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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THE ART OF MUSIC: RICHIE HAVENS, PETER MAX & HATCH SHOW PRINT

May 7th, 2014

American Routes delves into the colorful convergence of art and music – from artist musicians, to painterly album covers and audacious poster art. Richie Havens was one such artist turned musician. We’ll learn about his tenure as a Greenwich Village portraitist and his legendary opening act at Woodstock. Then conversation with artist Peter Max, known for his pop-art colors, cosmic subjects and iconic album covers. And a visit to Nashville’s Hatch Show Print, who printed posters for musicians from Bessie Smith to Johnny Cash, for a primer on the art of letterpress.

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HOUR ONE

  • Blue Monday Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Open Bed: Mood Indigo Thelonious Monk
    Plays Duke Ellington, Riverside
  • Blue Monk McCoy Tyner
    Nights of Ballads and Blues, Impulse!
  • Azure Ella Fitzgerald
    Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook, Verve
  • Blues on the Ceiling Fred Neil
    Bleecker & MacDougal, Elektra
  • Red House Jimi Hendrix
    The Ultimate Experience, MCA
  • Instrumental: Grunion Run The Hollywood Persuaders
    Frank Zappa: Cucamonga, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Richie Havens

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  • Tombstone Blues Richie Havens
    I'm Not There Soundtrack, Sony
  • Honey Now Gillian Welch
    Hell Among the Yearlings, Almo
  • Instrumental: Going Across the Prairie Brandenberger and Art Rosenbaum
    Art of Field Recording Vol. II, Dust-to-Digital
  • A Picture From Life's Other Side Woody Guthrie
    My Dusty Road, Rounder
  • Silver and Gold Neil Young
    Silver and Gold, Reprise
  • Yellow Light Eleni Mandell
    Afternoon, Zedtone
  • What Light Wilco
    Sky Blue Sky, Nonesuch
  • Here Comes the Sun The Beatles
    Abbey Road, Capitol
  • End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes original recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Little Wing Jimi Hendrix
    The Ultimate Experience, MCA
  • SEGMENT: Peter Max

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  • Blue in Green Miles Davis
    Blue, Reprise
  • Blue Joni Mitchell
    Blue, Reprise
  • Instrumental: Mood Indigo Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins, Impulse!
  • When I Paint My Masterpiece Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits - Volume II, Columbia
  • Mona Lisa Carl Mann
    Memphis Rocks: Rockabilly in Memphis 1954-1968, Smithsonian
  • Crazy Arms Patsy Cline
    The Last Sessions, Decca
  • Little Red Rooster Sam Cooke
    Greatest Hits, RCA
  • Instrumental: The Blob Duke Levine
    Beneath the Blue, Loud, Loud Music
  • The WS Walcott Medicine Show The Band
    Across the Great Divide, Capitol
  • The Great Medical Menagerist Harmonica Frank
    Blues Classics: Daisy, Charlie
  • SEGMENT: Hatch Show Print

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  • Get Rhythm Johnny Cash
    The Man in Black: 1954-1958, Bear Family
  • The Man in Black Johnny Cash
    The Man in Black: 1963-1969, Bear Family
  • End Bed: Ahmad's Blues Ahmad Jamal
    The Legendary Okeh and Epic Recordings, Epic/ LEgacy

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