MORNING BECOMES ECLECTIC
 Monday, May 30, 1994 / 9:06am - Noon
 
 KCRW Santa Monica, 89.9 FM
 KCRU Oxnard-Ventura County, 89.1 FM
 KCRY Indio/Palm Springs, 89.3 FM
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     TRANSITION MUSIC (between Morning Edition and 9:01 NPR news update):
          PALM FABRIC ORCHESTRA - Coda: Lover's Reprise
               [VAGUE GROPINGS IN THE SLIP STREAM/Carrot Top Records]
 
 THE IGUANAS - Oye Isabel [NUEVO BOOGALOO/Margaritaville-MCA]
 MALDITA VECINDAD - Pata de Perro [EN VIVO: GIRA PATA DE PERRO/BMG-Ariola]
 FRANK BLACK - Fiddle Riddle [TEENAGER OF THE YEAR/4AD]  with Moris Tepper
     on guitar on this and another track.
 TOASTED HERETIC - Here Comes the New Year [MINDLESS OPTIMISM/Bananafish]
 
 THE NEVILLE BROTHERS - Voodoo [LIVE ON PLANET EARTH/A&M]
 ALI FARKA TOURE with RY COODER - Lasidan [TALKING TIMBUKTU/Ryko-Hannibal]
 BEAU JOCQUE & THE ZYDECO HI-ROLLERS - Don't Tell Your Mama, Don't Tell
     Your Papa [PICK UP ON THIS!/Rounder]
 GRACELAND-McCULLOUGH TIGERS - Yes, Lord [HEAVEN/Fire Ant]
 
 SHEILA CHANDRA - Speaking in Tongues III [THE ZEN KISS/RealWorld]  On this
     track, her continuing exploration of the Indian percussion-language.
 DAVID LINDLEY & HANI NASER - Rag Bag [OFFICIAL BOOTLEG: LIVE IN TOKYO/
     Pleemhead]  We must have gotten 40 calls on this.  Mr. Dave is going
     to sell a lot of CDs!
 
 the subdudes - (You'll Be) Satisfied [ANNUNCIATION/High Street]  by request.
 LOS LOBOS - Peace [RARE ON AIR, VOLUME ONE/Mammoth]  Recorded live on KCRW,
     August 1993.
 THE DORKESTRA - Long Black Wall [SIDEWAYS SOUTH/Scratch Records}  An
     appropriate song for Memorial Day.
 THE BLAZERS - El Ano Viejo [SHORT FUSE/Rounder]  East L.A.'s own.
 
 LUMP - Santa Cruz [SLOPPY ATROCITIES/Airline 61]  An instrumental from the
     New Orleans funk/jazz/alternative outfit.
 BRAVE OLD WORLD - Borsht [from the new Rounder album whose title I forget]
     A new clarinet player for this klezmer "supergroup", but more fine, 
     fine music.
 PETER OSTROUSHKO - B-O-R-S-C-H-T [DOWN THE STREETS OF MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD/
     Rounder]  Aah, I couldn't resist.  There's a funny story about this
     segue, which I'll tell below ...
 BOILED IN LEAD - Pontiaka [ANTLER DANCE/Omnium]
 
 LUKA BLOOM - The Fertile Rock [THE SOUND OF STONE: ARTISTS FOR MULLAGHMORE]
 KRISTIN HERSH - Sundrops [STRINGS ep/4AD]  from a 4-song EP of songs from her
     new album, but backed by a string quintet.
 VARTTINA - Kyla Vuotti Uutta Kuuta [SELENIKO/Green Linnet-Xenophile]
 
 And from 11:05 - Noon, a rebroadcast of the September 3, 1993 interview with
 ALI FARKA TOURE & RY COODER, and they play a couple of songs.

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I wish I had had the whole three hours, but this was way cool anyway.

We got a semi-panicked phone call from some woman who didn't realize that
the Brave Old World "Borsht" song and the Peter Ostroushko "B-O-R-S-C-H-T"
song were two separate songs -- that's how good the segue was.  She 
wailed, "Wait a minute!  That was a Jewish klezmer song about borscht, 
right?  But the guy was singing about putting sour cream in it, and it 
had chicken in it!  *That's* *not* *kosher*!!!"  

I put her fears to rest.  "Well, you see, the first pot of borsht in 
Yiddish was made by Jews, yes ... but the second put of borscht in 
English, I think he's Ukrainian Orthodox ..."  :-)