Sundazed

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Ahhh open schedule..a chance to make the most of my (un)free time.

Hey Hey Now- Chris Huff
If you gotta go- the Shams
Natural’s Not in it- Gang of Four
Yalla Yalla- Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
Blue Eyed Devil- Soul Coughing
Happy Together- the Passive Aggressives
Happy Hour- Whiskey & Co
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the Horizon has been Defeated- Jack Johnson
Unified- G Love & Special Sauce
Orange Blossoms- JJ Grey & Mofro
On Fire- JJ Grey & Mofro
VooDoo Cadillac- Lipbone Redding
Baby let me Hold your Hand- Davis Coen
I can Make you Happy-Taj Mahal & N.O. Social Club
Diddy Wah Diddy- Taj Mahal & Phantom Blues Band
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Evolved- Sam Kininger
Crosstown Traffic- Boston Horns (live)
Gemini- the Bomb Squad
Kashmir- the Josh Roseman Unit
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Fubractive C- Burnt Sugar
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the Simpsons-Joe Deninson & Stratospheerius (live)
Hindi Gumbo- Garaj Mahal
Rockin’ Shoes- Doug Wimbish
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Gary’s Song- Alice SMith
Centre of Nowhere- LadyBUG Mecca
Along came Mr Nobody- Ursula 1000
Tres Tres Chic- Mocean Worker
Tito’s Way- the Juan McLean
Gosalo- Pimps of Joytime
Distance- Karsh Kale(Capt Grooves Trinity Plaza Mix)
Medicine- Rara Avis

Ear Nibble

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Daddy’s in the Doldrums- the Secret Machines
Long Hair- Little Barrie
All Cause of you- the 88
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San Francisco- Brett Dennen
Down by the River Side-Blind Boys of Alabama/Preservation Hall Jazz/A Toussaint
Check Mr Popeye- Eddie Bo
Barking up the Wrong Tree-Michelle Wilson & Evil Gal Festival Orch
Don’t let Nobody..,Bibb/Block/Muldaur
Smell the Funk- Buddy Guy
VooDoo Chile-A.Kidjo/B Guy/V Reid
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Porchswing- Bourbon Princess
Mambo Banjo- Alison Brown
Samba Caramba- Mattias IA Eklundh
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Lima- Codetalker w/Col Bruce Hampton
Gabe’s New Joint- Antibalas
Tambo lya- Ricardo Eddy Martinez
Make the Road by Walking- Menahan Street Band
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Sweat Leaf- Galactic (live)
Man of Mystery- James Taylor Quartet
Check it out- James Taylor Quartet
Daddys Gonna Tell you no Lie- Josh Roseman Unit
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Liberty- Ben Senterfit
Love Work & Money- Josh Charles
Bounce- Melvin Sparks
All Day All Night- Melvin Sparks
Moses Poses Private Eye- Bad Apple
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She Do- Pimps of Joytime
San Francisco Bound- Pimps of Joytime
I wish I could be Beautiful- Rithma
Music is a Medicine- BLVD
Battle of the Righteous Man-Dub Gabriel w/Dr Isreal
Bred Atay- Kasbah Rocks w/Bill Laswell
Behind the Mask- Eccodek
Koi Bole Ram Ram- Cheb i Sabbah
By Your Side- Sade (Cottonbelly remix)

NPR Layoffs

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Confronted by an uncertain economy and a sharp decline in current and projected revenues from corporate underwriting, NPR today announced that it will reduce its workforce by 7 percent and cut expenses. The difficult moves come despite NPR reaching near-record audience levels on-air and online, with 26.4 million people listening to NPR programs each week and 8 million people visiting NPR.org each month. A significant number of the personnel cuts result from the upcoming cancellation of two NPR produced programs — Day to Day and News & Notes. Both programs, broadcast on NPR Member stations nationwide, will remain on the air through March 20, 2009. Staff and expense reductions will be made in reporting, editorial and production areas; station services; digital media; research; communications and administrative support. A total of 64 filled positions have been eliminated against NPR’s current staff of 889, 21 open positions will not be filled and travel and discretionary expenses have been cut across the organization. “It’s crucial to realize that these programming changes are being driven by a loss in revenue, not relevance,” said Ellen Weiss, NPR’s Senior Vice President for News. “With near-record audience levels, now more than ever people are relying on NPR to better understand the extraordinary events occurring in the world.”

