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Nick Spitzer of American Routes Talks Back

Nick Spitzer of American Routes Talks Back. Nick Spitzer is rarely at a loss for words. His conversational ease and deep knowledge of music across a wide spectrum have been at the core of American Routes, the New Orleans-based and widely syndicated public radio show he’s produced and hosted since 1999, on which he’s talked with musical artists both obscure and famous from blues, country, folk and much more, eliciting stories and insights far beyond the common canon.

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Ingrid Lucia Talks Back

Ingrid Lucia Talks Back. In New York in the 1990s, Ingrid Lucia and her traditional jazz band, the Flying Neutrinos, flirted with the big time. New York audiences loved them and a recording deal with the Universal Music-linked Fiction Records was in the works. But the deal didn’t happen and the music business, in general, didn’t know what to do with Lucia and the Flying Neutrinos, an act, less easily marketed than the contemporaneous neo-swing acts Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Royal Crown Revue and Squirrel Nut Zippers.

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Colin Blunstone of The Zombies Talks Back

The return of the Zombies is one of music’s great comeback stories. Following a twenty-two-year hiatus, singer Colin Blunstone and keyboardist Rod Argent reunited in 1999 for an intended six performances only. By popular demand, the reunion continued, lasting more than two decades longer than the Zombies’ 1960s tenure in the music business.

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Amy Ray talks back

Famous for being one-half of the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray also has a parallel solo career. She’ll perform with the Amy Ray Band at Tipitina’s on February 13, with Kevn Kinney, front man for Drivin N Cryin, opening the show.

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Ernie Vincent talks back

Ernie Vincent has been a mainstay on the New Orleans music since the 1970s. On January 13, the singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer and band leader will release his latest album via the Birmingham, Alabama-based Cornelius Chapel Records. Titled Original Dap King, the project quite naturally presents Vincent performing his signature funk as well as psychedelicized blues and soul and swampy rock and roll.

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Chris Isaak talks back

Chris Isaak’s new album arrives a few months after the Americana Music Association honored him with a lifetime achievement award. Everybody Knows It’s Christmas is the singer-songwriter’s second holiday album in a career that includes 14 albums, international hit singles and dozens of acting roles in film and television.

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Dan Storper talks back

In 1967, when Dan Storper was 16, his aunt and uncle invited him to go on a trip with their family to northern Mexico. It was life-changing, to say the least.

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Charlie Musselwhite talks back

Charlie Musselwhite’s full-circle life with the blues took him from Mississippi to Memphis, Memphis to Chicago, Chicago to San Francisco and, most recently, Northern California to Mississippi. “I’m just a […]

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Ruthie Foster talks back

There likely aren’t many artists who have done versions of both Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” and the standard “Fly Me To the Moon,” the former front-porch blues style with a […]

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Louis Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi talks back

Two big-name acts in New Orleans music, Louis Prima and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, led Ricky Riccardi to the city’s most beloved musician, none other than Louis Armstrong. In […]

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