5 July 2008
Fats Domino {all-star tribute to him. Repeat: 1st aired 6.10.07}
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Happily, rumours of Fats Domino’s death proved untrue. He was dramatically rescued five days after Hurricane Katrina lashed New Orleans. His possessions are mostly gone, but the fat man is alive, kicking and still giving. After donating proceeds from his latest ‘live’ recording to a charity, he then invited an extraordinary array of famous admirers to salute him and thereby help fund a new community centre and Music Co-Op in the impoverished/devastated Lower 9th Ward. The double CD Goin’ Home: a Tribute to Fats Domino needs no ‘charity’ from critical ears; it is enormously more enjoyable than most such all-star tributes.
Two good places to discover more about Fats Domino:
For general info: www.fatsonline.nl/
For a taste of the man’s attitude, post-Katrina: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/arts/28fats.html?_r=1&ex=1189483200&en=43ba1e2ffe4b8e1e&ei=5070&oref=slogin
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BROADCAST TIME
TRACK NUMBER AND TITLE
COMPOSER
PUBLISHING AND COPYRIGHT DETAILS
RECORDING COMPANY AND CD NUMBER
( distributor/ source details, in brackets like this, in lower-case)
ARTIST AND CD TITLE
Duration of track
Description of track, in lower-case.
Where relevant, further info links to information, gigs/events/related programs
’THE WEEKEND PLANET’ SAT 5.7.08 (repeat of show, first aired on 6.10 .07)
2205
THEME:
(details below, as per the original CD.. This cut is also on these compilations Ketama - ’Nuevos Medios Coleccion’ - Nuevos Medios NM 15 820
{ in Australia via MGM www.thegroovemerchants.com
worldwide, via: www.flamenco-world.com/noticias/nuevos.htm }
and ’Jarabi - the best of Toumani Diabate’ (Hannibal 334352 )
CD CUT 1, ’JARABI’
TRAD, ARR TOUMANI DIABATE
HAMILCAR MUSIC LTD
HANNIBAL HNCD 1323
( in Australia, some releases through Stomp Enquiries to: ben@stomp.com.au
worldwide: www.rykodisc.com )
KETAMA, TOUMANI DIABATE, DANNY THOMPSON - ’SONGHAI’
THIRTY SECONDS (EXCERPT)
(retains a stately-Manding air, whilst also embracing flamenco elements. Toumani Diabate’s kora, Danny Thompson’s beautiful double bass and Ketama’s flamenco guitars )
2208
CD (DISC 2) CUT 2, ’VALLEY OF TEARS’
DOMINO-BARTHOLOMEW
TRAVIS MUSIC CO (BMI)
SHOCK/ VANGUARD RECORDS 225/26-2
( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.vanguardrecords.com )
VARIOUS - ’GOIN’ HOME: A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINO’
2: 12
(Robert Plant croons the lead, with African percussion and choir - the Soweto Gospel Choir. Good, non-imitative. No piano)
SEGUE
2210
CD (DISC 1) CUT 5, ’MY GIRL JOSEPHINE’
DOMINO-BARTHOLOMEW
EMI UNART CATALOG, INC (BMI)
SHOCK/ VANGUARD RECORDS 225/26-2
( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.vanguardrecords.com )
VARIOUS - ’GOIN’ HOME: A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINO’
4: 05
(Taj Mahal and the New Orleans Social Club - deliciously syncopated. Taj sings bi-lingually with husky gusto, accompanied by George Porter Jr on elec. bass, pianist Henry Butler Jr, Ivan Neville on organ and clavinet, drummer Raymond Walter and elec. guitarist Leo Nocentelli )
2216
CD CUT 2, ’BLUE MONDAY’
DAVE BARTHOLOMEW
EMI UNART CATALOG
EMI CDP 7481512
VARIOUS - ROCK AND ROLL COLLECTION, VOLUME 3’
2: 22
(from 1957: Fats in ’velvet frog’ vocal mode with genial piano etc. The horns include a v nicely-deployed baritone sax)
SEGUE
2218
CD (DISC 2) CUT 13, ’THE FAT MAN’
FATS DOMINO
EMI UNART CATALOG, INC
SHOCK/ VANGUARD RECORDS 225/26-2
( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.vanguardrecords.com )
VARIOUS - ’GOIN’ HOME: A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINO’
4: 11
(Los Lobos with David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas’ ripe elec. guitars to fore, thwacking drums and Steve Berlin’s v-nicely-deployed baritone sax. Hidalgo sings lead. Fats Domino’s most seemingly-autobiographical song)
SEGUE
2222
CD CUT 9, ’NEW ORLEANS UNDER WATER’
JANE BUNNETT, JOHNNY SANSONE, KEVIN BREIT
IN DUE TIME/ MACEENIAN MUSIC (BMI)/ SONY/ATV MUSIC PUBLISHING
BLUE NOTE 09463-46808-2-0
(Through EMI
www.bluenote.com )
JANE BUNNETT - ’RADIO GAUNTANAMO: GUANTANAMO BLUES PROJECT VOL 1’
8: 11
