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Big Meander greatest hits programs #26-28

 


This program is a big meander, a mighty voyage, and a highflying fling to hither and yon. A greatest hits selection from three programs that ran eons ago. There’s an initial anchor of major soul music talent - ah, an R&B program! Nope, just a snatch. As we throttle down to “Rumble,” so-called desert blues, the forever talent of the Velvet Underground, and the 1981 anthem “Golden Brown” a lifeline is extended to New Orleans’ Nomo and relative cousins Cuba’s Orishas. Bring ‘em back! And as long as you’re at it, Beny Moré’s got to come along for there’s few classics better-loved in Cuba and the Southlands than “La Culebra”. Pairing old masters brings on Earl Bostic, forever intoning “Harlem Nocturne”…and then the zig zags.

Somehow, I see working class Brits following up with a paean to the truck driver heroes of the land. So, Europe it is for the remainder. With an orchestral French fanfare, Bulgarian flutes and other folkloric themes leading the journey, we come to rest with the eerie yet cheery sound of Icelandic crumhorns. Sounds like a reindeer feast around a blazing fire just before the lava flow takes us all away to Vikingholm. JH


Al compás del mundo - programa #153 Runlist
First Broadcast 11-7-24,
Big Meander greatest hits programs #26-28

01 James Brown - Cold Sweat, Pt. 1 (USA)

02 Aretha Franklin - Think (USA)

03 Al Green - I Can't Get Next to You (USA)

04 Otis Redding - Pain in My Heart (USA)

05 Link Wray and His Ray Men - Rumble (USA)

06 Etran Finatawa - Iriarer (Niger)

07 Velvet Underground - What Goes On (USA)

08 The Stranglers - Golden Brown (Inglaterra)

09 Nomo - Nu Tones (USA)

10 Orishas - Represent (Cuba)

11 Beny Moré - La Culebra (Cuba)

12 Earl Bostic - Harlem Nocturne (USA)

13 Stick in the Wheel - Champion (Inglaterra)

14 L'Occidentale De Fanfare - Les Belles Dames (Francia)

15 Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare - Vulumbrella (Italia)

16 Kosta Kolev, Emil Kolev, Kristofor Radanov - Neda Voda Nalivala (Bulgaria)

17 Sebo Ensemble - Adjon az Isten (Hungria)

18 Voces Thules - Krummavísur (Islandia)


Atop Orishas - 'Spirits' or 'Gods'
Below - Crumhornland GrogFest






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