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


696 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
24-37: Blues Routes Then & Now: with a Creole & Cajun Live Set from Cedric Watson & Chris Stafford, 9/11/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Chris Stafford and Cedric Watson
with Cedric Watson and the late Chris Stafford

  • Added: Sep 10, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
24-36: American Routes Live & 50 Years of Beausoleil Part II, 9/4/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: BeauSoleil, Credit: Philip Gould
with Don Vappie, Kermit Ruffins, Rickie Lee Jones and Beausoleil

  • Added: Sep 03, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:59
24-35: Labor Day Live: Celebrating 50 Years of BeauSoleil, 8/28/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: BeauSoleil
examining the life and music of Woody Guthrie and celebrating 50 years of BeauSoleil

  • Added: Aug 27, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
24-34: I Didn’t Learn That in School! , 8/21/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Wynton Marsalis at Essentially Ellington 2010: Final Concert and Awards Ceremony, Credit: Frank Stewart
with Ray Charles, Wynton Marsalis and Feufollet

  • Added: Aug 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
24-33: Music and Healing: Part 2, 8/14/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Supaman
with Cora Harvey Armstrong, Supaman, Jesse Colin Young and Santana

  • Added: Aug 13, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
24-32: Rockabilly Rascal Chuck Mead & Heralding the Folk with Alice Gerrard, 8/7/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Chuck Mead
with Chuck Mead & Alice Gerrard

  • Added: Aug 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:59
24-31: Street Beats with DJ Fontana , 7/31/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Elvis and DJ Fontana
with Earl Palmer, Tom McDermott, and DJ Fontana

  • Added: Jul 30, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
24-30: Making Music on Records & Excavating Shellac, 7/24/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Excavated Shellac
with Jonathan Ward

  • Added: Jul 23, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:59
24-29: Music of Healing & Elixirs: Little Freddie King, Anders Osborne, Dr. Michael White & Music Maker Relief Foundation, 7/17/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Anders Osborne
with Little Freddie King, Anders Osborne, Dr. Michael White & Music Maker Relief Foundation

  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
24-28: How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away?: Dan Hicks and Commander Cody, 7/10/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Piece image
with Dan Hicks and Commander Cody

  • Added: Jul 09, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
24-27: 4th of July with the 2023 National Heritage Fellows, 7/3/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: 2023 National Heritage Fellows
with the 2023 National Heritage Fellows and Treme Brass Band

  • Added: Jul 02, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:59
24-26: Rhythm & Blues into Rock & Roll: Fats Domino, Billy Boy Arnold and the Tedeschi Trucks Band, 6/26/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Fats Domino
with Fats Domino, Billy Boy Arnold and the Tedeschi Trucks Band

  • Added: Jun 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
24-25: Giants of Jazz: Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane, 6/19/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk
with McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, TS Monk and Ravi Coltrane.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:02
24-24: When is Father’s Day?, 6/12/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: The Masakowski Family
featuring the Marsalis and Masakowski families

  • Added: Jun 11, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
24-23: Empress of the Blues: Bessie Smith, 6/5/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Bessie Smith, Credit: Carl Van Vechten
with Annika Chambers and classic Bessie Smith songs by Dinah Washington, Nina Simone and Alberta Hunter.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
24-22: Horsepower: The Cowboy Rides into the Future, 5/29/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Wylie Gustafson, Credit: Bill Watts
with Wylie Gustafson, Geno Delafose and more

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
24-21: Philadelphia Sounds , 5/22/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: ?uestlove
featuring Bobby Rydell, ?uestlove and more

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
24-20: How Many Roads: Bob Dylan’s Back Pages Volume II, 5/15/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Bob Dylan
with Mavis Staples, Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson and Jerry Wexler

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:59
24-19: Mother’s Day, 5/8/2024
From: American Routes
Series: American Routes
Caption: Marty Stuart and Connie Smith
with Marty Stuart and his mom, Hilda; Fontella Bass, Sonny Rollins, Bo Diddley, and Geno Delafose

  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:59

Series Subscription Information

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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