(Uncanny, atmospheric piece - almost habanera-meets-swamp. Katrina had hit New Orleans whilst this was being recorded, in Canada. Jane’s flute {sometimes with delays} , David Virelles’ piano, Kieran Overs’ ac bass, Jalidan Ruiz Castro’s congas and timbales, Johnny Sansone’s harmonica and guitar and Kevin Breit’s elec guitar. Kevin plays the extraordinary, twangeroso solo )
2232
CD (DISC ONE) CUT 11, ’DON’T LEAVE ME THIS WAY’
FATS DOMINO
EMI UNART CATALOG, INC
SHOCK/ VANGUARD RECORDS 225/26-2
( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.vanguardrecords.com )
VARIOUS - ’GOIN’ HOME: A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINO’
3: 08
(The oldest Neville Brother - Art Neville {born 1937} - solo. His genially wobbly-husky vocal and piano)
SEGUE
2235
CD (DISC TWO) CUT 11, ’DON’T BLAME IT ON ME’
DOMINO-BARTHOLOMEW
EMI UNART CATALOG, INC (BMI)
SHOCK/ VANGUARD RECORDS 225/26-2
( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.vanguardrecords.com )
VARIOUS - ’GOIN’ HOME: A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINO’
3: 41
(also solo - voice and piano. Bruce Hornsby, in a quirky shade of righteous-rooster-dom)
2240
CD CUT 11, ’IT’S A MAN’S MAN’S MAN’S WORLD’
JAMES BROWN/ B. NEWSOME
PUB NOT SPEC
CAPITOL/ EMI 5094972
(Renee’s site: www.reneegeyer.com.au )
RENEE GEYER - ’DEDICATED..’
6: 35
(AUSTRAL PERF AND ARR: ’..but it ain’t nothing without a woman’ says the lyric. Cinerama, soul-smouldering big-blue-ballad, delivered with great conviction by Renee, with well-arranged horns, piano, organ, guitar, bass, drums.
SEGUE
2245
CD CUT 5. ’PETALS’
(PRESUMABLY) LINSEY POLLAK AND TUNJI BEIER
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
MAR 005-2
(Linsey’s site: www.linseypollak.com )
TUNJI BEIER AND LINSEY POLLACK - ’DVA’
7: 49
(AUSTRAL PERF AND COMP: initially mysterioso-sombre, with Linsey alone, playing ’Rose’ - a bass clarinet made from blown glass - atop a synth-drone. Then, enter Tunji playing what sounds like an over-sized kanjira {a little south Indian frame-drum/tamborine}. Eventually, it becomes an ever-more-rapid and virtuosic hand-drum solo )
2253
CD CUT 4, ’AFFECTIONATELY YOURS’
MARK ISAACS
GRACE MUSIC
ABC JAZZ 476 6160
( in Australia through Universal. Available at ABC shops
and online: www.abcshop.com.au )
MARK ISAACS - ’RESURGENCE’
3: 10 (excerpt)
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Sweet and lyrical modern jazz with a Latin tint: The Australian leader-composer’s piano, plus three Americans -alto saxist Bob Sheppard, ac bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta
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2305
CD (DISC TWO) CUT 3, ’MY BLUE HEAVEN’
DONALDSON-WHITING
DONALDSON-WHITING PUBLISHING
SHOCK/ VANGUARD RECORDS 225/26-2
( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.vanguardrecords.com )
VARIOUS - ’GOIN’ HOME: A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINO’
2: 20
(playful, with jut a tinge of whist and a nicely understated sass. Norah Jones singing, playing piano and also the rhythm ac guitar)
2309
CD (DISC ONE) CUT 14, ’IT KEEPS RAININ’’
DOMINO-BARTHOLOMEW-GUIDRY
EMI UNART CATALOG, INC
SHOCK/ VANGUARD RECORDS 225/26-2
( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.vanguardrecords.com )
VARIOUS - ’GOIN’ HOME: A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINO’
3: 08
(Nice mix of Cajun and more swamp-funkish elements with Robert Plant as lead-vocalist guest of Lil’ Band O’Gold {a Lousiana ’ supergroup’} with horns, piano, drumkit, cajun accordion and horns. Steve Riley is the accordionist)
SEGUE
2312
CD CUT 7, ’LA TOUSSAINT’
PETER SHWARZ-DAVID GREELY
OLD MAN MUSIC- GIVE AND GO MUSIC (BMI)
ROUNDER CD 6068
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide through Rounder: www.rounder.com )
STEVE RILEY AND THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS - ’LA TOUSSAINT’
3: 50
(haunting, elegaic Cajun song - male voice in French, lovely use of twin fiddles, plus ac guitar and ac bass. Honours the memory of the composer’s mother and the All Saint’s Day {La Toussaint} ritual in Cajun country)
SEGUE
2316
CD (DISC ONE) CUT 10, ’I’M IN LOVE AGAIN/ ALL BY MYSELF’
BOTH BY DOMINO-BARTHOLOMEW
EMI UNART CATALOG, INC (BMI)
SHOCK/ VANGUARD RECORDS 225/26-2
( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.vanguardrecords.com )
VARIOUS - ’GOIN’ HOME: A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINO’
3: 21
