With the recent passing of "Juan Valdez" (Carlos Sánchez), and Colombian coffee, as a symbol of national identity, this episode is a tribute to both the man in the coffee ads and the people that harvest and bring the java, the joe, el cafecito to your tables. Here's the playlist:

1. Los Guacharacos de Colombia “"Juan Valdez '2da. del Cafetero'

2. Los del Recuerdo “El cafetero” from 20 Cumbias Colombianas

3. Los Guacharacos de Colombia “El cafetero” from Espectaculares De: Los Guacharacos de Colombia y Super Grupo Colombia on MCM Mexico/WMI

4. Alberto Pacheco y su Conjunto “Sembrando Café” from The Original Sound of Cumbia - The History of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By the Phonograph 1948-79 (Compiled by Quantic) (2008) on Soundway Records

5. Pastor Lopez y Su Combo “En Colombia Llovió Café” from Discos de Oro: Pastor López y Su Combo Volume 4 on YOYO USA Digital

6. Garzon y Collazos “mi cafetal” from Los Grandes Duets.

7. Silvia Y Guillermo “Soy el Café Colombiano” from Antioquia Te Quiero Más on Colmusica s.a.s.

8. Pedro Nel Martinez “Moliendo Café” from Serenata Tropical

9. J&V Mezcla “Moliendo Cafe” from El Siete

10. Los Dancers “Cumbia Del Cafe” from A Colombia (2003) on Cachamba Entertainment

11. Los Fiesteros de Boyaca “La Matica de Café” from Los Fiesteros de Boyacá: Colombia Sigue de Fiesta on Discos El Dorado

12. Orlando Marin y Los Nuevos Corraleros de Colombia “Café y Panela” from Folklore de Exportación on Orma Producciones

13. Anicito Molina “mi cafetal” from 20 Cumbias - El Pavido Navido

14. Lalo Ebratt, J Bavin, Trapical “Mocca (Remix)” from Mocca (Remix)

15. Jorge Celedon & Jimmy Zambrano “Esta Vída” from Son para el Mundo (2006)

16. Genaro Salinas “El Camino Del Cafe” from La Voz Del Bolero - Vol.2 (2011) on YOYO USA, Inc.

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With the recent passing of "Juan Valdez" (Carlos Sánchez), and Colombian coffee, as a symbol of national identity, this episode is a tribute to both the man in the coffee ads and the people that harvest and bring the java, the joe, el cafecito to your tables. Here's the playlist:

1. Los Guacharacos de Colombia “"Juan Valdez '2da. del Cafetero'

2. Los del Recuerdo “El cafetero” from 20 Cumbias Colombianas

3. Los Guacharacos de Colombia “El cafetero” from Espectaculares De: Los Guacharacos de Colombia y Super Grupo Colombia on MCM Mexico/WMI

4. Alberto Pacheco y su Conjunto “Sembrando Café” from The Original Sound of Cumbia - The History of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By the Phonograph 1948-79 (Compiled by Quantic) (2008) on Soundway Records

5. Pastor Lopez y Su Combo “En Colombia Llovió Café” from Discos de Oro: Pastor López y Su Combo Volume 4 on YOYO USA Digital

6. Garzon y Collazos “mi cafetal” from Los Grandes Duets.

7. Silvia Y Guillermo “Soy el Café Colombiano” from Antioquia Te Quiero Más on Colmusica s.a.s.

8. Pedro Nel Martinez “Moliendo Café” from Serenata Tropical

9. J&V Mezcla “Moliendo Cafe” from El Siete

10. Los Dancers “Cumbia Del Cafe” from A Colombia (2003) on Cachamba Entertainment

11. Los Fiesteros de Boyaca “La Matica de Café” from Los Fiesteros de Boyacá: Colombia Sigue de Fiesta on Discos El Dorado

12. Orlando Marin y Los Nuevos Corraleros de Colombia “Café y Panela” from Folklore de Exportación on Orma Producciones

13. Anicito Molina “mi cafetal” from 20 Cumbias - El Pavido Navido

14. Lalo Ebratt, J Bavin, Trapical “Mocca (Remix)” from Mocca (Remix)

15. Jorge Celedon & Jimmy Zambrano “Esta Vída” from Son para el Mundo (2006)

16. Genaro Salinas “El Camino Del Cafe” from La Voz Del Bolero - Vol.2 (2011) on YOYO USA, Inc.

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In this episode, we explore animals, and our relationship to the them. Why we love them, need them, and even kill and eat them!

