“Put some records on while I pour…” Bing Crosby to Doris Day in ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’
I’m a sucker for holiday music.
Baby, Its Cold Outside and Blue Christmas are the two best xmas tunes ever. However, I heard a couple great new ones this year—The Waitresses ‘Christmas Wrapping’ and Brett Dennen’s ‘The Holidays Are Here And We’re Still At War’.
Someday Some Morning Sometime is probably my favorite tune of this set. Billy Bragg and Wilco were contacted by Nora Guthrie, daughter to Woody Guthrie, to put music to some of her father’s lyrics and they came out with the two volumes of Mermaid Avenue. This song has some great lyrics and Jeff Tweedy’s voice is perfect for it, although I long to hear Woody sing this one.
If you live in Vermont, get out to see the Starline Rhythm Boys live—they put on an awesome honky tonk show. The song I played, Texacos and Roadmaps, is all about hitting the road and living a life of ramblin’ around. “…I’ve streamlined my life back, to Texacos and roadmaps…” Sounds good to me.
1. Christmas Weekend – Los Straitjackets – ‘Tis The Season For Los Straitjackets
2. Always Wanting More – Jay Reatard – Matador Singles ‘08
3. Set In Stone – Catfish Haven – Devastator
4. Cheer – Descendents – Somery
5. Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Doris Day & Bing Crosby
6. Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley – Elvis’ Christmas Album
7. Here Comes Santa Claus – Gene Autry
8. I Met Him On A Sunday – Shirelles
9. The Coast – Paul Simon – The Rhythm of the Saints
10. Mi Confesion – Gotan Project Feat. Koxmoz – Lunatico
11. Truckin’ Trees For Christmas – Red Simpson
12. Texacos and Roadmaps – Starline Rhythm Boys – Better Luck is a Barroom Away
13. Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys – Sounds of Summer
14. Santa Claus Blues – Champion Jack Dupree
15. Someday Some Morning Sometime – Billy Bragg & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue Volume 2
16. Sunken Treasure – Jeff Tweedy – Sunken Treasure
17. Two Hearts – Chris Isaak – San Francisco Days
18. Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer – Gene Autry
19. What Peer Pressure – Tan Analog
Monday, December 29, 2008
Caught on the In Between Playlist 12-08-08
"We’ve been waiting so long, for someone to come along…" Death 'Politicians In My Eye'
I’ve lived in Vermont for 4 and a half years and during that time I’ve seen a ton of great shows. The bigger – The Decemberists, DeVotchka, Jason Isbell, Ryan Adams, Dr. Dog, Against Me!, Feist at the Flynn, Old Crow Medicine Show, Wilco, Gogol Bordello, etc—and the smaller—In Memory of Pluto, Lowell Thompson, the Radio Bean birthdays, Honky Tonk Tuesdays, The Husbands AKA, Barbacoa, etc—but no show has been more hyped up than the Rough Francis shows over the weekend of 12/6. They came out of nowhere, but immediately it was all the talk around town. Their unique story helped to fuel the fire and the mystery kept it going strong. The story goes a bit like this…
Back in 1974, the brothers Hackney (David, Daryl, & Bobby Sr.) were a rock n roll band playing in their grandmother’s garage in Detroit. They went by the name Death and released a self-recorded demo that gained a lot of ground and attention around the punk, r&b, Motown, and rock’n’roll crowds of Detroit. Eventually the demo found its way to Clive Davis who was at Columbia Records at the time. He offered them a record contract with the stipulation that they had to change their name. They wouldn’t budge on the name and thus he didn’t offer them the contract. Eventually Death split up and Daryl and Bobby Sr. made their way to Vermont and have been playing roots reggae music ever since with the band Lambs Bread International. It seemed that, like many bands over the years, Death had seen their day and would soon be lost and forgotten.
And for the most part they were, until one of this generations Hackneys was out at a party in California and heard the demo being played. He called his dad and told him that the demo had started being played in some underground parties and clubs and was picking up a cult following. Needless to say, Bobby Sr. was shocked. Fast forward a couple months and Drag City Records will finally be releasing the album in Feb ’09 and Rough Francis set up 3 shows over 6 days playing the demo in its entirety.