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original source: Daily Fishbowl DC

A long week to an end

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Been a long week or maybe a few long ones in a row…This is a set of music comprised of not a lot of planning but several well thought mixes of old and some Tops of 2008

Canaries in the Mind-Elliott Murphy/Oliver Durand
Gina- Chuck E Weiss
All She Wrote- Ray Davies
Wannamama- Pop Levi
Spend a Little Time- Barry Adamson
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Little by Little- Twinemen
Bad Weather- AKACOD
Mr Moto/Munster’s Theme- the Dilingers
Abbattack Medley- Audioscam
Decline & Fall- Atomic Rooster
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Body in the Lake-Codetalkers with Col Bruce Hampton
Toe Jam- the BPA w/David Byrne
Y No le conviene- Los Van Van
A Ver Que Sale- Juan Formell & Los Van Van
Budos Rising- the Budos Band
the Contender- Menahan Street Band
Going the Distance- Menahan Street Band
Keep on Looking- Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Yes its good for you- Koko Taylor
Wet Match- Etta James
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Transit- Furley
Mercy Mercy Me-Dirty Dozen Brass w/ G Love
Disciples of Funk- Bootsy Collins
Funky Miracle>
Sing a Simple Song>
Rainy Day Woman-Porter/Batiste/Stoltz/McConnell

Twilight Zone- FrEEkBaSS
I saw god- Victor Wooten
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Bursting- Bassnectar with Buckethead
Shine- Doodlebug feat D.O.R.
Lithuania- Rithma

A Change Gonna Come

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Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings blew the top off of the Barrymore last night. The place was storming with Sister Sharon’s sweet soul and shaking with the grooves laid down by the one and only DAP KINGS. Before the show Sharon and I and some of the gang hung out and chatting about the sounds and the scene—then when the lights came up and the opening act, Menahan Street Band hit the stage with a rhythm and stellar sound that captured the crowd with a musical net that encompassed the entire room. Made up of many members of Sharon’s band, Menahan Street Band has a new album out and is soul exciting that it’s hard to keep from moving. Then the Dap Kings took the stage and introduced the spirit, vibe and direction the night would be heading, a trip down memory lane for some—-a brand new bag for others but regardless this was about to be a night for many to recall. Sharon was in an audience participation frenzy and even grabbed the hand of this G to be a part of the on-stage excitement. What a thrill to be serenaded by the on and only Sharon Jones. Many highlights, too many to write down but hearing the Sam Cooke R & B classic “a change is gonna come”, a duet performed with Mister Charles Bradley was a top notch reward for recent president elect and the citizens of the United States…Bradley also is doing a few numbers with Menahan Street Band as part of the tour as well. There was more than magic in the air on this night which might just have lead up to the hottest show of the year and I look forward to the return of Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings to Madison for now on. Thanks Daptone Records for keeping’ the SOUL Excitement alive and well cared for.

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MisterG on stage w/Sharon & the Dap Kings 12/03 Barrymore Theater.

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Sharon making SOUL EXCITEMENT in MADISON

folk music legend Odetta passes

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Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. She was 77. In spite of failing health that caused her to use a wheelchair, Odetta performed 60 concerts in the last two years, singing for 90 minutes at a time. Her singing ability never diminished, said her manager of 12 years, Doug Yeager. With her booming, classically trained voice and spare guitar, Odetta gave life to the songs by workingmen and slaves, farmers and miners, housewives and washerwomen, blacks and whites. First coming to prominence in the 1950s, she influenced Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and other singers who had roots in the folk music boom. An Odetta record on the turntable, listeners could close their eyes and imagine themselves hearing the sounds of spirituals and blues as they rang out from a weathered back porch or around a long-vanished campfire a century before. Odetta called on her fellow blacks to “take pride in the history of the American Negro” and was active in the civil rights movement. When she sang at the March on Washington in August 1963, “Odetta’s great, full-throated voice carried almost to Capitol Hill,” The New York Times wrote. “I’m not a real folksinger,” she told The Washington Post in 1983. “I don’t mind people calling me that, but I’m a musical historian. I’m a city kid who has admired an area and who got into it. I’ve been fortunate. With folk music, I can do my teaching and preaching, my propagandizing.” Her 1965 album “Odetta Sings Dylan” included such standards as “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” “Masters of War” and “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” In a 1978 Playboy interview, Dylan said, “the first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta.” He said he found “just something vital and personal” when he heard an early album of hers in a record store as a teenager. “Right then and there, I went out and traded my electric guitar and amplifier for an acoustical guitar,” he said.

