from "Ghana Soundz: Afro-Beat, Funk & Fusion in 70s Ghana" (Soundway, 2002)
Antibalas
War is Crime
Afrobeat from this hot NY/NJ band
Frank London & Shekina Big Band
Fela
from "Scientist at Work" on Tzadik, 2002
Dead Air
Dead Air
90 seconds of awkward silence! Don't worry: we'll be back.
Paul Cebar & the Milwaukians
You Make Me Feel So
The second half of the song. Sorry.
Jazz Epistles
Vary-Oo-Vum
South African jazz from Dollar Brand (aka Abdullah Ibrahim), Hugh Masakela, Jonas Gwangwa, Kippie Moeketsi, from the late 1950s. By the 60s, most were in exile from apartheid
Ry Cooder/Manuel Galban
Drume Negrita
Ry duets with Cuban guitarist on "Mambo Sinuendo" (2002)
Jorge Ben
Moca
Brazilian guitarist
Mongo Santamaria
Cold Sweat
Funky Latin version of JB classic, done by the late Cuban conguero. From "Skin on Skin" anthology (2002)
Greyboy Allstars w/ Fred Wesley
Fried Grease
JB trombonist plays with west coast funk band in 1995
Chuck Willis
Let's Jump Tonight
from "Chuck Willis Wails!" on Sundazed (2003)
Harry the Hipster Gibson
They Call Him Harry the Hipster
Over-the-hill Harry, recorded in SF in 1989. Gibson died two years later.
Wynonie Harris
Somebody Changed the Lock
Singing with Jack McVea and band in 1945
Rev. Norb
Satan Sounds Like Zodiac Mindwarp
from Green Bay, WI, he calls himself EGR (Earth's Greatest Rocker)
Rev. Norb
The Hucklebuck
Sloppy but fun rockin' version
Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams
Hasting Street Bounce
PW's first hit, recorded in Detroit in 1947
Rev. Norb
Don't Do the Hucklebuck
He doesn't mean it
Paul Williams w/ Joan Shaw
He Knows How to Hucklebuck
1949 followup
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Cissy Strut
Robert Randolph helps out on steel on this funky cover of Meters hit. From "Medicated Magic" (2002)
Huey Piano Smith w/ Geri Hall
Little Chickee Wah Wah
Bobby Marchan tune from 1959. Marchas was the wild songwriter/singer with HPS and Clowns
Willy Deville
Bamboo Road
Willy in New Orleans, with Zachary Richard on accordian
Clifton Chenier
Bogalusa Boogie
Roy (Raul) Breaux turned me on to Clifton in the early 70s. Check out his blues show Fridays, 9-noon (CST) on krvs.org
Angela Strehli
Stranger Blues
Killer tune from (then) Austin-based blues diva
Elvin Bishop
Stomp
Recently re-issued on CD
Rank and File
Coyote
Early 80s country/punk band that included Alejandro Escovedo
Jon Dee Graham
Airplane
Talented Austin guitarist/songwriter, former member of True Believers (with Alejandro E)
Michael Fracasso
Words as Weapons
Songwriter with a beautiful voice, moved from NYC to Austin in 90s
Bob Evans
Jersey City Spring Water
Lots of NJ/JC references in the music of this group, on Electra/Asylum
Rockfour
Song from the Sea
from "Pull Up the Paisley Cover"-- recent collection of psychedelia from the 60s & 70s
Richard & Mimi Farina
Hamish
Sweet instrumental from Vanguard 3-CD box that includes all three of their albums
Calexico
Dub Latina
Charming instrumental from next CD, "Feast of Wire"
Calexico
Guero Canelo
Ditto
Jim Campilongo and the 10 Gallon Cats
Bustin' Up
San Francisco's JC plays great guitar instrumentals-- blues, jazz, country-- often with Joe Goldmark on steel
Doc Watson
Freight Train Boogie
from 1972, w/ Merle Watson, Norman Blake and Vassar Clements
Rosanne Cash
My Baby Thinks He's a Train
This hot 1981 country rocker sounds as fresh as it did twenty something years ago.
Rodney Crowell
Rock of My Soul
from Sugar Hill songwriter collection, "No Song, No Supper" (2003)
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