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IMAGINE PEACE

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*** NEW GUESTS CONFIRMED ***
for Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band LIVE ‘Dress Rehearsal’ show
at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York.
From Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band:
YOKO ONO, SEAN LENNON, YUKA HONDA & CORNELIUS
from the original Plastic Ono Band:
KLAUS VOORMANN & JIM KELTNER
from Scissor Sisters:
JAKE SHEARS & ANA MATRONIC
from Sonic Youth:
THURSTON MOORE & KIM GORDON
And also:
JUSTIN BOND & HARUOMI HOSONI
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30 Lafayette Ave
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New York 11217
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Gettin’ ORGAN*IZED

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With Ed Alstrom on the Hammond. After one listen through, I have come to one conclusion thusfar, HOTT!! And now after several listens and some radio airplay, this album is easily a mainstay in my programming as it enters and exits sets of all kinds of music with a fluidity that isn’t easy to find. The album is very backyard on a summer’s day playful and downright groovin’ at times that you cannot help but shake the very things shakeable and sometimes breakable. There are many moods to the album within the grooves…Starting off with melodies rich in reflection and guitar licks (Charlie Jones) hotter than a Bar-B-Q pit, drum beats (Don Guinta) like a sidewinder snakes heartbeat~ and there are some highly ORGANic dashes that are equal parts soul refreshing and body moving and at times making the blues feel a little happy…..For me they style of “Booganova” is something I have loved for so long but never knew the word that went with he sound, in many moments on this album I am reminded that the reason I like musicians like Ed Alstrom is that they keep on re-defining the sounds I recognize pieces of, and turn them into a whole new thang. I believe this album has the power to do that for more people than me.

Sum Funk-N-Stuff

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the dig- Teddy Presberg
Scrumpt- Doug Johns
Bop Gun- the Clinton Administration
Video Game, Save me- Salvador Santana
Let there be Horns- RJD2
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Baby I’m Black….-Sven Barth & Induce are the Saxual Revolution
Contusion- Stevie Wonder
Salvador Diaspora- Rex Riddem
Kool it man- Liftoff
We got Some (1&2)- Chris Joss
Baby Let’s Dance- Kittu
Funkytastic- Celia Baron
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Zuma Preserve- the Brooklyn Funk Essentials
Soul Neo- the Poogie Bell Band
Brownie, Leo & Gus- Skeebo Knight
Psycho- Middle Passage Squad
Amish Pintxos- MMW
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Globalizacion- Fernando Otero
Blue Rondo a la Turk- Project Trio
Wang Dang Doodle-Sam Moore/Keb Mo/Angie Stone
Jambalaya- Jeff Healy
Treme Mardi Gras- Kermit Ruffins
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Ina This Time- Tony Brown
Put it on- Bob Marley
Strangers on the Shore- Bob Marley
Kinky Reggae- Bob Marley & the Wailers (live)
Mr. Anonymous- Mr. Anonymous

Is it any Wonder

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Did a 7-9amCST Fill in today just to get some extra time as next week I will not be on air. So here is what I put together for the earlier morning hours:

Rocket Baby- Johnnie Mustang
la Gitane- Duane Andrews
Benny’s Tune- Lionel Loueke
Mamang- Kristo Numpuby
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Twisto Mambo- the Sort of Quartet
Walter L-Burton/Methany/Swallow/Sanchez (live)
Shine on you Crazy Diamond-Viktor Krauss w/Shawn Colvin
Always Near- Narayan & Janet
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Full Throttle- 9th Wave
I Ain’t Human- Leroy Powell & the Messengers
Sopchoppy- Swamp Cabbage
Something Fast- Seth Walker
That’s What Keeps me Rockin’-the Robert Cray Band
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Paralyzed- Gang of Four
Faced you in a Neon Light- Yordan Orchestra
Golden Retriever- Super Furry Animals
Good Old Days(wash away)-Darren Gaines & the Key Party
Fame- David Bowie (live)
Atomic Heels- Secret Machines
I Kid you not- Spain Colored Ornage
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Circumstances- Soulhound
When she Whispers your Name- Buck 69
Let me Roll it->Foxey Lady-Paul McCartney (live)
White Rabbit- Patti Smith
Mile High- Morphine
Around the World- Delaney Davidson
Tremendous Dynamite- Eels
You’re so Fine- John Hammond
You’ll be Mine- John Hammond
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Waiting for a Miracle- Jerry Garcia Band (live)