Here's the playlist:

1. Camille St Saens, Yo Yo Ma, Kathryn Scott “Carnival of the Animals” composed by Camille St Saens from Songs from the Arc of Life

2. Pete Seeger “Frog Went A-Courting (The Frog)” from Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes (Little & Big) (1955)

3. Pete Seeger “My Little Kitty” from Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes (Little & Big) (1955)

4. EAST AFRICA Ceremonial & Folk Music “El Molo Hippo Song (Lake Rudolf, Kenya)” from EAST AFRICA Ceremonial & Folk Music (2002) on Nonesuch (USA)

5. EAST AFRICA Ceremonial & Folk Music “Giraffe Song (Karamoja, Uganda)” from EAST AFRICA Ceremonial & Folk Music (2002) on Nonesuch (USA)

6. The Wayfarers “Lizards of Oz” from 20 Aussie Animal Songs (2007) on K-tel

7. Moby & The Void Pacific Choir “A Simple Love” from These Systems Are Failing (Deluxe Version) on Embassy of Music

8. The Beatles “Piggies” from The Beatles (White Album) (MP3, 1968) on EMI UK

9. Queen “Save Me” from The Game (Deluxe Edition) (1980) on Hollywood Records

10. Lucia Pulido “Canto de Vaqueria” from Pagan Songs

11. Morrissey “The Bullfighter Dies” from World of Morrissey (1995)

12. David Crosby & Graham Nash “To the Last Whale: I. Critical Mass, II. Wind On the Water” from Wind On the Water (1975)

13. ANIMALS OF AFRICA Sounds of the Jungle, Plain & Bush “Rhinoceros” from Explorer Series Africa: Music from the Nonesuch Explorer Series (2002)

Sacred and Secular Ectasy!

Here's the playlist:

1. Deva Premal, The Gyuoto Monks of Tibet “Teyata Om Bekanze Bekanze Mahabekanze Bekanze Radza Samutgate Soha (Healing)” from Deva Premal's Healing Mantras: Mantras For Precarious Times & Tibetan Mantras for Turbulent Times

2. James Cleveland & The Cleveland Singers “Oh Mary Don't You Weep” from Gospel Music Anthology: James Cleveland & The Cleveland Singers (Remastered) (2010)

3. Rufus Wainwright “Sword of Damocles” from Sword of Damocles - Single (2018)

4. Leonard Cohen “You Want it Darker” from True Detective (MP3)

5. Josquin Des Prez, The Hillard Ensemble “Mille regretz” composed by Josquin Des Prez from Mille regretz

6. Stanley Brothers “Are You Washed In The Blood of The Lamb” from Friends of Old Time Music (1964) on Folkways Records

7. George Jones “Leaning On The Everlasting Arms” from Classic George (1999)

8. Sadinya “Iraqning Ikkinči Mäšräpi (Second Mäšräp of Muqam Iraq)” from Bu Dunya - This World: Songs & Melodies of the Uighurs

9. GLOBAL JUKEBOX FEATURE: Male Voices, drum rattles and singing horn “Secret Society Initiation Song” from Bulu Songs from the Cameroons (1954) on Folkways Records

10. Bruce Springsteen “The Ghost of Tom Joad” from Chapter and Verse (1995)

11. Pete Seeger “Turn, Turn, Turn” from If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle (1962).

Hurdy Gurdy Songs of Sacred and Secular Ecstasy.

Here's the playlist:

1. Sister Rosetta Tharpe “Beams of Heaven” from 100 (Remastered)

2. Rozenda Bernal “Mi Virgencita Morena” from Con Banda y Mariachi on Discos Barajas

3. Sister Marie Keyrouz “Abu dqushto” composed by Sister Marie Keyrouz from Magnificat (Chants bibliques d'Orient) - Single on Iics-Keyrouz

4. Sister Marie Keyrouz “Chants de L'Office de la Nativité” from Chants de L'Office de la Nativité

5. Raquel Z. Rivera & Ojos de Sofía “Nuestra Señora de Lexington” from Las 7 Salves de La Magdalena on Raquel Z. Rivera & Ojos de Sofía

6. Planina “Dobro Doshle (Macedonia)” from Telegram On the Wind on Planina Songs of Eastern Europe

7. Makwa Singers “Makwa Female Chorus” from Makwa Female Chorus

8. Nitanis "Kit" Landry “Euphony” from Best Round Dance Songs on Canyon Records

9. Lucia Pulido “Velo Que Bonito” from Lucia Pulido on intuition (Germany)

10. The Southern California Community Choir, Aretha Franklin & James Cleveland “Old Landmark (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 14, 1972) [with James Cleveland & The Southern California Community Choir]” from Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings (Live) (1972)

Jazz and the spirit, and the spirit of Jazz.

Here's the playlist:

1. Charlie Haden & The Liberation Music Orchestra “We Shall Overcome” from Dream Keeper on Universal Music Division Decca Records France

2. Alice Coltrane “Journey in Satchidananda” from Journey in Satchidananda (1971) on GRP Records

3. Mor Thiam “Ayo Ayo Nene” from Spiritual Jazz on Jazzman

4. Matthew Halsall “The Sun In September” from Fletcher Moss Park on Gondwana Records

5. Alice Coltrane “Om shanti” from World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda on Luaka Bop (USA)

6. Makaya McCraven “Holy Lands” from Universal Beings (CD, 2018) on P-VINE RECORDS

7. Lonnie Liston Smith “Expansions” from Love Is the Answer (Expanded) (1980)

8. Nina Simone “If You Pray Right” from Baltimore (1978)

9. Idris Muhammad “Loran's Dance” from CTI CD Catalogue on Sony Music Media

Wishing you Peace during the Holy Days!

