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. Now celebrating in our 10th year on the air, American Routes
explores the shared musical and cultural threads in these American
styles and genres of music — and how they are distinguished.The songs and stories on American Routes describe both the community
origins of our music, musicians and cultures — the “roots”— and the
many directions they take over time — the “routes.”