January 28, 2012 Playlist

DJ: Bruce

 

• “Geese Landing on a Sandy Beach” - Ding Boling (zheng) - Compilation – Anthology of World Music China [Rounder]
• “Blue Little Flower” - Yo Yo Ma et al - Silk Road Journeys – When Strangers Meet [Sony: 2001]
• “Mido Mountain” - Silk Road Journeys
• “Flowering Waters” - Guan Pinghu (qin - China – Rounder
• “Ho ro hug o hug o” - Mary Morrison and Chorus - Waulking Songs from Barra [Greentrax: 1993]
• “Fony Hianac Mbola Kely Skaiza (Once when you were a child)” - Hiran-D Razafimahera - Compilation – The Music of Madagascar – Classic Traditional Reco [Yazoo]
• “In Praise of Menelik” - Tessema Eshete (1908) - Ethiopiques 27 – Azmari Tessema Eshete [Buda: 2011]
• “Ixtapa (w/Anoushka Shankar)” - Rodrigo y Gabriela - Area 52 [ATO: new]
• “Yaz Gazeteci” - Derdiyoklar - Compilation Istanbul 70 Psych, Disco Folk Classics [NuBlu: New]
• “Derman Bulunmaz” - Ersen & Dadaslar - Istanbul 70
• “Cumbur Cemaat (All Together ‘with happiness’)” - Erkin Koray - Mechul -singles & rarities [Sublime Frequencies: 2011]
• “Batkalim recharged” - Natacha Atlas (DoGbEaTs remix) - Mounqaliba Rising – Remixes [Six Degrees: 2011]
• “Dissan Na M’Bera” - Super Mama Djombo (Guinee-Bissau) - Super Mama Djombo (1980) [Dobiana: 2003]
• “Pansa Na Isna” - Super Mama Djombo
• “Gambia Su Nous Raew” - Super Eagles - Sterns Box – 50 Years of African Music [Sterns: 2010]

 

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January 21, 2012 Playlist

DJ: David

Obits and songs related to Mississippi (inspired by Oxford American magazine’s 13th annual Southern music issue)

1. “Blue Suede Shoes” – Carl Perkins – Johnny Cash at Dan Quentin [Sony/Columbia/ Legacy: 2006]
   Story goes that Johnny Cash gave Perkins the idea for this song at a 1955 show in Mississippi
2. “Harlem Nocture” – The Johnny Otis Rythym and Blues Caravan – The Johnny Otis Rythym and Blues Caravan: The Savoy Recordings [Savoy Jazz: 1999]
   RIP Johnny
3. “God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind)” – The Essential Etta James – The Essential Etta James [MCA: 1993]
   RIP Etta
4. “Tour of Duty” – Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Here We Rest [Lightning Rod: 2011]
   RIP freestyle skier Sarah Burke, Isbell is scheduled to appear at the 2012 Steamboat Musicfest
5. “Get Rythym” – NRBQ – At Yankee Stadium [Fontana Island: 1989]
   RIP Tom Ardolino
6. “I Loves You Porgy” – The Windmills of Your Mind – Paul Motian (vocal Petra Haden) [Winter & Winter: 2011]
   Some say Gershwin is rolling in his grave over new Broadway production of Porgy & Bess
7. “I Shall be Free No: 10″ – Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan [Columbia: 1964]
   Happy 70th birthday Muhammed Ali
8. “Mississippi Goddam” – Nina Simone – Anthlogy [BMG: 2003]
   in remembrance of what this country was like before MLK Birthday became a national holiday
9. “Down in Mississippi” – Mavis Staples – Live: Hope at the Hideout [Anti: 2008]
10. “Uprising” – Wadada Leo Smith and Ed Blackwell – The Blue Mountain’s Sun Drummer [Kabell: 2011]
11. “Mississipi Delta Blues” – Leon Redbone – Double Time [Warner Bros: 1976]
12. “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” – Mississippi Fred McDowell – Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [Arhoolie: 1994]
13. “Mississippi Waltz” – Chris Thile & Michael Daves – Sleep with One Eye Open [Nonesuch: 2011]
14. “Tallahatchie River Blues” – Mattie Delaney – Mississippi Masters: Early American Blues Classics 1927-1935 [Yazoo: 1994]
15. “Mississippi Mud” – Bix Beiderbecke – The Very Best of Bix Beiderbecke [101: 2004]
16. “Did You Hear John Hurt?” – Dave Van Ronk – …And The Tin Pan Bended, And The Story Ended… [Smithsonian: 2004]
17. “Trouble I Had All My Days” – Mississippi John Hurt – Revisited [Fuel: 2011]
18. “Heart-O-Matic Love” – Bo Diddley – I’m a Man: The Chess Masters 1955-1958 [Hip-O-Select: 2007]
19. “Howlin’ for My Darling” – Howlin’ Wolf – Howlin’ Wolf: His Best [MCA: 1997]
20. “Sitting on Top of The World” – Carolina Chocolate Drops – Things About Comin’ My Way: a tribute to the music of the Mississippi Sheiks [Black Hen: 2009]