I caught all three shows and all were excellent, but the standout was definitely the very first show at 242 Main on Friday. The show at the Monkey House on Saturday was cool due to the fact that I was standing up front next to Bobby Hackney Sr. as he watched his sons play the songs that he had written over 30 years ago in their grandmother’s garage. According to Bobby Jr., Rough Francis will be staying together as a band and will be writing some of their own music, but I’m sure they’ll keep some Death tunes in their live sets. They are a band to keep on your radar, so if you see that they are playing around town, get off your couch and go check them out.
In honor of these shows, I started off the show (after the intro surf rock version of California Sun by Dick Dale) with two of the Death songs that came from their original demo—Keep on Knockin and Politicians in My Eye. These mp3s are around the Net, so look for them and get yourself a copy. They’re great tunes and they’ll get you pumped up to get what Bobby Jr. calls “the best record I’ve heard in my entire life” when it comes out in Feb.
I kept the punk going for the rest of that set with the Descendents tune Suburban Home, The Buzzcocks Ever Fallen In Love?, and finally Television’s Venus from their incredible album Marque Moon.
For the next set I played some music that would be very hard to classify. I started off the set with Washington Bullets by The Clash which I believe is on their triple album, Sandinista!. Following that I played a song from the Diplo produced mix-tape, Top Ranking, featuring Santogold and Movado called L.E.S. Artistes which has one of the most catchy melodies I’ve heard in awhile. Diplo is a great DJ/producer who has put out a bunch of great mix-tapes and as well as did most of the beats to M.I.A.’s phenomenal album, Arular. Next up was Parade by Pretty Girls Make Graves. They can be hit and miss, but I really like their Elan Vital album that this song comes from. It’s mostly punk-ish music, but this one has a slower beat to it and also a great melody. This set finished up with Vampire Weekend’s The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance off of their excellent self-titled album that came out over the last couple years. These guys get a lot of flack from people, probably b/c of the amount of attention they got from the press this year, but I’m a big fan b/c of their obvious Paul Simon influence.
Ted Hawkins dominated the next set with Watch Your Step and If You Love Me, two fantastic tunes off of his album, Watch Your Step. Next we we jumped into a little of the legendary Sam Cooke next with Bring It On Home To Me and then finished off the show with Donovan’s Colours, a song all about my favorite time of the day—morning.
1. California Sun – Dick Dale – Unknown Territory
2. Keep on Knockin – Death – Demo
3. Politicians in My Eye – Death – Demo
4. Suburban Home – Descendents – Milo Goes To College
5. Ever Fallen In Love? – The Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady
6. Venus – Television – Marquee Moon
7. Washington Bullets – The Clash – The Clash On Broadway
8. L.E.S. Artistes (feat. Movado) – Santogold – Top Ranking
9. Parade – Pretty Girls Make Graves – Elan Vital
10. The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance – Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
11. Watch Your Step – Ted Hawkins – Watch Your Step
12. If You Love Me – Ted Hawkins – Watch Your Step
13. Bring It On Home To Me – Sam Cooke – Greatest Hits
14. Colours – Donovan – Donovan’s Greatest Hits
I’ve lived in Vermont for 4 and a half years and during that time I’ve seen a ton of great shows. The bigger – The Decemberists, DeVotchka, Jason Isbell, Ryan Adams, Dr. Dog, Against Me!, Feist at the Flynn, Old Crow Medicine Show, Wilco, Gogol Bordello, etc—and the smaller—In Memory of Pluto, Lowell Thompson, the Radio Bean birthdays, Honky Tonk Tuesdays, The Husbands AKA, Barbacoa, etc—but no show has been more hyped up than the Rough Francis shows over the weekend of 12/6. They came out of nowhere, but immediately it was all the talk around town. Their unique story helped to fuel the fire and the mystery kept it going strong. The story goes a bit like this…
Back in 1974, the brothers Hackney (David, Daryl, & Bobby Sr.) were a rock n roll band playing in their grandmother’s garage in Detroit. They went by the name Death and released a self-recorded demo that gained a lot of ground and attention around the punk, r&b, Motown, and rock’n’roll crowds of Detroit. Eventually the demo found its way to Clive Davis who was at Columbia Records at the time. He offered them a record contract with the stipulation that they had to change their name. They wouldn’t budge on the name and thus he didn’t offer them the contract. Eventually Death split up and Daryl and Bobby Sr. made their way to Vermont and have been playing roots reggae music ever since with the band Lambs Bread International. It seemed that, like many bands over the years, Death had seen their day and would soon be lost and forgotten.
