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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PIANO PEOPLE AND MORE: JASON MORAN & HEATH ALLEN

May 31st, 2023

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. Then a conversation and tour around the piano with Philadelphia cabaret player and creator Heath Allen, plus music from Fats Waller, Jerry Lee Lewis, Herbie Hancock, and Sweet Emma.

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HOUR ONE

  • 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 Broom 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

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Smashin' Thirds Fats Waller
    At the Piano (Bluebird’s Best Series), BMG
  • Piano Man Billy Eckstine and Count Basie
    Basie/Eckstine, Inc, Roulette
  • Must Have Been the Devil Otis Spann
    The Blues Never Die, Blues Classics
  • Funny How Time Slips Away Dr. John
    Things Happen That Way , Rounder
  • Instrumental: Piano Roll Blues Little Willie Littlefield
    The Red One, Oldie Blues
  • Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock
    Takin’ Off, Blue Note
  • St. Louis Blues Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder
    Gershwin’s World , Verve
  • Ragged but Right Moon Mullican
    I’ll Sail My Ship Alone, Gusto
  • I'll Sail My Ship Alone Linda Gail Lewis
    Moon and Stars, Velcor
  • Old Kidney Stew Eddie Vinson
    Kidney Stew Is Fine, Delmark
  • None of My Jelly Roll Sweet Emma Barrett
    Sweet Emma Barrett and her New Orleans Music, GHB Records
  • Gumbo Blues Smiley Lewis
    Presenting Smiley Lewis, Universal
  • Instrumental: Nowhere to Go Allen Toussaint
    The Wild Sounds of New Orleans,
  • SEGMENT: Heath Allen

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  • Closing bed: My Blue Heaven Mary Lou Williams
    Black Christ of the Andes, Smithsonian Folkways

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