WFMU: Steve Krinsky: Playlist from January 12, 2009

Steve Krinsky: Playlist from January 12, 2009

January 12, 2009: Flor de Malo Bueno Gumboot

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Artist	Track	Comments
Big Guitars from Texas	Hardy Street
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos	Aqui Como Alla	"Cuban Classics for the Post-Punk Generation" reads a sticker on the cover of this fine fine CD, from 1998
Leo Kottke	Eight Miles High
The Byrds	Universal Mind Decoder	This is an amazing Byrds jam, a bonus track on the CD reissue of the 1968 "Notorious Byrd Brothers" album. The song later became "Change is Now" and the rest is history. Says 10 minutes but is only 3!
Davy Graham	The Road to Lisdoonvana (Jig & Reel)	Died 12/15/08
Davy Graham	Rennaissance Piece	All three songs here are from "Davey Graham: The Complete Guitarists" on Kicking Mule; the CD came out in 1999 although the songs were recorded in London in 1977.
Davy Graham	Hardiman the Fiddler	On all his other albums-- and in his obit-- his name is spelled without an E: Davy Graham
Flaco Jimenez w/ Lee Roy Parnell	Cat Walk	I once interviewed Flaco's brother Santiago Jr and he compared himself to his hermano by saying that he played Tex-Mex music and Flaco played rock & roll. Not quite but this tune rocks!
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos	Aurora en Pekin	Started out as bed music, to talkover, but then it finished strong-- without me blabbing
Rodrigo y Gabriela	Diablo Rojo
Robert Rodriguez	Mariachi vs. Marquez	From soundtrack to "Once Upon A TIme in Mexico" (milan, 2003)
Tito Larriva & Steven Hufsteter	Flor de Mal	Also on the Robert Rodriguez soundtrack album. I first heard of him when I saw David Byrnes' "True Stories" movie and Tito was with the Cruzados. Later Tito & the Tarantulas
Salma Hayek	Siente Mi Amor	More tough love, again from the movie. She's the actress but sings okay too
Tailgators	Malo Bueno	From "Swamp's UP" (Upstart, 1991)
Bobby Nelson	Crazy	Willie's sister, from the 2008 KGSR collection out of Austin, TX
Herb Ellis	Old Rugged Cross	Another song that started out as background and took over
Amboy Dukes	Baby, Please Don't Go	Just goes to show that even a creep like Ted Nugent can do a great song: even a broken clock is right twice a day!
Muddy Waters	Baby, Please Don't Go	The Man
Sonny Boy Williamson	Fattening Frogs for Snakes
Los Straitjackets	Whittier Boulevard	Masks & suits & guitars, en espanol. Go figure.
Los Straitjackets	The Casbah	Snuck in here, not bad
Los Checkmates	Western Union	In English, says the cover. Okay, I'm a sucker for faux latin bands.
Muddy Waters	I Can't Be Satisfied	This was one of Muddy's first hits but this version was done in 1976, with Johnny Winter, Pinetop Perkins, etc.
John Boutte	Southern Man	Hot New Orleans "jazz" vocalist covers Neil Young, from a superb new album, "Good Neighbor"
John Boutte	Cutting Heads	Everybody's fave, keep your eye (& ear) open for him
John Boutte	Door Poppin'	I can't stop
Cubanismo w/ John Boutte	Rampart Street Rumba	John Boutte plays with hot Cuban band, on "Mardi Gras Mambo" (Hannibal, 2000)
Troy (Trombone Shorty) Andrews	Hey, Troy, Your Mama's Callin' You	From a nice post-Katrina compilation-- "Sing Me Back Home: The New Orleans Social Club"-- to promote this great city.
Los Hombres Calientes	Digidall	This is Bill Summers & Irvin Mayfield-- Jason Marsalis already left the band when they made this album-- with help from Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez: "New Congo Square"
Subdudes	Make A Better World	Another from "Sing Me Back Home"
Jelly Roll Morton & his New Orleans Jazzmen	I thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say	Recorded 1939 with Sidney Bechet on sax
Edgar Meyer w/ Bela Fleck & Mike Marshall	By the River	"Uncommon Ritual" (Sony Classical, 1997)
Edgar Meyer w/ Bela Fleck & Mike Marshall	Big Country	This one written by Bela Fleck
Porter Waggoner	Big River Train	Omni Records recently put out a CD with 24 cuts from two albums, both from 1967: "The Cold Hard Facts of Life/Soul of a Convict"
Paul Clayton	Long John Long Gone	Did Dylan really worship this guy? They traveled together in 1964, visiting Carl Sandburg up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He recorded two albums for Monument around that time but ended his life in 1967
Odetta	No More Cane on the Brazos	A wonderful singer & a powerful presence, Odetta Holmes was born in Alabama in 1939 & died in NYC this past December
Ben Vaughn	I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee)	A Ben Vaughn original, from "Mood Swings ('90-'85 & More)" on Restless Records, 1992
Flight of the Conchords	Inner City Pressure	Clever Kiwis do TV & music, although this bit was disappointing
C Dodd	Bionic Dub	No name, really, for the tune but it's from an tribute to Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd, the man behind Jamaica's Studio One.
Les Amazones De Guinee	Kania	This big band of talented women has a new CD on Sterns Music: "Wamato" (2008)
Blanket Mkhize	Gumboot 1993	With Mgangabanye Zondi on concertina, Stehpen Shelembe is gumboot leader-- from "Gumboot Guitar: Zulu Street Guitar Music from South Africa" on Topic Records (2003)
The Movers	Bump Jive	Recorded in 1975, this is from a fine 2-CD collection with dozens of musicians called "Jazz Offerings From South Africa" (Gallo Record Company, 1999)
Swan Silvertones	Standing in the Safety Zone	Claude Jeter, leader of this fine gospel group, died in January and I guess he heads off to heaven while we hang around here
H Bomb Ferguson	Preachin' the Blues	Cincinnati's own r&b madman
Getatchew Mekurya	Shellela	This is the sax player who blew out Lincoln Center this summer; from "Ethiopiques" (Volume 14) on Buda Music out of Paris
Getatchew Mekurya	Aha Gedawo	Let me tell you what you heard and then I outta here; email me at stevek@wfmu for more.

