Here we are and another Sunday and another programme. This one starts quietly, a bit of jazz, JJ Cale and Aretha, goes down south to Tex Mex country, resurfaces with the loud type of Blues – new-ish Little Ed and old-ish Leadbelly, then some saxophone honkers and screamers, finishing with a wacky one.
Alysia - ten children and quite a character. She lives in Quebrada Verde a village in the desert near Lima
Lets see – now this was a more normal Crossraods programme. Starting with some of the great rock and rollers – Bobby Dylan, Robbie Robertson, the not as famous as they should be Blasters, some blues, mainly from Chicago, some African stuff – where the Blues really came from, back to a classic rock run from Steely Dan, Ry and Tom Waits and finish with the lovely Rosana. Not a lot of plays for her but she is a crossroads favourite – should be heard much more – lovely songs, good backing- I only wish I knew what she was talking about.
Due to lack of medical facilities - these healing ponds are tried for a variety of illnesses in Lima - even mental illnesses
Oh goody a new toy, well if you don’t know the I Went To The Crossroads programme, get set.
Using the BCB kit to record sounds in Peru - looking for inspiration
On 18th October I did a reggae special for Black history Month, although nearly all the programme’s music orginates in some way from the blues (except the latin stuff and even then I bet it does).
So I played old stuff like The Congo’s Soddam and Gomorah and Stepping Razor by Peter Tosh. With very old stuff like Toots and the Maytals and the Heptones. I try (fail you may say) to get the programmes to flow old to new, slow to fast, quiet to loud so everything seems like a logical procession.