Finally, here it is — The grand finale, the 2-CD ‘bonus’ of the Jorge Ben boxset. Two discs of material that is either unreleased or only available on rare compilations or on B-sides, all from Ben’s golden years of genius and productivity. For Ben fans this is the most anticipated part of the box, since…
HUGH MASEKELA Home Is Where The Music Is Original release 2xLP on Blue Thumb BTS 6003 Reissue 2008 Verve B0011230-02 Part Of A Whole 9:37 Minawa 9:38 The Big Apple 7:52 Unhome 5:20 Maseru 7:12 Inner Crisis 5:52 Blues For Huey 6:26 Nomali 7:20 Maesha 11:49 Ingoo Pow-Pow (Children’s Song) 6:47
This album from 1958 had a profound influence on a great many people involved with the “folk revival” in the United States during the 1960s. Elizabeth Cotten played finger-style guitar and banjo that brings to mind her much better-known contemporary, Mississippi John Hurt, rooted in cross-picking patterns related to ragtime. Cotten, like Hurt, had basically…
This one goes out to Agnieszka in Atlanta, may this record steam your windows up babe. Gwen McCrae Rockin’ Chair 1975 Cat Records (CAT-2605) 1 Rockin’ Chair (Reid, Clarke) 3:25 2 Move Me, Baby (Alaimo, Casey) 4:55 3 He Keeps Something Groovy Going On (Reid, Kitts) 3:02 4 Let Them Talk (Thompson) 2:55 5 For…
Jorge Ben —————————— África Brasil1976 Phonogram (6349 187) 2009 Reissue: Salve, Jorge! Boxset 1 Ponta de lança africano (Umbabarauma) 2 Hermes Trismegisto escreveu 3 O filósofo 4 Meus filhos, meu tesouro 5 O plebeu 6 Taj Mahal 7 Xica da Silva 8 A história de Jorge 9 Camisa 10 da Gávea 10 Cavaleiro do cavalo…
On a good day I can see Babylonia outside my window. Its fires died out long ago like dozens of other sugar mills in this area. In the evenings the sweet acrid sent of burning cane mixes with the wood fires in the furnaces baking bricks out of the red clay soil, drifting from miles…