RIP Miss Odetta

Some Jazz the way I saw it

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did a little open schedule fill in…spinning some jazz sounds the way I saw them fit together. Like the intrpretation of any painting or sculpture…this set list is built from scraps of each sound…

Thank you- Melvin Sparks
Baby Bouncer- the new Mastersounds
the Vandenburg Suite- the new Mastersounds
Freetime- Akashic Record
Funky or What- Celia Baron
Turkey on Bourbon Street- Skeebo Knight
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Earth Mover- Grant Calvin Weston
Juju Fruit- Billy Martin & G. Calvin Weston
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See the World for the First time-Lee Konitz & Minsarah
One Dance Alone- Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet
the In Crowd- Javon Jackson
Abele Dance- Many Dibango
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Nomra- Matana Roberts
Inside Straight- Cannonball Re Loaded
James Crow JR ESQ- Christian Scott (live)
Ow- the Gust Spenos Quartet
Mobius Trip- Imaginary Homeland
Chant- Coleman Hawkins
Work Song- Nat Adderely
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Flute Bag- Rufus Harley
Monk asks Billy for a Smoke- Matt Eakle
Give us Peace- Yo Yo Ma w/the Assad Brothers
Vassourinhas- Yo Yo Ma w/the Assad Brothers
Pick up the Pieces- Quartet San Francisco
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Size 101/2 Sneaks- Bill Frisell & Vernon Reid
A love Supreme- Carlos Santana
Cosmic Strut- the Mahavishnu Project
Yahoo- Yellowjackets feat. Mike Stern
New Boss- Bernie Worrell
Special Shirt- Charlie Hunter Trio
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I know you Know- Esperanza Spalding
Nighttime Bird- Amy Regan
Nighttime is the Right time- Etta James
All Over Again- Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Deep in the Sand- the Budos Band
Do you love me- Lee Fields & the Expressions
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Mofongo Raincheck- Secretary
Exuberance- Rob Brown Ensemble
Wolfman-Bob James Trio (electronic tape collage)
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Rhythm_a_ning- Ellis Marsalis Quartet
You’ve got to have Freedom- Pharoh Sanders (live)

Rhythm & Blues Yourself

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Just went through the collection over this week and with constantly being busy this past few weeks, I went with some tunes I don’t get a lot of chances to spin doing my thing..so..here’s something rhythm and bluesy for you:

Diggin’ Uncle Sam’s Backyard- Paul Geremia (live)
Play with your Poodle- James Cotton
Shake your Money Maker- Roy Rogers & Norton Buffalo
Shake what your Mama Gave you-Corey Harris & Henry Butler
Henry’s Boogie- Henry Butler
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Don’t you Feel my Leg- Maria Muldaur (live)
I Pity the Fool-Shemekia Copeland & Robert Cray (live)
She just Wants to Dance-Gary US Bonds & Dickey Betts
Season of the Witch-Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills
Mystic Eyes- Them
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The Hustler- Alvin Youngblood Hart
Do the Dirt- the Phantom Blues Band
I Only know one Love-Phantom Blues Band & Taj Mahal
Scratch my Back- Taj Mahal
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Mumbo Jumbo- Davis Coen
No Such Thing- Mem Shannon (live)
Something you Got- Davell Crawford (live)
The Devil you Know- JJ Grey & Mofro
got to be New Orleans- Elvin Bishop
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Red Yellow…-Treat Her Right
Back to Sin City- Treat her Right
Nightime is the Right time- Albert Castiglia
Love Freak- ScrapOmatic
Check Yourself- Oteil & the Peacemakers
Jackpot- Bad Apples
Let’s get Down- Sol Creech Band
Banal Reality- Organic Grooves
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How do you let a good man down-Sharon Jones & the DapKings
**Conversation with Sharon Jones**
This Land is Your Land- Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Fish in the Dish- Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Stuck to you- Nikka Costa
Love you like a Woman- Koko Taylor
I Want you Cause I want you-EG Kight
Your Mama’s Talking- Shemekia Copeland
Rock me Right- Susan Tedeschi
Fretboards on Fire- Desiree Bassett & the Time Machine
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I got loaded- Tab Benoit & Jimmy Thackery (live)
Snowed- Doug Cash
Hand it over- Keb Mo
Mighty Crazy- King Biscuit Boy
Good Understanding- Al Copley & Fabulous T Birds

