GLOBAL GUMBO #118 - Saturday, July 10, 1993 KCRW Santa Monica, 89.9 FM / KCRU Oxnard-Ventura County, 89.1 FM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LYNN AUGUST - Bruler le Chemin-de-fer a Soir (SAUCE PIQUANTE/ Black Top ... terrific zydeco/blues/jure singer/accordionist/ organist from Lafayette) SATAN & ADAM - Cry To Me (MOTHER MOJO/Flying Fish) MATTHEW SWEET - Someone to Pull the Trigger (ALTERED BEAST/Zoo) COWBOY MOUTH - Son of an Engineer (WORD OF MOUTH/Domino) OTIS MBUTA et MATCHATCHA - Le Monde est Fou (OTIS MBUTA ET MATCHATCHA/Stern's ... latest from Zairean soukous kings) DOUDOU NDIAYE ROSE - Tabala Ganar (DJABOTE ... killer Senegalese stuff with 50 drummers and 80 singers) MONGO SANTAMARIA - Yemaya Olodo por Olla (OUR MAN IN HAVANA/ Fantasy ... modern and roots Cuban music, with lots of Santeria stuff, like this song) ISIDRO LOPEZ - Por Tu Carino (EL INDIO/Arhoolie ... 50s recordings of conjunto and mariachi pioneer) EDDI READER, BOO HEWERDINE & CLIVE GREGSON - Wonderful Lies (3-song single ... great stuff! I hope they do an album) BRIDGET BALL - Once in a While (BRICKS AND WINDOWS/Hudson River Co. ... from our GEnie buddy! Hey Bridget!) DAVID GRAY - Shine (A CENTURY ENDS/Caroline ... excellent Welsh singer/songwriter with throaty voice) SOUL ASYLUM - Summer of Drugs (SWEET RELIEF/Chaos-Columbia ... opening track of Victoria Williams cover/benefit album; good!) THE TIGERS TROMBONE SHOUT BAND - Yes/We Are Not Ashamed (DANCIN' WITH DADDY G/Fire Ant) LYNN AUGUST - Jure #4 (SAUCE PIQUANTE/Black Top ... jure singing is an Afro-Creole folk/gospel shout-singing that predates zydeco; almost a dead art, but August is a dedicated student/preserver of the tradition) JIMMY PETERS & THE RING DANCE SINGERS - J'ai Fait du Tour au Pays (THE LOMAX RECORDINGS 1934/Swallow ... some vintage jure singing recorded in the field for the Library of Congress) BEAUSOLEIL - J'ai Ete Au Zydeco (ALLONS A LAFAYETTE/Arhoolie ... Mike Doucet's arrangement of "J'ai Ete Au Bal" which incorporates the above jure with rollicking results) STEVE RILEY & THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS - Sur Le Courtableau (TRACE OF TIME/Rounder ... great cover of the Nathan Abshire song) KATELL KEINEG - Hestia (45 single/SOL Records ... finally! A single from Brittany-born Dublin resident Keineg) MARY BERGIN - The Galtee Rangers ... (FEADOGA STAIN/Shanachie) BATTLEFIELD BAND - The River (QUIET DAYS/Temple) DAVY SPILLANE - Davy's Reels (ATLANTIC BRIDGE/Tara) TIM FINN with LIAM O MAONLAI and ANDY WHITE - Many's the Time (in Dublin) (BEFORE & AFTER) SOMETHING HAPPENS - C.C. Incidentally (CD single ... their first in almost two years) RUNRIG - Amazing Things (AMAZING THINGS/Chrysalis UK ... from their brand-new album) GLOBAL GUMBO #119 - Sunday, July 11, 1993 KCRW Santa Monica, 89.9 FM / KCRU Oxnard-Ventura County, 89.1 FM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE SAW DOCTORS - Pied Piper (ALL THE WAY FROM TUAM/Solid Records) the subdudes - Light in Your Eyes (the subdudes) KATELL KEINEG - O Seasons (45 single/SOL Records) THE UKRAINIANS - Spivaye Solovey (PISNI IZ THE SMITHS/Cooking Vinyl ... they're at it again, Ukrainians covering Smiths songs, in the traditional style and language!) SIDNEY BABINEAUX - Rayne One-Step/Zydeco Sont Pas Sale (ZYDECO: THE EARLY YEARS, VOL. 1/Arhoolie) CLIFTON CHENIER - Ay Tete Fee, Take 8 (ZODICO BLUES AND BOOGIE/Specialty ...early tracks from the mid-50s, rare and alternate takes) ROSSY - Zana Drazana (ONE EYE ON THE FUTURE, ONE EYE ON THE PAST/ Shanachie) JOHNNY CLEGG & SAVUKA - Siyaylanda (SHADOW MAN ... by request) LUCKY DUBE - Different Colors (VICTIMS/Shanachie ... South Africa's premiere reggae artist) BLACK 47 - Fire of Freedom (FIRE OF FREEDOM/SBK ... reggae-tinged title track of this great album; buy it!) ANDY WHITE - Palaceful of Noise (OUT THERE ... from wonderful Belfast singer/songwriter) DEIRBHILE NI BHROLCHAIN - A Stor, A Stor, A Ghra (SMAOINTE/Gael-Linn) RELATIVITY - When Barney Flew Over The Hills (RELATIVITY/Green Linnet ... the O Domhnaills of the Bothy Band and the Cunninghams of Silly Wizard) LYNN AUGUST - Le Chanson du Pain Perdu (SAUCE PIQUANTE/Black Top) BEAUSOLEIL - Pierrot Grouillette et Mamselle Josette (PARLEZ-NOUS A BOIRE/Arhoolie ... one of the finest albums of traditional Cajun music of the last 20 years) JOHN DELAFOSE - John's Lonesome Waltz (HEARTACHES & HOT STEPS/ Maison de Soul) JAMES BOOKER - Black Minute Waltz (JUNCO PARTNER/Hannibal ... Chopin was either really digging it or else oscillating in his grave ...) STAN ROGERS - Witch of the Westmorland (IN CONCERT/CBC Variety Recordings) CHRIS SMITHER - Rock and Roll Doctor (HAPPIER BLUE/Flying Fish) PAUL BROCK - Molly Put the Kettle On (MO CHARDIN/Gael-Linn) EDDI READER, CLIVE GREGSON & BOO HEWERDINE - Who's Your Jailer Now? (3-song CD single) MARIA McKEE - Opelousas (SWEET RELIEF/Chaos-Columbia) PJ HARVEY - Wang Dang Doodle (MAN SIZE single ... =KILLER= version!) BIG BILL BROONZY - Whiskey and Good Time Blues (GOOD TIME TONIGHT/ Columbia-Legacy) REV. GARY DAVIS - Cocaine Blues (PURE RELIGION AND BAD COMPANY/ Smithsonian-Folkways) GUTTERBALL - Trial Separation Blues (GUTTERBALL ... Steve Wynn with members of House of Freaks and the Silos)