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Favoriting March 27, 2010: Fighting & dying for what?!

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Artist Track Album Label Comments Approx. start time
Big Guitars from Texas  Holiday for Hoss   Favoriting Big Guitars from Texas  Ryko    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bert Jansch  Instrumentally Irish   Favoriting A Rare Conundrum  Drag City  From 1977  0:04:47 (Pop-up)
Dick Weissman  Two Nights in Tamerza   Favoriting New Traditions  Folk Era  This guy's been around the folk scene for decades, played in the Journeymen with John Philips & Scott Mackenzie in the 60s and on sessions for lots of folks  0:05:45 (Pop-up)
David Grisman  Black Mountain Rag   Favoriting Early Dawg  Sugar Hill  This 1980 album has Del McCoury, Frank Wakefield and Bill Keith on it. I used to see Bill Keith when he lived in Boston in the 60s and played with Jim Kweskin Jug Band  0:09:17 (Pop-up)
Greg Ribot  Reflexion   Favoriting Cumbia y Mas  No Label  From Greg's 2004 CD-- "Cumbia Y Mas"-- with guitar help from brother Marc on this tune  0:12:22 (Pop-up)
Hamish Moore & Dick Lee  Staten Island/Trip to Pakistan   Favoriting The Bees Knees  Green Linnet  Pipes and horns from "Bees Knees" (Green Linnet, 1991)  0:17:50 (Pop-up)
Las Rubias del Norte  Ziguala   Favoriting Ziguala  Barbes  Title cut to new album, on Barbes Records  0:21:50 (Pop-up)
Greg Ribot  El Rinocerante   Favoriting Cumbia y Mas  No Label  Rhinoceros, first as bed (talkover) music, then let him snort  0:30:59 (Pop-up)
Cuban Cowoys  The Devil's Dance   Favoriting The Devil's Dance  Round Whirled/Muy Nice Records  These guys were on Rob's show recently. Nice new 5-song CD on Muy Nice Music. This is the title cut.  0:31:51 (Pop-up)
Caetano Veloso  Sem Cais   Favoriting zii e zie  Nonesuch  Nonesuch (owned by Warner Brothers!!) now does Caetano but it's still good. New CD: "zii e zie"  0:37:00 (Pop-up)
Ton & Sergio  Vou Sair Do Cativeiro   Favoriting Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas  tropicalia in furs records  This is the mellowest tune on a collection called Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas on World Psychedelic Funk Classics  0:39:38 (Pop-up)
Bahia Black  Guia Pro Congal   Favoriting Ritual Beating System  Axiom  Great stuff from the always amazing Carlinhos Brown. This 1992 project has CB with drums by Olodum plus help from Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, etc.  0:42:49 (Pop-up)
Bahia Black  Capitao do Asfalto   Favoriting Ritual Beating System  Axiom  Can't get enough of this!  0:47:46 (Pop-up)
Bahia Black  The Seven Powers   Favoriting Ritual Beating System  Axiom  Background music by Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter & Olodum  1:00:45 (Pop-up)
Ruth Brown  Tennessee Waltz   Favoriting More Dirty Laundry: The Soul of Black Country (V/A)  Trikont  This is "More Dirty Laundry: The Soul of Black Country' on Trikont, a collection of top notch C&W songs by black artists  0:59:26 (Pop-up)
Colin Farrell & Jeff Bridges  Fallin' & Flyin'   Favoriting Crazy Heart (soundtrack)  New West  From soundtrack to "Crazy Heart" on New West, with great guitar from Stephen Bruton and Buddy Miller  1:03:39 (Pop-up)
Robert Duvall  Live Forever   Favoriting Crazy Heart (soundtrack)  New West  A capella growl from "Crazy Heart"-- which is really the story of Billy Joe Shaver anyway!  1:06:29 (Pop-up)
Billy Joe Shaver  Georgia on a Fast Train   Favoriting 45 rpm single  Diesel Only  Despite my sloppy segue and the skip, this tune has to wake everyone up. And this is the 45 rpm version on Diesel Only, with the late Eddie Shaver on guitar  1:07:36 (Pop-up)
Devil in the Woodpile  Easy Riding Mama   Favoriting Down to the Promised Land: 5 Years of Bloodshot Records  Bloodshot  Bloodshot Records, on their 5th anniversary, put out a collection of 40 songs in 2000 called "Down to the Promised Land"  1:12:52 (Pop-up)
Andre Williams & Sally Timms  Glue   Favoriting Down to the Promised Land: 5 Years of Bloodshot Records  Bloodshot  And this is the standout on the Bloodshot collection.  1:13:26 (Pop-up)
Giant Sand  Hard on Things   Favoriting Down to the Promised Land: 5 Years of Bloodshot Records  Bloodshot    1:19:43 (Pop-up)