And for the most part they were, until one of this generations Hackneys was out at a party in California and heard the demo being played. He called his dad and told him that the demo had started being played in some underground parties and clubs and was picking up a cult following. Needless to say, Bobby Sr. was shocked. Fast forward a couple months and Drag City Records will finally be releasing the album in Feb ’09 and Rough Francis set up 3 shows over 6 days playing the demo in its entirety.
I caught all three shows and all were excellent, but the standout was definitely the very first show at 242 Main on Friday. The show at the Monkey House on Saturday was cool due to the fact that I was standing up front next to Bobby Hackney Sr. as he watched his sons play the songs that he had written over 30 years ago in their grandmother’s garage. According to Bobby Jr., Rough Francis will be staying together as a band and will be writing some of their own music, but I’m sure they’ll keep some Death tunes in their live sets. They are a band to keep on your radar, so if you see that they are playing around town, get off your couch and go check them out.
In honor of these shows, I started off the show (after the intro surf rock version of California Sun by Dick Dale) with two of the Death songs that came from their original demo—Keep on Knockin and Politicians in My Eye. These mp3s are around the Net, so look for them and get yourself a copy. They’re great tunes and they’ll get you pumped up to get what Bobby Jr. calls “the best record I’ve heard in my entire life” when it comes out in Feb.
I kept the punk going for the rest of that set with the Descendents tune Suburban Home, The Buzzcocks Ever Fallen In Love?, and finally Television’s Venus from their incredible album Marque Moon.
For the next set I played some music that would be very hard to classify. I started off the set with Washington Bullets by The Clash which I believe is on their triple album, Sandinista!. Following that I played a song from the Diplo produced mix-tape, Top Ranking, featuring Santogold and Movado called L.E.S. Artistes which has one of the most catchy melodies I’ve heard in awhile. Diplo is a great DJ/producer who has put out a bunch of great mix-tapes and as well as did most of the beats to M.I.A.’s phenomenal album, Arular. Next up was Parade by Pretty Girls Make Graves. They can be hit and miss, but I really like their Elan Vital album that this song comes from. It’s mostly punk-ish music, but this one has a slower beat to it and also a great melody. This set finished up with Vampire Weekend’s The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance off of their excellent self-titled album that came out over the last couple years. These guys get a lot of flack from people, probably b/c of the amount of attention they got from the press this year, but I’m a big fan b/c of their obvious Paul Simon influence.
Ted Hawkins dominated the next set with Watch Your Step and If You Love Me, two fantastic tunes off of his album, Watch Your Step. Next we we jumped into a little of the legendary Sam Cooke next with Bring It On Home To Me and then finished off the show with Donovan’s Colours, a song all about my favorite time of the day—morning.
1. California Sun – Dick Dale – Unknown Territory
2. Keep on Knockin – Death – Demo
3. Politicians in My Eye – Death – Demo
4. Suburban Home – Descendents – Milo Goes To College
5. Ever Fallen In Love? – The Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady
6. Venus – Television – Marquee Moon
7. Washington Bullets – The Clash – The Clash On Broadway
8. L.E.S. Artistes (feat. Movado) – Santogold – Top Ranking
9. Parade – Pretty Girls Make Graves – Elan Vital
10. The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance – Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
11. Watch Your Step – Ted Hawkins – Watch Your Step
12. If You Love Me – Ted Hawkins – Watch Your Step
13. Bring It On Home To Me – Sam Cooke – Greatest Hits
14. Colours – Donovan – Donovan’s Greatest Hits
Friday, December 5, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Caught on the In Between Playlist -- 12/02/08
I'm listening to an excellent Ted Hawkins album as I type this. My little bro sent this on to me today and it's great thus far. It's a crazy blend of 50's rock, honky tonk, rock 'n' roll, motown, R&B, etc. I can't really place this guy. It's great and it's an album like I've never heard before.
