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American Routes
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. Now in our 15th year on the air, American Routes explores the shared musical and cultural threads in these American styles and genres of music — and how they are distinguished.
We’d tell you to put your feet up this Labor Day Weekend, but that might not be possible if you tune our show with live recordings from the annual Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans, featuring the best the best in swamp pop, garage rock and surf music. We’ll chat with Arizona twangmaster Duane Eddy. On the flipside, it’s an archival conversation with the late Wardell Quezergue, the New Orleans music maestro and arranger known as the “Creole Beethoven.” Finally the left-handed Gulf Coast guitar lady and singer known as ‘the black Elvis,” Beaumont’s Barbara Lynn. Come Stomp with us!