Rank and File  I Went Walking   Favoriting Sundown  Slash  The Kinman brothers and a very young Alejandro Escovedo from their 1982 album "Sundown" on Slash  1:25:25 (Pop-up)
Drive By Truckers  The Wig He Made Her Wear   Favoriting The Big To-Do  Ato  Strange murder ballad from their new CD  1:26:42 (Pop-up)
Spirit of the West  An Honest Gamble   Favoriting Trippin' Up the Stairs  Philo  plus "Jig: Trippin' Up the Stairs"; from their 1987 album on Philo  1:38:04 (Pop-up)
The Pogues  When the Ship Comes In   Favoriting Pogue Mahone  MESA    1:42:21 (Pop-up)
Thin Lizzy  The Cowboy Song   Favoriting Jailbreak  Mercury  These 70s Irish rockers dream of the west  1:45:22 (Pop-up)
Black 47  The Last One to Die   Favoriting Iraq  UFO  Irish lads in NYC know about fighting and dying far from home; from "Iraq" (UFO, 2007)  1:50:26 (Pop-up)
Black 47  The Fighting 69th   Favoriting Iraq  UFO  Instrumental subtitled "On the road to the airport"  1:54:57 (Pop-up)
Chieftains & Los Folkloristas  La Colondrina   Favoriting San Patricio  Hear Music  Featuring Ry Cooder, "San Patricio" tells the story of Irish soldiers fighting for the Mexicans against the U.S. in the 1840s. Irish pipes by Paddy Maloney, percussion by Los Folkloristas  1:55:44 (Pop-up)
Chieftains w/ Liam Neeson  March to Battle (Across the Rio Grande)   Favoriting San Patricio  Hear Music  Marching bands: Banda de Gaita de Batallon, Los Cenzontles y L.A. Juvenil  2:03:28 (Pop-up)
Chieftains & Los Cenzotles  El Chivo   Favoriting San Patricio  Hear Music    2:06:39 (Pop-up)
Chieftains et al  Finale   Favoriting San Patricio  Hear Music  Paddy Maloney, in the liner notes, comments about the music: certainly, he says, the Irish guys played around the campfire in 1847 and so did the Mexicans. Pipes, accordions, guitars. And they probably played together.  2:08:42 (Pop-up)
Donovan  Universal Soldier   Favoriting Early Treasures  Bell Records  So sad to think about these kids, out there fighting and dying, often not knowing what for.  2:14:29 (Pop-up)
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown  Soft Wind   Favoriting Timeless  Hightone  I love Gatemouth on fiddle but here he plays guitar on a Fletcher Henderson tune; from "Timeless" (Hightone, 2004). Maybe his last record!  2:16:59 (Pop-up)
Chico O'Farrill  Sin Tu Amor   Favoriting Heart of a Legend  Fantasy  An Irish Cuban of sorts. From "Heart of a Legend" (Milestone, 1999). Vocals by Vivian Ara  2:21:03 (Pop-up)
Chico O'Farrill  Fin de Siglo   Favoriting Heart of a Legend  Fantasy    2:23:32 (Pop-up)
Arturo Sandoval y Arturo O'Farrill  The Journey   Favoriting Heart of a Legend  Fantasy  Bed  2:25:37 (Pop-up)
Segunda Quimbamba  Quimbara Quimbamba   Favoriting Aqui Tambien  SQFC Records  Call & response from Jersey City's own plena y bomba group; check them out on myspace  2:31:09 (Pop-up)
El Gran Fellove  Mi Guaguanco   Favoriting Mango Mangue  Vampisoul  Born Francisco Fellove Valdes in Havana, this late 50s/early 60s Cuban showman is still around.  2:34:47 (Pop-up)
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars  Global Threat   Favoriting Rise & Shine  Cumbancha  When I think about countries suffering from war and poverty, Sierra Leon comes to mind. Yet these allstars have found out how to survive and fight against the global threat; from "Rise & Shine" (Cumbancha, 2010)  2:37:49 (Pop-up)
Roger Miller  The Animal of Man   Favoriting Troubled Troubadours  Omni  I didn't plan this as a theme but, wow, it's happening anyway. This one is from a new country collection called "Troubled Troubadours"-- filled with songs about "Lust, murder, alienation, war, depravity and credit cards"  2:42:40 (Pop-up)
Bobby Bare  Your Credit Card Won't Get You Into Heaven   Favoriting Troubled Troubadours  Omni  Okay, couldn't resist.  2:45:31 (Pop-up)
Little Ann  Sweep Out the Shed   Favoriting Saint Etienne Present Songs for the Dog and Duck  Ace  Ace Records in England just put out this collection, "the soundtrack to an evening... a few pints, good company and a great jukebox."  2:46:53 (Pop-up)
Angelo & Eighteen  Flight 2   Favoriting Saint Etienne Present Songs for the Dog and Duck  Ace  Another from the Dog & Duck CD  2:50:11 (Pop-up)
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate  Machengoidi   Favoriting Ali & Toumani  World Circuit/Nonesuch  Wonderful instrumental from two African masters to end our show  2:58:20 (Pop-up)
           


