Whew, we had two great radio shows so far this month and are having a blast with our online radio show: Hearth Music Radio. Every WED 10am-NOON on Cascade Community Radio. Listen online: www.radio23.org/ccr

Next week (08/18) the theme will be NEW AFRICA. I dropped like $100 at Silver Platters, the local record store, so it's gonna be great fun! 

08/04 PLAYLIST
Theme = SWEAT

* = Brand New
# = Highly Recommended
-Artist: Song Title (Album)

Damon Albarn's Mali Music: Ko Kan Ko Sata Doumbia on River #
Damon Albarn's Mali Music: Sunset Coming On #
Yeasayer: Rome *
T Model Ford: To the Left, To the Right *
The Gregory Brothers: Double Rainbow Song *
Gary Numan & The Tubeway Army: Cars
Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys: Creole Stomp
Caleb Klauder: My Time is Gonna Come *#
Jace Everett: Bad Things
The Roots: Don't Say Nuthin
Scott H. Biram: Hard Time  *#
K'naan: America  #
Tinariwen: Cler Achel
Wu-Tang: Sound the Horns
The Builders and the Butchers: Bottom of the Lake
Orishas: 537 C.U.B.A.
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley: It Was Written
Jedi Mind Tricks: Godflesh
Nas & Damian Marley: Nah Mean *#
Blackbird Raum: Turning Away
Balkan Beat Box: Sunday Arak
Somali Mustafa: Kemal Paşa Çiftetelli
Paquito la del Barrio: La Pistolita
Jim Byrnes: Didn't It Rain
Sassparilla: Devil *#
Majik Click: Kamarade
Tip Maraton: Motorcycle
Dengue Fever: Sui Bong
MIDIval PunditZ: Piya
Pink Martini feat. Chavela Vargas: Piensa en Mi *
Shankar-Jaiskishan: Title Music from Bombay Talkie

Whew, that was music ranging from Thai mo lam, to Cambodian-LA surf rock, Haitian and Cuban hip-hop, Mexican ranchera, Jamaican dancehall, Santa Cruz folk-punk, Somali rap, roots country, Cajun, and electric blues.

 
08/11 PLAYLIST
Theme = STRAIGHT UP FOLK
(lots of new music in this playlist!)

* = Brand New
# = Highly Recommended
-Artist: Song Title (Album)

Tim O'Brien: The Sun Jumped Up  *
Adam Hurt: Cumberland Gap #
Sean Hayes: Gunnin' *
Della Mae: Blues Have Got Me Down *
Ruthie Dornfeld: Billy in the Lowground *
Avatar Young Blaze: I Am King  *#
Sam Amidon: Relief  *#
The Great Republic of Rough and Ready: God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign  *#
Sassparilla: Ticket to Ride  *#
Gogol Bordello: Wonderlust King
Blackbird Raum: Catherine's Wheel  #
Jason and Pharis Romero feat. Sophie Vitells: Jimmy Shank *#
Yves Lambert & Florent Vallant: Sur la rivière
The Haints Old-Time Stringband: Lowe Bonnnie  #
Hot Club Sandwich: Dejah Vu  *
Chris Coole & Ivan Rosenberg: Willie Duncan  *
Water Tower Bucket Boys: Bread *#
Caleb Klauder: Joking Henry *#
The Stringband: Bob Douglas, John Berquist, John & Susie Everett: I Wanna Be Your Man
Old Man Luedecke: Woe Betide the Doer of the Deed *
Mary Jane Lamond: Mo Nighean Donn As Boidhehe
Dervish: Gypsies, Tramps and Theives
The Chapin Sisters: Sweet Light  *
Huck Notari: Very Long Dream
Olentangy John: Pretty Mary - John Brown's Dream *
Uncle Earl: Sisters of the Road
RedDog: How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
Foghorn Stringband: Lost Girl
George Penk, Clyde Curley, Sue Songer & Creighton Lindsay: Miss Monaghan/The Cottage in the Grove/The Mason's Apron
Ginny Hawker: Love Will Roll the Clouds Away
Clyde Curley & The Oxymorons: Cruel Willie #
Kepa Junkera w/Bela Fleck: Nondik Jo Maurizia
Danielle Doyle: Pompeii *
Yves Lambert et la Bébert Orchestre feat. The Duhks: Buvons mes chers ami  #