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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CLUB HOPPING IN NEW ORLEANS

November 24th, 1999

Jazz/blues pianist/songwriter Mose Allison, who migrated from the Mississippi village of Tippo to Greenwich Village, is a mellow post-Thanksgiving verbal and musical presence as we club-hop across New Orleans from Snug Harbor to the Saturn Bar.

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HOUR ONE

  • Saturday Night Fish Fry # 1 & 2 Louis Jordan
    Let The Good Times Roll (1938-1954), Bear Family
  • Shine, Shave & Shower (It's Saturday) Lefty Frizzell
    Look What Thoughts Will Do, Columbia
  • Gamblin' Bar Room Blues John Mellencamp
    The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers (A Tribute), Egyptian Records
  • St. James Infirmary Billy & DeDe Pierce
    Blues & Tonks from the Delta, Fantasy
  • Instrumental: Phat City Coolbone
    Brass-Hop, Hollywood
  • SEGMENT: Donna's Bar and Grill / Bob French
  • We Come to Party Rebirth Brass Band
    We Come to Party, Shanachie
  • Dance to the Music Sly & the Family Stone
    Greatest Hits, Epic
  • I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar Jonathan Richman
    I, Jonathan, Rounder
  • Sister's Coming Home Willie Nelson
    Phases and Stages, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Saturday Mose Allison
    Back Country Suite, Prestige
  • SEGMENT: Snug Harbor / Mose Allison

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  • One O'Clock Jump Delta Rhythm Boys
    The Jive Is Jumpin', Westside
  • Hey Bartender Floyd Dixon
    Marshall Texas Is My Home, Specialty
  • Steppin' out with my baby Dinah Shore
    Carry My Blues Away, Sony

HOUR two

  • Open bed: Hung over King Curtis
    The Capitol Years, 1962-1965, Bear Family
  • Basin Street/Sleepy Time Down South Louis Prima
    Louis Prima & Keely Smith, Capitol
  • Drinkin' Wine Sticks McGhee
    Atlanta R &B 1947-74 Vol 1,
  • Let Me Go Home Whiskey Amos Milburn
    Down The Road Apiece, EMI
  • Let me Go Home Whiskey Asleep At The Wheel
    Texas Gold, Capitol
  • Instrumental: Ramble Link Wray and the Wraymen
    Walkin' With Link, Epic/Legacy
  • SEGMENT: Shim Sham / Link Wray
  • La Banda Esta Borracha Freddie Fender
    Canciones de Mi Barrio, Arhoolie
  • Tequila Beau Jocque
    Check It In, Lock It out, Rounder
  • One Mint Julep The Clovers
    Atlantic R &B 1947-74 Vol 1,
  • Instrumental: Tequila King Curtis
    Blow Man, Blow, Bear Family
  • Drifter In the Dark Ween
    Chocolate & Cheese, Elektra
  • Walking after Midnight Patsy Cline
    Walkin' Dreams, Rhino
  • Sophisticated Lady Billie Holiday
    The Essential Billie Holiday: Songs of Lost Love, Verve
  • Every Time I Get To Drinkin' Sunnyland Slim
    Slim's Shout, Prestige/Bluesville
  • Alabama Song Marianne Faithful
    The Seven Deadly Sins, RCA
  • Piano Has Been Drinking (not me) Tom Waits
    Small Change, Elektra
  • End Bed: Goodnight Irene Kelley Joe Phellps
    Shine Eyed Mister Zen, Rykodisc

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