“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-6). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives.
The question of the week is whether anyone can tell us what Mississippi John Hurt is going to do when he goes back to Pensacola. Also, congratulations from Conference of the Birds and Elizabeth Cotten to all the recent and imminent graduates of school at whatever levels.
complete program (134 MB, 2 hrs 28 min)
Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
Nina Simone: “House of the Rising Sun” – AntiDivas Sing the Blues (Fufu Stew)
The Heliocentrics: “Sirius B” – Out There (Now Again Records)
Yol Aularong: “Jeas Cyclo” – Cambodian Rocks (WFMU)
Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley: “Crawdad Song” – The Complete Folkways Recordings, 1960-1962 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Mississippi John Hurt: “Nobody’s Dirty Business” – The Greatest Songsters (1927-1929) (Document)
Rabbit Brown: “James Alley Blues” – The Greatest Songsters (1927-1929) (Document)
Steam: “A Memory of No Thoughts” – Real Time (Atavistic)
Chico Freeman: “Excerpts” – Before the Rain (Contemporary)
Nostalgia 77: “Cheney Lane” – The Garden (Ubiquity)
The Blue Notes: “Angelica” – Township Bop (Proper Records)
Toto La Momposina y sus Tambores: “Aguacero de Mayo” – Colombia–Musique de la Côte Atlantique (A.S.P.I.C. France)
Gilberto Gil: “Cerebro Electronico” – Gilberto Gil (1969) (Universal/Polygram)
Fela Anikulapo Kuti: “Colonial Mentality” – Opposite People/Sorrow, Tears & Blood (MCA)
Charles Mingus: “The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife Are Some Jive-Ass Slippers” – Let My Children Hear Music (Columbia)
Claude Rolcin et Le West Indian Combo: “Colas-la” – Tumbélé! Biguine, afro & latin sounds from the French Caribbean, 1963-74 (Soundway)
Stellio & Son Orchestra: “Renée” – The Golden Age of Beguine: Dances of the Caribbean Islands (Universal/Demon)
Fredy Jumbo et son ensemble: “La Wa di Wa Wa Ou” – Swing Caraïbe, Caribbean Jazz Pioneers In Paris (1929-1946) (Frémeaux & Associés)
Hassan Hakmoun & Adam Rudolph: “Saba Atu Rijal” – Gift of the Gnawa (Flying Fish)
Tete Mbambisa: “Unity” – African Serenades Vol 11 – Soweto Calling (Matsuli Music)
Abdel Gadir Salim: “Alhagi” – The Merdoum Kings Play Songs of Love (Shanachie)
Elizabeth Cotten: “Graduation March” – Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (Smithsonian Folkways)
Taj Mahal: “Fishin’ Blues” – Giant Step (Columbia)
Johnny Tyler’s Riders of the Rio Grande: “Old MacDonald Boogie” – Hillbilly Boogie, Vol. 2: I’ve Got the Boogie Blues (Proper)
Ramblers International: “Better Ni” – The Hit Sound of the Ramblers Dance Band (Flame Tree)
Mavis Staples: “Chokin’ Kind” – Only for the Lonely (Stax)
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake: “Louisiana Strut” – Back Together Again (Thrill Jockey)
Clifton Chenier: “I’m On My Way – Part 1″ – Bayou Blues (Specialty)