(A lot of fun, and unmistakably ’New Orleans’. The two songs are intertwined, as are their lead vocals by Bonnie Raitt {she’s the slide guitarist} and Jon Cleary {he’s the pianist}. With them is a superbly-grooving ensemble that includes drummer Johnny Vidacovich and tuba player Matt Perrine
SEGUE
2319
CD CUT 5, ’NEW ORLEANS’
HOAGY CARMICHAEL
STONY PLAIN SPCD 1189
( in Australia through Only Blues Music: www.onlybluesmusic.com
worldwide: www.stonyplainrecords.com )
AMOS GARRETT - ’AMOS BEHAVIN’
4: 05
(His r-e-l-a-x-e-d: shimmering elec guitar, his looooooow breathy male vocal, with others’ vibes, bass and brushes. Amos is the man who played ’that guitar solo’ for Maria Muldaur’s version of ’Midnight at the Oasis’)
2326
CD (DISC ONE) CUT 6, ’EVERY NIGHT ABOUT THIS TIME’
FATS DOMINO
EMI UNART CATALOG, INC
SHOCK/ VANGUARD RECORDS 225/26-2
( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.vanguardrecords.com )
VARIOUS - ’GOIN’ HOME: A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINO’
3: 32
(Joss Stone is the featured female singer, Kevin Harris the somewhat ham-throated male singer. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is the group and Buddy Guy is the electric guitar hero guest soloist, from Chicago)
SEGUE
2330
CD (DISC 2) CUT 9, ’I HEAR YOU KNOCKIN’
DOMINO-BARTHOLOMEW
EMI UNART CATALOG, INC (BMI)
SHOCK/ VANGUARD RECORDS 225/26-2
( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.vanguardrecords.com )
VARIOUS - ’GOIN’ HOME: A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINO’
2: 53
(Relaxed with a wry grin and a groove: a reminder of how slyly-good an interpretive singer is Willie Nelson. I think the very nice lead guitar bits are his nylon-string guitar {cranked-amped} too. The just-right pianist is Jon Cleary.
SEGUE
2333
CD (DISC ONE) CUT 12, ’GOING TO THE RIVER’
DOMINO-BARTHOLOMEW
EMI UNART CATALOG, INC (BMI)
SHOCK/ VANGUARD RECORDS 225/26-2
( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.vanguardrecords.com )
VARIOUS - ’GOIN’ HOME: A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINO’
4: 48
(Robbie Robertson is the lead singer and electric guitarist, with Galactic. He’s the only credited guitarist - so if credits are right, here you get to hear him play some ripe slide elec. guitar on disc for perhaps the first time. It’s in two sections - on second part it goes up and he goes to town on non-slide elec. guitar. Good drummer in Stanton Moore and effective use of a fattened-up elec. piano, played by Rich Vogel )
2339
CD CUT 3, ’THREE DAYS OF RAIN’
MARK ISAACS
GRACE MUSIC
ABC JAZZ 476 6160
( in Australia through Universal. Available at ABC shops
& online: www.abcshop.com.au )
MARK ISAACS - ’RESURGENCE’
4: 52
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Relaxed, genial bossa-ballad for its Australian composer’s piano, his compatriot James Muller’s acoustic guitar, plus three Americans - tenor saxist Steve Tavaglione, ac bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta.
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SEGUE
2344
CD CUT 2, ’WATERSCAPE SILHOUETTE’
MO FAN
PUB NOT SPEC
ARC MUSIC EUCD 2095
( in Australia through Tempo www.tempo-music.com
worldwide: www.arcmusic.co.uk )
THE SILK STRING QUARTET - ’CONTEMPORARY AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE MUSIC’
10: 55
(Chinese: contemporary, and with some more adventurous moments, but largely still largely within that ’pictorial-pastoral-mimetic’ tradition. Cheng Yu plucks {and hits} the pipa {pear-shaped, plucked lute}, Sun Zhuo plays the guzheng {many-stringed board zither - ancestor of the Japanese koto}, Zhou Jinyan hammers the yangqin (hammered zither/dulcimer} and Hu Bin boas the erhu {upright fiddle with ’captured’ bow }
2358
CD (DISC 2) CUT 15, ’WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN’
TRADITIONAL
PUBLIC DOMAIN
SHOCK/ VANGUARD RECORDS 225/26-2
( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.vanguardrecords.com )
VARIOUS - ’GOIN’ HOME: A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINO’
1: 10 (excerpt)
( unmistakably itself, and unmistakably New Orleans. A rousing, just-slightly-bent ’trad’ jazz-ish version with the ’singing horns’, tuba, banjo, piano and ac bass of The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, plus two lead singers - Theresa Anderson and Walter ’Wolfman’ Washington)
Presenter
Doug Spencer
Producer
Doug Spencer