IBRAHIM AG ALHABIB

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FRONTMAN/FOUNDING MEMBER IBRAHIM AG ALHABIB RETURNS TO NORTH AMERICA WITH TINARIWEN. Perhaps the most recognizable member of touareg band Tinariwen, Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, has been unable to join his fellow bandmates on their most recent North American tours. World Village is pleased to announce that he will join them this month and in March for the group’s concerts in the U.S. and Canada. Check out the tour here. I might have to get myself to one of those Chicago shows.

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Also, TINARIWEN has been added to the Bonaroo line-up…more info here.

ATLANTIS

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Leroy Powell and the Messengers new release ATLANTIS has those moments I treasure in an album, surprises. It has tough rock-N-roll tracks that reminded me why I love it, and deep drifter blues tunes that put me in the boots of the shoveler at final resting time…there are sweet-like country-esque ballads that move the sweet side of those of us with a heart (that has some twists in it). The delivery on Leroy Powell’s work this time around with the Messengers reeks of the truth as someone has lived it…the words come out of him so believable that at times you feel like you are riding next to him in a van on a cross country tour, as he remembers long lost tales of days gone by and things that once happened. I believe as you listen into this album you’ll too find that moment of surprise, as it is somewhere between the words and the notes.

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Project Trio

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Harmonyville Records is proud to release: PROJECT Trio’s third studio recording – a self-titled album that continues the ensemble’s unique and heralded musical exploration. Based in Brooklyn, PROJECT Trio emerged from a classical background, but has found an unconventional and energetic voice through the exploration of unique performance techniques. Their obsession with program versatility and contrast of musical style is executed by Flutist Greg Pattillo, Cellist Eric Stephenson, and Double Bassist Peter Seymour. Simply put, their music synthesizes Hip-hop, Rock, Bluegrass, Americana, Jazz, and Classical music to create their truly distinctive sound. Pattillo, Stephenson and Seymour’s roots can be traced back over 13 years to when they met at the Cleveland Institute of Music. After working with famed ensembles including the Cleveland Orchestra and the Houston Symphony, PROJECT Trio got its first big break in 2006 when Pattillo’s groundbreaking beatbox flute videos were featured on youtube showcasing a key part of the group’s signature sound. After 40 million views, PROJECT Trio’s youtube channel, “Freedomworksfilms”, has amassed a following of over 45,000 subscribers. Pattillo has been lauded by The New York Times as “the best person in the world at what he does”. I first listened to this release with a room full of kids and they were the first to recognize the Brubeck track from their own collections at home and we were all hooked on the changes and immediaely I knew this cd was going to be a winner with me. Which will translate nicely into selected airplay and sets of music build right around pieces to create a set of music that Project Trio would be glad to be a part of.

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your ears or mine?

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Just thankful for so many listeners that have been becoming regulars….

Hot Rockin’ Rhythm- Hillbilly Hellcats
Ichetucknee Chutney- Dread Clampitt
Outback Booty Call- 8 Ball Aitken
I Don’t Dance- Seth Walker
Soul Satisfying- Joe Pitts
Aquarius Skies- Mama’s Cookin’
New VooDoo BooGaLoo- Swamp Cabbage
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Who’s Makin’ Love- Chris Daniels & the Kings
You’re so Fine- Eddie Floyd
Sweet Feeling- Cracked Ice
Makin’ Whoopee- Joyce Randolph
Ladies Man- Keith Kilgo
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Sweet Child O’ Mine- Project Trio
Danza- Fernando Otero
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Get Down Tonight- Melvin Sparks Band
I’m Gonna Teach You- Maceo Parker
CC Rider- Ron Levy’s Wild Kingdom
Shafro- Chris Joss
the Big Score- Fort Knox Five
We Got Somethin’- Salvador Santana
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Then I met you- Alexander Ponomarlenko
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Who’s got the Weed- G Love & Special Sauce
Cool & Collect- 10 Ft Ganja Plant
Gas Can- Pressure Cooker
Be Serious- Gabriel Johnson
Fair Weather Friend- Daedelus
Stop the War-(Bring Peace)-Glideascope feat. JFK
Mostly Love- Narayan & Janet
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Electric Moonshine- Dr Didg
Snake Charmer- Punjabi MC (DJ Rekha Bhangra Basement)

