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From May 18, 2004:
Archived Show: Episode 63
Listen to the entire show
Featured: The Real Tuesday Weld
Dub music pioneer King Tubby
Pre-dub, pre-reggae Mento Madness
Joplin & The American Ragtime Ensemble
Solo work by Yes guitarist Steve Howe
The wobbly, oscillating sounds of for stars
Former Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid
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The Real Tuesday Weld is otherwise known as musician Stephen Coates. Here he offers a soundtrack to the dark-comedy novel I, Lucifer.
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Featured: The Real Tuesday Weld
CD: I, Lucifer
Song: "The Life and Times of the Clerkenwell Kid"
Label: Six Degrees
Listen to "The Life and Times of the Clerkenwell Kid"
 Watch the slideshow (Requires Real Player)
Watch "Bathtime" (Requires Real Player)
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King Tubby is synonymous with dub music - a mix of pre-recorded samples and rhythms from reggae songs with the vocals removed. Tubby was shot and killed outside his home in 1989. His death remains a mystery.
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King Tubby
CD: The Roots of Dub
Song: "Dub You Can Feel"
Label: Moll-Selekta
Listen to "Dub You Can Feel"
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This is a cut from a collection of so-called "Mento" tunes - a form of Jamaican dance music that pre-dates dub, Reggae or Calypso.
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Harold Richardson and the Ticklers
CD: Mento Madness
Song: "Healin' in the Balmyard"
Label: V2
Listen to "Healin' in the Balmyard"
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Violinist David Reffkin offers historic arrangements of ragtime music, all performed by a string ensemble.
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The American Ragtime Ensemble
CD: Ragtime Chamber Music
Song: "Gladiolus Rag"
Label: Crazy Otto Music
Listen to "The Gladiolus Rag"
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Yes guitarist Steve Howe here offers a mix of original tunes and classic Yes songs performed on solo guitar.
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Steve Howe
CD: Natural Timbre
Song: "Your Move"
Label: Spitfire Records
Listen to "Your Move"
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For Stars - beautifully dark, ethereal and musically chaotic - call their latest release a psychedelic exploration of their own uncertain identity.
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for stars
CD: ...It Falls Apart
Song: "I Should Have Told You"
Label: Future Farmer
Listen to "I Should Have Told You"
For more information on this CD, visit the label's Web site.
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Vernon Reid is a guitar innovator. His experimental style, heard in his work with Living Colour, Bill Frisell and Public Enemy, blends everything from R&B to downtown New York jazz and King Crimson-like rock.
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Vernon Reid
CD: Known Unknown
Song: "X The Unknown"
Label: Favored Nations
Listen to "X The Unknown"
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