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Al compas del mundo – programa #51, 10-27-22 potpourri   A traipsing we will go, exploring the very nature of potpourri. Judging by his album covers, Little Willie John never let the “Little” get in his way when it came to sidling up to foxy ladies. And Lavern Baker (notice it isn’t “Little” Lavern Baker”) lets you know she won’t take no guff and we’re going to do things her way. Amen! And then there’s Walter Horton – bless his heart.  La Cucaracha is going to have our entire corner of Mexico smiling as Big Walter trips the harmonica light fantastic.  And what’s up with Benin? Back in the 60’s and 70’s pop groups from this West African nation carried their weight disproportionately compared to their neighbors – hit after hit and a sound that never wears thin. Cotonou must have been a jumping place! And give the San Francisco Bay Area a little credit: Ritmo y Candela along with stalwart Santana swing in that particular Latin way. Followed by some moody, out-there stuff fr...

There is a dark side to this in that understated was Southie's wish to just be white. I found about that early on...and went around that place for the most part. When Southie white majority was throwing bricks at blacks in 1975, the white minority in Lower Roxbury as a result was ducking stones thrown by the blacks of the town too. But the people here in this Vid are familiar too. Like Muswell Hillbillys, progress is coming and they are supposed to find a new home. And nobody cares.

  Keeper of the Flame – JB Hutto This is something I wrote in 1981 for a publication called Sweet Potato. It was the first time I ever got paid for something I wrote. JB Hutto is a musical powerhouse. A small man in a red gabardine shirt and gray sports cap, he pops his eyes and grins to the back seats as he plays. It's late on a weeknight at Cambridge’s soon to be defunct Speakeasy, and the crowd is thinned in preparation for the next day's work. But JB is somehow spurred on, jumping from the stage with ferocious good fun. He is soon dancing on one foot, snaking through the audience and to his guitar cords’ limit. The man has his own style of playing and young guitar players typically line the stage watching his hands. He's the king of slide stylists today. Only Muddy Waters performs slide with such skill and he often plays the instrument with cold frugality. But JB’s playing is abundant and his leads map a tune’s wildest borders. Theatrical antics can mask it from ...

Oracle Cloud World Once I had a regular technology column titled "Jaundiced View". But coming up with yellow journalism proved tiring! More seriously, it was hard to be repetitively dour. We renamed the column "The Skeptical Examiner" and I have resurrected that on my Progressive Gauge blog . That is a site dedicated to the independent tech writing practice I have pursued since 2019. The most recent article there discusses Oracle, a bigtime software company that stages a yearly convention I must have attended near 10 times, usually having to haul ass across the whole country to do it. That's something I still do in my dreams. Software is a salespersons' paradise, and the greatest salesperson since Jesus is Larry Ellison, head of Oracle. He is 78, so he has more of this behind him then ahead - well, maybe I could be wrong there, as he has invested several hundred millions of dollars on Longevity Technology. "Death never made sense to me." - he said....

Moon Traveller is honored to host the archival list of old buddy Jim Haas's Mexican Radio Show . Get right with Instant Karma and Learn more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO . Contemporary music from Mali Mali is one of those diverse cultures where in a thorough review of its music rarely is found a discouraging sound. It’s not that they don’t have their troubles to sing about, and I’ll need to make exceptions in my theory for Tuareg music and that of some of the smaller minority groups. But in the mainstream music that dominates the urban areas and has come to influence world music aesthetics, the creative musical impulses from a wide range of singers and musicians fill our ears with sweetness and light. Similar to Irish and Andean music, you don’t ever hear much in minor modes…no sour notes…no flatted fifths. Is it due to the use of the pentatonic scale? I’m too uneducated in music theory to say with certainty, but even when singing of drought and disaster, the music apart – to my...

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  I have always been smitten with the Bolivian “cholitas” (campesina) fashion of bowler hats. Who started this, trend, how, and why? I can just imagine some itinerant hat vendor, recently having made the buy of a lifetime (!), treking from village to village through the Andes and spreading rumors that in the next town over these new bulbous hats are all the rage. Or not. Investigation is called for. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Latin America folks adapted, evolved and invented right up to the present day – where torn jeans, NBA logo hats, and hiphop sounds are the new bee’s knees. Let’s go back, shall we, to an earlier time when Chileans danced the cueca, accordions ruled Colombia, and Puerto Ricans sang of the harvests instead of worrying about when the electricity might come back. Welcome to the transitory, world of Al compas del mundo, programa #49! - J.H. Check out the runlist for the latest show ... Oct 13, 2022 ... Folklore of Latin America! 01 Conjunto Alma Jar...

  On the town. Twas the second annual Ed Raymond OffBeat Freedom Trail trek. Fort Independence on Castle Island (where Sgt. Edgar Allan Poe heard the tale that became The Cask of Amontillado) Foley’s on Berkeley (where the Boston Police Strike of 1919 was fomented), the Malcom X mural in the Station formerly known as Dudley, Roxbury puddingstone, Mission Church. Also playing records. And wrap up picking stones on the beach (with a geologist!) and sea food at Wollaston Beach with the friends and family. Here I might list some cool spots in Boston/Cambridge IMHO. Castle Isle In Your Ear Records Stero Jack's Records Foleys in the South End Mission Hill Fitzgerald Park Mission Church Public Garden Longfellow House Harvard Yard The Glass Flowers Amelia Earhart Statue Maj. Shaw Statue John Kennedy birth place Edgar Allan Poe birth place The Emerald Necklace Olmstead's Workshop River Charles Braves Field Lexington Green

"If the glass is full, you can't fill it." - Jelly Roll Morten Jack Daniels was sitting  by the fire a' cryin -  copper tubes in moonlight the mash a fryin. Tom Merton come down  from Gethsemane Town walked way back to way back when - had two sips and again did a chugalug flip kissed the sky and then wrote a note in journal bout that old Kentucky zen.

Moon Traveller is honored to host the archival list of old buddy Jim Haas's Mexican Radio Show. Get right with Instant Karma and Learn more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO .  And check out the runlist for the latest show... Hey, Potpurrí! 01 Betsayda Machado con Parranda el Clavo - Oh, Santa Rosa (Venezuela) 02 Barbatuques - Você Chegou (Brazil) 03 Sergio Mendes - Magalenha (Brazil) 04 L'Orchestre Kanaga de Mopti - Gambari (Signifie l’herbe verte) (Mali) 05 Bela Fleck, Haruna Walisimbi, Okiror and Ronald Mabandha - Spirit Song (Uganda and USA) 06 Tulear, Majunga, Mananjary - Morombe (Madagascar) 07 Jonah Sithole and The Black Unlimited – Mupurwa (Zimbabwe) 08 Anonymous – title unknown (Somalia) 09 Koma Mazluman - Eman Dilo (Turkey) 10 Joseph Spence - Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer (Bahamas) 11 Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues (USA) 12 Jim Kweskin Jug Band - Rag Mama (USA) 13 The Dead South - In Hell I'll Be In Good Company (USA) 14 Landy McNeil - Move It (Move On) (USA) 15 Merced Bl...

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