I think that going forward I'm going to have my show from 8-9pm and then Frank will come in for his show from 9-10pm. He's not quite ready to run his own show yet, although I'd argue his dj skills are much better than mine, he's still learning all the controls. I have fun with him in there and I get to learn a bunch of tunes from him, so I see no problem in this set up. I'll be director-slash-choreographer of his talent show.
So during my hour I set it off in the usual surf-rock style with a tune by Los Straitjackets. It was a tune that I'm sure everyone knows and loves and it's one we really only play around this time of year--Jingle Bell Rock. The past few months have been on hyper speed. I can't believe it's already December 2nd.
After that tune I jumped into a set featuring Calexico's 2nd album, The Black Light. I've been a huge Calexico fan for many years and it was the sound of this album that originally attracted me to them. I was living down in Southern California and the mix of having both the desert and Mexico close by made the sounds of Calexico sound so great to me. I'm always attracted to music that is relevant to the area in which I'm living. After reading about then somewhere, either the internet or the OC Weekly, I drove up to Spaceland in LA to check them out. The show was phenomenal and I've been a fan ever since. That first show was more their rock 'n' roll side, but if you go see them now they have tons over other instruments -- blaring mexican trumpets, slide guitar, etc, etc and it's a much more eclectic show. Over the years they've put out tons of albums since 1996, but The Black Light was their 2nd and really the one that put them on the mariachi/spaghetti western/surf/twang/50's jazz map and it's the one that has the sound that attracted me so I did a short feature on this album tonight.
After the Calexico set I played a song by Emiliana Torrini, whom I found out about by seeing her album in the studio and being "drawn" to her picture on the cover. I'm not usually that much of a pushover based on an album cover, but this is a good one. I took a chance on it and it turns out that it's great and very creative. Last week I played the title track to the album and tonight I played the song called Jungle Drum. Both are great into songs to her music.
After her, we heard Marah's Angels on a Passing Train off of their latest album, Angels of Destruction! I did a feature set on them back on 7/22, so check out that write up for more info on them. Great Boss-esque rock'n'roll from Philly.
The set was wrapped up with a Richmond, VA, guy by the name of David Shultz. The song was Apples and it's off his album Sinner's Gold.
Next we jumped into a set by Session Americana fronted by Rose Polenzani. A couple months ago my buddy JJ and I rolled down to Montpelier to check out Army of Fun's Langdon St Block Party outside of Langdon St. Cafe, which is the 2nd best coffee shop (2nd to Radio Bean, of course) in VT. Potentially, 2nd best I've been to in my life. It's a shop run by an artist collective and it's very comfortable inside, with mis-matched furniture/lights, a nice wooden bar, great coffee, great music, great art, and great beers. This summer they had the 2nd annual (I think) block party and it was totally awesome. There were a bunch of great bands playing all day outside--Prodigal String Band, Amapola, Rusty Belle, Rose Polenzanie w/ Session Americana, and a few others. I had heard of Session Americana before, but had never seen them. They were fronted that night by Rose Polenzani who is usually a solo act, but recently put out an album with them as her backing band. A live show by them consists of them sitting around a small cafe table, with beers and mics on top, and lot's of acoustic instruments ranging from guitars, banjos, mandolins, to harmonicas, small organs, and a suitcase drum kit. It's a very comforting set-up and they're damn good at the music they play. I played three tunes off of the album she recently released with them. I'd like to get one of their albums as well.
After that set we jumped into a set beginning with a song that has meant a lot to me right now called "See The World" by Gomez. The words are great and very pertinent to my life right now. Next up was a tune by a band called Two Cow Garage that I read about on No Depression magazine's new website. Song was called "Swingset Assassin" and it's a solid song with some good lyrics. Finishing up the set was a tune off of the latest Josh Ritter album called Good Man. Another fitting jam right now.
