<i class="rte2-style-italic">American Routes</i> 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.

The show explores the shared musical and cultural threads in these American styles and genres of music and how they are distinguished.