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Caribbean Cruise & South Louisiana Sojourn: Garifuna Guitarist Aurelio & Creole Accordionist Cedric Watson Caribbean Cruise & South Louisiana Sojourn: Garifuna Guitarist Aurelio & Creole Accordionist Cedric Watson August 3rd, 2022 (Hour 1)
Caribbean Cruise & South Louisiana Sojourn: Garifuna Guitarist Aurelio & Creole Accordionist Cedric Watson

It’s a Caribbean sonic voyage with singer-guitarist and social leader Aurelio, who grew up in the traditional Afro-Indigenous Garifuna culture of coastal Honduras and now lives part time in the Bronx, NY. He’s a global ambassador for Garifuna culture and a member of the Honduran congress. Then live in-studio, the young Louisiana fiddler, accordionist, singer, Cedric Watson and his band Bijou Creole play La-La and zydeco soul. Plus: Kid Ory‘s New Orleans jazz; reggae songman, Jimmy Cliff; Cuban descarga from Cachao; and the Trinidad calypso hero Mighty Sparrow.

Main Image: Aurelio in Corozal village, Honduras. Photo Credit: Sarah Weeden

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FLACO JIMENEZ / EDDIE PALMIERI

May 3rd, 2006

This week feel the Pan-Latin vibe with guests Flaco Jimenez and Eddie Palmieri. San Antonio native and king of the conjunto accordion, Jimenez recalls his father’s influence on his playing. And NuYorican jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri talks about reshaping Latin bands with his La Perfecta group in the early 1960s. Plus, hear how Latin music influenced American roots rock, jazz and even Cajun music.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Viva Seguin Flaco Jimenez
    Ultimo Tornado, WEA
  • Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio Flaco Jimenez
    Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio y Mas, Arhoolie
  • Wooly Bully Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
    Best of, MGM
  • One Time One Night in America Los Lobos
    La Historia de la Banda del Este de los Angeles: El Cancionero, Rhino
  • La Pistola y La Corazon Los Lobos
    La Historia de la Banda del Este de los Angeles: El Cancionero, Rhino
  • Evangeline Feufollet
    Belle Louisiane, Feufollet
  • Mexican Special Rebirth Brass Band
    Feel Like Funkin' it Up, Rounder
  • Pachuca Blues Beto Villa y Orquesta
    Tejano Roots, Arhoolie
  • New Spanish Two Step Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
    San Antonio Rose, Bear Family
  • Corrina Corina Freddy Fender
    Canciones de Mi Barrio, Arhoolie
  • Vamos A Bailar Freddy Fender
    Interpreta El Rock, Arhoolie
  • Pachuco Boogie Don Tosti's Pachuco Boogie Boys
    Pachuco Boogie, Arhoolie
  • 3 Cool Cats Ry Cooder w/ Little Willie G.
    Chavez Ravine, Nonesuch
  • Instrumental: Spaced Nature Omicron
    Cinematique, Shadow
  • INTERVIEW: Flaco Jimenez

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  • Blues Stay away from Me Doug Sahm & Band w/ Flaco Jimenez
    Doug Sahm & Band, Atlantic
  • He'll Have to Go Ry Cooder w/ Flaco Jimenez
    Chicken Skin Music, Warner Bros.

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Conmigo Eddie Palmieri
    La Perfecta, Fania
  • El Cayuco Tito Puente
    Tito Puente: 50 Years of Swing, RMM
  • Watermelon Man Mongo Santamaría
    Skin on Skin: The Mongo Santamaría Story, 1958-1995, Rhino
  • Bossa Cubana Los Zafiros
    Bossa Cubana, World Circuit/Nonesuch
  • Bodas De Oro Manuel Galban and Ry Cooder
    Mambo Sinuendo, Nonesuch
  • El Son de Llama Orchestra Baobab de Dakar
    Afro-Latino, Putumayo
  • Instrumental: Cuando, Cuando, Que Sera Cal Tjader
    Talkin' Verve Roots Of Acid Jazz, Verve
  • Plena de San Anton Los Pleneros de la 21
    Somos Boricuas: We Are Puerto Rican, Henry Street
  • Manteca Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra with Chano Pozo
    Latin Jazz: La Combinacion Perfecta, Folkways
  • INTERVIEW: Eddie Palmieri

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  • Instrumental: A Weeping Willow Tom McDermott & Evan Christopher
    Danza, STR Digital
  • The Crave Jelly Roll Morton
    New York, Washington and the Rediscovery, Smithsonian
  • Longhair's Blues-Rhumba Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
  • Blues for Cuba Floyd Dixon
    The Complete Aladdin Recordings, Capitol
  • Yama, Yama Orquestra de Enrique Peña
    The Cuban Danzón, Arhoolie
  • Panama Kid Ory
    Kid Ory's Favorites!, Good Time Jazz
  • End Bed: Rum and Coca-Cola (version 2) Professor Longhair
    Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology, Rhino

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