A Christmas Special: Navidad Jíbara y Gitana - La Casa Encantada - Show # 11 - Friday Dec. 13 and Dec. 20 2013

The Haunted House @ KUSF - Show 11 - "Christmas Special (Navidad Jíbara y Gitana)" Dec 20 2013 by Casaencantada on Mixcloud

This is a very special show for Your Ghost Host. Aired on Dec. 13 and Dec. 20 2013, it is a CHRISTMAS SPECIAL called "NAVIDAD JÍBARA Y GITANA".
We tried to prove to the unbelievers that, contrary to what seems logical, there IS good Christmas music.

In order to demonstrate it we went from Spain to Puerto Rico and from México to Colombia listening to Cumbias, Rumbas, Seis Chorreaos, Aguinaldos, Rancheras, Bulerías and much more! Illustrious names such as Ramito, Chuíto, La Calandria, Maso Rivera con el Conjunto Típico Ladi, Lola Flores y Antonio González, Los Amaya y su Combo Gitano, Chacho, Bambino, Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros, José Alfredo Jiménez... A real family show!

 NO ROOSTERS WERE HARMED DURING THE MAKING OF THIS SHOW.

 

An All-American Show - La Casa Encantada - Show #10 - Friday, Dec. 13 2013

The Haunted House @ KUSF - Show 10 - "An All-American Show With Leadbelly and Friends" Dec 13 2013 by Casaencantada on Mixcloud

On this day at the Haunted House we celebrated the history of Huddie Ledbetter, aka Leadbelly (b. Jan. 20 1888 in Luisiana, d. Dec. 6 in NYC) with "An All-American Show featuring Leadbelly and Friends". This show was originally to be aired on Dec. 6 but bad luck came one week earlier for us.

We followed John and Alan Lomax through those prison trips in 1934 and played a good bunch of songs that Leadbelly taught us in several different versions: from Blind Lemon Jefferson doing "Matchbox Blues" to Mainer's Mountaineers with their version of "John Henry", plus James "Iron Head" Baker and his prison group doing "Black Betty", The Carter Family with "John Hardy", Son House with "Death Letter Blues", and a lot more, including plenty of songs by Leadbelly himself!
We went cajun with Nathan Abshire, rock'n'roll with Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and Roy Orbison, and even mambo with Perez Prado!
All in songs that Leadbelly sung (well, mostly!)