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Songs as Poems; Poems as Songs Songs as Poems; Poems as Songs August 10th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Songs as Poems; Poems as Songs

We listen for poetry in music and music in poetry, songs as poems and poems as songs with Langston Hughes, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Ken Nordine. Plus, a visit to New York’s City Lore with poet-folklorist Steve Zeitlin, who rides the POEMobile to the People’s Poetry Gathering and then back to New Orleans to meet Louisiana’s poet laureate, Mona Lisa Saloy.

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SANTANA SPEAKS: WITH CELIA CRUZ, TITO PUENTE, AND LOS LOBOS

September 25th, 2019

We celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with prominent voices of Latin American music. Carlos Santana speaks about playing music from the streets of Tijuana to the stage at Woodstock, launching his career in San Francisco, and his hopes for a global society explored on his new album Africa Speaks. We’ll hear from the late Tito Puente, el Rey de los Timbales, who tells about the roots of tropical Latin jazz in Spanish Harlem and how he brought his instrument, the timbales, to the foreground by moving them from the back to the front of the stage. Steve Berlin and Cesar Rosas from Los Lobos talk about their mix of American pop and Mexican traditions, and we remember Celia Cruz, la Reina de Cuba, who we spoke to in 2001 about her musical beginnings in her beloved homeland, Cuba.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Batuka Santana
    Santana III , Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Santana

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  • Bessie's Blues John Coltrane Quartet
    John Coltrane: The Impulse Story, Impulse
  • This Little Girl of Mine Ray Charles
    The Ray Charles Story: Vo1. 1, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Afro Blue Mongo Santamaria
    Afro Roots, Fantasy
  • SEGMENT: Santana pt. 2

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  • Corazon Espinado Santana feat. ManĂ¡
    Supernatural, Arista
  • Instrumental: Adobo Criollo Mongo Santamaria
    Mongo'70, Atlantic
  • Breaking Down the Door Santana w/ Buika
    Africa Speaks, Concord
  • Mi nina Lola Buika
    Mi nina Lola, Dro Atlantic, S.A.
  • SEGMENT: Santana pt. 3

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  • Song of the Wind Santana
    Caravanserai, Columbia
  • Black Magic Woman Santana
    Abraxas, Columbia
  • End bed: Naima Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlan
    Love, Devotion and Surrender, Columbia

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: El Cayuco Tito Puente
    Dance Mania Vol. 1, BMG
  • SEGMENT: Tito Puente

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  • Okiedoke Machito & his Orchestra featuring Charlie Parker
    The Original Mambo Kings-Afro-Cubop, Verve
  • La Guarachera Celia Cruz with Tito Puente
    Fania Classics: Celia Cruz & Tito Puente, Fania Records
  • Instrumental: Our Day Will Come Willie Bobo
    Spanish Grease, Verve
  • SEGMENT: Celia Cruz

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  • Descarga Cachao Cachao
    Cachao Master Sessions Vol. 1, Sony
  • Las Caras Lindas Flor de Toloache with Pedrito Martinez
    Las Caras Lindas, Chulo Records
  • La Bamba Los Pregoneros del Puerto
    Music of Vera Cruz: The Sones Jarochos of Los Pregoneros del Puerto, Rounder
  • Instrumental: Mariachi Suite Los Lobos
    El Cancionero Mas y Mas , Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Los Lobos

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  • One Time One Night Los Lobos
    By the Light of the Moon, Slash / Warner Brothers
  • Mexico Americano Los Texmaniacs
    Cruzando Borders, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Across the Borderline Freddy Fender
    Freddy Fender: The Golden Voice of the Texas Gulf Coast, Gazell Records
  • Closing Bed: Viva Seguin Don Santiago Jimenez Sr.
    Viva Seguin: Tejano Conjunto Pioneer's Original Hits: 1947-1951, Arhoolie

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