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Farewell Howard Zinn

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For Dr. Zinn, activism was a natural extension of the revisionist brand of history he taught. “A People’s History of the United States” (1980), his best-known book, had for its heroes not the Founding Fathers — many of them slaveholders and deeply attached to the status quo, as Dr. Zinn was quick to point out — but rather the farmers of Shays’ Rebellion and union organizers of the 1930s. As he wrote in his autobiography, “You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train” (1994), “From the start, my teaching was infused with my own history. I would try to be fair to other points of view, but I wanted more than ‘objectivity’; I wanted students to leave my classes not just better informed, but more prepared to relinquish the safety of silence, more prepared to speak up, to act against injustice wherever they saw it. This, of course, was a recipe for trouble.”…..and that I think is why so many of us have a special spot in our hearts for Howard Zinn, and may we all live up to the lessons he taught us and the reason we hold him in such an admired state. Whether he was thinking or speaking for us, or saying and doing the things we always wished we had the willpower to attempted, I am not quite sure, I just know that he is hero material (for me) in a world of few choice.

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Oh Yeah, Yo La Tengo

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I have been listening to the ample selections that Yo La Tengo has put out over the years for quite some time now, sharing much on the radio show but this was my first chance to catch the trio from Hoboken. The crowd at the Barrymore was strong in numbers and there was a surplus of cool in the room as the band mixed their sometimes softer calming side (often accompanied with acoustic music) with a moment or two of punked out quickies and my favorite of their work are those psychedelic rock jams that get filled with space and last over seven minutes. So many tunes carry a heavy bass that a heartbeat and pulse formed from the stage……The trio often shows its flexibility as drummer Georgia sings and strums as well as kicking it behind the kit. Ira Kaplan keeps the vibe alive on keys and really sets you back some with his guitar jams and sound exploration while James McNew really was spot on with his bassin’. All three members carry steady harmonies and together, I would surely agree that They’ve got it. They ended the evening with two encores. The first a fine rendtion of a Fairport Convention tune and the final song was a beautifully haunting Velvet Underground sound. After the show had a quick chance to chat with Ira about, well…what else, you guessed it…baseball. So, when the time presents itself again, I will go…Yo La Tengo.

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its pronounced Gee

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Back to two hours for the semester, s’all good as I squeeze in all that I have to fill your ears with…here’s what today looked like:

Totally Awesome- Honchie
Destination Unknown-Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Rush- Big Audio Dynamite
Rock N Roll- G Love & the Special Sauce
Body in the Lake-the Codetalkers w/Col Bruce Hampton
Sweet Jane- Lou Reed (live)
Beat on the Brat- U2
Happy Together- the Passive Aggressives
Cold War- the Charms
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Extra Virgin- the Josh Roseman Unit
Forget Everything- Was (Was Not)
Manufactured Consent(Cheney’s got a gun)-mamarazzi
Let’s get it on- the Rebirth Brass Band
Second & Dryades-Galactic w/Big Chief Monk Boudreaux
I can See Clearly now-Kermit Ruffins w/Bonerama Horns/Troy Andrews
Struttin’ w/some Doner Kabobs- the N.O. Klezmer Allstars
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Shtick Shift- the Alexandria Kleztet
Picante(Party Time Version)- Charo
Lithuania- Rithma
Gosalo- the Pimps of Joytime
Reading Rainbow- the Mackrosoft
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Salida Con Elegba- Omar Sosa & NDR Bigband
Dio se Misle- Boukman Eksperyans
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My Honey & Me- the Emotions
Funky Belly-the Imperials w/Joseph Henry
Arts & Crafts- Maceo Parker
Basement Bhangra Anthem- DJ Rekha & Sunil Sehgal FT. Wyclef Jean & Bikram Singh

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Stand with Haiti

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Some of Madison’s finest musicians get together to benefit those affected by the tragic events rendered by mother nature in Haiti. On Sunday January 24th from 3-9pm CST at the Barrymore Theatre, join the Gomers, Honor Among Thieves, Sean Michael Dargan Band, the Stellanovas with Chris Wagoner & Mary Gaines, members of the Piper Road Spring Band and Mr. Tony Brown & the 608 Riddim Section. These musicians from Madison will be putting those in need ahead of themselves, as i have learned is certainly an ongoing trend around these parts.

