As the promise of summer rises with the heat index, we explore the world of daydreams, nostalgia, fantasy and future selves.

Read more: Dreamers Then & Now: Eric Andersen & Samantha Fish on American Routes – Today at Noon

We hit up Preservation Hall in the French Quarter for a potent dose of trad jazz, as bandleader and fourth-generation Creole musician Charlie Gabriel tells of his Caribbean roots, jazz funerals, and New Orleans’ hybrid rhythms.

Read more: It’s Creoles and Cowgirls, Charlie Gabriel, and the Quebe Sisters - Today @ Noon on American Routes

American Routes boogies down to bayou country to catch live music at Festival International, a showcase of French music from southwest Louisiana and the wider Francophone world along with blues, Chicano nouveau and swamp pop.

Read more: AMERICAN ROUTES LIVE: FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE 2017 - Friday 4/13 at Noon

This week, American Routes revisits the best live performances from the 2016 Baton Rouge Blues Festival.

Read more: RED STICKS AND BLUE NOTES: THE BATON ROUGE BLUES FESTIVAL - American Routes Friday 4/6 @ Noon

  1. American Routes: "Music of Healing & Elixirs" - Friday March 23rd at Noon

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American Routes

May 07, 2021

Guilty Pleasures Deluxe on American Routes – Saturday at 2pm  

Somewhere on our journey over the past two decades at American Routes, we started talking about “guilty pleasures” shows, where old free form radio roots called for the pleasure of old favorites and new discoveries. But since we broadcast from New Orleans, we’ll drop the word guilty and roll on…
April 30, 2021

Soul Sisters on American Routes – Saturday at 2pm  

We talk to three soul singers from the formative era of the mid-1950s through Motown of the late 60s, and an all-female New Orleans brass band. Justine “Baby” Washington talks about growing up in Harlem and her hits such as “That’s How Heartaches Are Made.” Maxine Brown started as a teenager in NYC…
March 26, 2021

Sweet Inspiration: Dan Penn & Trudy Lynn on American Routes – Saturday at 2pm

Singer-Songwriter Dan Penn is the master behind so many well-loved R&B songs, from James and Bobby Purify’s “I’m Your Puppet” to Aretha Franklin’s “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man” and Alex Chilton and the Box Tops “Cry Like a Baby,” and many more. We’ll talk with him about his prolific catalog of…

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