February 2, 2007 - The Free Side Wins Again!
Yes 'tis true, this weekend's Free Kick show marked the second anniversary of our biweekly Saturday night spot on Montreal's airwaves. However, Shawn and I are unsentimental types & decided instead to shine our musical spotlight on a more public occasion: Black History Month, which currently occupies that bleak & brutal section of the calendar known as... February.

So, the first part of the show featured a choice selection of great black music favourites from the US (a lot of them recorded in an era when the prospect of a black president seemed pretty remote), the UK and Africa. Not much different from the usual Free Kick menu, now that you mention it!

Here's a list of the artists we played last Saturday night:

Public Enemy, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Curtis Mayfield, Fred Wesley & the JBs, Cymande, Bongos Ikwue, Kool & The Gang, Ex-Centric Sound System, George Duke, Masanka Sankayi + Kasai Allstars ft. Mutumilayi, Konono No.1, Syd Barrett, Young Marble Giants, Henry Flynt & Nova'Billy, Ilya Antanasov, Oonerk & Anitsak, Balinese trance singers, The Hawketts, Richard Berry & The Pharaohs, Frank Zappa, Jefferson Airplane, The Godz, David Peel & The Lower East Side, The Fugs, Count Five, The Sonics, and Jeffrey Lewis !

Want to hear it again? You can download an mp3 file from the archives via the below:

• 64 kbps (about 64 MB)

Or, if you just want to stream the show, you can go the CKUT archives page and get Sat. Dec 2 from 21:03 to 23:01.

Oh, and if you want to delve further into Black history, you could always check out the following links:

• Black History Canada
• Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian: African American History and Culture
  
• U. of Washington Sub-Saharan African History Sources

That's it for this dispatch from the free side! Check back with us again for our next show on CKUT 90.3 fm, coming at you Saturday Feb 16 from 9-11 pm.

walk good
Dave