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01/15/2011
Label Artist Album Selection
Praxis/Zoo Sonny Landreth
[Wikipedia article on Sonny_Landreth]
South of I-10 Native Stepson
Fat Possum Heartless Bastards The Mountain Nothing Seems the Same
 
Epic / Legacy Spirit The Best of Spirit (comp) Fresh Garbage
originally released on Spirit (1968)
Lost Grove Records Toulouse Englehardt Perpendicular Worlds (N) Let the River Answer
Pleemhead David Lindley and Hani Naser Live in Tokyo (Official Bootleg) Mercury Blues
Upcoming Show: David Lindley Wednesday, January 19, 8 PM
@ The Freight & Salvage Coffee House, 2020 Addison St. Berkeley, $24.50 advance / $26.50 Door
 
ANTI- Mavis Staples You Are Not Alone (N) Wrote a Song for Everyone
originally by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Zoho Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet Natural Selection (N) Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers
Real World Little Axe (Skip McDonald) Champagne & Grits Walk On Water
Blue Note Cassandra Wilson Silver Pony (N) Went Down to St. James Infirmary
 
Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute
Hyena Staple Singers Gospel Music (var) Stand by Me
Smithsonian Folkways Barbara Dane and the Chambers Brothers Barbara Dane and the Chambers Brothers (1966) Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Columbia/Legacy Nina Simone Freedom: Songs from the Hearts of America (var) (3 CD set) I Wish I Knew How It Feels To Be Free
also on Ghosts Of Mississippi (sdtrk)
9:00
Columbia Mahalia Jackson The Essential Mahalia Jackson
(comp) (2 CD set)
You'll Never Walk Alone
  Paul Robeson Songs of Free Men Water Boy
Columbia/Legacy Sweet Honey In The Rock Freedom: Songs from the Hearts of America (var) (3 CD set) Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around
end of Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute
 
Songline / Tonefield Rinde Eckert Story In, Story Out
prod. by Lee Townsend
Day by Day
Talkin Lound/Verve Forecast United Future Organization United Future Organization On Est Ensemble Sans Se Parler - L.O.V.E.
NRW Taiga8 Taiga8 (I) [available at Amazon] Cold East
Triloka / Mercury Wassis Diop Toxu [available at cduniverse] Soweto Daal
World Village Carlou D
formerly of Positive Black Soul
Muzikr (N) Fimadiar
 
CNI Agricantus Kaleidos (I) Yari
Eighteenth Street Lounge Music Thievery Corporation It Takes a Thief (comp) (N) Holographic Universe
Extreme Pablo's Eye You Love Chinese Food Gone by Night
Six Degrees Wally Brill The Covenant New Wildest Dream
feat. Cantor Samuel Malavsky
Trance Mission Baraka Moon
(Stephen Kent, Sukhawat Ali Khan & Geoffrey Gordon)
Baraka Moon (L) Bismillah
Upcoming Show: Baraka Moon with Malian Kamale Ngoni (Hunters Harp) player, Mamadou Sidibe
@ Ashkenaz, Wednesday, January 19, 8 PM $10 advance / $12 day of show
 
Riverboat Records / World Music Network Javier Ruibal Sahara (I) La Flor De Estambul
music by Erik Satie, "Gnossienne No. 1"
Real World Aurelio Martinez Laru Beya FC Jan 18, 2011 Bisien Nu (My Love for You)
Music of the Garifuna
feat. Orchestra Baobab
Upcoming Show: Aurelio Martinez Group

@ Yoshi's San Francisco Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 8 PM, $20
photo credit: Sarah Weeden
 
Shanachie Earthlan The Beautiful Collision of Nations Poem About Time
recited by Chantal Lamour
norcd Eplemøya Songlag (I) (N) Møykjæringsvise
ACT Youn Sun Nah Same Girl (I) (N) Kangwondo Arirang
  Peter Rosmanith Schnee (Sand) (I) Rimmal
Global Fusion Music Ian Dogole Night Harvest Message From the Nile by McCoy Tyner
feat. Hamza el Din
Upcoming Show: Hemispheres feat. Ian Dogole @ 142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley
Saturday, January 22, 8 PM, $18 General Admission advance, $21 General Day of Show, $25 Reserved Seating
Tickets available on-line
11:00
Six Degrees Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal Chamber Music (I) (N) Histoire de Molly
Gaza Corner pre-empted by news of the popular overthrow of Tunisia's despot Zine al-Abidine ben Ali
More info: editorial Guardian UK & Opinion piece in AlJazeera by Mark LeVine
Music below by Tunisian artists Dhafer Youssef & Anouar Brahem
not commercially available Dhafer Youssef & Paolo Fresu Live in Belgrade, Serbia  
ECM Anouar Brahem Conte de l'Incroyable Amour L'Oiseau de Bois
end of Tunisia segment
Pure Joseph Vitarelli The Last Seduction (sdtrk) TT
Noir City 9, San Francisco's Film Noir Festival @ the Castro Theater, Jan. 21-30, 2011
 
TuvaMuch Kongar-ol Ondar Echoes of Tuva Alash Khem
Upcoming Show: Genghis Blues Review feat. Kongar-ol Ondar @ kaleidoscope free speech zone, 3109 24th St. San Francisco
Saturday, January 22, 8:30 PM
Upcoming Movie & Show: Oscar nominated Genghis Blues, followed by Kongar-ol Ondar in Concert
@ the Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, Sunday, January 23, 7:15 PM (tickets online)
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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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