This is the second play for the opening track from Olivia Ruiz’s album. Thanks to replies from listeners, I now know what the song’s title means – I drag my feet. The rest of the album is good too, but this stands out and attracted so many positive reactions, it deserves a second chance before we move on to find something else to play.

Terry Lee Hale sent his album from a Paris address, but he’s an American who made this album in Slovenia. The first song ‘Hearts’ is so interesting, with atmospheric trumpet played by Andrej Jakus, you’d be sure there must be something else good further down the album. But no, this is the only track to recommend.

Songs of Defiance: music from Chechnya is one of a pair of albums released on the Topic label from recordings made by British musicologist Michael Church on a recent trip to Georgia and Chechnya. The journalist Garth Cartwright praised the albums as being among the best he has heard this year. I find the sparse instrumentation a bit hard to take, and can only manage one track at a time, but I do like the female singer Tamara Dadasheva.

Sometimes it’s impossible to explain why one song brings to mind another, apparently quite different. But I always intended to play the last track from Island Blues one of these days, and this turns out to be the day for Catherine-Ann McPhee, who lives on the island of Barra in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides.

After I played a track by Hawaiian guitarist Sam Ku West on the World Service a year or so ago, the tiny Grass Skirt record label reported enquiries from all over the world, so let’s see if there is a repeat reaction.

In the early 1980s, many European listeners were surprised to discover that the pedal steel guitar, which sounds very much like the Hawaiian guitar, was featured in many Nigerian bands including that of King Sunny Ade. Produced by Martin Meissonnier, the albums which launched King Sunny worldwide on Island Records featured new recordings of songs that had previously been popular in Nigeria, and we finish the show with a track from the CD that collects together some of the original versions. How great they sound.

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