Return Of The Son Of Triple Word Scores

 

Maybe this theme was beaten into the ground awhile ago, but it has risen from the grave thanks to contributions from Richard and Stinky, as well as a few leftover suggestions from readers' comments and some tracks that I stumbled upon while wandering the web.

Richard went through his collection and sent in a couple hundred songs from all over the world.  And then Stinky started emailing mp3's -- just one at a time, every now and then.  The two of them convinced me that it was worth revisiting.

It's taken awhile to sort them into compilations.  With such a volume of tunes, it became possible to organize them into themed compilations.  I enjoy the diversity of the first few Triple Word comps, and Crab Devil and I did a couple where the songs all had the same or similar titles.

But how to organize them -- chronologically? geographically? by genre? I ended up with some of each, and here are the first three (out of a total of sixteen or more CD-length sets).  Yeah Yeah Yeah is mostly rhythm & blues.   Wild Wild Wild is country music -- as old as Grandpa Jones, and as recent as two years ago.  Heavy Heavy Heavy is music by African artists, from L'Orchestre TP OK Jazz to Femi Kuti and Vusi Mahlasela -- and from the north, south, west (and possibly east) of the continent.