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A joyous escape via music, guests and poetry: Walking the world

Cerys handpicks you an eclectic Sunday selection of blues, folk, funk, jazz and beats. Cerys catches up with Paul Salopek in China on his Out of Eden walk.

Cerys handpicks you an eclectic Sunday selection of blues, folk, funk, jazz and beats. This week her selection includes Bonobo, Albert Ayler, Warmduscher, Sault and Betty Davis. She also adds a smattering of Disco from The Bee Gees, Chic and Christy Essien in honour of 6 Music's Desert Island Disco All Dayer.

This week Cerys catches up with journalist and writer Paul Salopek who is walking from Africa to the tip of South America, retracing the path our human ancestors took. After stopping in Myanmar during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Paul is continuing his walk through China.

On the 15th anniversary of Alice Coltrane's passing, poet Nisha Ramayya reads her poems inspired by her music, which leads Cerys to dig into the 麻豆社 Archives for Alice's voice.

Plus Cerys pays tribute to the late Ronnie Spector, lead singer of The Ronettes, the 1960s vocal trio who had hits with Be My Baby and Baby I Love You. Ronnie's friend Vicki Wickham recalls working on the TV show Ready, Steady, Go which launched The Ronettes' career in the UK and we hear in Ronnie's own words how she learnt to sing and performing a Ray Charles classic at New York's Peppermint Lounge Disco where they were discovered.

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Sun 16 Jan 2022 10:00
麻豆社 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Barney McAll

    Wild Horses In The Morning (feat. Rita Satch & Laneous)

    • Precious Energy.
    • Extra Celestial Arts /Mothertongue Records.

  • Junior Wells’ Chicago Blues Band

    Snatch It Back and Hold It

    • Hoodoo Man Blues.
    • Delmark Records.
    • 1.

  • Buck Owens

    Act Naturally

    • 21 #1 Hits: The Ultimate Collection.
    • Rhino.
    • 1.

  • Bee Gees

    More Than A Woman

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Albert Ayler

    Sun Watcher

  • John Francis Flynn

    Tralee Gaol

    • I Would Not Live Always.
    • River Lea Recordings.
    • 4.

  • Cate Le Bon

    Remembering Me

    • Pompeii.
    • Mexican Summer.

  • Heatwave

    Boogie Nights

    • Too Hot To Handle.
    • BBR.
    • 013.

  • Warmduscher

    Fatso

    • At The Hotspot.
    • Bella Union.

  • Dana Gavanski

    I Talk To The Wind

    • Wind Songs.
    • Full Time Hobby.
    • 1.

  • Chic

    Good Times

    • The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
    • Columbia.

  • Modern Nature

    Performance

    • Bella Union.

  • Alice Coltrane

    Stopover Bombay

    • Journey in Satchidananda.
    • Impulse.

  • Alice Coltrane

    Govinda Jai Jai

    • Rhino.

  • Bonobo

    Rosewood

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee

    Kurunba

    • Real World Records.

  • Starship Orchestra

    You're A Star

    • Second Suite.
    • 7.

  • Parekh & Singh

    Je Suis La Pomme Rouge

    • Peacefrog.

  • Count Basie & Dizzy Gillespie

    St James Infirmary

    • The Gifted Ones.
    • Pablo Records.
    • 4.

  • SAULT

    Why Why Why Why Why

    • 5.
    • Forever Living Originals.
    • 4.

  • Christy Essien Igbokwe

    Take Life Easy

    • Afrodisia.

  • Luiz Bonfá

    Jacaranda

    • Jacaranda.
    • Ranwood Records, Inc..
    • 2.

  • Funkadelic

    Hit It and Quit It

    • Standing On The Verge: The Best Of Funkadelic.
    • Ace Records Limited.
    • 15.

  • Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio

    Don't Worry 'Bout What I Do

    • Cold As Weiss.
    • Colemine Records.

  • Caetano Veloso

    Alfomega

    • Caetano Veloso.
    • Philips/ Elemental Music.
    • 12.

  • 白光

    Qiu Ye (Autumn Night)

    • Rough Guide To China.
    • Music Rough Guides.
    • 16.

  • Hani Union

    Greek Text

    • Lost in China.
    • Riverboat Records/World Music Network.
    • 3.

  • Betty Davis

    Shoo-B-Doop and Cop Him

    • They Say I'm Different.
    • Light In The Attic.
    • 1.

  • The Ronettes

    Do I Love You

    • The Best Of The Ronettes.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • Ronnie Spector

    You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory

    • She Talks To Rainbow.
    • 3.

  • The Ronettes

    What'd I Say

    • The Ronettes Volume 1.
    • Colpix Records.
    • 6.

  • Isaac Sasson

    Chuma

    • Canciones de Isaac.
    • Olindo Records.
    • 2.

  • Theon Cross

    We Go Again

    • Intra-I.
    • New Soil.

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 Jan 2022 10:00
    麻豆社 Radio 6 Music