GUMBO #200
 Sunday, December 11, 1994 / Midnight - 3:00am
 
 KCRW Santa Monica, 89.9 FM
 KCRY Indio - Palm Springs, 89.3 FM
 KCRU Oxnard - Ventura County, 89.1 FM
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     Opening Theme:  
     ALIAS RON KAVANA - Soweto Trembles (The Jo'burg Jig)
                         [THINK LIKE A HERO/Chiswick Records]

 THE BUCKS - Dancing to the Ceili Band [DANCING TO THE CEILI BAND/WEA U.K.]
     Fantastic debut album by Ron Kavana and former Pogue Terry Woods in
     their new band, featuring Paddy Keenan of the Bothy Band on uilleann
     pipes.  Best contemporary Irish trad/folk release in ages.  
     Unfortunately, although the album was only recently released, the
     band has already broken up ... longtime friends Kavana and Woods
     decided they couldn't get along together in the same band.  Oh well ...
 TARIKA - Ankoay [BIBIANGO/Xenophile-Green Linnet]  Lead singer and
     principal singer Hanitra of Tarika Sammy seems to have decided to
     get rid of Sammy and Tiana (I *still* don't know what the deal is 
     here), but the band seems not to have suffered.  The playing and 
     writing from this Malagasy band (whose shortened name means simply
     "The Group") is fantastic!  Acoustic roots music at its best.
 THE HUMPFF FAMILY - Love, Death, Divorce, Prison, Alcohol, Rivers and 
     Trains [FATHERS/Iona]  Fun and engaging folk/roots-rock band from
     Scotland, from their second album.
 PALACE SONGS - All Gone, All Gone [HOPE/Drag City] Yet another permutation
     of Will Oldham's Palace Brothers, the incredibly prolific, stark
     alternative/roots-country band out of Louisville, Kentucky.  This is
     a 6-song EP, after a full album and several 7" singles this year.
     1000% better, and more full of true emotion than all of that crap
     that comes out of Nashville.
 JOHN HIATT AND THE GUILTY DOGS - Tennessee Plates [HIATT COMES ALIVE AT
     BUDOKAN?/A&M]  Well, not really, but live recordings from around the
     U.S. with Hiatt's new, harder-edged band.  Great stuff.
 
 SONNY LANDRETH - C'est Chaud [SOUTH OF I-10/Zoo] Superb fourth album
     from Lafayette-based slide guitarist, singer and songwriter.
     Guests range from Errol Verret on Cajun accordion to Mark Knopfler
     on National steel guitar.  Fiery!
 JOHN DOE - I Can't Hold Myself In Line [TULARE DUST: A SONGWRITERS' 
     TRIBUTE TO MERLE HAGGARD/Hightone]
 GREG BROWN - Driftless [THE POET'S GAME/Red Hose]
 GRATEFUL DEAD - Dire Wolf [RECKONING/Arista]  From their 1980 acoustic
     tour, recorded live, in honor of their appearance in L.A. this week.
 PAUL SANCHEZ - My Little Blue One [JET BLACK AND JEALOUS/Little Fish
     Platters]  Solo acoustic debut from Cowboy Mouth member, one of
     their three singers/songwriters.  Superb.
 
 SHARON SHANNON - Sparky [OUT THE GAP]  Fine second release from Irish
     accordionist from Clare.
 EOIN DUIGNAN - Fag i Do Dhiadh E/Ar Aghiagh Leis an Obair [COUMINEOL/
     Gael-Linn]  Debut from Dingle, Co. Kerry based uilleann piper,
     low whistle player and composer.
 ANDY IRVINE - Never Tire of the Road [RUDE AWAKENING/Green Linnet]
 THE 4 OF US - Boomtown [MAN ALIVE/Columbia U.K.] Newry, Co. Down based
     rhythmic, soulful pop band.
 
 The 1:00am feature ... The Blues.  (Hats off to Andrew Trentacosta.)
 SATAN AND ADAM - I Want You [HARLEM BLUES/Flying Fish]
 RONNIE EARL & THE BROADCASTERS - Green Light [LANGUAGE OF THE SOUL/Bullseye
     Blues]  New release.
 MUDDY WATERS - Walkin' Blues [THE LONDON MUDDY WATERS SESSIONS/MCA]
     Searing acoustic version of Willie Dixon classic.
 RY COODER - The Bourgeois Blues [CHICKEN SKIN MUSIC/Reprise]  Ry does
     the Leadbelly/Lomax classic, playing guitar, mandola and Cajun
     accordion.
 CLIFTON CHENIER - Louisiana Blues [LOUISIANA BLUES AND ZYDECO/Arhoolie]
     Stunning zydeco blues, one of the finest blues songs ever recorded,
     in my opinion.  "Tous les jours j'parle le meme chose ..."
 
