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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DOLLY PARTON

April 5th, 2000

Dolly Parton talks about her musical and family roots in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee where she first broke into song, performed on the radio, and admired the fashion of the local trollop. With Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors” and hear music from across the American spectrum.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Tennesse Rag Chet Atkins and Doc Watson
    The Essential Chet Atkins, RCA
  • Hello, Dolly! Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & Quincy Jones
    It Might as Well be Swing, Capitol
  • She's Dynamite Piano Red
    The Doctor's In, Bear Family
  • Tennessee Waltz King Curtis
    Blow, Man, Blow, Bear Family
  • Tennessee Waltz Les Paul & Mary Ford
    All-Time Greatest Hits, Capitol
  • My Tennessee Mountain Home Dolly Parton
    The RCA Years, RCA
  • Tennessee Waltz Pee Wee King
    Classic Country Music: Volume II, Smithsonian
  • SEGMENT: Dolly Parton

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  • Coat of Many Colors Dolly Parton
    The RCA Years, RCA
  • Dark End of the Street James Carr
    The Essential, Razor & Tie
  • Blues Back Art Blakey and McCoy Tyner
    A Jazz Message,
  • Instrumental: One Dime Blues Etta Baker
    Hills of Home, Rounder
  • Yodelling Fiddling Blues Mississippi Sheiks
    From Where I Stand, Warner
  • Water Tank Furry Lewis
    Blues Magician, Rounder
  • Big Boy Now Super Chikan
    What You See, Fat Possum
  • Chicken Grease D'Angelo
    Voodoo, Virgin
  • Froglegs Lloyd Price
    Creole Kings of New Orleans,
  • Joy Spring Clifford Brown
    The Best of Clifford Brown, Blue Note

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Old Jellico Bela Fleck
    The Bluegrass Sessions, Warner
  • New Mule Skinner Blues Bill Monroe
    1950-58, Bear Family
  • Better Move It On Home Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner
    The Essential Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner, RCA
  • Side By Side Ray Charles and Betty Carter
    Ray Charles and Betty Carter, Castle
  • You've Got the Power James Brown & Vicki Anderson
    Duets, Polydor
  • You Win Again Fats Domino
    From Where I Stand, Warner
  • Crazy Arms Jerry Lee Lewis
    Classic Jerry Lee Lewis, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Dixie Jerry Lee Lewis
    Classic Jerry Lee Lewis, Bear Family
  • INTERVIEW: Dolly Parton
  • Knoxville Girl The Louvin Brothers
    When I Stop Dreaming, Razor & Tie
  • Instrumental: A Tribute to Peador O'Donnell Jerry Douglas
    Restless on the Farm, Sugar Hill
  • INTERVIEW: Charles Wolfe
  • Barbara Allen Maxine Sullivan with John Kirby Sextet
    John Kirby Sextet, Sony
  • I Can't Get No Satisfaction Cat Power
    The Covers Record, Matador
  • House of the Rising Sun Doc Watson
    Third Generation Blues, Sugar Hill
  • Lighten Up Sonny Jones
    Funky, Funky New Orleans, Funky Delicasies
  • Happy Feet Blues Wynton Marsalis Septet
    Live at the Village Vanguard, Columbia
  • End Bed: Blues for Wynton Chris Barber's Jazz Band
    Copulatin' Jazz, Great Southern

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