"DOWN HOME" #225 Thursday, July 25, 2002 Hosted by Chuck Taggart, email chuck (at) downhome (dot) org Visit The Gumbo Pages

BUDDY &JULIE MILLER - Keep Your Distance [BUDDY & JULIE MILLER/Hightone] FRENCH FRITH KAISER THOMPSON - Loch Lomond [INVISIBLE MEANS/Ryko] CÚIG - The Prospect: Hunters House/The New Prospect/Sweet is the Name of Peggy (reels) [PROSPECT/Green Linnet] JIMMY MacCARTHY - Missing You [THE SONG OF THE SINGING HORSEMAN/Mulligan] THE TANNAHILL WEAVERS - Ower the Moor Amang the Heather [ALCHEMY/Green Linnet] MICHAEL McGOLDRICK & JOHN McSHERRY - Farewell to Connaught/Liz Carroll's/ Brendan's Reel/Limestone Rock [AT FIRST LIGHT/Compass] JOHNNY ADAMS - Imitation of Love [JOHNNY ADAMS SINGS DOC POMUS/Rounder] SOLOMON BURKE - Soul Searchin' [DON'T GIVE UP ON ME/Fat Possum] DOREEN KETCHENS & JAZZ NEW ORLEANS - Iko Iko [WWOZ ON CD: THE SOUNDS OF NEW ORLEANS, VOL. 9/WWOZ-FM] BENNY SPELLMAN - Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette) [FINGER POPPIN' AND STOMPIN' FEET: 20 CLASSIC ALLEN TOUSSAINT PRODUCTIONS FOR MINIT RECORDS, 1960-1962/EMI-Capitol] ROSIE FLORES - Crazy Mixed Emotions [ROCKABILLY FILLY/Hightone] KELLY WILLIS - If I Left You [EASY/Rykodisc] SCOTT MILLER - I Made A Mess of This Town [I WON'T GO WITH YOU: PROMO EP/Sugar Hill] A tribute to Alan Lomax, the legendary folklorist, musicologist and song collector who passed away last weekend at age 87. He had a great impact on the preservation of traditional music in America, and was instrumental in capturing early sounds of zydeco and Cajun music. Here's a set of tracks from the recordings he made with his father John in 1934, from the 2-LP set "Louisiana Cajun and Creole Music, 1934: The Lomax Recordings" on Swallow Records. JIMMY PETERS AND THE RING DANCE SINGERS - J'ai Fait Tout Au Tour de Pays (Zydeco Song Pas Salé) EDIER SEGURA - Joe Féraille M. BORNU - Belle JESSE STAFFORD - Je M'Endors JULIAN HOFFPAUIR - La Belle et la Capitaine LANESE VINCENT AND SIDNEY RICHARD - Je Me Fait Une Maitresse CLIFTON CHENIER - Zydeco Sont Pas Salé [LOUISIANA BLUES AND ZYDECO/Arhoolie] BEAUSOLEIL - J'ai Été au Zydeco [ALLONS A LAFAYETTE/Arhoolie] BEAUSOLEIL - Je M'Endors [BAYOU DELUXE: THE BEST OF BEAUSOLEIL/Rhino] BEAUSOLEIL - Belle [DÉJÀ VU/Swallow] THE MAGNOLIA SISTERS - La Belle et la Capitaine [CHERS AMIS/Rounder] MOÏSE & ALIDA VIATOR - Joe Féraille [LA MUSIQUE CRÉOLE/ Acadiana] JIM LAUDERDALE - Jacob's Ladder [THE HUMMINGBIRDS/Dualtone] JILL OLSON - When You Gonna Love Me Again? [MY BEST YESTERDAY/125 Records] SYD STRAW & THE SKELETONS - Harper Valley P.T.A. [REAL: THE TOM T. HALL PROJECT/Sire] For David and Peter!

 

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