Steve Krinsky: Playlist from January 12, 2009

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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.