By the road to the contagious sounds, we celebrate the arrival of the Spring with a set of songs devoted to one of our four favorite seasons.
We also have plenty of Poetry and Puppetry to honor the Vernal Equinox!
Listen to Nelson Cavaquinho, Jonathan Richman, Lata Mangeshkar, Lead Belly, Sonny Boy Williamson, Farid El Atrache, Django Reinhardt, Camarón, Bambino, Carmen Miranda, Bascom Lamar Lunsford... all our usual suspects!
Cumbia, Bollywood, Flamenco, Brazilian, Egyptian, Blues... You know the deal! All around the globe in 60 minutes
Plus a band of ghost horses neighing and stomping all over the studio and a special spectral apparition by e.e. cummings!
By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast—a cold wind. Beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields
brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen
patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees
All along the road the reddish
purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees
with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines—
Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches—
They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind—
Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined—
It quickens: clarity, outline of a leaf
But now the stark dignity of
entrance—Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken
