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Saturday December 30, 2006
| This week: Selections from my favourite CDs of 2006, plus a segment on New Year's songs in the middle. | ||||
| # | Artist | Song Title | Album (label) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick Street | Music For A Found Harmonium | Irish Times (Green Linnet) | |
| 2 | Kora Jazz Trio | Djame | Part Two (Celluloid) | |
| 3 | Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra | Toumani | Boulevard De L'Independance (Nonesuch) | |
| 4 | Ali Farka Toure | Erdi | Savane (Nonesuch) | |
| 5 | Ba Cissoko | Women: Dounia Guinee | Electric Griot Land (Totolo) | |
| 6 | Gigi | Hulu-Dane | Gold & Wax (Palm Pictures) | |
| 7 | Africando | Viens Danser | Ketukuba (Stern's Africa) | |
| 8 | Sara Tavares | Balanc | Balanc (Times Square) | |
| 9 | Salsa Celtica | Cuando Me Vaya | El Camino (Discos Leon) | |
| 10 | Frigg | Jokjenkka | Oasis (Northside) | |
| 11 | Mozaik | Ruben's Train | Changing Trains (Indie) | |
| 12 | Les Amis Creole | Shoe Fly | Les Amis Creole (Arhoolie) | |
| 13 | Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy | Plus Tu Tournes | Adieu False Heart (Vanguard) | |
| 14 | Grouyan Gombo | Baby, Quitte-Moi Pas | Betsy Stomp (Milagro) | |
| 15 | Galant | Fais-Toi Pas D'illusions, La Chanson Des Amants | Tu Perds Ton Temps (Indie) | |
| 16 | The Duhks | The Ol' Cook Pot | Migrations (Sugar Hill) | |
| 17 | Crooked Still | Can't Your Hear Me Callin'? | Shaken By A Low Sound (Signature Sounds) | |
| 18 | Chris Frye & The Analog Ghosts | Let Go | Raised On Rhythm & Rhyme (Warner) | |
| 19 | Jim Byrnes | Running Out Of Time | House Of Refuge (Black Hen) | |
| 20 | Chris Smither | Origin Of The Species | Leave The Light On (Signature Sounds) | |
| 21 | Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards | Little Girl | It's Tight Like That (Stony Plain) | |
| 22 | Tom Russell | Who's Gonna Build Your Wall? | Who's Gonna Build Your Wall? (Hightone) | |
| 23 | Catie Curtis | People Look Around | Long Night Moon (Compass) | |
| 24 | Jim Page | Petroleum Bonaparte | Head Full Of Pictures (Whid Isle) | |
| 25 | Outlaw Social | Last Gas Stop | Seven Song E.P. (Indie) | |
| 26 | Orville Johnson & John Miller & Grant Dermody | Polly Put The Kettle On | The Deceiving Blues (Orb Discs) | |
| 27 | Colin Linden | Broke Down Engine | Easin' Back To Tennessee (True North) | |
| 28 | Kieran Kane & Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplin | Lost John Dean | Lost John Dean (Compass) | |
| 29 | Rachelle Van Zanten | Dirty Water | Back To Francois (Indie) | |
| 30 | Bruce Springsteen | Pay Me My Money Down | We Shall Overcome (Columbia) | |
| 31 | Mountain Bluebirds | Milk & Honey | Mountain Bluebirds (Indie) | |
| 32 | The Klezmatics | Come When I Call You | Wonder Wheel (JMG) | |
| 33 | The Wailin' Jennys | Devil's Paintbrush Road | Firecracker (Jericho Beach) | |
| Breaking off from the Best of 2006 for a few songs about the end of the old year, and a New Year theme with resolutions etc. | ||||
| 34 | Newgrange | Newgrange | A Christmas Heritage (Compass) | |
| 35 | Andrea Zonn | New Night Dawning | A Winter's Eve (Compass) | |
| 36 | Karine Polwart | Resolution Road | Faultlines (Neon Productions) | |
| 37 | Waterson:Carthy | New Year Carol - Residue | Holy Heathens & The Old Green Man (Topic) | |
| 38 | Nowell Sing We Clear | Orkney New Year Carol | The Best Of (Andy's Front Hall) | |
| 39 | Nowell Sing We Clear | Carol For New Year's Day | The Best Of (Andy's Front Hall) | |
| 40 | Andrea Zonn | While Roving On A Winter's Night | A Winter's Eve (Compass) | |
| 41 | Kathryn Tickell | First Of The Year | Ensemble Mystical (Park) | |
| 42 | The Tiller's Folly | Auld Lang Syne | A Kettle Of Fish (Raincoast) | |
| Back again to favourite CD's of 2006: | ||||
| 43 | Ariane Lydon | Northern Lights | Still She Moves (Candy Rat) | |
| 44 | Karine Polwart | Daisy | The Pulling Through EP (Indie) | |
| 45 | Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris | Rollin' On | All The Roadrunning (Mercury) | |
| 46 | Bodega | Wagon Wheel | Bodega (Greentrax) | |
| 47 | Back Of The Moon | Nine Stone Rig | Luminosity (Foot Stompin' Records) | |
| 48 | Jaime RT | Quantum Curry | Spark (Dog My Cat) | |
| 49 | Flook | Gone Fishing | Haven (Flatfish) | |
| 50 | Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh | Free & Easy To Jog Along | Daybreak (Compass) | |
| 51 | Richard Thompson | Oops! ... I Did It Again | 1000 Years Of Popular Music (Cooking Vinyl) | |
| 52 | Eliza Carthy | Rolling Sea | Rogues Gallery (ANTI) | |
| 53 | Show Of Hands | Roots | Witness (Hand Made) | |
| 54 | Bellowhead | Hopkinson's Favourite | Burlesque (Westpark) | |
| There just wasn't time to play my other favourites, including Shoormal's Turning Tide (Greentrax), Cara Dillon's After The Morning (Compass), Tim Van Eyken's Stiffs Lovers Holymen Thieves (Topic), Van Django's Tiptoe Trip (Indie), etc. Four hours is just not enough!! Maybe I should start the show at 7am ... | ||||
| Happy New Year, everyone. Thanks for all your inspiration and feedback. | ||||