03-09-19 & 03-10-19 | Songs for Listening | Carlos Tortolero
Carlos Tortolero, director of Chicago Blues Festival and co-director of World Music Festival Chicago (both events managed by the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events), provides a special weekend playlist for Saturday, March 9 and Sunday, March 10 at Songs for Listening.
When I asked Carlos for three to five songs to assemble a short playlist, he suggested that it would be futile for him to reduce his selections so drastically. Instead, he offered me a list of his favorite vinyl recordings, those albums that sit in a crate near to his record player for easy access. How could I refuse such a bounty!?!
Congos 'Heart of the Congos'
Horace Andy 'Good Vibes'
August Pablo 'Original Rockers'
Bob Marley & the Wailers 'Soul Rebel'*
Bob Marley & the Wailers 'Survival'
King Tubby Meets Roots Radics 'Dangerous Dub'
Fela Kuta 'Fear Not For Man'
Fela Kuti 'Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense'
Tony Allen 'No Discrimination'
Muddy Waters 'Best of Muddy Waters'
Jimi Hendrix 'Axis: Bold As Love'
Junior Wells 'Hoodoo Man Blues'*
Magic Sam 'West Side Soul'
Professor Longhair 'Crawfish Fiesta'
John Coltrane 'A Love Supreme'
Mahmoud Ahmed 'Mahmoud Ahmed (Ethiopiques No. 7)'
Ali Farka Toure 'Special Bienale du Mali' [substituted Farka Toure's 'Radio Mali' for the playlist]
Ravi Shankar 'Live at the Monterey International Pop Festival'
Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan 'The Masters of India' [substituted Shankar & Akbar Khan 'Ragas' for the playlist] | Ali Akbar Khan & L. Subramaniam w. Zakir Hussain 'Raga Sindhi Bharavi'
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 'Shahen-Shah'
Nasrat Fateh Ali Khan 'Shahbaaz'
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 'Love & Devotion'