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January 14. 2012 Playlist

DJ Bruce

• “Masculine Intuition” - Music Machine (Sean Bonniwell obit) - Turn On
• “Romance” - Wild Flag - Wild Flag 2011
• “Groceries on the Shelf” - Louise Bogan (1933)
• “My Banjo and I” - Hanggai - Introducing
• “Buigan (Shame)” - Las Golondrinas Viajeras - Compilation Voices of Forgotten Worlds
• “Wuji” - Hanggai - Introducing
• “Son Sventa N’ahual San Lorenzo” - Lol Gomez Gomez - Mexico- Feasts of Chiapas & Oaxaca
• “Haar Hu” - Hanggai - Introducing
• “Mamaye” - Novalima (2012) - Karimba
• “Pis Pisla” - Nilgul - Compilation Turkish Groove
• “Karimba” - Novalima - Karimba
• “Descarga en Cumbia” - Banda Bojera de San Peloyo - Compilation Original Sound of Cumbia 2011
• “Louie’s Luau” - TriBeCaStan (2012) - New Deli
• “Untitled Extract” - Gwenva Ensemble - Enxemble Gwenva (Breton)
• “Guinea” - TriBeCaStan - New Deli
• “A Son Magni” - Cissa Abdoulay & Super volta - Compilation Ouga Affair Hard won sound of the upper volta 1974-7
• “the Brain Surgeon’s Wife Serves Lunch” - TriBeCaStan
• “Doro Daga” - Safra Star (Tidiane Coulibaly) - Ouaga Affair
• “Untitled” - Fishermen’s Orchestra - Yemen- Music from the Heart of Arabia
• “When I’m 64″ – The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (for intrepid World Turning announcer Ron Kovich’s birthday; he doesn’t look a day over 63)

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January 7, 2012 Playlist

DJ: David

Music of interest in 2011: an incomplete, hardly comprehensive selection of work.

1. “Vagabond” – Beirut – The Rip Tide [Pompei: 2011]
2. “Chicago” – Tom Waits – Bad As Me [Anti: 2011]
3. “Questions for the Angels” – Paul Simon – So Beautiful or So What [Hear: 2011]
4. “It’s Time for Church” – Andy Friedman – Laserbeams and Dreams [City Salvage: 2011]
5. “Bless This Place” – Brian Eno – Drums Between the Bells [Warp: 2011]
6. “PInky’s Dream” – David Lynch/Karen O – Crazy Clown Time [Play It Again Sam: 2011]
7. “My Friends” – Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know [Virgin: 2011]
8. “All Along the Watchtower” – Thea Gilmore – John Wesley Harding [Fullfill: 2011]
9. “Don’t Stop Singing” – Thea Gilmore – Don’t Stop Singing [Island: 2011]
10. “The Love That Faded” – Bob Dylan – The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams [Egyptian: 2011]
11. “Goodbye Cowboys & Rocketmen” – Julia Haltigan – My Green Heart [Self: 2011]
12. “Bucky Balls (Spherical Fullerene)” – The Dead Kenny Gs – Operation Long Leash [Royal Potato Family: 2011]
13. “Family Affair” – MTO/Anthony – MTO Plays Sly [Royal Potato Family: 2011]
14. “Throwin’ Off Sparks” – The Stone Coyotes – I Couldn’t Find You [Red Cat: 2011]
15. “Loves Made a Fool of You” – Chris Smither – What I Learned in School [Self: 2011]
16. “Peggy Sue” – Lou Reed – Rave on Buddy Holly [Concord: 2011]
17. “The Debt I Owe” – Lou Reed – Note of Hope [429: 2011]
18. “Iced Honey” – Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu [Warner: 2011]
19. “The Desperate Ones” – Judy Collins – Bohemian [Wildflower: 2011]
20. “God Help Us All” – Tom Morello :The Nigthwatchman – World Wide Rebel Songs [New West: 2011]

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Happy New Year’s Eve (January 31, 2011 Playlist)

DJ: Bruce

For the last Vagabond Shoes shoe in 2011:

1. “Drift Away” - Dobie Gray (obit) - VA Sweet 70s Soul [Razor & Tie]
2. “The Ballad of Penny Evans (Vietnam is over, Iraq is over…..)” - Steve Goodman - Someone Else’s Troubles [Buddah: 1972]
3. “Under the Bridge” - Merle Haggard - Working in Tennessee [Vanguard: 2011]
4. “Everything Happens by Itself” - Barbara Manning (and David Kilgour) - In New Zealand [Common/]
5. “The Blues What Am” - Jazz Gillum - Chicago is Just that Way [JSP: 1947]
6. “Green Grows the Rashes O” - Jean Sterling MacKinlay - VA The Star of Rabbie Burns [Moidart: 1931]
7. “To the so-called “The Guilties”" - Koes Bersaudara - To the so-called ‘The Guilties” (1967 aprox) [Sublime Frequencies]
8. “Gun Dogmuyor” - Erkun Koray - Mechul [Sublime Frequencies: (1970)]
9. “Cho cho Chan” - the Son of P.M. - VA Shadow Music of Thailand [Sublime Frequencies]
10. “Quando My Love” - Sinn Sisamouth - Cambodia Rocks Vol 1 [Khmer Rock]
11. “Cumbur Cemaat” - Erkun Koray - Mechul [SF: (1976)]
12. “Iciyorum” - Ajda Pekkan (1972) - VA Turkish Freakbeat [Bouzoki Joes: 2011]
13. “Wangamiya” - Malesh ( Comores) - Musiques Metisses [Marabi]
14. “Ase” - Salem Tradition (Reunion) - VA Musiques Metisses – Ocean Indien [Marabi]
15. “Tsika holy” - Regis Gizavo (Madagascar) - Musiques Metisses [Marabi]
16. “Zi Pi Bi Blues” - Rene Lacaille & bob Brozman - DigDig [Riverboat]
17. “Drums at Dalada Maligawa (Sri Lanka)” - VA les Iles de l’Ocean Indien [Arion]
18. “Cumbia del Puerto” - Conjunto Los Rumberos - VAThe Original Sound of Cumbia [Soundway: New]
19. “Sembrando Cafe” - Alberto Pacheco y su Conjunto
20. “Diwana Aaya Hai” - ? - VA Crucial Jam the album [Rhythm Squad]

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