Jazz is socially conscious. Jazz artists are activists of sound. Jazz is a Freedom Dance. Here's the playlist:

1. Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra “Black and Blue” from The Essential Louis Armstrong (1979)

2. Dave Brubeck & Louis Armstrong and His Band “Cultural Exchange” from The Real Ambassadors (1962)

3. Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Watergate Blues” from Watergate Blues

4.Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett “Como en Vietnam (LP Version)” from Throb on Rhino Atlantic (USA)

5. Paul Motian “War Orphans” from Tribute (1975)

6. Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln “Tryptich: Prayer/Protest/Peace” from Tryptich: Prayer/Protest/Peace

7. John Coltrane Quartet “alabama” from Live at Birdland

8. Charles Lloyd “Lift Every Voice and Sing” from Lift Every Voice (2002)

Cowboy songs about the darkness of the American soul, as explored in cowboy and pioneer archetypes, from Lomax to Buster Scruggs (c.f., Coen Brother's Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Here's the playlist (also available on Spinitron.com):

1. Ennio Morricone “Per un pugno di dollari (Titoli)” composed by Ennio Morricone from Per un pugno di dollari (A Fistful of Dollars) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (1964)

2. Marty Robbins “Streets of Laredo” from Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)

3. Eagles “Desperado” from Billy the Kid

4. Bob Dylan “Billy 7” from Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

5. Roy Rogers “Cowboy Night Herd Song” from The Collection '38-'50 on Ideal Music

6. Patsy Montana & The Prairie Ramblers “I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart” from Country Legend on Itwhy

7. Cat Power “Silver Stallion” from Jukebox (CD, 2008) on Matador (USA)

8. Linda Rondstadt “Old Paint” from First Ladies of Country on Sony Music CG

9. Tim Blake Nelson “Cool, Clear Water” from Across the Valley

10. Edward L. Crain “Bandit Cole Younger” from Western Cowboy Ballads & Songs (1925-1939)

11. Harry Jackson “The Round-Up Cook” from The Cowboy: His Songs, Ballads and Brag Talk (1959) on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records

12. Michael Martin Murphey “Goodbye Old Paint” from Cowboy Songs on Rhino/Warner Bros. (USA)

13. Arthur Russell “Goodbye Old Paint” from Love Is Overtaking Me (2008) on Audika Records

Songs about global migrants, itininerant workers, wanderers and refugees.

Here's the playlist:

1. Rachid Taha “Algerian Tango” from Zoom on naïve

2. Rachid Taha “H'Asbu-Hum” from Tekitoi on Universal Music Division Barclay

3. Common “A Song For Assata (feat. Cee-Lo)” from Like Water For Chocolate (2000)

4. Bruce Springsteen “American Land” from We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (American Land Edition) (2006)

5. Ian Dury & The Blockheads “Itinerant Child” from What a Waste: The Collection on Music Club Deluxe

6. Maggie Holland “Overnight” from Bones on Weekend Beatnik

7. Woody Guthrie “I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore” from Dust Bowl Ballads (MP3, 1940) on Folkways Records

8. Danny Valdez and Agustín Lira “The Migrant's Song” from The Best of Broadside 1962-1988: Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine (2000) on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

9. Inti-Illimani “Run Run Se Fue Pal Norte” from Run Run Se Fue Pal Norte

10. Jimmy Golden “Caravana Migrante” from Caravana Migrante

11. You Qun Fu, Kiyoto Fujiwara, Sam Furnace, Royal Hartigan, Fred Ho, Fred & The Afro-asian Music Ensemble Ho, Pauline Hong, Peter “Caravan” from The Underground Railroad to My Heart (1993)

Election Day tunes, across the Red/Blue divide, including the playlist:

1. Neneh Cherry “Kong” from Broken Politics (2018)

2. Ry Cooder “The Wall Street Part of Town” from Election Special (2012) on Nonesuch (USA)

3. Ry Cooder “Kool Aid” from Election Special (2012) on Nonesuch (USA)

4. Ry Cooder “Take Your Hands Off It” from Election Special (2012) on Nonesuch (USA)

5. The Replacements “Election day” from Pleased to Meet Me (Expanded Edition) on Rhino/Warner Bros. (USA)

6. Radiohead “Electioneering” from OK Computer (1997) on XL Recordings

7. The Clash “Know Your Rights” from Combat Rock (CD, 1982) on Epic (USA)

8. Public Enemy “Fight the power” from Fear of a Black Planet (CD, 1990) on Def Jam Recordings

9. Neneh Cherry “Shot Gun Shack” from Broken Politics (2018)

10. Deee-Lite “Vote, Baby Vote” from Infinity Within on Elektra Records

11. Rod MacDonald “Election Night At Walmart” from Songs of Freedom (2011) on blue flute music

12. Phil Ochs “Power and the Glory” from Live In Montreal 10/22/1966 (2017)

13. The Motern Media Holiday Singers “Congratulations on Voting! You Voted! Yes!” from Congratulations Songs on Motern Media

14. Gang of Four “What We All Want” from Return the Gift (2005) on V2.