GLOBAL GUMBO #136 - Saturday, September 18, 1993 / 8:00 - 10:00 pm KCRW Santa Monica, 89.9 FM / KCRU Oxnard-Ventura County, 89.1 FM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE HEALTH AND HAPPINESS SHOW - River of Stars (TONIC/Bar None) EVANGELINE - Hey Rene (EVANGELINE/Margaritaville-MCA) JOHN HIATT - Loving a Hurricane (PERFECTLY GOOD GUITAR/A&M) TRIBE NUNZIO - No More Lagniappe (TRIBE NUNZIO ... New Orleans band) NATHAN & THE ZYDECO CHA-CHAS - Hey Maman (FOLLOW ME CHICKEN/ Rounder) BONGA KWENDA - Paz em Angona (PEACE IN ANGOLA/Rounder) LOSTA ABELO - Bulayo (AFRICAN ACOUSTIC/Original Music) SYLVESTRE RANDAFISON & GERMAIN RAKOTOMAVO - Afindrafindrao (A WORLD OUT OF TIME: HENRY KAISER & DAVID LINDLEY IN MADAGASCAR, VOL. 2/Shanachie) THE HOLMES BROTHERS - Walk in the Light (SOUL STREET/Rounder) TERRANCE SIMIEN - A Moi Maison (THERE'S ROOM FOR US ALL/Black Top) JAMES BOOKER - Minute Waltz (RESURRECTION OF THE BAYOU MAHARAJAH/Rounder ... second volume in this live series, this one with vocals, but not on this track. Chopin must've been spinning!) D.L. MENARD, EDDIE LEJEUNE & KEN SMITH - Elle Savit Pas J'Etais Marie/ She Didn't Know I Was Married (LE TRIO CADIEN/Rounder) CAJUN BREW with MICHAEL DOUCET - Pauline (MICHAEL DOUCET AND CAJUN BREW/Rounder ... a reggaeized version of this old and very sad Cajun funereal blues/waltz) FISHERSTREET - Sandy Grant's/Tailor's Thimble/Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part (OUT IN THE NIGHT/Mulligan ... terrific instrumental trad. Irish band from west Clare ... by request) ELEANOR McEVOY - Apologise (ELEANOR MCEVOY/Geffen ... surprising label acquisition of the next great Irish female singer, who joins the ranks of Mary Black and Dolores Keane in this great folk/rock debut; not only does she sing, but she writes the songs and plays guitar/ keyboards/fiddle as well. Great stuff.) ALTAN - A Bhean Udai Thall (HORSE WITH A HEART/Green Linnet) SILLY WIZARD - The Humours of Tulla set (LIVE WIZARDRY/Green Linnet ... epic length set from Johnny & Phil Cunningham. This is nothing -- when they =really= get going, only dogs can hear them!) fIREHOSE - Blaze (MR. MACHINERY OPERATOR/Columbia) fIREHOSE - This ... (RAGIN', FULL ON/SST) fIREHOSE - In Memory of Elizabeth Cotten (IF'N/SST) JERRY GARCIA ACOUSTIC BAND - Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie (ALMOST ACOUSTIC/Grateful Dead Records) ELIZABETH COTTEN - Freight Train (FREIGHT TRAIN & OTHER NORTH CAROLINA FOLK SONGS AND TUNES/Smithsonian-Folkways) CHRIS HICKEY - Copernicus Said (demo ... lead singer/songwriter now fronting local band Uma, every Wed. night at Jack's Sugar Shack) JOE HENRY - Fireman's Wedding (KINDNESS OF THE WORLD/Mammoth) GLOBAL GUMBO #137 - Sunday, September 19, 1993 / 8:00 - 10:00 pm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE POGUES - Pachinko (WAITING FOR HERB/WEA) THE SPANIC BOYS - Dream Your Life Away (DREAM YOUR LIFE AWAY/ Rounder) EDWARD II - OK Bayou (WICKED MEN) DAVID LINDLEY & HANI NASER - Play It All Night Long (OFFICIAL BOOTLEG: LIVE IN TOKYO/Pleemhead ... a Warren Zevon song, "one of his strangest and one of his best," says Mr. Dave) PIIRPAUKE - Saraba (ALGAZADA/Rockadillo ... Afro-Finnish band everything from Finland to Senegal to Turkey) PATRICK STREET - The Mouth of the Tobique/Billy Wilson (ALL IN GOOD TIME/Green Linnet) MARY BLACK - The Holy Ground/traditional (THE HOLY GROUND/Dara) LUKA BLOOM - The Fertile Rock (THE SOUND OF STONE: ARTISTS FOR MULLAGHMORE/Bag Records, Ireland) DE DANNAN - Sailing In/Alice's Reel (A JACKET OF BATTERIES/Green Linnet) VARTTINA - Ruskie Neitsut VARTTINA - Sekatyylipolkka (VARTTINA/Mipu Music, Finland ... from their first album, when they were very young; this last trad. tune segues into a nifty blues!) JOHN FAULKNER - Le Reel du Pendu/The Hanged Man's Reel (NOMADS - FANAITHE/Clo Iar-Chonnachta ... one of my favourite Quebecois tunes) MAIRI MacINNES - Puirt a Beul (CAUSEWAY/Lismork ... title literally meaning "mouth music"; Scots Gaelic nonsense-syllable rhythmic singing. Produced by Phil Cunningham) THE BOTHY BAND - Fionnghuala (OUT OF THE WIND INTO THE SUN/Green Linnet ... a burst of Scots Gaelic mouth music that apparently threatened to become a hit single at one time) ANDRE MARCHAND & GREY LARSEN - Reel a Bouche Acadien/Acadian Mouth Music (THE ORANGE TREE/Sugar Hill ... former singer/guitarist with La Bottine Souriante w/flautist Larsen) BRUCE DAIGREPONT - Laissez-Moi Tranquille (COEUR DES CAJUNS/Rounder) SAVOY-DOUCET CAJUN BAND - Evangeline Special (HOME MUSIC WITH SPIRITS/Arhoolie) ISOM J. FONTENOT - Oh Madelaine (CAJUN FAIS DO-DO/Arhoolie ... from one of my most ancient Cajun LPs. Fontenot played "back porch" Cajun music on his harmonica, which is fairly unusual.) THE THIBODEAUX BOYS - La Vieux Valse de 'Nonc Mack (RAISE YOUR WINDOW: A CAJUN MUSIC ANTHOLOGY - THE HISTORIC VICTOR-BLUEBIRD SESSIONS, 1928-1941, VOL. 2/Country Music Foundation ... another unusual incidence of harmonica as a lead instrument) ROCKIN' DOPSIE - Joe Pitre a Deux Femmes (GOOD ROCKIN'/GNP Crescendo) MARCIA BALL - Don't Want No Man (SOULFUL DRESS/Rounder) ROSIE FLORES - Someday (ONCE MORE WITH FEELING/Hightone) CRACKER - Lonesome Johnny Blues (KEROSENE HAT) TONY TRISCHKA, PETER BUCK, MIKE MILLS - If Animals Could Talk (WORLD TURNING/Rounder) LOS LOBOS - Carabina .30-.30 (JUST ANOTHER BAND FROM EAST L.A.: A COLLECTION/Slash) LOS LOBOS - Tears of God (by request) THE FAT LADY SINGS - This Guitar (JOHN SON ... 2nd album from fine Irish band) THE JAZZ BUTCHER CONSPIRACY - Whaddya? (WAITING FOR THE LOVE BUS/ Creation)