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Big Guitars from Texas
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Groovus
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Badal Roy
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Geeta's Shuffle
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Tabla wiz Badal Roy is a longtime member of Ornette Coleman's Prime TIme band. This tune comes from his 1997 album, "One in the Pocket"
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Weather Report
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Boogie Woogie Waltz
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Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter and band from "Sweetnighter" album, 1973
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Ernest Ranglin
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Up on the Downside
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Jamaican guitarist smokes on "In Search of the Lost Riddim" (Island, 1998)
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Burning Spear
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Slavery Days
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Righteous reggae from 1975
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Johnny Clegg & Savuka
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Cruel, Crazy Beautiful World (Cruel instrumental)
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Racially-mixed band from South Africa
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Rolfos Tabanka Rhythms
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Watermelon Man
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from "Steel Funk"
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Ernest Ranglin
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Surfin'
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This is a breathtaking mix of ska and jazz, with help from Monty Alexander, Ira Coleman and Idris Muhammed. From "Below the Bassline"
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Koerner, Ray & Glover
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Titanic
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Leadbelly cover
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Barrence Whitfield w/ Tom Russell
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Jack Johnson
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Another Titanic song, this one written by Tom Russell
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Big Bill Broonzy
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Who's Sorry Now
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Bluesman does a cool cover of pop standard, recorded in Antwerp in 1952. From "Black, White & Brown" CD on Polygram, 1995. Despite what I said, he didn't write it.
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Lonnie Donegan
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Ham 'n Eggs
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Charming original from the late great skiffler
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Al Alberts
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On the Way to Cape May
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Cornball tune from KBC's "Garden State of Mind" compilation of New Jersey songs
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JC O'Connor
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Space Ace from Jersey City
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Another NJ song, this one more clever and multiculti
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Bob Dylan
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One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
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Live from Rolling Thunder Revue, 1975
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David Grisman
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Caliente
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Wild instrumental from "Mondo Mundo" (1981)
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Tennessee Ernie Ford
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Call of the Wild Goose
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Great song, written by Terry Gilykson. Tennessee Ernie's singing isn't quite up to it.
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John Renbourn/Stefan Grossman
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Rites of Passage
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Fotheringay w/ Sandy Denny
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Winter WInds
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Judy Henske
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High Flying Bird
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1963 folky classic
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James Luther Dickinson
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John Brown
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Dylan's powerful anti-war tale, on Dickinson's recently re-issued "Dixie Fried" CD; recorded in 1972
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Woody Guthrie
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Worried Man Blues
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with Cisco Houston and Sonny Terry
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Joe Val
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Poor Ellen Smith
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Great high lonesome bluegrass from Boston
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Tupac Shakur
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Thug Mansion acoustic
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Hip Hop's answer to Hillybilly Heaven
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Miles Davis
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Sanctuary
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Written with saxophonist Wayne Shorter
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Charlie Hunter Trio
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Funky Niblets
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The Bus Boys
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There Goes the Neighborhood
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Clever twist from a (mostly) black rock band out of Los Angeles, 1980
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Shuggie Otis w/Joe Liggins
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Boom-Chick-A-Boogie
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LA guitar prodigy doing jump blues instrumental
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Babs Gonzales
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Pay Dem Dues
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Newark's own bad boy raps about life in the late 1940s. "Pay Dem Dues" is also the title of his autobiography, which is said to be "more colorful than accurate"
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Gilberto Gil w/ Carlinhos Brown
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Danca Dos Homens
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Brazil's new Minister of Culture. Best of luck, Gilberto!
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Manu Chao
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Homens
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more multiculti magic
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Delbert McClinton
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The Rub
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Noir
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Rev. Gary Davis
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Improvisation: Fast Blues in A
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Rev. Gary Davis
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Improvisation: Slow Blues in E
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The Tigers (Trombone Shout Band)
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One More River
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R&B meets gospel on "Dancing with Daddy G"
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Elizabeth White
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Going to Lay Down My Burdens
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from "Close to Home: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection" on Smithsonian Folkways, 1997
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Snuffy Jenkins/Ira Dimmery
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Going to Lay Down my Old Guitar
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more old timey music
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Arthur Smith, Sam & Kirk McGhee
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Black Mountain Rag
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more old timey music
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Waco Brothers
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The Harder They Come
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from "Making Singles, Drinking Doubles" collection of alternative country (mostly) covers on Bloodshot
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Gene Clark
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The True One
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My favorite Byrd
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