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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HERB JEFFRIES

March 17th, 2004

The music and life of Herb Jeffries, lead singer and last surviving member of Duke Ellington’s legendary “Blanton-Webster” band of the early 1940s. Jeffries, called “the Bronze Buckaroo,” was also the first Black star of a cowboy movie; his theme song, “I’m a Happy Cowboy” comes from the 1938 western “Harlem on the Prairie.”

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: I'm a Happy Cowboy Herb Jeffries
    The Bronze Buckaroo Rides Again, Warner Bros
  • Jump for Joy Duke Ellington with Herb Jeffries
    Ellington Centennial, BMG
  • Cow Cow Boogie Ella Fitzgerald with Ink Spots
    The Very Best of Ella, MCA
  • Boogie Woogie Country Girl Big Joe Turner
    Big, Bad & Blue, Rhino
  • Boogie Woogie Country Girl Sleepy LeBeef
    The Human Jukebox, Sun
  • Life Is Bad Shelby Lynne
    I Am Shelby Lynne, Island
  • Blank Trip Super Chikan
    What You See, Fat Possum
  • Instrumental: Flippin' the Lid Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant
    Stratosphere Boogie, Razor & Tie
  • INTERVIEW: Herb Jeffries
  • Just to be in Caroline Earl Hines & His Orchestra
  • I'm a Happy Cowboy Herb Jeffries
  • Flamingo Duke Ellington
    A Brief History of Herb Jeffries, Warner Bros
  • Instrumental: I'm an Old Cowhand Jimmy Smith
    Ultimate, Verve
  • Creole Love Call Ellis Marsalis
    Duke In Blue, Sony
  • I'm Just a Lucky So & So Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
    The Complete Sessions, Roulette
  • Happy Go Lucky Local Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
    Live in Swing City, Sony

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: 7 Moby
    Play, V2
  • Run On for a Long Time Bill Landford & the Landforaires
    There Will be No Sweeter Sound, Sony
  • Run On Moby
    Play, V2
  • Do the Funky Chicken Rufus Thomas
    The Best of Rufus Thomas, Rhino
  • Down on the Farm Big Al Downing
    From Where I Stand, Warner Bros
  • Zydeco Heehaw Boozoo Chavis
    Boozoo Chavis, Elektra
  • Ride Em Cowboy Clifton Chenier
    Bogalusa Boogie, Arhoolie
  • SEGMENT: Creole Cowboy: Elton Laday
  • Texas Cowboy Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson
    I Want To Groove With You, Bullseye
  • Buffalo Soldiers The Persuasions
    Man, Oh Man, EMI
  • Buffalo Soldier Bob Marley
    Legend, Island
  • Instrumental: Greedy G Brentford All Stars
    100% Dynamite, Soul Jazz
  • Nobody Knows (The Trouble I've Seen) Snooks Eaglin
    The Complete Imperial Recordings, Capitol
  • Trouble In Mind Janis Joplin
    18 Essential Songs, Sony
  • Almost Persuaded Etta James
    From Where I Stand, Warner Bros
  • River Man Brad Mehldau
    Deregulating Jazz, Warner Bros
  • The Man I Love Herbie Hancock with Joni Mitchell
    Gershwin's World, Polygram
  • End Bed: The Man I Love Coleman Hawkins
    Picasso, Giants of Jazz

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