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Each week American Routes brings your Shortcuts, a sneak peek at the upcoming program. This week’s guest is not only a guitarist, he’s an inventor. Many…

This Independence Day weekend, we celebrate the cultural minglings in New Orleans, whose unparalleled diversity gave birth to some of the most…

This is American Routes, fifteen years after the storm and flood that left 80% of New Orleans underwater. We’re still rebuilding. Many New Orleanians…

Rolling Stones percussionist and backing singer Bernard Fowler has put a new twist on some of the band’s songs. His album “Inside Out” is a spoken word…

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were East Coast guys out in California, who began writing and producing for groups like the Coasters and the Drifters in the…

Ray Charles Robinson was born in 1930 in Albany, GA and raised by his mother Aretha. After losing his sight at age six, he was sent to the St. Augustine…

Since the 1960s, singer and guitarist Suni Paz has been one of the best-known purveyors of “nueva canción” or “new song,” a Latin American movement that…

Raul Malo was born in Miami to Cuban parents. In 1989 he started The Mavericks. Named for going against the grain, the Mavericks began in the punk and…

We’re live at Marigny Studios with Little Freddie King, an old school bluesman from McComb, Mississippi who lives in New Orleans’ 9th Ward. Little Freddie…

Irma Thomas launched her career as a teenager and still tears the house down at age 76. Irma grew up singing in church and auditioned with Specialty…