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Monthly Archives: January 2012

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]

 

Listen to this show on the Tape Vault. It will be available for the next two weeks.

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]

Listen to this show on the Tape Vault. It will be available for the next two weeks.

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)

Listen to this show on the Tape Vault. It will be available for the next two weeks.

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]

Listen to this show on the Tape Vault. It will be available for the next two weeks.

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]

Listen to this show on the Tape Vault. It will be available for the next two weeks.

 

 

 

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