I finished my portion of the show before Frank got there with a Ted Hawkins tune called "Sorry You're Sick", which I just got today from my little brother, then an Old Crow Medicine Show tune from their new album, Tennessee Pusher, called Methamphetamine, and finally my favorite Beatles song, Don't Let Me Down, that I dedicated to Frank as he chose some songs to play.
Frank took to the controls next and played his latin jams. Thanks for listening. See you next week.
Sully
1. Los Straitjackets -- Jingle Bell Rock -- Tis' the Season For Los Straitjackets
2. Calexico -- Gypsy's Curse -- The Black Light
3. Calexico -- Frontera -- The Black Light
4. Calexico -- Stray -- The Black Light
5. Calexico -- Trigger -- The Black Light
6. Emiliana Torrini -- Jungle Drum -- Me and Armini
7. Marah -- Angels on a Passing Train -- Angels of Destruction!
8. David Shultz -- Apples -- Sinner's Gold
9. Rose Polenzani W/ Session Americana -- If I Could Hit You -- When The River Meets The Sea
10. Rose Polenzani W/ Session Americana -- You Were Drunk -- When The River Meets The Sea
11. Rose Polenzani W/ Session Americana -- The Soft Parts -- When The River Meets The Sea
12. Gomez -- See The World -- How We Operate
13. Two Cow Garage -- Swingset Assassin -- Speaking in Cursive
14. Josh Ritter -- Good Man -- The Animal Years
15. Ted Hawkins -- Sorry You're Sick -- Watch Your Step
16. Old Crow Medicine Show -- Methamphetamine -- Tennessee Pusher
17. The Beatles -- Don't Let Me Down -- Let It Be...Naked
Frank
1. La Jente Del Pais -- Cantares de Navidad
2. Luis Vargas -- El Envidioso
3. Frank Reyes -- Quien Eres Tu
4. Carlos Vives -- Fruta Tresca
5. Frankie Ruiz -- Te Estoy Estudiando
6. Kinito Mendez -- El Bocinon
7. Joe Veras -- Intentalo Tu
8. Luis Vargas -- Volvio El Dolar
9. Johnny Ventura -- Merenguero Hasta La Tambora
I think that going forward I'm going to have my show from 8-9pm and then Frank will come in for his show from 9-10pm. He's not quite ready to run his own show yet, although I'd argue his dj skills are much better than mine, he's still learning all the controls. I have fun with him in there and I get to learn a bunch of tunes from him, so I see no problem in this set up. I'll be director-slash-choreographer of his talent show.
So during my hour I set it off in the usual surf-rock style with a tune by Los Straitjackets. It was a tune that I'm sure everyone knows and loves and it's one we really only play around this time of year--Jingle Bell Rock. The past few months have been on hyper speed. I can't believe it's already December 2nd.
After that tune I jumped into a set featuring Calexico's 2nd album, The Black Light. I've been a huge Calexico fan for many years and it was the sound of this album that originally attracted me to them. I was living down in Southern California and the mix of having both the desert and Mexico close by made the sounds of Calexico sound so great to me. I'm always attracted to music that is relevant to the area in which I'm living. After reading about then somewhere, either the internet or the OC Weekly, I drove up to Spaceland in LA to check them out. The show was phenomenal and I've been a fan ever since. That first show was more their rock 'n' roll side, but if you go see them now they have tons over other instruments -- blaring mexican trumpets, slide guitar, etc, etc and it's a much more eclectic show. Over the years they've put out tons of albums since 1996, but The Black Light was their 2nd and really the one that put them on the mariachi/spaghetti western/surf/twang/50's jazz map and it's the one that has the sound that attracted me so I did a short feature on this album tonight.
After the Calexico set I played a song by Emiliana Torrini, whom I found out about by seeing her album in the studio and being "drawn" to her picture on the cover. I'm not usually that much of a pushover based on an album cover, but this is a good one. I took a chance on it and it turns out that it's great and very creative. Last week I played the title track to the album and tonight I played the song called Jungle Drum. Both are great into songs to her music.
