Steve Krinsky: Playlist from April 26, 2008

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Artist	Track	Comments
Big Guitars from Texas	Boomerang
Robert Randolph & The Family Band	Calypso	Sacred Steel knows how to rock. These guys started out as a church band in East Orange; look where they are now!!
Sandy Bull	Improvisation for Oud 1	from "Still Valentine's Day 1969"
Debashish Bhattacharya	Mishra Shivaranjani Dhun Dadra	"Debashish thought of this guitar in line with the western concept of Slide Ukelele," say the liner notes to "Trinity of Guitars" (P&M Records, 2003)
Badal Roy	One in the Pocket	Title cut to Badal's 1997 album with Glen Velez and Steve Gorn
Etran Finatawa	Soto	"Raunchy" guitars from the Tuareg & Wodaabe nomadic people of the Sahara; on Riverboat Records/World Music Network (2008)
BB King	Ain't That Just Like a Woman	Early blues boy; I guess I should track down a date!
Royal Crown Revue	The Walkin' Blues	She wants to dance the hucklebuck but, really, all she wants to do is...walk right in, walk right out.
George Thorogood	Huckle Up Baby	Is it too early to huckle up baby? Based on Johnny Preston and John Lee Hooker.
Eddie Bo	Hey Bo	He's stick rockin', gonna be at JazzFest; from "New Orleans Funk: Volume 2" (Soul Jazz Records, 2008)
Danny White	The Twitch	More N.O. funk; love that intro en francais.
Dejean Olympia Brass Band	Who Dat?	You don't have to be a football fan to like this street jazz tune.
Kermit Ruffins	Skokiann	With of without the Rebirth Brass Band, Kermit makes the best BBQ in New Orleans
Peter Bocage and his Creole Serenaders	Bouncing Around	Starts as bed music, then it swings by itself; recorded in 1961. Isn't Eddie Bo's given name Bocage?
Mose Allison	Ever Since the World Ended	Nobody has a catalogue of such clever sweet jazz tunes as Mose. I got this off the great box set: "Allison Wonderland" (Rhino, 1994)
Roxanne Beck	Comes Love	Title cut to a nice new CD; recorded in Calabasas, California. For more info, roxannebeck.com
Billie Holiday	What A Little Moonlight Can Do	Recorded in 1935, with Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster and more. Wow.
Billie Holiday with Benny Goodman's Orchestra	These Foolish Things	Okay, let's hear another.
Jenny Scheinman	Twilight Time	Jazz violinist has a new album, with covers of Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits and more. Nice vocals, amazing band.
Nick Lowe	Shake That Rat	I forgot to announce this one: An addon tune to the 30th anniversary of "Jesus is Cool" (Yep Roc, 2007)
Red Stick Ramblers	The Smeckled Suite	Written by Chas Justus, one by Roy Smeck in 1938, these Baton Rouge-type fellows have a good time with it. From "Made in the Shade" (Sugar Hill, 2007)
Ryck Kaiser & Friends	The Downfall of Paris	This fine Pennsylvania combo put out collection of Appalachian and Celtic fiddle tunes in 2003; email ryck_kaiser@juno.com for more info
Yellowman	Hill & Gully Rider	This Jamaican riff snuck into the folk idiom on a banana boat.
The Tarriers	Banana Boat Song	On the internet, it list Glenn Yarborough as the singer in this band but he was in another band. Wha t gives? And did the Tarriers write this?
Tommy Makem	Drill, Ye, Tarriers, Drill	He used to play hot Irish music with the Clancy Brothers.
Geoff Muldaur	Old Train 29	Geoff recorded this in Malibu in 1979 for Flying Fish. I have the vinyl version of "Blues Boy"
Dan Del Santo	Underdog Rag	First two songs with Evan Stover; from "White Featers in the Coop"
Dan Del Santo	Roberta	Recorded in 1974 &1976 in upstate NY, released on CD on Trix in 1996
Dan Del Santo	Sun City (Blood Money)	Then he moved to Austin. His band was the Professors of Pleasure and he recorded this 1985 vinyl EP at theheight of the anti-aparthied movement
Dan Del Santo	Merci, Baby, Merci	This one was recorded in Marble Falls, Texas in 1984. Harmony vocal by Penny Hanna; harmonica Slim Heilpern
Dan Del Santo & Professors of Pleasure	Pleasure Push	Let's try it at 33. "That's Life in the Big City" is a full album-- all the other stuff I have are 45s, EPs & compilations-- from 1981. Has anyone put out a CD of his stuff?
Dan Del Santo	Everything's An Argument	In 1984, Elektra put out a compilation of Texas musicians; Dan is the only one with two cuts! It's around: "Ten from Texas: Herd It Through the Grapevine"
Dan Del Santo	The Devil's Shuffle	Back to upstate NY to end our tribute to the late Dan Del Santo. He deserves to be heard.
Joe Ely & Joel Guzman	I'm a Thousand Miles From Home	Live at the Cactus Cafe, recently
Guy Clark	Instant Coffee Blues	"From "Old No. 1"-- recorded in 1975, reissued on CD (again) by Sony/BMG.
Laura Cantrell	Train of Life	I always thought this was a Merle Haggard song but Laura lists Roger Miller as the writer; from her new CD/EP: "Trains and Boats and Planes" (Diesel Only, 2008)
Merle Haggard	Silver Wings	Laura does this one too but it only inspired me to play Merle himself
Tift Merrit	Broken	New CD: "Another Country" (Fantasy, 2008)
Tanya Tucker	Texas (When I Die)	When I got here and saw this collection of "outlaw" music, I vowed not to play this song but I waffled.
Thomas Mapfumo	Magirira	A salute to the South African longshoremen's union, who refused to unload guns destined to help the Mugabe government in Zimbabwe hang on to power--even though they lost the election.