Artist

Track

Comments

Big Guitars from Texas

Hardy Street

Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos

Aqui Como Alla

"Cuban Classics for the Post-Punk Generation" reads a sticker on the cover of this fine fine CD, from 1998

Leo Kottke

Eight Miles High

The Byrds

Universal Mind Decoder

This is an amazing Byrds jam, a bonus track on the CD reissue of the 1968 "Notorious Byrd Brothers" album. The song later became "Change is Now" and the rest is history. Says 10 minutes but is only 3!

Davy Graham

The Road to Lisdoonvana (Jig & Reel)

Died 12/15/08

Davy Graham

Rennaissance Piece

All three songs here are from "Davey Graham: The Complete Guitarists" on Kicking Mule; the CD came out in 1999 although the songs were recorded in London in 1977.

Davy Graham

Hardiman the Fiddler

On all his other albums-- and in his obit-- his name is spelled without an E: Davy Graham

Flaco Jimenez w/ Lee Roy Parnell

Cat Walk

I once interviewed Flaco's brother Santiago Jr and he compared himself to his hermano by saying that he played Tex-Mex music and Flaco played rock & roll. Not quite but this tune rocks!

Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos

Aurora en Pekin

Started out as bed music, to talkover, but then it finished strong-- without me blabbing

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Diablo Rojo

Robert Rodriguez

Mariachi vs. Marquez

From soundtrack to "Once Upon A TIme in Mexico" (milan, 2003)

Tito Larriva & Steven Hufsteter

Flor de Mal

Also on the Robert Rodriguez soundtrack album. I first heard of him when I saw David Byrnes' "True Stories" movie and Tito was with the Cruzados. Later Tito & the Tarantulas

Salma Hayek

Siente Mi Amor

More tough love, again from the movie. She's the actress but sings okay too

Tailgators

Malo Bueno

From "Swamp's UP" (Upstart, 1991)

Bobby Nelson

Crazy

Willie's sister, from the 2008 KGSR collection out of Austin, TX

Herb Ellis

Old Rugged Cross

Another song that started out as background and took over

Amboy Dukes

Baby, Please Don't Go

Just goes to show that even a creep like Ted Nugent can do a great song: even a broken clock is right twice a day!

