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Songlines
12/20/2014
Blue Hen Jim Campilongo Almost Christmas Old Toy Trains
8:05
Music Maker Records Gordon Giltrap On a Summer's Night (Live) A Christmas Carol
Takoma John Fahey The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album Silent Night
Sony Masterworks The Blind Boys of Alabama & Taj Mahal Talkin' Christmas (N) Merry Christmas to You
A&M Neville Brothers feat. Aaron Neville Yellow Moon With God On Our Side (written by Bob Dylan)
8:25
Ryko Joseph Spence MAS! A Caribbean Christmas Party (var) Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
Telarc Otis Taylor Double V Reindeer Meat
ANTI- Sean Rowe Madman (N) The Game
8:40
Concord Records Ray Charles Spirit of Christmas Baby It's Cold Outside
feat. Betty Carter
Alligator Shemekia Copeland Genuine Houserockin' Christmas (var) Stay a Little Longer, Santa
Putumayo Ingrid Lucia New Orleans Christmas (var) 'Zat You, Santa Claus?
Stax Little Johnny Taylor Christmas in Soulsville (var) Please Come Home for Christmas
Arhoolie HowellDevine
Joshua Howell, guitar & harmonica
Pete Devine, percussion
Modern Sounds Of Ancient Juju (N) Shake 'Em on Down
Upcoming Show: HowellDevine @ Biscuits and Blues, 401 Mason St., San Francisco, Monday, December 22, 7:30 PM & 9 PM, $15
Paleo Music Clothesline Revival Greatest Show on Mars (N) Barnum's Boogie
8:55
  Derek Trucks Band (youtube video) Greensleeves
longer version available on Live EP
9:05
Atlantic Herbie Mann
with Larry Coryell, Sonny Sharrock & Roy Ayers
Memphis Underground Memphis Underground
Okeh Somi The Lagos Music Salon (N) Four African Women
Premonition Patricia Barber Companion Black Magic Woman by Peter Green
Upcoming show: Patricia Barber @ SFJAZZ Center, Miner Auditorium, 201 Franklin Street @ Fell
Thursday, February 12, 2015, 7:30 PM, $25 / $35 / $50
Messidor Patato Masterpiece Felice Navidad
9:30
Telarc Al Di Meola Winter Nights Carol of the Bells
ECM Jan Garbarek Rites (2 CD) We Are The Stars
feat. Boys from the choir Solvguttene
Alula Kirile Loo Saatus Vana Kannel (The Ancient Psaltery)
Cloud Valley Sans Sans Live (I) (N) Läksin Minä Kesäyönä Käymään
(I Went Out on a Summer Night)
Nomad World Jazz Folk Scat Nomad Christmas (var)
A World Music Celebration
Silent Night
10:10
Mystery contest: Who is the oud player on this track?    Answer: Simon Shaheen
Nomad World Jazz Simon Shaheen & Glen Velez Nomad Christmas (var)
A World Music Celebration
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
KTA The Mermen Do You Hear What I Hear: A Very Mermen Christmas Arabian Dance
Island John Martyn Bless the Weather Glistening Glyndebourne
10:30
Nomad World Jazz Simon Shaheen Nomad Christmas (var)
A World Music Celebration
Taqasim: God Rest Ye (intro)
Crammed Hector Zazou & Swara In The House Of Mirrors (I) Sisyphe
World Village Adnan Joubran Borders Behind (I) (N) Never Been There
OPL James Whetzel Holiday: Sarod and Beats Greensleeves
Sachal Sachal Studios Orchestra, Lahore
story about Sachal Studios on NPR
Sachal Jazz Take Five
10:50
Metro Blues Bob Berg, Jim Beard, Arto Tunçboyacıan, Zakir Hussain World Christmas (var) We Three Kings
11:00
Gaza Corner features news and music from the Middle East and North Africa as events unfold
Each week new articles are posted in the Gaza Corner section of tangents.com
This week: Defence for Children International-Palestine Section article
Youth conviction: Palestinian children describe solitary confinement in Israeli military prisons
This week's featured artist: Nai Barghouti
KKV Rim Banna, Nai Barghouti, Wissam Murad, Jawaher Shofani A Time to Cry - A Lament Over Jerusalem (I)
[available at cdroots]
Mum, Sing to the Wind feat. Nai Barghouti
Nai Barghouti was 13 when this was recorded
Innacor Keyvan Chemirani Avaz (I) (N) Solo Bansuri
Galon Digor / Digué
Green Linnet L'Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde Noels Celtiques
Celtic Christmas Music from Brittany
Misteriou Joaius
(Mystères Joyeaux / Joyful Mysteries)
Walt Disney Placido Domingo Navidad en las Américas (var) La Virgen Lava Panales
Orange Mountain Philip Glass The Fog of War
soundtrack to the film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara by Errol Morris
100,000 People
Nonesuch Kronos Quartet A Thousand Thoughts (comp) (N) Tusen Tankar
11:35
  Carla Bley Carla's Christmas Carols The Christmas Song
Mames Babegenush Mames Babegenush Mames Babegenush (I) (N) Gatherinn Nigun
Asphalt Tango Çigdem Aslan Mortissa (I) (N) Teva Vre Manga Kai Alani
Fono Lajkó Félix Mezó (Field) (I) (L) Csárdás
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D = debut     comp = compilation     FC = forthcoming     I = import
L = latest     OVP = Out of Print     N = new     NR = newly reissued
sdtrk = soundtrack     TT = title track     var = various     N/A = not available
NCR = not commercially released

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