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Loading... Natalia Lafourcade – Hasta La Raíz
Natalia Lafourcade’s label has most of her live performances on lockdown. I’ve been wanting to share something of hers for years; KCRW finally came through for me.
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FMD: Bucket List Artists
The theme of my selections this week has been my notion of a “4-Hour Bucket List” — artists I would happily drive four hours in one direction to see if that was the closest show to my area.
The inspiration was an artist I first saw after COVID, am thinking I may have missed my opportunity. Fortunately, I’ll be seeing him for a second time in a couple weeks, at which point I’m fairly certain he’ll be the oldest performer I’ve bought a ticket to see: Willie Nelson , who just turned 91 on Monday.
So, let’s see your bucket list artists. Who is on your bucket list?
Tom Waits – Innocent When You Dream
This was the lullaby I most frequently sang to the Poissonnière, back when she was an age to need them fairly often.
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Loading... Tom Russell – East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam
The first Tom Russell tune I heard was “Gallo Del Cielo,” which stopped me in my tracks as a guy in my unit played it over a field telephone speaker out in the field. You couldn’t get much lower-fi than that delivery, but I was transfixed by the song. I wrote the performer & title down in my notebook and made a note to acquire it once I got back to the barracks. I jumped into the back catalogue pretty deep after that. The only other memory I have of the guy who introduced me to Tom Russell was him getting busted for trying to smuggle a confiscated Colt .38 Special back from Iraq.
I can’t find a version of “Gallo Del Cielo” online that does the studio recording justice, so instead I went with a live version of the initial track of Blood and Candle Smoke inspired by Tom’s experiences teaching in Nigeria during the Biafran War. This is a pretty fair introduction to how densely allusive his songwriting can be.
I don’t think Tom tours anymore and I’m not even certain he still plays shows. If he was coming remotely close to the People’s Republic I would be there. He’s one of my favorite living songwriters.
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Loading... La Santa Cecilia – El Andariego
Most of the new music I listen to that includes a vocal part is recorded in languages other than English. I’ve been listening to La Santa Cecilia for years, not understanding exactly what any particular song La Marisoul sings is about, and yet they’re one of my favorite bands.
Maybe that’s one of the greatest parts of being human: you don’t need to understand something to feel its beauty hit you square in the chest so hard it puts a lump in your throat. Hopefully I’ll get to see them live one day.
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Loading... Angélique Kidjo – Crosseyed and Painless
Shows on the scale that Angélique Kidjo is routinely capable of pulling off would be exhausting for me to attend, but there’s no way I would willingly miss her. I don’t know who is in charge of parceling out megastardom, but somehow they managed to short shrift Mdme. Kidjo.
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Loading... Orquesta Akokán – El Inflador
This week I'll be featuring some of the artists on my 4-Hour Bucket List — essentially, those I'd happily drive up to four hours away to see perform (assuming no shows on the tour are closer to me). There are more names on the list than days in the week, so (spoiler alert) I'll drop my list on Friday and invite you to do the same.
Orquesta Akokán ("from the heart" in Yoruban) is made up of musicians from Cuba and New York. The band's arrangements are penned by a guy with a PhD from NYU who wrote his dissertation on Cuban piano improvisation in the 1930s–40s, and the band’s three founders recruited the rest of the lineup through the vocalist's connections with Irakere, the legendary Cuban band founded by Chucho Valdés.
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Loading... Les Égarés – Esperanza
I love Vincent Peirani’s playing, but Ballaké Sissoko’s work on kora rounds this quarter with Vincent Ségal & Émile Parisien into something truly special.
I do want to commend to your attention Brad Mehldau’s 2023 album Your Mother Should Know. I can’t link a live Mehldau performance here because of the fun police, but listen to his version of “Golden Slumbers, “one of the most beautiful tunes in the Beatles’ catalog.
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Game 149: Twins at Pale Hosers (in progress)
It’s good to be on the board, yes.