American Routes
- Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
- http://www.prx.org/americanroutes
- Networks: American Routes Private Network
American Routes is a weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music - blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical.
The program also presents documentary features and artist interviews. Our conversations include Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, B.B. King, Dr. John, Dave Brubeck, Abbey Lincoln, Elvis Costello, Ray Charles, Randy Newman, McCoy Tyner, Lucinda Williams, Rufus Thomas, Jerry Lee Lewis and many others. Join us as we ride legendary trains, or visit street parades, instrument-makers, roadside attractions and juke joints, and meet tap dancers, fishermen, fortunetellers and more.
Learn more at prx.org/americanroutes.
The program also presents documentary features and artist interviews. Our conversations include Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, B.B. King, Dr. John, Dave Brubeck, Abbey Lincoln, Elvis Costello, Ray Charles, Randy Newman, McCoy Tyner, Lucinda Williams, Rufus Thomas, Jerry Lee Lewis and many others. Join us as we ride legendary trains, or visit street parades, instrument-makers, roadside attractions and juke joints, and meet tap dancers, fishermen, fortunetellers and more.
Learn more at prx.org/americanroutes.
Series
296 Pieces
American Routes is a weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music — blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical. The show explores the shared musical and cultural threads in these American styles and genres of music and how they are distinguished.
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Pieces
Samantha Fish and Eric Anderson
- Added: Dec 06, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
Jerry Douglas and Guitar Shorty
- Added: Dec 04, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
featuring Anders Osborne, Little Freddie King, Dr. Michael White, and more.
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
featuring Barbara Lynn, and other past and present recipients of the NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award
- Added: Nov 20, 2018
- Length: 01:58:59
featuring the Black Keys, Robert Finley, and Luke Winslow King
- Added: Nov 13, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
featuring Jerry Lee Lewis, and sisters Linda Gail and Frankie Jean
- Added: Nov 06, 2018
- Length: 01:58:57
featuring Joe Ely and Roscoe Robinson
- Added: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 01:58:57
- Added: Oct 23, 2018
- Length: 01:58:59
Featuring a tribute to the late Fats Domino, Albert Lee, and Billy Boy Arnold
- Added: Oct 16, 2018
- Length: 01:58:59
featuring archival interviews with Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash, Rick Ruben, Marshall Grant, John Carter Cash, and more
- Added: Oct 09, 2018
- Length: 01:58:57
People who work with American Routes
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Nick Spitzer (Admin)
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Ken Mills (Admin)
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Garrett Pittman (Admin)
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Betsy Shepherd (Admin)
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Olivia Broslawsky (Admin)
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