Start your year out right with American Routes as we get a millennial crash course for Ninety-Nine.

Said the night wind to the little lamb, please Christmas don't be late. Yuletide cheer, wondering winterlands and Santaclaustrophobia: music both sacred and secular for the season. "Merry Christmas, Baby!"

Songs of the open road, and the "Pavarotti of the Plains" -- Texas honky-tonker Don Walser.

Hot blues for the cold winter, and conversations with performers who shared the stage with one of the forefathers of the blues, Robert Johnson.