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It’s not like Haiti hasn’t been a nation in need for some time now, it is just now more people are noticing.

Monomaniacs

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Chris Joss on ESL Music.

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This is DA FUNK….I have gotten my ears wrapped around the B-3 and deep funkified grooves Chris Joss puts together once again….This with the new Breakestra and Fort Knox Five releases make for a set that is sure to win any FUNK NIGHT beat down. The moments where the guitars welcome a steady pulsing rhythm ties my feet into knots that only made up on the spot dance moves can get them untied….Trrrrrryyyyyy it you’llllllliiiike ittttttt!!

U N I T Y

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Interstate-Jeremiah Nelson & the Achilles Heel
This Heaven-David Gilmour w/Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orch.
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Black Reign- Mama’s Cookin’
What Keeps your Heart Beating- the Rattlers
Stop Dragin’ Around- Lenny Kravitz
Free Willis….-Blues Traveler w/Bruce Willis
New Used Car- Sue Foley
Lie to Ya’ Mama- Joe Pitts
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John the Revelator-Taj Mahal w/James Brown/Paul Shaffer/Sam Moore
Foster Fatty- Teddy Presberg
Free Love- Teddy Presberg
a Man can’t be a Man- George Soule
One of Those Days-Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere
Man Gone, Need Drink- Scrapomatic
Blue Eyed Soul- Diane Durrett
Supersoulfighter- Lenny Kravitz
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Funk Fingers- Ron Levy’s Wild Kingdom
Back in the Game- the Greyboy All Stars
the Encounter- the Mackrosoft
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Bro John- Victor Wooten
I Got Plenty O’ Nuthin’- Spearhead & Ernest Ranglin
Summertime- Bobby Womack & the Roots
Peter Sellers Sings George Gershwin- Money Mark
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Risk Failure- Secretary
Magnum Opie- Drums & Tuba
Break on Through- Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog
Hot Lava- Perry Farrell & DVDA
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Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya’- Dr. John
Iko Iko/Aicho- Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Double Jeopardy- Joshus Redman & the Elastic Band
He ain’t got Rhythm- Billie Holiday (Poppyseed Remix)
Bonita- the Pimps of Joytime
the Corner- Galactic w/Gift of Gab
Think Back- Galactic w/Chali 2na
I Love my Guitar- Prince
Low Down Stank- Breakestra
Sabor Tropical-Empresarios w/Francisco Rosado/Feliz Perez
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Peace Train- Tony Brown
Great- Mystic Bowie
Vampires- Thievery Corporation feat. Femi Kuti
Hot Blue – Somi
Return to Margin- Coldcut (Afterlife Lounge Remix)
Uh!- Juana Molina
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All up in it- DJ Spinna w/Eric Krasno & Neal Evans
One for Senegal- The Pleb
Sarama- Vieux Farka Toure (Brownout Remix)
Ai Du- Ali Farka Toure & Ry Cooder
Antatolia- Abaji
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What is Hip?- Quartet San Francisco
Out of the Blue-B.Fleck/Z.Hussain/E.Meyer & the Detroit Symphony Orch.
Chango En Esmeraldas- Omar Sosa & the NDR Bigband
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The Chicken- Garaj Mahal (live)
Get Ready- Oteil & the Peacemakers
Mala Vida- Mano Negra
Corren- Gossos feat. Dani Macaco
I told you Before- Enjuri
Deep Channel- Afro Celts
Megvarlak ma Delben- Locomotiv GT
Kargashai- Mamer
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B’Boom- King Crimson
Mindsuck- Elliott Sharp/Carbon
Arcadia Finlandis- David Fiuczynski
Metamorphosis- Daniel Bernard Rouman w/Phillip Glass
Sweet Ohm- Ohm
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Comfort Zone- Fourplay
Solar Fire- Incognito
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Rivers of Babylon- Sublime
It’s all About you- the Goldstars

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