Muddy Waters

Baby, Please Don't Go

The Man

Sonny Boy Williamson

Fattening Frogs for Snakes

Los Straitjackets

Whittier Boulevard

Masks & suits & guitars, en espanol. Go figure.

Los Straitjackets

The Casbah

Snuck in here, not bad

Los Checkmates

Western Union

In English, says the cover. Okay, I'm a sucker for faux latin bands.

Muddy Waters

I Can't Be Satisfied

This was one of Muddy's first hits but this version was done in 1976, with Johnny Winter, Pinetop Perkins, etc.

John Boutte

Southern Man

Hot New Orleans "jazz" vocalist covers Neil Young, from a superb new album, "Good Neighbor"

John Boutte

Cutting Heads

Everybody's fave, keep your eye (& ear) open for him

John Boutte

Door Poppin'

I can't stop

Cubanismo w/ John Boutte

Rampart Street Rumba

John Boutte plays with hot Cuban band, on "Mardi Gras Mambo" (Hannibal, 2000)

Troy (Trombone Shorty) Andrews

Hey, Troy, Your Mama's Callin' You

From a nice post-Katrina compilation-- "Sing Me Back Home: The New Orleans Social Club"-- to promote this great city.

Los Hombres Calientes

Digidall

This is Bill Summers & Irvin Mayfield-- Jason Marsalis already left the band when they made this album-- with help from Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez: "New Congo Square"

Subdudes

Make A Better World

Another from "Sing Me Back Home"

Jelly Roll Morton & his New Orleans Jazzmen

I thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say

Recorded 1939 with Sidney Bechet on sax

Edgar Meyer w/ Bela Fleck & Mike Marshall

By the River

"Uncommon Ritual" (Sony Classical, 1997)

Edgar Meyer w/ Bela Fleck & Mike Marshall

Big Country

This one written by Bela Fleck

Porter Waggoner

Big River Train

Omni Records recently put out a CD with 24 cuts from two albums, both from 1967: "The Cold Hard Facts of Life/Soul of a Convict"

Paul Clayton

Long John Long Gone

Did Dylan really worship this guy? They traveled together in 1964, visiting Carl Sandburg up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He recorded two albums for Monument around that time but ended his life in 1967

Odetta

No More Cane on the Brazos

A wonderful singer & a powerful presence, Odetta Holmes was born in Alabama in 1939 & died in NYC this past December

Ben Vaughn

I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee)

A Ben Vaughn original, from "Mood Swings ('90-'85 & More)" on Restless Records, 1992

Flight of the Conchords

Inner City Pressure

Clever Kiwis do TV & music, although this bit was disappointing

C Dodd

Bionic Dub

No name, really, for the tune but it's from an tribute to Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd, the man behind Jamaica's Studio One.

Les Amazones De Guinee

Kania

This big band of talented women has a new CD on Sterns Music: "Wamato" (2008)

Blanket Mkhize

Gumboot 1993

With Mgangabanye Zondi on concertina, Stehpen Shelembe is gumboot leader-- from "Gumboot Guitar: Zulu Street Guitar Music from South Africa" on Topic Records (2003)

The Movers

Bump Jive

Recorded in 1975, this is from a fine 2-CD collection with dozens of musicians called "Jazz Offerings From South Africa" (Gallo Record Company, 1999)

Swan Silvertones

Standing in the Safety Zone

Claude Jeter, leader of this fine gospel group, died in January and I guess he heads off to heaven while we hang around here

H Bomb Ferguson

Preachin' the Blues

Cincinnati's own r&b madman

Getatchew Mekurya

Shellela

This is the sax player who blew out Lincoln Center this summer; from "Ethiopiques" (Volume 14) on Buda Music out of Paris

Getatchew Mekurya

Aha Gedawo

Let me tell you what you heard and then I outta here; email me at stevek@wfmu for more.

Listener comments!

Mon. 1/12/09 3:06pm Cecile:

hey, Steve! Good to hear you again!

Mon. 1/12/09 3:08pm annie:

this is an extremely sweet groove.

Mon. 1/12/09 3:09pm lurdan:

marc ribot is my hero....

Mon. 1/12/09 3:11pm annie:

it's your father's face

Mon. 1/12/09 3:14pm north guinea hills:

steve, you're killing it.... yum!

