• The Big Drum & other Ritual & Social Music of Carriacou – Ibo and Dem - Nation Big Drum Song
    • 1. Cromanti Cudjoe - Beg Pardon Big Drum Song
    • 2. Ibo and Dem - Nation Big Drum Song
    • 3. Ju Belle - Juba Big Drum Song
    • 4. January Has Gone Away - Patois Song
    • 5. Lillian - Calypso
    • 6. Good South - Calypso
    • 7. Raycan - Calypso
    • 8. Mama Liza Canbulay - Kalinda Big Drum Song
    • 9. Juvay Mama - Carnival Jab-Jab
    • 10. Ladies and Gents - Carnival Speech
    • 11. Political Discrimination - Calypso
    • 12. Hello in Africa - Carnival Wild Indian Mas'
    • 13. Mas' in Madison Square Garden - Carnival Steel Band
    • 14. Mas' in Madison Square Garden - Carnival String Band
    • 15. Who Go Cut the Wood Tirina? - Pass Play Ring Game Song
    • 16. Christmas Serenading - Hosannah Bands
    • 17. First Figure - Lancer's Dance
    • 18. Bam Bam We Want to Soldier - Joining Wedding Song
    • 19. In the Mood - Joining Wedding Music / Yankee Doodle - Joining Wedding Music
    • 20. The Lord Is My Shepherd - Hymn
    • 21. I'm a Born Believer - Sankey
    • 22. Ring Down Below - Shanty
    • 23. Second Figure Waltz - Quadrille
    • 24. If I Were a Black Bird - Ballad

    African-derived ritual music, folk and calypso from the small West Indian island of Cariacou. Recorded in 1980.

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