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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GOING DOWN THE ROAD... WOODY GUTHRIE IN WORDS AND MUSIC

June 22nd, 2016

American Routes heralds our nation’s greatest roving troubadour and social commentator, Woody Guthrie. We’ll visit with friends and relatives who share tales of Guthrie’s trials and triumphs, from Okemah, Oklahoma to Coney Island, New York. Guthrie’s children, Nora and Arlo, reflect on their father’s life, scholar Guy Logsdon discusses Guthrie’s Dust Bowl days and Pete Seeger shares the backstory to Woody’s anthem for the “down and outers.” Plus music and memories from Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Moses Asch, Bob Dylan and so many others.

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  • Listen to Hour Two

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad Woody Guthrie
    My Dusty Road, Rounder
  • Philadelphia Lawyer Rose Maddox
    Sing a Little Song of Heartache, Bear Family
  • I. Oklahoma
  • excerpt: Oklahoma Hills James Talley
    Woody Guthrie and Songs of My Oklahoma Home, Cimarron
  • excerpt: Hen Cackle Woody Guthrie
    Muleskinner Blues, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Hard Travelin' Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways
  • II. From Pampa, TX to Los Angeles
  • excerpt: Big City Ways Woody Guthrie
    Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, Smithsonian Folkways
  • excerpt: I Ain't Got No Home (In This World Anymore) Woody Guthrie
    Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection , Smithsonian Folkways
  • I Ain't Got No Home Bruce Springsteen
    A Vision Shared , Columbia
  • excerpt: I Ain't Got Nobody Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1 , Smithsonian Folkways
  • Instrumental: Square Dance Medley Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Cisco Houston
    My Dusty Road, Rounder
  • III. Dust Bowl and Grapes of Wrath
  • excerpt: Talking Dust Bowl Blues Woody Guthrie
    Dust Bowl Ballads, BMG
  • Pastures of Plenty Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. I, Smithsonian Folkways
  • excerpt: The Ballad of Tom Joad Woody Guthrie
    Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centenial Collection , Smithsonian Folkways
  • excerpt: I Don't Feel at Home on the Bowery No More Jimi Zhivago
    My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town , Woody Guthrie Publications Inc.
  • excerpt: Hard Times Woody Guthrie
  • Sowing on the Mountain The Flatlanders
    Hills and Valleys, Nonesuch
  • Instrumental: Train Breakdown Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Cisco Houston
    My Dusty Road , Rounder
  • excerpt: Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportees) Los Super Seven
    Los Super Seven, RCA
  • IV. Greed
  • excerpt: Do Re Mi Woody Guthrie
    Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, Smithsonian Folkways
  • California Stars Billy Bragg & Wilco
    Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions, Nonesuch
  • End Bed: Blood of the Lamb Billy Bragg & Wilco
    Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions, Nonesuch

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: So Long It's Been Good to Know You Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways
  • I. This Land is Your Land
  • Will Geer Reading Woody Guthrie Will Geer
    Folkways: The Original Vision, Smithsonian Folkways
  • This Land is Your Land Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
    Naturally, Daptones
  • excerpt: This Land Is Your Land Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
  • excerpt: When the World Is On Fire The Carter Family
    In The Shadow of the Clinch Mountain , Bear Family
  • excerpt: This Land is Your Land Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recording, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Instrumental: This Land is Your Land Arlo Guthrie with the Dillards
    32 Cents Postage Due , Rising Sun Records
  • II. NYC
  • excerpt: "New York Town" Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
  • excerpt: Hard Ain't It Hard Jimi Zhivago and Boo Reiners
    My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town, Woody Guthrie Publications Inc.
  • excerpt: People's Hootenany Woody Guthrie & Almanac Singers
    Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection , Smithsonian Folkways
  • excerpt: I Know the Night Jackson Browne, Rob Wasseman & Woody Guthrie
    My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town , 429 Records
  • excerpt: I'm Blowin' Down This Old Dusty Road Woody Guthrie
    Dust Bowl Ballads, BMG
  • excerpt: So Long It's Been Good To Know You Woody Guthrie w. Cisco Houston
    That's Why We're Marching: World War II and the American Folk Song Movement, Smithsonian Folkways
  • excerpt: Untitled Jimi Zhivago
    My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town, Woody Guthrie Publications Inc.
  • We Shall Be Free Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
    Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Folkways
  • Instrumental: Not Fade Away/ Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead , Rhino
  • Vigilante Man Ry Cooder
    Into the Purple Valley, Reprise
  • Pretty Boy Floyd Bob Dylan
    Folkways: A Vision Shared, Columbia
  • III. Woody as a writer
  • excerpt: Hard Ain't It Hard Jimi Zhivago and Boo Reiners
    My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town , Woody Guthrie Publications Inc.
  • excerpt: Bound for Glory Jimi Zhivago
    My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town, Woody Guthrie Publications Inc.
  • Talking Hard Work Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Why, Oh Why Woody Guthrie
    Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, Smithsonian Folkways
  • IV. Fighting Huntington's
  • excerpt: Talkin' New York Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan, Columbia
  • excerpt: Ramblin' Round Woody Guthrie
    This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
  • End Bed: Raincrow Bill Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Cisco Houston
    My Dusty Road, Rounder

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