MOFRO’d at the Majestic

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As soon as I took one step into the theater, the Brass infused funk–N’Orleans style was booming courtesy of Troy “Trombone Shorty” and Orleans Avenue. I can’t say enough about the playing and the show they put on. Troy was holding notes longer than some people were in the bathroom and the band was on fire as usual. That is one act I hope to see return this summer around festival time!! JJ brought out Mofro with the stage set for a serious soul infection. Starting on the keys himself and hitting off with some new and some relative tracks to the new, the Majestic was electric with the mere presence of this band. Direction unknown was certainly on tap as we were treated to some soul, funk and let’s just say, JJ had his mojo workin’.

My recent conversation with JJ Grey before he hit Madison.

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Sharon Jones brings it to Madison

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On December 3rd at the Barrymore Theater, Sharon Jones and the Dap-kings will bring their high energy rhythm and soulful sounds into Madison. Ohh and Sharon will bring it so we can feel it…..From the rumble and grumble of thick funk jerking you to the dancefloor to the soaring soul guaranteed to make you sigh, one thing is for sure: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are legitimate heavy-hitters. I am thankful that Sharon was able to take a moment while at her moms after working on some new pieces to chat with me about the upcoming show, her appearance with Denzel and some interesting bits about Lou Reed’s BERLIN tour that might cause you to search the internet high and low. Opening the show will be Menahan Street Band, comprised of musicians from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (Dave Guy, Homer Steinweiss, Fernando Velez, Bosco Mann), El Michels Affair (Leon Michels, Toby Pazner), Antibalas (Nick Movshon, Aaron Johnson) and The Budos Band (Mike Deller, Daniel Fodder), I have a feeling that on the 4th of December, many around here will just have witnessed the show of the year.

Check out my conversation with Miss Sharon Jones right here.

I got the GRASS & Blues

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We made it to the Congress Theater after running into some of the great Chicago traffic we all hear about….this helped ease into the rippin’ blues that Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials were delivering as we made our way into the mouth of the theater. Lil Ed is a true showman and the skills of the band had the joint jumpin in rhythm and howling with the feelin’. I am big on Lil Ed!! Majors Junction picked their family style grass to the pleasure of the crowd, with tantalizing twanging, smiling faces and sweet sounds, Majors Junction was quick into the hearts of those with listening ears. In between all of the acts is a picking circle high up in the balcony, sort of Muppet show like at times with the spotlight hitting them up just right-they kept your foot stomping while waiting for the next act to follow on the big stage. In the front of the house was a second smaller stage filled with bands a plenty knockin’ it into the next big act in the great room. Ha Ha Tonka, neither blues nor bluegrass made its way on stage to a warm reception. These boys like to rock and with harmonies and moments of a’capella–they sure have a sound worth checking into on any billing. But the reason for my getting involved in this festival, the David Grisman Quintet made an immediate impact as soon as the Dawg and his mates took the stage. This is no ordinary act, no easy way to categorize Blues/Bluegrass or otherwise, this is a fusion of global quiet music set to the time of another place…a space occupied and polised up by the Dawg himself. I watched the crowd try to believe what they were seeing when that little Mandolin made such sweetness on stage. I look into the dreamy eyes of those witnessing the Quintet for the first time in complete amazement that these “old timers” could be so damn electrified without being plugged in. Chicago’s Don Stiernberg joined the group on stage for a few tunes and before you know it, the set was through leaving David and the audience ready for the next time. Closing out the evening was the Avett Brothers. Somehow these fellas have figured out a way of capturing true Americana in a bottle and releasing it at will onto those who never knew and those who love them so. I was somewhere in the middle when the night started and now am a fan. I am already looking forward to next year’s potential as this was the first go around for this festival, while the kinks are worked out—start preparing yourself for next year’s event now.

Check out my chat w/Mike Raspetello, the Director of the festival HERE.

Heading to Chicago

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I was an early bird again, starting at 9am to fill in for WORLDS FARE, so I gave a little taste of the corners to the world I have been listening to…..then on with the show. Then it is off to Chicago for the Bluegrass & Blues Festival. A perfect day to be picked on wouldn’t I say….

