie Bond and the Bogtrotters
    American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert ,
  • SEGMENT: John Jackson

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  • Instrumental: Wade in the Water Hank Jones and Charlie Haden
    Steak Away, Verve
  • It's Gonna Rain The Birmingham Sunlights
    Folk Masters: Great Performances Live from the Barns of Wolf Trap, Smithsonian Folkways
  • A Change is Gonna Come The Campbell Brothers
    The Campbell Brothers: Can You Feel It, Ropeadope
  • Opihi Moe Moe Ledward Kaapana
    American Routes recording at the 2011 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert ,
  • Kalama'ula Ledward Kaapana
    American Routes recording at the 2011 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert ,
  • SEGMENT: Kelly Church

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  • SEGMENT: Ofelia Esparza

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  • Un Mojado Sin Licencia Flaco Jimenez
    Un Mojado Sin Licencia, Arhoolie
  • Instrumental: Curtain Call Tom Morrell and the Timewarp Top Hands
    Wolf Tracks, Shanachie
  • SEGMENT: Manuel Cuevas

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  • Fat Boy Rag Johnny Gimble
    The Texas Fiddler Collection, CMH Records
  • SEGMENT: Dolly Jacobs

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  • End Bed: Down Yonder Willie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger, Columbia

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: 4 Reels Don and Cindy Roy
    American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert ,
  • Parlez-nous a boire Balfa Brothers
    The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music, Swallow Records
  • SEGMENT: Doc Watson and Wayne Henderson

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  • Instrumental: Shalom Aleichem Andy Statman
    Songs of Our Father, Acoustic Disc
  • SEGMENT: Ethel Raim

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  • Shtey ikh mir bay mayn tatn oif der tir Ethel Raim
    American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert ,
  • SEGMENT: Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim

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  • SEGMENT: Marion Coleman

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  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Staple Singers
    Freedom Highway, Legacy
  • Instrumental: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Michael White
    Blue Crescent , Basin Street
  • SEGMENT: Barbara Lynn

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  • Oh! Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin') Barbara Lynn
    American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert ,
  • It's Gonna Be a Wild Night Tonight Barbara Lynn
    American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert ,
  • Closing Bed: Vamp Barbara Lynn and band
    American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert ,

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