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Music for the Masses: We’ve Got You Covered, Part 5 (Audio)
A broadcast featuring a selection of obscure and lesser-known cover versions of some better-known popular songs. (Part 5 of a returning series.)
"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid globe-hopper and armchair traveler alike. You might want to pack a map and a sandwich. Catskill resident "DJ Neva" is an ethnomusicologist, producer, and long-time cultural activist, specializing in music from the entire African continent, as well as the Caribbean and Latin America, the Maghreb and Middle East, and the Roma (Gypsy) diaspora. Formerly the producer of "Continental Drift" on WBAI-FM and New York International on Haitian community station Radio Soleil in NYC. The show is broadcast live from Catskill, NY.
Playlist:
- Nafas / Zeb
- Try A Little Tenderness / Otis Redding
- Papa Was A Rolling Stone / Was (Not Was)
- Congo Square / XL BRASS BAND
- Slavery Days / Tiken Jah Fakoly
- Shape of You / Wouter Kellerman/Ndlovu Youth Choir
- Miss You / Opium Moon
- All Along the Watchtower / Eliades Ochoa
- Am I the Same Girl / Charmaine Burnette
- Big Brother / Kaïssa
- Cinco Salsa (First Movement of the 5. Symphony) / Sverre Indris Joner
- Once in a Lifetime / Angélique Kidjo
- They Don't Care About Us (Remastered Version) / Michael Jackson
- Donme Dolap / Zeynep Ozbilen
- First There Is a Mountain / Zorro Five
- Sinnerman / אסתר רדא
- I Want You Back / Tony Succar
- Don't Let Me Down / Charlotte Dada
- Eleanor Rigby / Herb Alpert
- Ode To Billy Joe / Tommy McCook
- Words of Love / Vincent Nguini & Maloko
- Blowin In the Wind / Kek Lang
- Knocking On Heaven's Door / Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Ghost Riders in the Sky / Youn Sun Nah
- Hands On The Wheel / Norah Jones
- Sex Machine / Malik Adouane
- Funkier than a Mosquito´s Tweeter / Selma Uamusse
- La Botella (The Bottle) / Joe Bataan
- Prison Song / Shahram Shabpareh