An all-vinyl set of deep-barreled Blues, Funk, Salsa, Cumbia beats… featuring the music of George Freeman, Baby Huey, Little Ann, Zapata, Orchestra Harlow, Afrosound, Black Sugar, Max B, and many others…
The first hour of this program presents music from Argentina and Uruguay as well as some examples of “canciones de lucha”. The second hour includes music from Paraguay and from Northern Mexico. The literature segment presents the first part of a dialog on literature with the Nobel Prize Mario Vargas Llosa.
2/24 in a nutshell…
Jimmy Cliff finds Ska All Over the World, Pama Records proves there’s more than one way to spell Rico, Morgan (Mott) Fisher 2-tones MacArthur Park before there was a 2Tone, and… what if Roland Alphonso were a bell? Well, for starters, he could be ringin’ it all-the-way-live all night long, just like the real bell that drove the RSST crew to distraction this week! We’ve since learned how to deal with that thing next time it goes off… Mr. Funn mounted a 5-song salute to… no, not Shiina Ringo, but Yukimi Nagano (think Koop.‘s Summer Sun). In 4@4-land, it was Eastern Seaboard Time, and GotchaSKAvered sent Confucious off in high big-band-blowout style with the Jazz Jamaica All Stars. Pow!!!
