American Routes

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American Routes 

American Routes, hosted by Nick Spitzer, is a weekly two-hour public radio program produce at Tulane University in New Orleans. It has been exclusively distributed by PRX since 2011. The show presents 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.

American Routes is exclusively distributed by PRX and is represented by SFM Consulting, Inc. Carriage fees for American Routes are billed separately from PRX.

Fees for American Routes are based on Nielsen Audio market size. They range between $1,000 per quarter for stations in the largest markets to $250 per quarter for smaller and unrated markets. For more information please contact Steve Martin at 703.304.8479 or steve@sfmconsulting.com


679 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
19-44: Music & Healing: Volume 2, 10/30/2019
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Supaman
with Jesse Colin Young, Carlos Santana, Supaman, and Cora Harvey Armstrong

  • Added: Oct 29, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
19-45: Ponderosa Stomp and Americana Swamp, 11/6/2019
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Ponderosa Stomp
with Dr. Ike, Duane Eddy, and Linda Gail Lewis

  • Added: Nov 05, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
19-46: Songs of Rivers and Mountains: Joan Shelley & Jeff Little, 11/13/2019
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Joan Shelley
with Joan Shelley & Jeff Little

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
19-47: Blues Old and New: Black Keys, Robert Finley & Luke Winslow-King, 11/20/2019
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Robert Finley and Dan Auerbach
with the Black Keys, Robert Finley & Luke Winslow-King

  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
19-48: National Heritage Fellows 2019, 11/27/2019
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Linda Goss
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
19-49: Breaking Out: British Blues to New Orleans Bounce, 12/4/2019
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Big Freedia and John Mayall
with John Mayall and Big Freedia

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
19-50: Creoles and Cowgirls: Charlie Gabriel & the Quebe Sisters , 12/11/2019
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Charlie Gabriel
with Charlie Gabriel and the Quebe Sisters

  • Added: Dec 10, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:00
19-51: Winter Holiday: Solstice, Hanukkah, Xmas & Kwanzaa , 12/18/2019
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Xmas Bonfires
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 17, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
19-52: New Orleans New Years Live, 12/25/2019
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: New Years
with the Rebirth Brass Band, Leroy Jones, Ellis Marsalis, Little Freddie King, Jon Cleary and Charmaine Neville

  • Added: Dec 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
20-01: Rock Routes and Cajun Stardom: Boz Scaggs and Jimmy C. Newman, 1/1/2020
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Boz Scaggs
featuring Boz Scaggs and remembering Jimmy C. Newman, the Alligator Man

  • Added: Dec 31, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
20-02: Remake the World: Jimmy Cliff & Arturo O’Farrill, 1/8/2020
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Jimmy Cliff
with Jimmy Cliff & Arturo O’Farrill

  • Added: Jan 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:57
20-03: In the Spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. With Cyril Neville, 1/15/2020
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Cyril Neville
with Cyril Neville and Freddie Hubbard

  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:59
20-04: While I'm Livin': Tanya Tucker & Warren Storm, 1/22/2020
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Tanya Tucker
with Tanya Tucker & Warren Storm

  • Added: Jan 21, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:57
20-05: Guilty Pleasures: Music We Love More Than We Can Say, 1/29/2020
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Guilty Pleasures
featuring music from James Carr, Mavis Staples, Simon & Garfunkel, and more.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:57
20-06: Blues for Home and Highways: Eddie Cotton, Jr. & Willis Alan Ramsey, 2/5/2020
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Eddie Cotton Jr.
with Eddie Cotton, Jr. & Willis Alan Ramsey

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
20-07: Blue Note Records: Then and Now with Don Was, 2/12/2020
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Thelonious Monk
featuring Don Was and Michael Cuscuna

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
20-08: It's Carnival Time!, 2/19/2020
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Cha Wa
with Maroon Queen Cherice “Reesie” Harrison-Nelson and Cha Wa

  • Added: Feb 18, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:59
20-09: Leap Day: Forgotten Treasures, 2/26/2020
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Sun Ra
With music from the Grateful Dead, Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin, Sun Ra and Our Native Daughters.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
20-10: Fellow Travelers: Margo Price, Willie Nelson & Friends, 3/4/2020
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Margo Price and Willie Nelson
with Margo Price and Willie Nelson

  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:59
20-11: Down By the Riverside: with the Doucet Brothers, Original Liberty Jazz Band, and Topsy Chapman, 3/11/2020
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Mississippi: An Anthropocene River, Credit: Map by Harold N. Fisk, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1944
with the Doucet Brothers, Original Liberty Jazz Band, and Topsy Chapman

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58

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New episodes are published weekly, 1 episode a week.

Each episode is made up of 11 segments totalling between 01:58:50 and 01:59:10 in length.

Wednesday: 9:00 AM

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