Mon. 1/12/09 3:17pm annie:

this smells like pierre bensusan

Mon. 1/12/09 3:18pm Cecile:

Nice, davey graham

Mon. 1/12/09 3:19pm Sean Daily:

First comment after those other seven comments! Woo hoo!

Mon. 1/12/09 3:19pm north guinea hills:

didn't davey graham die recently?

Mon. 1/12/09 3:20pm Cecile:

he did, ngh.

Mon. 1/12/09 3:23pm north guinea hills:

(checks wiki), the irony, i bought his shirley collins collaboration, "folk roots, new routes" 2 days after he died.

(i remember this b/c i went record shopping the day after my gf went home for xmas, and she frowns upon me splurging on records)

p.s. thanks, Cecile.

Mon. 1/12/09 3:33pm Cecile:

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA!

Mon. 1/12/09 3:34pm Cecile:

they do a nice metallica cover, too.
R&G used to be a thrash metal band and would play that stuff acoustically for the tourists...

Mon. 1/12/09 3:35pm Cecile:

correction, in a thrash metal band.
when the band broke up, they went acoustic.

Mon. 1/12/09 3:42pm Al R:

Nice show, birthday buddy! I wish you all the best in the new year (let's be fine in aught aught nine!)

Mon. 1/12/09 3:46pm north guinea hills:

my gf would hate most of this music. she from northern mexico, and hates most 'mexican' musics (she was already a big wfmu fan when i met her when she was still an undergrad in monterrey, nuevo leon).

she has a sort of a self-depreciation mexican complex

Mon. 1/12/09 3:47pm north guinea hills:

however, the same could be said about me and my Southern heritage until moved to NYC.

Mon. 1/12/09 3:55pm Jimmy Safechuck:

Flor de mal = flower of evil.

Mon. 1/12/09 4:00pm Mac:

Nugent has not done a decent thing since this.

Mon. 1/12/09 4:03pm Cecile:

this last band had a pretty fair guitar player, Whatever happened to him? ;)

Mon. 1/12/09 4:05pm Jimmy Safechuck:

Muddy Waters was called Muddy Water back when he was still single.

Mon. 1/12/09 4:11pm gumby:

Love this Whittier Blvd track.
Nice tunnies today Steve.

Mon. 1/12/09 4:12pm Cecile:

I think this is still Los Straitjackets.
they used to have a game on their site, and this was the background music.

Mon. 1/12/09 4:15pm Cecile:

the casbah is a great live staple of the Straitjackets.

Mon. 1/12/09 4:17pm north guinea hills:

los checkmates may be a faux latin band, but most of my gf's friend's bands from monterrey, mx speak and sink in perfect english. (they teach classes there at the universities in monterrey in english).

Mon. 1/12/09 4:19pm Richard D:

Pinetop Perkins be the MAN

Mon. 1/12/09 4:22pm Cecile:

ngh, most of the world can speak and think better in English than I can.

Mon. 1/12/09 4:23pm annie:

not sure why, but this reminds me of abby lincoln

Mon. 1/12/09 4:23pm Cecile:

now you have to play a cover of sweet home alabama, Steve, lol!

I recommend Killdozer's.

Mon. 1/12/09 4:26pm annie:

wwoz is fantastic.... and the brazilian is to die for.

Mon. 1/12/09 4:29pm GP:

2nd vote for Killdozer ( live set from FMU)...

Mon. 1/12/09 4:32pm annie...:

hey i missed king's day... they do it up for that!

Mon. 1/12/09 4:44pm annie:

well, i got my fix!!

Mon. 1/12/09 4:56pm GP:

This Edgar Meyer and Bela tune.....beautiful

Mon. 1/12/09 5:16pm Cecile:

this is the version of Brenda Lee I really like

Mon. 1/12/09 5:20pm mike tp 15x:

steve so glad to be listening. youre selections are great. be well . the goombah of soul

Mon. 1/12/09 5:32pm north guinea hills:

are the "les amazones de guinee" from french guinea(guiana)?

Mon. 1/12/09 5:36pm annie:

who needs morris men!!??

Mon. 1/12/09 5:36pm mike in brooklyn:

wow. that Gumboot song was splendiferous

Mon. 1/12/09 5:52pm Danny from Boston:

First-time listener here. I like what I hear, Steve!

Steve Krinsky: Playlist from January 12, 2009

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