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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JOHN PRINE

May 2nd, 2007

Join us for a two-hour visit with John Prine as he walks us through his catalog and his life—from urban Illinois backwards to Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. For over 35 years the singer and guitarist has written and performed songs which present a slightly off-kilter and darkly humorous look at working class America. We’ll also talk agitprop with the man who wrote Vietnam-era protest songs like “Take the Star Our of the Window” and “Sam Stone,” and environmental broadsides such as “Paradise.” There’s also performances of Prine’s songs by others and more in this two-hour visit with one of America’s leading songwriters.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Picture Show John Prine
    The Missing Years, Oh Boy
  • Crazy as a Loon John Prine
    Fair and Square, Oh Boy
  • Kentucky The Everly Brothers
    Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, Rhino
  • The Frying Pan John Prine
    Diamonds in the Rough, Atlantic
  • Paradise John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • Instrumental: John's Smoke Turns Blue Eddie Pennington
    Walks the Strings…and Even Sings, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Hello in There John Prine
    Souvenirs, Oh Boy
  • The Great Compromise John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • Souvenirs John Prine and Steve Goodman
    Diamonds in the Rough, Atlantic
  • Angel from Montgomery (live) John Prine & Bonnie Raitt
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • Instrumental: March! For Martin Luther King John Fahey
    The Yellow Princess, Banguard
  • INTERVIEW: Protest Songs John Prine

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  • Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore John Prine
    John Prine, Atlantic
  • Sam Stone John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • The Fightin' Side of Me Merle Haggard
    The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977, Razor & Tie
  • Illegal Smile John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • End Bed: Green Velvet Lloyd Green
    The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green, KOCH

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Saturday Night Shuffle Merle Travis
    Walkin' the Strings, Capitol
  • Honky Tonk Blues Hank Williams
    The Original Singles Collection…Plus, PolyGram
  • Dang Me Roger Miller
    The Hits, Mercury
  • We are the Lonely John Prine
    Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings, Oh Boy
  • Nine Pound Hammer John Prine
    Sweet Revenge, Atlantic
  • Picture Show John Prine
    The Missing Years, Oh Boy
  • That's the Way the World Goes Round John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Wilson Rag Elizabeth Cotten
    Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, Smithsonian Folkways
  • The Sins of Memphisto John Prine
    The Missing Years, Oh Boy
  • Jesus the Missing Years John Prine
    The Missing Years, Oh Boy
  • Some Humans Ain't Human John Prine
    Fair and Square, Oh Boy
  • Take the Star Out of the Window John Prine
    Diamonds in the Rough, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Midnight Silence Lloyd Green
    Lloyd Green and His Steel Guitar, Double Ten
  • INTERVIEW: Humor, Performing, Old People, Voice and the Future John Prine

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  • Dear Abby (live) John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino
  • We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds John Prine & Melba Montgomery
    In Spite of Ourselves, Oh Boy
  • Angel from Montgomery John Prine
    Diamonds in the Rough, Atlantic
  • End Bed: Fish and Whistle John Prine
    The John Prine Anthology: Great Days, Rhino

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