 PATRICK STREET - Music for a Found Harmonium [IRISH TIMES/Green Linnet]
     My favorite version of this Penguin Cafe Orchestra tune (I collect
     'em ...)
 OLD BLIND DOGS - A Wife in Every Port [TALL TAILS/Lochshore]
 JUNE TABOR - Beat The Retreat [BEAT THE RETREAT: SONGS OF RICHARD THOMPSON/
     Capitol]  By request.
 CORDELIA'S DAD - Delia [HOW CAN I SLEEP?/OKra]  Fantastic electric
     traditional band's version of the trad tune recently recorded on
     the new Johnny Cash album.
 
 JO-EL SONNIER - J'Etais au Bal [CAJUN ROOTS/Rounder]  Jo-El finally
     dumps the Nashville sound and goes back to what's real.  Michael
     Doucet guests of fiddle.  By request.
 MAYEUS LAFLEUR & LEO SOILEAU - He Mom, Ayou Toi T'es?/Mama, Where You At?
     [RAISE YOUR WINDOW: A CAJUN MUSIC ANTHOLOGY, THE HISTORIC VICTOR/
     BLUEBIRD RECORDINGS, 1928-1941, VOL. 2/Country Music Foundation]
     One of four 78 sides recorded by Cajun singer/songwriter Lafleur
     before he was killed in a barroom brawl, an innocent bystander, in
     1929.  He never lived to see their release, and never found his mom.
 BEAUSOLEIL - O Bebe Waltz [L'ECHO/Forward-Rhino]  Amedee Breaux song,
     done in the '50s dancehall style. 
 JOHN DELAFOSE & THE EUNICE PLAYBOYS featuring GENO DELAFOSE - Midland
     Two-Step [PERE ET GARCON ZYDECO/Rounder]  Geno takes lead for the
     first time on this album, on vocals and accordion for this Amedee
     Ardoin song.
 CLIFTON CHENIER - Bogalusa Boogie [BOGALUSA BOOGIE/Arhoolie]  By very
     special request.  One of Clifton's nieces called and requested it!!
 
 THE THREE GHOULS (MAC REBENNACK) - Morgus the Magnificent [MOS' SCOCIOUS:
     THE DR. JOHN ANTHOLOGY/Rhino]  Local novelty tune, recorded in 1958
     in honor of local celebrity, physician, mad scientist and horror
     movie host Momus Alexander Morgus, M.C. (AKA local actor Sid Noel).
 THE WILD MAGNOLIAS - New Suit [THEY CALL US WILD/Polydor]  1975 album
     from N.O. black Indian tribe, backed up by Willie Tee, Earl Turbinton,
     Alfred "Uganda" Roberts, et a., finally rereleased.
 IRMA THOMAS - You Can Have My Husband [SIMPLY THE BEST: LIVE!/Rounder]
     ... but PLEASE don't mess with my man!  The Soul Queen of New Orleans.
 THE NEVILLE BROTHERS - Mojo Hannah [NEVILLE-IZATION!/Spindletop]
     Recorded live at Tipitina's in 1982.
 
 THE POGUES with KIRSTY MacCOLL - Fairytale of New York [IF I SHOULD FALL
     FROM GRACE WITH GOD/Island]  I was saving this for my Christmas
     special, but it was by request.
 CELTAS CORTOS - El Ritmo del Mar [CUENTAME UN CUENTO/Sony Discos Spain]
     "The Spanish Pogues", this Celtic folk-rock band from Galicia are
      the Pogues' Celtic soul brothers.
 ADRIAN LEGG - Paddy in the Synagogue/The Pregnant Folksinger [HIGH STRUNG
     TALL TALES/Relativity]  More solo guitar from Legg, good stuff.  And
     I love it when composers come up with neat names for tunes!
 TOWNES VAN ZANDT - If I Was Washington [NO DEEPER BLUE/Sugar Hill]  The
     superb new album, by request.
 
 See, even a heathen like me loves gospel music ...
 FIVE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA - O Lord Stand By Me [O LORD STAND BY ME/
     Specialty]
 REVEREND GARY DAVIS - Runnin' to the Judgment [PURE RELIGION AND BAD
     COMPANY/Smithsonian-Folkways]
 THE BAND with THE STAPLE SINGERS - The Weight [THE LAST WALTZ/Warner]
 THE SWAN SILVERTONES - Savior Pass Me Not [GET RIGHT WITH THE SWAN
     SILVERTONES/Archives Alive-Rhino]