"DOWN HOME" #190 Thursday, October 4, 2001 Hosted by Chuck Taggart, email chuck (at) downhome (dot) org Visit The Gumbo Pages

LUKA BLOOM - Colourblind [recorded live in Dublin, 2001] Luka, a former New York resident, wrote this terrific song about his adopted town but never recorded it. In the aftermath of What Happened, he went out to his backyard and recorded a Quicktime video and MP3 of it and released it on his web site (www.lukablook.com) ... very very cool of him. LUKA BLOOM - This Is Your Country [THE ACOUSTIC MOTORBIKE/Reprise] CHRIS THILE - Wolfcreek Pass [NOT ALL WHO WANDER ARE LOST/Sugar Hill] Latest solo album from the former mandolin prodigy who's now just one of the world's great mandolinists, at the ripe old age of 20. JERRY GARCIA & DAVID GRISMAN - Jenny Jenkins [GRATEFUL DAWG/Acoustic Disc] The film's playing at the Nuart now, I believe. AUBREY HAYNIE - Tobacco Patch [DOIN' MY TIME/Sugar Hill] CORDELIA'S DAD - Booth Shot Lincoln/Hangman's Reel [COMET/Omnium] CHRIS KNIGHT - Oil Patch Town [A PRETTY GOOD GUY/Dualtone] PAT HANEY - Out Last Night [GHOST OF THINGS TO COME/FreeFalls] BRIAN HALL AND CARTERS GHOST - Round and Around [WHEN MAGGIE TURNS TO FLY/Outside Records] JAY FARRAR - Barstow [SEBASTOPOL/Artemis] With backing vocals by Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings on acoustic guitar and lap steel. "By the time we make it to Barstow / we'll be more than halfway to Hell" ... or at least Vegas. LA BANDE FEUFOLLET - Fier d'être Cadien (Proud to be Cajun) [BELLE LOUISIANE/Feufollet Records] Superb new record by one of Louisiana's finest young Cajun bands. These guys never fail to amaze and delight. SAVOY-DOUCET CAJUN BAND - Les 'Tits Yeux Noirs (Little Black Eyes) One of my very favorite Cajun songs, a beautiful waltz written by Lawrence Walker. The Savoy Family Cajun Band will be performing a week from Friday, October 12, at the Getty Museum. Not to be missed! For details go to www.getty.edu. KEVIN NAQUIN & THE OSSUN PLAYBOYS - J'étais au bal (I Went to the Dance) [POUR LA PREMIÈ FOIS/Swallow] A tradidional song from another fine young Cajun band (although not as young as Feufollet!) THE CARRIÈRE BROTHERS - La Robe à Parasol (The Parasol Dress) This is a mazurka, originally an Eastern European folk dance that eventually found its way to the capitals of high culture such as Paris and Vienna, then made it to the New World, where German immigrants to Louisiana in the early- to mid-19th Century passed it on to Louisiana black Creoles (along with the accordions they brought). The tune is named for a type of hoop skirt once popular at old time dances. OTHA TURNER AND THE AFROSSIPPI ALLSTARS, WITH THE RISING STAR FIFE AND DRUM CORPS - Station Blues [FROM SENEGAL TO SENATOBIA/Birdman] Take a ninetysomething farmer who plays a homemade metal fife, his fife and drum corps, a few blues musicians, some African musicians who live in Chicago, and a Senegalese kora player, and you have ... this. It's amazing, truly amazing, raw, earthy, rootsy stuff. TARIKA RAKOTO FRAH - The Rakoto Frah Two-Step [A WORLD OUT OF TIME: HENRY KAISER AND DAVID LINDLEY IN MADAGASCAR/Shanachie[ Rakoto Frah is a national treasure in Madagascar (he's poor and lives in the slums, but he's well taken care of an his picture is even on some of the money). He plays the sodina, another handmade metal flute quite similar to Otha Turner's fife. This one-off "tarika" ("band" in the Malagasy language) includes David Lindley on his Hawaiian guitars and tons of Madagascar locals, doing a two-step with a Louisiana feel. MADAGASCAR SLIM - Rakoa [MADAGASCAR SLIM/Omnisource] NAPPY BROWN - Lemon Squeezin' Daddy [RHYTHM ROOM BLUES/Hightone] BARBARA LYNN - Hot Night Tonight [HOT NIGHT TONIGHT/Antone's] SAM CHATMON - God Don't Like Ugly [I HAVE TO PAINT MY FACE: MISSISSIPPI BLUES, 1960/Arhoolie] CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN - Dixie Chicken [BACK TO BOGALUSA/ Blue Thumb] Gatemouth covers Lowell George! DR. JOHN - You Swore [CREOLE MOON/Blue Note] Brand-new release from Mac Rebennack! VERNEL BAGERNIS - Down in Honky Tonk Town [ONE MO' TIME/Warner]

 

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