GUMBO #199 Sunday, December 4, 1994 / Midnight - 3:00am KCRW Santa Monica, 89.9 FM KCRY Indio - Palm Springs, 89.3 FM KCRU Oxnard - Ventura County, 89.1 FM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Opening Theme: ALIAS RON KAVANA - Soweto Trembles (The Jo'burg Jig) [THINK LIKE A HERO/Chiswick Records] THE METERS - Hey Pocky Way [MARDI GRAS IN NEW ORLEANS, VOLUME 2/Mardi Gras] LOS LOBOS - Bertha [JUST ANOTHER BAND FROM EAST L.A./Slash] Live version of one of my favorite Hunter/Garcia Grateful Dead songs SONNY LANDRETH - South of I-10 [SOUTH OF I-10/Zoo] COWBOY MOUTH - Louisiana Lowdown and Blue [MOUTHING OFF (LIVE + MORE)/ Viceroy] Second excellent album from the country/folk-tinged balls- out rock 'n roll madmen of New Orleans. Electric version of Paul Sanchez' tune from his first acoustic solo album. TOASTED HERETIC - Unrealistic [ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER RIOT/Liquid] My pals, Galway's finest. A set revisiting some of the live performances from "Gumbo" over the years, for a friend who asked to hear some: KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION - Breathing Fear [Live on Gumbo, 10/2/92] An extremely rare acoustic performance, gorgeous singing and fine lyrical poetry. A song about intolerance. MATTHEW SWEET - I've Been Waiting [Live on Gumbo, 3/2/92] Accompanied by Greg Leisz and Ivan Julian D. L. MENARD, KEN SMITH & PAUL DAIGLE - La Porte d'en Arriere [Live on Gumbo, 4/11/93] CHRIS SMITHER - Rock and Roll Doctor [Live on Gumbo, 10/16/93] PETER OSTROUSHKO & DEAN MAGRAW - Prairie Sunrise [Live on Gumbo, 12/2/92] Perhaps the most amazing musicians I've ever had on the show. DAVID GRAY - The Light [Flesh/Hut USA] Superb album from Welsh singer/ songwriter CHRIS DUARTE GROUP - C-Butt Rock [TEXAS SUGAR] Fiery stuff, electric blues-rock. "Tabasco for your ears." LUKA BLOOM - Holding Back the River [TURF/Reprise] THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS - How Does the Sun Shine? [LIVE IN NEW YORK, 10-14-94/ Elektra] A full-length concert CD, promotional only] The 1:00am feature ... again, country music. The real thing. I like it. BUCK OWENS with DWIGHT YOAKAM - Streets of Bakersfield [THE BUCK OWENS COLLECTION/Rhino] PALACE SONGS - Winter Lady [HOPE/Drag City] Will Oldham's Palace Brothers' latest, a 6-song EP. Stark beauty. JOHNNY CASH - Let the Train Blow the Whistle [JOHNNY CASH/American Recordings] Appearing at the Pantages in L.A. in January, with Beck. FREAKWATER - Sleeping on HOld [FEELS LIKE THE THIRD TIME/Thrill Jockey] ROSE MADDOX with EMMYLOU HARRIS and MERLE HAGGARD - Down Down Down [QUEEN OF THE WEST/Rounder] UNCLE TUPELO - Still Be Around [STILL FEEL GONE/Rockville] More stark beauty. Just Jay and an acoustic guitar. One of my all-time favorite UT songs. PLANXTY - The Lady on the Island/The Gatehouse Maid/The Virginia/Callaghan's [AFTER THE BREAK/Tara] OSSIAN - Johnny Todd/Far From Home [LIGHT ON A DISTANT SHORE/Iona] ALTAN - 'Si Do Mhaimeo I [HARVEST STORM/Green Linnet] MOVING HEARTS - McBride's [MOVING HEARTS/WEA Ireland] BEAUSOLEIL - Pierrot Grouillette et Mamselle Josette [PARLEZ-NOUS A BOIRE/ Arhoolie] Originally sung by two women as an a cappella ballad from the 1938 Lomax recordings made for the Library of Congress, with a contemporary Cajun dance arrangement by Mike Doucet. BOOZOO CHAVIS - You Act Sick When Your Man is Home [ZYDECO HOMEBREW/ Maison de Soul] But really a trad tune called "'Tit Galop Pour La Pointe aux Pins", with new lyrics by Boozoo, and a claim of total songwriting credit. Typical ... :-) NATHAN ABSHIRE - Valse de Bayou Teche [THE BEST OF NATHAN ABSHIRE/Swallow] BRUCE DAIGREPONT - Disco et Fais Do-Do [STIR UP THE ROUX/Rounder] Still reveling from last night's David Lindley/Hani Naser performance ... as always, one of the most amazing musical experiences of my life. DAVID LINDLEY & HANI NASER - Cottonmill Blues [OFFICIAL BOOTLEG: LIVE IN TOKYO/Pleemhead] Lindley on Turkish saz, Hani on hand percussion, playing a 9-minute version of an American trad tune into which he's woven themes and licks from Appalachia, Turkey and Kazakhstan. Wild! Mail-order and gig sales only for this CD. E-mail me for details. DAVID LINDLEY - Afindrafindrao [OUT ON THE ROLLING SEA: A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF JOSEPH SPENCE/Green Linnet] One of the most famous tunes in Madagascar, usually played on the valiha, a tubular harp/ zither with 22 strings around a piece of bamboo. Lindley learned it from the man who wrote it, and plays it here on bouzouki. KALAZA - Kilalao [MADAGASKAR 1/Feuer und Eis] A valiha tune from a German compilation of Malagasy traditional music. DAVID LINDLEY & RAKOTO FRAH - Rakoto Frah Two-Step [A WORLD OUT OF TIME: HENRY KAISER AND DAVID LINDLEY IN MADAGASCAR, VOLUME 1/Shanachie] Rakoto Frah is a living legend, a player of the sodina, the Malagasy metal flute, and is so revered that his face is on some of the money, even though he lives in a slum outside the capital, Antananarivo. DAVID LINDLEY & RAKOTO FRAH - You Done Me Wrong [A WORLD OUT OF TIME: HENRY KAISER AND DAVID LINDLEY IN MADAGASCAR, VOLUME 2/Shanachie] Lindley started playing this Ray Price tune on his Weissenborn slide guitar, Rakoto Frah joined in on his sodina after a few bars, and though he'd never heard the tune you'd think he had written it. Perfect. And they just *happened* to have the tape rolling for a test ... THE REIVERS - He Will Settle It [END OF THE DAY/Capitol] The late, lamented band from Austin, by request. POI DOG PONDERING - Love Vigilantes [FRUITLESS ep/Columbia-Texas HOtel] A cover of the New Order song, even better than the Oyster Band's. TOWNES VAN ZANDT - Billy, Boney and Ma [NO DEEPER BLUE/Sugar Hill] With Declan Masterson on uilleann pipes! Wonderful. By request. PETER ROWAN - Midnight Highway [ALL ON A RISING DAY/Sugar Hill] RARE AIR - Tribal Rites [HARD TO BEAT/Green Linnet] Now-defunct band weird Canadians! African-sounding, polyrhythmic percussion and TWO sets of Scottish bagpipes! TRIBE NUNZIO - Citizen's Arms [TRIBE NUNZIO/Tribe Nunzio] Ethereal yet funky New Orleans band. SONNY BURGESS with DAVE ALVIN - Old Old Man [TENNESSEE BORDER/Hightone] Searing rockabilly. FREEDY JOHNSTON - Wichita Lineman [Live on KCRW's "Brave New World", 1994]