Al compás del mundo  #173, 3-27-25 – greatest hits of programs #36-38   01 D.R. Parvatikar – Svarǎmandalǎ (India) 02 Conjunto Alma Jarocha - El Cascabél (México) 03 Stringquake - Sacramento Kai Lodi (USA) 04 Luciel Izumi - Flor de Huancayo (Bolivia) 05 Kathy Mattea - Gone, Gonna Rise Again (USA) 06 Clarence Ashley with Doc Watson - Little Sadie (USA) 07 Clifton Chenier - Bon Ton Roulet (USA) 08 Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys - La Danse de Mardi Gras (USA) 09 The Reel Time Travelers - Like a Songbird That Has Fallen (USA) 10 Jerry Garcia and David Grisman - Shady Grove (USA) 11 Ralph Stanley - Little Maggie (USA) 12 Sarah Jarosz - Fischer Store Road (USA) 13 Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Perrine etait servante (Canada) 14 Vivi - Toe Meme Maloya (Reunión Island) 15 Yves Simon - Zelda (France) 16 Brigitte Fontaine and Areski - Je suis venu te voir (France and Algeria) 17 Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band - Besame mucho (Switzerl...

  Al compás del mundo Run List   #172, 3-20-25 - electric Chicago blues   01 James Cotton - Love Me or Leave Me 02 Sonny Boy Williamson - Wake Up Baby 03 Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers - Wild About You, Baby 04 Howlin Wolf - You'll Be Mine 05 John Lee Hooker – Louise 06 Junior Wells - Snatch It Back and Hold It 07 Koko Taylor - Wang Dang Doodle 08 Little Walter - I Don't Play 09 Jimmy Rogers - Walking by Myself 10 J.B. Lenoir - Don't Dog Your Woman 11 Otis Rush - Keep on Loving Me Baby 12 Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied 13 Sunnyland Slim - Shake It 14 Walter Horton - It's Alright 15 Buddy Guy - When My Left Eye Jumps 16 Magic Sam - She Belongs to Me 17 Johnny Young - Cross-Cut Saw 18 Eddie Boyd - Third Degree 19 Willie Dixon and Friends - I Cry for You   Got to feature the blues from time to time on Al compás del mundo as there seems to be a shortage of such on Mexican radio. Although RadioactivaTX.org, the ...

  Al compás del mundo #171, 3-13-25 – potpourri -  What can I say about yet another potpourri? The first five tracks are lively,  guapachosa (danceable)  Latin music. The odd group out being the Crazy Ken Band, a Japanese aggregation that does a spot-on take of the New York Puerto Rican sound…until they start singing in Japanese about the barrio Chino. #6 sort of fits with its  percussion and slow Caribbean  rhythm, though it’s sung mostly in French and comes out of Mali. They even throw in a chorus in Spanish, imitating a 1965 Cuban ode to  Che Guevara. India then ramps up a little bhangra energy; Kyrgyzstan offers lilting strings; Niger responds with more strings in a style that’s been loosely referred to as “desert blues” ; Tanzania chips in one of those “modern” songs where half of the instruments are electronic keyboard creations – though in this case it’s to back an example of  Islamic tarab music,  more pop than religious; two cad...

 #170, Al compás del mundo - 3-6-25, Northern Spain: Asturias, Galicia, Cantabria, Basque Country The summary of today’s Al compás del mundo music program is going to serve, in part, as a mini-lecture on the history of Northern Spain. Why would you want to read that? First, because there’s a lot of fine music coming from the region. Second, to see if we can’t prove Mark Twain wrong, after he once said: “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” Come on, you yankees! The world’s getting smaller everyday. It’s time we learn about those we share the planet with. And did I mention the fine music?  01 Atlántica - El emboscado (Cantabria) 02 N'Arba - De Grau a Concarneau (Asturias) 03 Llan de Cubel - Rigu Esva (Asturias) 04 Tejedor - Gaites del infiernu (Asturias) 05 Luar Na Lubre e Diana Navarro - Romeiro Ao Lonxe (Asturias) So, it’s Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, and the Basque Country from west to east across the northern border of the country. While most of the po...