International Harvest -- Cindy Price

Sittin' in for Elizabeth Grant.

1. Beatles -- Rocky Raccoon -- White Album
2. Olu Dara -- Out on the Rolling Sea -- Neighborhoods (birth name Charles Jones III, from Natchez; got his name from West African Yoruba priest)
3. Angilique Kidjo & Peter Gabriel -- Salala -- Djin Djin (Angelique from Benin & is Yoruban)
4. Elvis Presley -- Bossa Nova Baby -- Greatest Hits (recorded 9/11/67)
5. Rene Lacaille -- La Rosee Si Feuilles Songes -- Mapou (voice like Popeye, or Baby Gramps; from Reunion; great CD)
6. Brett Dennen -- Just Like the Moon -- Brett Dennen
7. Hanggai -- My Banjo and I -- Introducing Hangai (Mongolian folk band with punk roots from Beijing)
8. Tango Crash -- Balbon -- Otro Sanata
9. Benjamin Escoriza -- Rap de Marrakech -- Alevanta (yep, Morrocan rap from the leader of Radio Tarifa)
10. Lex Land -- Easy -- Orange Days on Lemon Street (daughter of brainiac punk rocker Dexter Holland, leader of The Offspring)
11. The Doors -- People Are Strange -- The Very Best of
12. Debashish Bhattachary -- Ganga Kinare -- Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey (this prodigy invented the Indian slide guitar)
13. Tango Negro Trio -- Argentina -- La Vuelta de malon
14. Ba Cissoko - Manssani -- Sabolan (plays the Guinean Kora Harp, a 12-string harp-lute)
15. Norah Jones & Ray Charles -- Here We Go Again -- Genius Loves Company
16. Robert Plant & Alison Kraus -- Stick With Me Baby -- Raising Sand
17. Federico Aubele -- En Cada Lugar -- Panamericana (album named after the Pan-American Highway, part multi-lane highway, part rutted pathway)
18. Giorgio Conte -- Cannelloni -- La Belle Vie (he orders cannelloni, maybe she can have a carrot stick or maybe some white rice)
19. Renato Carosone -- Picolissima Serenata (RIP 2001)
20. Vicky Moscholiou -- O Cafez -- Music from the Wine Lands ("rembetiko", or Greek urban folk music, usually sung in bars with lots of wine, but this tune's about coffee)
21. O-Shen -- Siasi -- South Pacific Islands (Siasi is the name of an island of Papua New Guinea where O-Shen was born of American missionaries)
22. Kermit Ruffins -- Kermit's Second Line -- Kermit Ruffins (you can play this at my funeral)
23. George Kahumoku jr. w/ Diana Aki -- Keiki Mahini -- Hawaiian Love Songs (the Romeo & Juliet of Hawaiian love songs)
24. Alfredo Valdes -- Canto A La Vueltabajera -- Congo to Cuba (Cuban "conjunto", or group, music; Valdes left Cuba for NYC in 1956; this song is aboud defending Cuban culture from outside influences)
25. Emiliana Torrini -- Sunnyroad -- Women of the World (Emiliana is from Iceland)
26. Etta James -- Sunday Kind of Love -- The Essential Etta James (>sigh<)

Then I read the calendars over some great tunes from Calypso Mama and George Symonette, but -- duh! -- always read over an instrumental...pushed the wrong button...it happens...had fun, hope you enjoyed the music