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In honor of Ry Cooder's 74th birthday today, each set starts with one of his songs then spins down a path he's blazed for me and for all of us; I've tried to make the whole show as eclectic and rooted and soulful as Ry Cooder's music is; happy birthday Ry!
Produced at Natural Log Studio. Broadcast on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio in Richmond, Virginia every Monday from 3 to 5 PM. Available as a webstream simulcast at wrir.org. Downloads for rebroadcast on other non-profit radio stations and as podcasts via the A-Infos Radio Project at radio4all.net. And more information about all of those options and more on my blog, globalagogo.com.
Artist | Country | Song | Recording | Label | Year
Oliver Lake | USA | Separation | Matador Of 1st & 1st | Passin' Thru | 1997 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros | England UK | Global A Go-Go | Global A Go-Go | Hellcat | 2001
Ry Cooder | USA | F.D.R. In Trinidad | Into The Purple Valley | Reprise | 1972 Kobo Town | Trinidad & Tobago-Canada | Road To Fyzabad | Jumbie In The Jukebox | Cumbancha | 2013 Lord Kitchener & His Calypso All-Stars | Trinidad & Tobago | Birth Of Ghana | Birth Of Ghana - Single | Melodisc | 1957 The Growler | Trinidad & Tobago | Joe Louis - Schmeling Fight | Joe Louis - Schmeling Fight - Single | Decca | 1939 George Browne "Young Tiger" | Trinidad & Tobago | I Was There (At The Coronation) | I Was There (At The Coronation) | Parlophone | 1953
Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder | Mali-USA | Ai Du | Talking Timbuktu | World Circuit | 1994 Anansy Cisse | Mali-USA | Tiawo | Anoura | Riverboat | 2021
Ry Cooder | USA | He'll Have To Go | Chicken Skin Music | Reprise | 1976 Mingo Saldivar | USA | Ruida De Fuego | Ruida De Fuego - Single | Espada | 1978 Willy DeVille | USA | Hey Joe | Backstreets Of Desire | FNAC | 1992 Calexico | USA | Corona | Convict Pool - EP | Quarterstick | 2004 Mariachi El Bronx | USA | 48 Roses | II | ATO | 2011
Buena Vista Social Club | Cuba-USA | El Carretero | Buena Vista Social Club | World Circuit / Nonesuch | 1997 Sierra Maestra | Cuba | Dundunbanza | Dundunbanza! | World Circuit | 1994 Los Van Van | Cuba | La Titimania | Al Son Del Caribe | Areito | 1987
Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban | USA-Cuba | Monte Adentro | Mambo Sinuendo | Nonesuch / Perro Verde | 2002 Afrosound | Colombia | Caliventura | La Danza De Los Mirlos | Vampisoul | 1973 Chicha Libre | France-Venezuela-Mexico-USA | The Ride Of The Valkyries | Canibalismo | Crammed / Barbes | 2012 Los Chapillacs | Peru | Ilusion De Amor | Odisea Cumbia 3000 | self-released | 2010 Los Orientales De Paramonga | Peru | Lobos Al Escape | Lobos Al Escape - Single | Dinsa | 1970
Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt | USA-India | Ganges Delta Blues | A Meeting By The River | Water Lily Acoustics | 1993 Kiran Ahluwalia | India-Canada-Mali | Mustt Mustt (Extended) | Aam Zameen : Common Ground | Avokado Artists | 2011