KKRN FM, is a volunteer-based, listener-supported radio station fostering positive social change and healthy communities by entertaining, informing and educating through diverse music, culture, news, and public affairs programming.

American Routes

    • Wednesdays, 8:00pm10:00pm
    • Sundays, 11:00am1:00pm


    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 in our 15th 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 program also presents documentary features and artist
    interviews. Our conversations include Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, B.B.
    King, Dr. John, Dave Brubeck, Abbey Lincoln, Elvis Costello, Ray
    Charles, Randy Newman, McCoy Tyner, Lucinda Williams, Rufus Thomas,
    Jerry Lee Lewis and many others. Join us as we ride legendary trains, or
    visit street parades, instrument-makers, roadside attractions and juke
    joints, and meet tap dancers, fishermen, fortunetellers and more.



    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.”

    American Routes
    11:00am, 8-6-2017