Blasts From the Pasts – Random Posts

You can go back to your roots. New Jersey’s The Smithereens have done it with “2011“, their first album of wholly new material since 1999. Also returning for this solid set are producer Don Dixon with engineer Mitch Easter. The Smithereens first worked with [...]

Twenty-Nine Years Ago I Was On The Air And Playing…

I’ve kept neatly hidden away a series of notebooks which contain nearly all my WXYC airshifts between late 1982 and mid 1984. (I wish I had ones dating back to my start there in September 1980, but not so.) WXYC was in a transitional [...]

King Crimson – Islands – An Impression

I decided to plop on one of my favorite songs, open up the blog editor and begin writing.
This exquisite song has long been a favorite of mine. A flowing, slowly rocking song the invokes the relaxation of staring out to sea from an island.
Now [...]

Download Juluka

December 13, 2009

By Keith Weston

Johnny Clegg was born in the UK. In the late 70s he became entranced with South African Zulu culture. During the height of apartheid oppression he along with Zulu Sipho Mchunu formed Juluka. Some will knock this as a poppy exercise and some may call it exploitative, but I can tell you from a first hand conversation with Sipho back circa 1983 that he and Johnny felt they were building important bridges at a time when it was dangerous for the races to mix in South Africa. It’s infectious and if you let it, it will make you smile. Juluka means “sweat”, and was the name of a bull owned by Mchunu. Johnny was made a honorary white Zulu for his efforts.

Johnny Clegg & Juluka
“Scatterlings Of Africa” (mp3)
from “The Best of Juluka”
(Rhythm Safari Pty Ltd)