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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ON THE ROAD WITH ROSANNE CASH AND ARLO GUTHRIE

October 4th, 2006

This weeks’ American Routes hits the road in story and song. We visit with country singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash about life in a musical family, living in Nashville and her recent release, Black Cadillac. And join Nick as he rides the rails. It’s a trip on the City of New Orleans train with the singer that made it famous, folk hero Arlo Guthrie. Plus two hours of the traveling blues, as well as country, jazz, rock and soul and more.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Black Cadillac Rosanne Cash
    Black Cadillac, Capitol
  • Tennessee Flat Top Box Rosanne Cash
    Hits 1979-1989, Columbia
  • Ballad of a Teenage Queen Rodney Crowell
    Dressed in Black: A Tribute to Johnny Cash, Dualtone
  • Cowgirl Blues Jessie Mae Hemphill
    Feelin' Good, HMG
  • Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea Leadbelly
    Cowboy Songs on Folkways, Smithsonian Folkways
  • The Midnight Special Harry Belafonte
    The Folk Years: Simple Song of Freedom, Time/Life
  • Instrumental: Steelin' the Blues Jerry Byrd & the String Dusters
    Guitar Player Presents: Legends of Guitar - Country, Vol.2, Rhino
  • Half as Much Van Morrison
    Pay the Devil, Lost Highway
  • Lovesick Blues Patsy Cline
    The Essential Patsy Cline, RCA
  • Tennessee Flat Top Box Johnny Cash
    The Man in Black: 1959-1962, Bear Family
  • Big River Rosanne Cash
    Right or Wrong/Seven Year Ache, Raven
  • INTERVIEW: Rosanne Cash

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  • Instrumental: Ahunk Ahunk Thad Jones / Mel Lewis
    Blue Big Bands: A Swingin' Affair, Blue Note
  • Black Cadillac Lightnin' Hopkins
    The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings, Prestige/Bluesville
  • Cadillac Baby Roy Brown
    Blues Deluxe, Charly
  • Lavender Cadillac Maurice King & His Wolverines w/Bea Baker
    The Okeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1947-1957, Sony
  • Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac Dizzy Gillespie
    The Champ, Savoy Jazz
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Staple Singers
    Freedom Highway, Columbia/Legacy

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: City of New Orleans Arlo Guthrie
    The Best of Arlo Gurhrie, Warner Bros.
  • Hard Travelin' Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin', Smithsonian/Folkways
  • This Train Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    Blues Classics: 1927-1969, MCA
  • Cannon Ball Nora Lee King
    Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 3, Rounder
  • Detroit City Solomon Burke
    King Solomon / I Wish I Knew, Koch
  • Give Me the Good Old Boxcar Snooks Eaglin
    Country Boy in New Orleans, Arhoolie
  • My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans Jimmie Rodgers
    Jimmie Rodgers: The Singing Brakeman, Bear Family
  • Basin Street Blues Louis Armstrong
    The Essential Louis Armstrong, Columbia/Legacy
  • Basin Street Blues Bob Wills
    Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Midnight Train Country All Stars
    Country All Stars: Jazz From the Hills, Bear Family
  • SEGMENT: Arlo Guthrie / City of New Orleans

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  • I'm Movin' On Elvis Presley
    The Essential 60's Masters, BMG
  • Mystery Train Little Junior Parker and his Blue Flames
    Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 3, Rounder
  • Instrumental: Night Train Bill Doggett
    Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol.3, Rounder
  • Night Train The Mahogany Brass Band
    The Mahogany Brass Band, Sound of New Orleans
  • I'm Movin' On Professor Longhair
    Big Chief, Tomato
  • End Bed: Basin Street Blues Sidney Bechet
    Runnin' Wild, Blue Note

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