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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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JAZZ FEST WITH EARL PALMER

April 28th, 1999

This week, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is in full swing. We’ll have music of Festival artists from South Louisiana and beyond, and talk with the drummer who put the backbeat into rock & roll, Earl Palmer. Also, as a tribute to Duke Ellington on the occasion of the centennial of his birth, we’ll hear his “New Orleans Suite.”

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Bogalusa Strut Kermit Ruffins
    Swing This!, Basin Street
  • New Orleans Hop Scop Blues Bessie Smith
    Any Woman's Blues, Columbia
  • Going Back to New Orleans Dr. John
    The Very Best of Dr. John, Rhino
  • Dream in Blue Los Lobos
    Kiko, Slash/Warner Brothers
  • Lonely Nights Willie Nelson
    Teatro, Island
  • Instrumental: We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the City Percy Humphrey
    New Orleans: The Living Legends - Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers, Riverside
  • Leaving Louisiana Marcia Ball
    Circuit Queen, Capitol
  • You Are My Sunshine Ray Charles
    The Complete Country & Western Recordings 1959-1986, Rhino
  • Sufferin' With the Blues Nancy Wilson
    The Best of Nancy Wilson: The Jazz and Blues Sessions, Capitol
  • INTERVIEW: Earl Palmer
  • Instrumental: Doudou Moin Sam Castendet et son orchestre créole
    Biguine à la Canne à Sucre 1946-1949, Frémeaux & Associés
  • Manman Ou Tébè Sam Castendet et son orchestre antillais
    Biguine à la Canne à Sucre 1946-1949, Frémeaux & Associés
  • Zydeco Hee Haw Boozoo Chavis
    Boozoo Chavis, Nonesuch Explorer
  • Eh La Bas Corey Harris
    Greens from the Garden, Alligator
  • Life is a Carnival Wild Magnolias
    Life is a Carnival, Metro Blue
  • Without a Song The Isley Brothers
    Shout: The RCA Sessions, RCA

HOUR two

  • C Jam Blues Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
    Battle of the Bands: Duke Ellington vs. Count Basie, RCA Victor
  • Duke's Place Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington: The Complete Sessions, Capitol
  • New Orleans Suite, Part 1 (with commentary by Terence Blanchard ) Duke Ellington & Orchestra
    New Orleans Suite, Atlantic Jazz
  • Instrumental: In a Sentimental Mood Duke Ellington
    Piano Reflections, Capitol
  • New Orleans Suite, Part 2 (with commentary by Terence Blanchard ) Duke Ellington & Orchestra
    New Orleans Suite, Atlantic Jazz
  • Instrumental: Things Ain't What They Used To Be Duke Ellington
    Piano Reflections, Capitol
  • New Orleans Suite, Part 3 (with commentary by Terence Blanchard) Duke Ellington & Orchestra
    New Orleans Suite, Atlantic Jazz
  • End Bed: Degas' Racing World Terence Blanchard
    Jazz in Film, Sony

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