After her, we heard Marah's Angels on a Passing Train off of their latest album, Angels of Destruction! I did a feature set on them back on 7/22, so check out that write up for more info on them. Great Boss-esque rock'n'roll from Philly.
The set was wrapped up with a Richmond, VA, guy by the name of David Shultz. The song was Apples and it's off his album Sinner's Gold.
Next we jumped into a set by Session Americana fronted by Rose Polenzani. A couple months ago my buddy JJ and I rolled down to Montpelier to check out Army of Fun's Langdon St Block Party outside of Langdon St. Cafe, which is the 2nd best coffee shop (2nd to Radio Bean, of course) in VT. Potentially, 2nd best I've been to in my life. It's a shop run by an artist collective and it's very comfortable inside, with mis-matched furniture/lights, a nice wooden bar, great coffee, great music, great art, and great beers. This summer they had the 2nd annual (I think) block party and it was totally awesome. There were a bunch of great bands playing all day outside--Prodigal String Band, Amapola, Rusty Belle, Rose Polenzanie w/ Session Americana, and a few others. I had heard of Session Americana before, but had never seen them. They were fronted that night by Rose Polenzani who is usually a solo act, but recently put out an album with them as her backing band. A live show by them consists of them sitting around a small cafe table, with beers and mics on top, and lot's of acoustic instruments ranging from guitars, banjos, mandolins, to harmonicas, small organs, and a suitcase drum kit. It's a very comforting set-up and they're damn good at the music they play. I played three tunes off of the album she recently released with them. I'd like to get one of their albums as well.
After that set we jumped into a set beginning with a song that has meant a lot to me right now called "See The World" by Gomez. The words are great and very pertinent to my life right now. Next up was a tune by a band called Two Cow Garage that I read about on No Depression magazine's new website. Song was called "Swingset Assassin" and it's a solid song with some good lyrics. Finishing up the set was a tune off of the latest Josh Ritter album called Good Man. Another fitting jam right now.
I finished my portion of the show before Frank got there with a Ted Hawkins tune called "Sorry You're Sick", which I just got today from my little brother, then an Old Crow Medicine Show tune from their new album, Tennessee Pusher, called Methamphetamine, and finally my favorite Beatles song, Don't Let Me Down, that I dedicated to Frank as he chose some songs to play.
Frank took to the controls next and played his latin jams. Thanks for listening. See you next week.
