AMERICAN ROUTES
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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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PHILADELPHIA SOUNDS

June 8th, 2011

Follow American Routes this week to the City of Brotherly Love, as we hang out on the musical street corners with some of Philadelphia’s finest, including bobby-soxer idol Bobby Rydell, hip hop drummer and city champion ?uestlove of the Roots, and the city’s mayor, Michael Nutter, who can also claim fame as a disco DJ. We’ll visit famous operatic cafes and sit in with a neighborhood jazz organ trio. Plus catch a choir rehearsal at one of the city’s historic churches and a conversation with a mother-daughter klezmer duo. And musical postcards from artists who call Philly their hometown.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: The Sermon Jimmy Smith
    Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz, Verve
  • Up Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    The Original Soul Sister, Proper
  • Love Train The O' Jays
    Total Soul Classics: Back Stabbers, Legacy
  • Expressway to Your Heart The Soul Survivors
    Flick Hits Take 2: Classic R&B Hits, The Right Stuff
  • SEGMENT: Mayor Michael Nutter

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  • SEGMENT: ?uestlove of the Roots

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  • Instrumental: Out of This World John Coltrane
    Coltrane, Impulse
  • CLIP: McCoy Tyner
  • Bessie's Blues John Coltrane Quartet
    Crescent, Impulse
  • Please Hurry Home Patti LaBelle and the Blue Belles
    The Early Years, Ace UK
  • SEGMENT: Budesa Brothers and Lucky Thompson

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  • SEGMENT: Elaine Hoffman and Susan Watts

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  • Pink Elephants Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
    Wild Cats, ASV
  • Can't Get to Heaven on the Frankford El The American Dream
    The American Dream, Ampex
  • SEGMENT: Mummers Parade

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  • Instrumental: Raggin' the Scale Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
    Wild Cats, ASV
  • SEGMENT: Victor Cafe

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  • Deep River Marian Anderson
    Spirituals, BMG
  • Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair Nina Simone
    Anthology: The Colpix Years, Rhino
  • End Bed: Dear Lord John Coltrane
    A John Coltrane Retrospective - The Impulse Years, Rhino

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Detective in the Rain Heath Allen
    Life of Leisure, Self-Released
  • Fall in Philadelphia Daryl Hall and John Oates
    Whole Oats, Atlantic
  • Storm Warning The Volcanos
    Storm Warning: Philly Original Soul Classics, Vol.1, Jamie/Guyden
  • SEGMENT: Marshall Allen

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  • Ship of the Future Edison Electric Band
    Bless You, Dr. Woodward, Water Music
  • Do You Want to Touch Me (Oh Yeah) Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
    Greatest Hits, Blackheart
  • Instrumental: TNT Jimmy Smith
    Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz, Verve
  • SEGMENT: R&M Deli

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  • SEGMENT: Bobby Rydell

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  • Dancin' the Strand Maureen Gray
    Philly Doo-Wop Classics , Jamie/Guyden
  • Slow Twistin' Chubby Checker with Dee Dee Sharp
    The Best of Chubby Checker: Cameo-Parkway, 1959-1963, Abkco
  • Ain't Nothing But a Houseparty The Showstoppers
    The Northern Soul Generation: Keep the Faith, Castle Music
  • SEGMENT: Jerry Blavat

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  • Instrumental: Bandstand Boogie Les Elgart and His Orchestra
    Television Themes: 16 Most Requested Songs, Columbia/ Legacy
  • Be Thankful For What You've Got William DeVaughn
    The Best of the Philly Sound, GNP
  • I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free John Legend and the Roots
    Wake Up, G.O.O.D./ Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Solomon Burke

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  • SEGMENT: Monumental Baptist Church

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