"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.
First comment after those other seven comments! Woo hoo!
3:19pm
north guinea hills:
didn't davey graham die recently?
3:20pm
Cecile:
he did, ngh.
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.
3:33pm
Cecile:
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA!
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...
3:35pm
Cecile:
correction, in a thrash metal band.
when the band broke up, they went acoustic.
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!)
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
3:47pm
north guinea hills:
however, the same could be said about me and my Southern heritage until moved to NYC.
3:55pm
Jimmy Safechuck:
Flor de mal = flower of evil.
4:00pm
Mac:
Nugent has not done a decent thing since this.
4:03pm
Cecile:
this last band had a pretty fair guitar player, Whatever happened to him? ;)
4:05pm
Jimmy Safechuck:
Muddy Waters was called Muddy Water back when he was still single.
4:11pm
gumby:
Love this Whittier Blvd track.
Nice tunnies today Steve.
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.
4:15pm
Cecile:
the casbah is a great live staple of the Straitjackets.
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).
4:19pm
Richard D:
Pinetop Perkins be the MAN
4:22pm
Cecile:
ngh, most of the world can speak and think better in English than I can.
4:23pm
annie:
not sure why, but this reminds me of abby lincoln
4:23pm
Cecile:
now you have to play a cover of sweet home alabama, Steve, lol!
I recommend Killdozer's.
4:26pm
annie:
wwoz is fantastic.... and the brazilian is to die for.
4:29pm
GP:
2nd vote for Killdozer ( live set from FMU)...
4:32pm
annie...:
hey i missed king's day... they do it up for that!
4:44pm
annie:
well, i got my fix!!
4:56pm
GP:
This Edgar Meyer and Bela tune.....beautiful
5:16pm
Cecile:
this is the version of Brenda Lee I really like
5:20pm
mike tp 15x:
steve so glad to be listening. youre selections are great. be well . the goombah of soul
5:32pm
north guinea hills:
are the "les amazones de guinee" from french guinea(guiana)?
5:36pm
annie:
who needs morris men!!??
5:36pm
mike in brooklyn:
wow. that Gumboot song was splendiferous
5:52pm
Danny from Boston:
First-time listener here. I like what I hear, Steve!
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Listener comments!
(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.
R&G used to be a thrash metal band and would play that stuff acoustically for the tourists...
when the band broke up, they went acoustic.
she has a sort of a self-depreciation mexican complex
Nice tunnies today Steve.
they used to have a game on their site, and this was the background music.
I recommend Killdozer's.