Mahadeva- Anoushka Shankar
Sisko’s Blues- Slavic Soul Party
It Calls me- Hazmat Modine
Indios do Norte- Forro in the Dark
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Gimme Shelter- Angelique Kidjo with Joss Stone
Kwi- Manze Dayila & the Nago Nation
Change(Barack OBAMA Song)-Manze Dayila & Nago Nation
Nago Nago- Nation Beat
A Cowboy in Brazil- Nation Beat
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Djefrile- Djoliba
Kiyakiya- Babatunde Olatunki
the Hunt- Mickey Hart
T’Boli- Dr. Didg
Uncle- Xavier Rudd
Everything is Broken-Bob Dylan (Alt Take)
I Believe it Tonight- Buzzy Linhart
How you Remember it- Blues Traveller
**Conversation with Mike Raspetello**
What’d I say- Roy Orbison
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Who’s got the Weed- G Love & Special Sauce
Hollywood AFRICA- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Check your Mind-Porter/Batiste/Stoltz/McConnel(live)
Zambezi- the new Mastersounds
Ain’t no Telling- the new Mastersounds
Pure-the new Mastersounds feat. Sam Bell
How do you let a Good man Down-Sharon Jones & the DapKings
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Bruce Lee- Skeebo Knight
5 Finger Discount Liquid Soul
The Plain Truth- Karl Denson Trio
Love Buzz- Secretary feat. Big Boss
BBBeat- Balkan Beat Box
Gypsy Queens- Balkan Beat Box
Gat Swamba- Garage a Trois
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Orange Blossoms- JJ Grey & Mofro
***Conversation with JJ Grey***
On Fire- JJ Grey & Mofro
YBOR City- JJ Grey & Mofro
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Funk Bomb- Doug Johns
What is Hip- Marcus Miller
Courage- Vieux Farka Toure (Fabian Alsultany’s UFO Over Bamako Remix)

JJ Grey’s Orange Blossoms

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Heading into Madison this Sunday is JJ Grey and Mofro..bringing that sweet Southern Soul to a place that’ll keep warm to music like this. JJ’s newest album Orange Blossoms is making a splash all around music, hitting the tops of charts all over and we spend a little time here visiting with the album and its relationship to one other album of Mofro’s that seems to have a similar feel. Orange Blossoms is another Alligator Records release and this one is finding JJ in full musical bloom himself. There are hard hitters and soulful swayers, it is a complete album that is comfortable in its roots and the main people behind its blossoming, JJ and Producer Dan Prothero. There is a beautiful bevy of bandmates on this release and all of them deserve the same recognition I give to JJ, as I am sure he would tell you—it wouldn’t be the same without ’em.

check out our chat here.

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Mister Rourke’s Terrorvision

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Just in time for the Trick or Treaters…Mister Rourke’s TERRORVISION made it’s devious little way to my doorstep and I have been scaring, I mean sharing it with you ever since. The scratches are rhythmic and rowdy and believe it or not…this is one scratch album that has a plot and a story. We also learn something very interesting about Rourke’s project Guvna Dub, there is a special sax player working on the new project—a friend of greenarrowradio no doubt? If you never thought you were one for it, try it. We also spend some quality time talking about life, Elf Music and a couple of different ways in which inspiration is gained thru the eyes and ears of this scratch sculptor Mister Rourke.

catch our catch up session here.

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Chicago Bluegrass & Blues

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FESTIVAL!!! Man what a day it is going to be this Saturday November 22nd at the historic Congress Theater in Downtown Chicago. The Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival, a one day celebration of the roots of music will be taking place all day with doors opening at 11amCST. Aiming to help eradicate congenital heart defects in children, a portion of the event’s proceeds will contribute to the research efforts of the Chicago-based Saving Tiny Hearts Foundation. Until now, fans have had to travel far outside city limits and setup camp to witness a legend like David Grisman share a stage with the scene’s newest genre-defying sensations, The Avett Brothers, and a host of rising talents from the roots, blues, bluegrass, & jamband scenes.

The David Grisman Quintet
The Avett Brothers
Ha Ha Tonka
Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials
Majors Junction
Dollar Store
Blue Mother Tupelo
Billy Childers
How Far To Austin
and many more…….

My conversation with Mike Raspatello, Director of the Festival.

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