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Listener comments!

  6:29am
yay!!!:

i'm here!
  6:29am
annie:

:)
  6:31am
annie:

sure glad i saved the email.
  6:31am
Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn:

Still lurking about. Nice wake up music. Time for some tequila.
  6:36am
Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn:

yayayayayayayay
  6:39am
otak:

Hi, Steve. We're wide awake in the uk!
Do I detect a LedZep riff theme this morning?
  6:53am
Chip:

Not so wide awake in NJ. Just tuning in, but sounds great!
  7:29am
Andy in Berlin:

I never heard of almost anybody here but this is pretty f$#king good.
  7:45am
Andy in Berlin:

Hey what happened?! I thought this was Jewish Moments in the Morning!
  7:49am
Kieran in the UK:

Sounds like i tuned in at just the right time...great music.
  7:50am
Ken From Hyde Park:

I heard The Cowboy Song on the radio years ago and bought the CD. I had it on my desk at work and some weasel stole it. That made me mad. Thanks for plying it.
  7:51am
Ken From Hyde Park:

I meant "playing" and not "plying" there. It fooled the spell checker. That's what I get for trying to rush. Hoo boy.
  8:14am
annie:

is it just my headphones, or are the channels switching?
  8:33am
Steve Krinsky:

My first chance to say g'morning. Hope the folkies who listen to Jeffrey's show don't mind my stretching. Email me if you have more say or want to know when I am on again: stevek@wfmu.org. And check out all my shows on the archives!
  8:45am
Brian in UK:

This Roger Miller sounds uncannily like Chip Taylor. No bad thing.
  2:15pm
Lou Russo:

Hi Steve,
GREAT SHOW, loved all the Celtic stuff. I couldn't help but think that my tune "Celtic Girl", from the ROSA CD, would have fit in nicely, but that said, I enjoyed your choices. --- Lou
That "Irish/ Mexican mix was very interesting, a great theme for a show.
  8:36pm
mickee jaguar:

hands down-thin lizzy is the best thing that ever came out of Ireland-including da guinness! the cowboy song rocked me to my punk-ass celtic soul!!!!!!!!!!!! rock on boyz
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