AMERICAN ROUTES
Country, Cuban and Cajun: Raul Malo & The Mavericks; The Pine Leaf Boys Country, Cuban and Cajun: Raul Malo & The Mavericks; The Pine Leaf Boys February 8th, 2023 (Hour 1)
Country, Cuban and Cajun: Raul Malo & The Mavericks; The Pine Leaf Boys

We meet Raul Malo, the Miami-born and Cuban-descended singer and leader of The Mavericks, known for country, pop and roots rock. We’ll talk about that and Latin music, all behind the band’s huge success in country music and their recent successful all Spanish language recording. Then a live concert and conversation with the Pine Leaf Boys as Louisiana French two-steps meet rock n roll. Plus music from Celia Cruz, Patsy Cline, Los Lobos and Professor Longhair.

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JUMP FOR JOY: BIG BAND JAZZ AND CONJUNTO FIDDLE TRADITIONS WITH CARLA BLEY AND BELEN ESCOBEDO

June 1st, 2022

A visit with inventive and eccentric jazz composer Carla Bley, for whom the National Anthem proves an unlikely source of inspiration. Bley brings wry humor to a conversation about the challenges of writing for her very big bands, her early days as a cigarette girl in NYC jazz clubs, and why America might be famous for baked beans. Then we head southwest and west to the borderlands of Mexican-American music with a stop for conversation with San Antonio’s Belen Escobedo, a master of the traditional conjunto violin. Plus songs from Freddy Fender, Elizabeth Cotten, Sunny and the Sunliners and Flatt & Scruggs.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Ida Lupino Paul Bley Trio
    Closer, ESP-Disk
  • I'm Nuts About Screwy Music Jimmie Lunceford
    The Swinging Mr. Lunceford, Empress
  • Jump for Joy Herb Jeffries/Duke Ellington
    Centennial Box Set,
  • SEGMENT: Carla Bley

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  • Instrumental: H.C.Q Strut Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
    The Ultimate Collection, Prism Leisure
  • You Gotta Pay the Band Abbey Lincoln & Stan Getz
    The Gotta Pay the Band, Gitanes Jazz
  • Falling Rain Blues Lonnie Johnson
    Lonnie Johnson: Complete Folkways Recordings, Smithsonian Folkways
  • I Love the Life I Live Mose Allison
    Retrospective, Columbia
  • If It Ain't Got that Swing The Modern Jazz Quartet
    The Modern Jazz Quartet, WEA
  • Little Bells Pual Burch
    Still Your Man, Ramseur Records
  • Instrumental: California Cotillion Mike Seeger
    True Vine, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Fifty Miles of Elbow Room F. W. McGee
    The Anthology of American Music, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Brakeman's Blues Jimmie Rodgers
    The First Sessions, Rounder
  • Freight Train Elizabeth Cotten
    Freight Train and Other North Carolina Songs, Smithsonian Folkways
  • No Depression in Heaven New Lost City Ramblers
    The New Lost City Ramblers: 50 Years, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Nine Pound Hammer Lester Flat and Earl Scruggs
    Songs of Our Land, Columbia
  • Roll On Son Volt
    American Central Dust, Rounder
  • End Bed: Fuller Blues Sam McGee
    Grand Dad of the Country Guitar Pickers, Arhoolie

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Las Perlitas Belen Escobedo
    Panfilo's Güera, Spring Fed Records
  • A San Antonio Irene y Fidel
    Tejano Country Festival, Vol. 3, CFM
  • Is Anybody Going to San Antone Doug Sahm
    Doug Sahm and Band, Atlantic
  • The Sun Went Down T-Bone Walker
    The Complete Imperial Recordings 1950-1954, Capitol
  • Wasted Days and Wasted Nights Freddy Fender
    Introduction to Freddy Fender, Fuel
  • Ay te dejo en San Antonio Los Texmaniacs
    Texas Towns and Tex Mex Sounds, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Wolly Bully Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
    Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - The MGM Singles, UMG
  • One Time One Night Los Lobos
    By the Light of the Moon, Warner
  • Instrumental: El Poder del Amor Trío Alegre
    Orquestras de Cuerdas-The String Bands- Mexican American Border Music Volume 5, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Cheque en Blanco Chelo Silva
    La Gran Coleccion Del 60 Aniversario CBS, Sony
  • Got You on My Mind Sunny and the Sunliners
    Talk to Me, Key-Loc
  • San Antonio Rose Ray Price
    Ray Price Sings San Antonio Rose, Sony
  • Before the Next Teardrop Falls Freddy Fender
    Before the Next Teardrop Falls, Geffen
  • Gimme Six Feet Ruben Moreno
    Gimme Six Feet Single, Guy Michaels
  • Muy Fifi Ersi Arvizu
    Chávez Ravine-Ry Cooder, Nonesuch
  • Instrumental: Viva El West Side Fred Zimmerle's Trio San Antonio
    Fred Zimmerle's Trio San Antonio, Smithsonian Folkways
  • SEGMENT: Belen Escobedo

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  • End Bed: Capullito de aleli Belen Escobedo
    Panfilo's Güera, Spring Fed Records

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