A little pride ...

I'm really pleased with tonight's show. I experimented with putting it together in a different way (I won't bore you with the technical details) and as I was editing it, really paid attention to the flow from one song to the next. I love it when a song sounds like a natural progression from the track before, even though it's a different artist and CD.

Wow. I am a radio geek.

I got to play a track from a CD I've been listening to a lot lately - In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2. This came to the station last month and since I'm a big fan of both U2 and of African music in general, I grabbed it. It's a pretty varied list of performers - Angelique Kidjo performs Mysterious Ways, Vieux Farka Toure performs Bullet the Blue Sky, Tony Allen (a Nigerian performer) does his version of Where the Streets Have No Name. I played my favorite track from the CD on the show tonight - the Soweto Gospel Choir performing Pride (In the Name of Love). That's one of my favorite U2 songs and I love the African gospel choir version of it. I also have a feeling I'll be ordering a few CDs by the Soweto Gospel Choir very, very soon.

I also like the liner notes for this album, which is a rarity for me since I seldom even look at liner notes. Each track has a write-up about the artist performing, and includes a little fact sheet about the country in Africa that the artist comes from. I definitely recommend this one if you like the sound of U2 with an African musical approach. Here's a video talking about the album with some samples of the music.