Sully
1. Los Straitjackets -- Jingle Bell Rock -- Tis' the Season For Los Straitjackets
2. Calexico -- Gypsy's Curse -- The Black Light
3. Calexico -- Frontera -- The Black Light
4. Calexico -- Stray -- The Black Light
5. Calexico -- Trigger -- The Black Light
6. Emiliana Torrini -- Jungle Drum -- Me and Armini
7. Marah -- Angels on a Passing Train -- Angels of Destruction!
8. David Shultz -- Apples -- Sinner's Gold
9. Rose Polenzani W/ Session Americana -- If I Could Hit You -- When The River Meets The Sea
10. Rose Polenzani W/ Session Americana -- You Were Drunk -- When The River Meets The Sea
11. Rose Polenzani W/ Session Americana -- The Soft Parts -- When The River Meets The Sea
12. Gomez -- See The World -- How We Operate
13. Two Cow Garage -- Swingset Assassin -- Speaking in Cursive
14. Josh Ritter -- Good Man -- The Animal Years
15. Ted Hawkins -- Sorry You're Sick -- Watch Your Step
16. Old Crow Medicine Show -- Methamphetamine -- Tennessee Pusher
17. The Beatles -- Don't Let Me Down -- Let It Be...Naked
Frank
1. La Jente Del Pais -- Cantares de Navidad
2. Luis Vargas -- El Envidioso
3. Frank Reyes -- Quien Eres Tu
4. Carlos Vives -- Fruta Tresca
5. Frankie Ruiz -- Te Estoy Estudiando
6. Kinito Mendez -- El Bocinon
7. Joe Veras -- Intentalo Tu
8. Luis Vargas -- Volvio El Dolar
9. Johnny Ventura -- Merenguero Hasta La Tambora
Monday, December 1, 2008
Caught on the In Between shows -- 11/18 - 11/25
The last two shows have been invaded by a ball of energy from the Dominican Republic, commonly referred to in the US as Frank. I help teach a weekly ESL class at Fletcher Free Library and that's how I came to know Frank. He's always the most talkative, and most flirtatious with the ladies, person in the class so he always makes the class fun. Frank moved here about 4-5 months ago and I still don't fully understand how he chose Vermont. But nevertheless he's here and he's very nervous about the upcoming winter as he's never, ever experienced a winter to the caliber of what nature provides up here. In the DR, he worked as a firefighter but also moonlighted as a journalist and sports DJ on the radio, so he was totally in his environment in the studio. All of his music is still down in the DR, so he was playing songs through YouTube on the studio PC. Not the best quality, but that didn't stop Frank. As with most Latinos, he can't sit still during a song. He was a dance machine, moving and shaking, laughing and singing all throughout the small studio. A couple times he turned up the mics and told me to clap into them to the beat. He's a force of nature.
We're in the process of setting Frank up with his own weekly show. He's hoping for a 2 hour time slot either Friday or Saturday night. It will be a great show and a great introduction into Latin music for Vermonters. The show title -- Sabor Latino (translates to "Latin Flavor").
Here are the playlists from the last two shows.
11/18 Playlist
1. Bio Ritmo -- Seguiras Criticando -- Bionico
2. Chicha Libre -- un Shipibo en Espana -- Sonido Amazonico
3. Juan Luis Guerra -- La Cosquillita
4. Frankie Ruiz -- Puerto Rico -- Los Maestros de la Salsa
5. Paul Simon -- Gumboots -- Graceland
6. Generation X -- Triumph -- Perfect Hits 1975 - 1981
7. Hector Lavoe -- Timbalero
8. Johnny Ventura -- Merengue Hasta La Tambora
9. Juan Luis Guerra -- A Pedir Su Mano
10. Nat King Cole -- Quizas, Quizas, Quizas
11. Manu Chao -- La Vacaloca -- Proxima Estacion: Esperanza
12. Julio Jaramillo -- Fatalidad
11/25 Playlist
1. Dick Dale -- Caravan -- Tribal Thunder
2. Les Sans Culottes -- Allo Allo -- Fixation Orale
3. Jay Reatard -- An Ugly Death -- Matador Singles '08
4. New Pornographers -- Electric Version -- Electric Version
5. Kings of Leon -- Velvet Snow -- Aha Shake Heartbreak
6. Little Ones -- Lovers Who Uncover -- Sing Song EP
7. The Raveonettes -- Great Love Sound -- TBA
8. Michael Franti & Spearhead -- Say Hey (I Love You) -- All Rebel Rockers
9. Paul Simon -- Kodachrome -- Concert in the Park 8/15/91
10. Beirut -- Nantes -- Black Session: Studio 104 Maison de Radio France
11. Yo La Tengo -- You can Have It All -- And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
12. TV on the Radio -- Province -- Return to Cookie Mountain
13. Life Without Buildings -- The Leanover -- Any Other City
14. Thao and the Get Down Stay Down -- Geography -- We Brave Bee Stings & All
15. Bio Ritmo -- Chuleta -- Bionico
16. Emiliana Torrini -- Me & Armini -- Me & Armini
17. Jehro -- Shantytown Carnival -- Jehro
18. Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban -- Echale Salsita -- Mambo Sinuendo
19. The Slickers -- Johnny Too Bad -- The Harder They Come
20. Felix Del Rosario -- Alegre Vengo
21. Kinito Mendez -- El Bocinon
22. El Gran Combo -- Timbalero
23. Elvis Crespo -- Suavemente
24. Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz -- Juan en la Ciudad
25. Juan Luis Guerra -- La Cosquillita
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