Roots

Tonight we celebrated the life of, and mourned the passing of, Mikey Dread. All reggae/dub DJs are forever in debt to the Dread at the Controls, Michael Campbell…who went on to Zion March 15, 2008 at the young age of 54.

Happy St. Pat’s! We squeezed in a couple appropriate tunes, as well as some Brazilian music I picked up at the Jazz Records store in Chicago over the weekend. New music highlights this week were The Black Hollies, Patty Larkin, shredding blues guitar from Eddie The Chief Clearwater, and guest David Levin came in for some pop-rocking in the 8:00 hour with his new album, Criminal.

Today we began with an interview by Hosmer Librarian, Roy Woodstrum with Dan Rein about Iranian and Kurdish Traditional music. We heard live music on the Iranian setar, and the Kurdish Tanbur.

During the second hour we had Drew Miller and David Stenshoel from Boiled in Lead and we heard music from their new recording Silver (omnium)