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
349 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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- Updated: Jan 07, 2016
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- Updated: Jul 06, 2011
11 Pieces
American Routes Fundraising Programs for all PRX stations
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- Updated: Dec 18, 2013
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- Updated: Jun 25, 2013
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- Updated: Jan 17, 2014
3 Pieces
American Routes occasionally makes episodes of the weekly series available to all PRX stations free of charge. The episodes below are now available.
- From: American Routes
- Updated: Sep 30, 2019
Pieces
Classic songs to celebrate the winter holidays plus a visit to South Louisiana’s Christmas Eve bonfires lighting the way for Papa Noel along the Mi...
- Added: Dec 12, 2019
- Length: :00
- Added: Dec 10, 2019
- Length: 01:59:00
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
with Las Tesoros de San Antonio, Dan Ansotegui, Balla Kouyate, and Linda Goss, as well as great recordings of fellows from years gone by.
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 01:58:57
with the Black Keys, Robert Finley & Luke Winslow-King
- Added: Nov 19, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
with Dr. Ike, Duane Eddy, and Linda Gail Lewis
- Added: Nov 05, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
with Jesse Colin Young, Carlos Santana, Supaman, and Cora Harvey Armstrong
- Added: Oct 29, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 01:58:59
People who work with American Routes
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Nick Spitzer (Admin)
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Ken Mills (Admin)
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Olivia Broslawsky (Admin)
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Maureen Loughran (Admin)
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