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Music for the Masses: A Good Day for the Blues (Audio)
A lot of people have the blues right now, and for good reason. We offer this mix to help lighten the load. Featuring blues from the wellspring and beyond.
ARTIST / SONG TITLE / SOURCE
Musa Mboob & XamXam / Yarabi / The Gambia Sessions
Le Palm-Jazz de Macenta / Kobogui / Les Palmes du Succès
Metropolitan Klezmer / Baltic Blue / Mazel Means Good Luck
Rasha / Blue Sudan Blues / Let Me Be
Gramatik / You Don't Understand / The Age of Reason
Buckwheat Zydeco (feat. Major Handy) / I'm On the Wonder / The Best of Louisiana Zydeco
Eric Bibb / Change / One Mississippi
Solomon Burke / None of Us Are Free / Don't Give Up on Me
Sozinho Ernesto K. Banda (feat. Marcelino Banda Mpombeza & Peter Cohen) / Takunha Dilani / Wired for Sound: Moçambique
Robert Randolph & the Family Band / If I Had My Way / We Walk This Road
Hada Maoz / The Persian Bukharan Blues / Asian Soul
Majid Bekkas & African Gnaoua Blues / Galou / Live at the Gnaoua & World Music Festival of Essaouira
Havana Cultura / Blues de Mi Barrio (feat. Yasek Manzano) / ¡Súbelo, Cuba!
TootArd / Bayati Blues / Laissez Passer
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela / Obama Shuffle Strut Blues (Cool Cats Mix) / Rejoice
Blitz the Ambassador / Accra City Blues / Native Sun
Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck / Djam Leelii / Djam Leelii: The Adventurers
Paul Beaubrun / Legba Blues / Vilnerab
Aminata Fall / Yayeboye / Kan Foré
Bembeya Jazz National / Wouloukoro / Vinyl 7" 45 Single
Nina Simone / Backlash Blues / Nina Simone Sings the Blues
Carole Fredericks / J'ai le Sang Blues / Coueurs et Parfums…
Nicolas Repac / Cenas de Gaby / Black Box
Mac & Party / Liverpool / Vinyl 7" 45 Single
Aziza Brahim / El Canto de la Arena / Abbar el Hamada
Samba Touré / Su Wililé / Gandadiko
Akofa Akoussah / I Tcho Tchass / Akofa Akoussah
"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.