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Listen to the most recent Tangents show
12/25/2010
2010 Favorites Part 1 (blue indicates recommended CD) and Tangential Christmas Songs
Label Artist Album Selection
Real World Blind Boys of Alabama Go Tell It On The Mountain Away in a Manger
Concord Records Ray Charles Spirit of Christmas Baby It's Cold Outside
feat. Betty Carter
Alligator JJ Grey & Mofro Georgia Warhorse (N) The Sweetest Thing
8:15
Alligator The Holmes Brothers Feed My Soul (L) TT
Alligator C. J. Chenier & the Red-Hot Louisiana Band Genuine Houserockin' Christmas (var) Zydeco Christmas
Big Stink Research Records David Hidalgo & Louie Perez
(of Los Lobos)
The Long Goodbye (comp) (N) What Good is Love
stax The Staple Singers Christmas in Soulsville (var) Who Took the Merry out of Christmas?
ANTI- Mavis Staples You Are Not Alone (N) Too Close / I'm On My Way To Heaven Anyhow
ANTI- Bettye LaVette
[Fresh Air Interview]
Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook (L) It Don't Come Easy by Ringo Starr
Blue Note Cassandra Wilson Silver Pony (N) Saddle Up My Pony by Charlie Patton
Victor Derek Trucks Band Roadsongs (2 CD) (N) Down In The Flood
8:55
Takoma John Fahey The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album Carol of the Bells
duet with Richard Ruskin
Music Maker Records Gordon Giltrap On a Summer's Night (Live) A Christmas Carol
Relativity Adrian Legg High Strung Tall Tales Silent Night - the Movie
Upcoming Show: Adrian Legg @ 142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, Saturday, January 8, 8 PM, $18 General Admission, $21 General Admission Day of Show
opening set: Teja Gerken
National Geographic Music Toubab Krewe TK2 (N) Carnavalito
Real World Aurelio Martinez Laru Beya (FC Jan 18, 2011) Wéibayuwa
Upcoming Show: Aurelio Martinez Group

@ Yoshi's San Francisco January 18, 2011, 8 PM, $20
photo credit: Sarah Weeden
astar Cimarrón Quitapesares (N) (I) Canto de Vaqueria / TT
9:20
Ryko Joseph Spence MAS! A Caribbean Christmas Party (var) Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
  Sqwonk
bass clarinet duo
Black (N) TT
ACT Youn Sun Nah Tangents Album of the Year: Same Girl (I) (N) Pancake
  Bomrani (Benzad Omrani) Iranian Underground (var)
Bonus CD with British Music Magazine Songlines, no. 67 (I) (N)
Piaderavi (Promenade)
9:35
Concord Christian Scott Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (N) K. K. P. D.
Nomad World Jazz Simon Shaheen & Glen Velez Nomad Christmas (var)
A World Music Celebration
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Igloo Majid Bekkas Makenba (I) (N) Noussik feat. Aly Keita on balaphone
10:00
Nonesuch Oumou Sangare Seya (L) Kounadya
Messidor Patato Masterpiece Felice Navidad
Nonesuch Tony Allen Secret Agent (N) TT
10:25
Texicalli Records Johanna Juhola Fantasiatango (I) (N) Viimeinen Kojootti
(The Last Of The Coyotes)
Hoedown / 7d Media KTU (Trey Gunn, Kimmo Pohjonen, Pat Mastelotto) Quiver (N) Kataklasm
Zang Hamed Nikpay Spellbound (N) A Quiver
CD not available yet Yemen Blues Yemen Blues (FC) (I) Yoducha
Upcoming Show: Yemen Blues Opens the 26th Jewish Music Festival, Saturday, March 5, 8 PM
@ The Freight & Salvage Coffee House, 2020 Addison St. Berkeley, $25 Advance / $30 Door
10:50
ACT Youn Sun Nah Tangents Album of the Year: Same Girl (I) (N) Kangwondo Arirang
11:00
Mystery artist: Who is the guitarist? Answer: Al Di Meola
Telarc Al Di Meola Winter Nights Carol of the Bells
Vania Productions Jaume Vilaseca Quartet Mumbai (I) (N) Circles, feat. Ravi Chary on sitar
Mundus Arifa Beyond Babylon (I) (N) Sun Dance
Aagoo Zemog El Gallo Bueno Nueva York Sessions (L) Madita Cancion
Abstract Logix Raga Bop Trio feat.
  • George Brooks - alto and tenor saxophone
  • Steve Smith - drums
  • Prasanna - Electric and Acoustic Guitars
  • Raga Bop Trio (N) Geometry of Rap
    11:25
    Nonesuch Laurie Anderson Homeland (CD & DVD set) (N) Transitory Life
    feat. Tuvan throat singers and Igil players of Chirgilchin
    Emarcy Bobby McFerrin VOCAbuLarieS (L) Brief Eternity
    six degrees Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal Chamber Music (N) Histoire de Molly
    Warner Brothers Bela Fleck & Bob James Warner Brothers Jazz Christmas Party (var) White Christmas (Bela plays a "sitar banjo")
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    L = latest     OVP = Out of Print     N = new     NR = newly reissued
    sdtrk = soundtrack     TT = title track     var = various     N/A = not available

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