This one features potentially boring (to non-West Indians and non-cricket fans) but actually quite fascinating ramblings on West Indies cricket (including a true confession about my own relationship with the game), news about a couple of calypso-related happenings, our first merengue track and other goodies. Please pardon the technical glitches: I’ve acquired some new toys and was testing them out by producing this one on the fly–promise I’ll get better at this soon.

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Links:
The new toys:

Haiti by David Rudder & Charlie’s Roots @ Amazon.com (the album featuring “Rally ‘Round the West Indies”)
Short piece on Rally Round the West Indies from Caribbean Beat’s “Endless Vibrations: 250 top songs from the Caribbean”
Caribbeancricket.com & The West Indies Cricket Blog – your sources for the good, the bad & the ugly re: West Indies cricket
Official site of the West Indies Cricket Board
Cricinfo – South Africa in the West Indies 2004-2005
Calypso Music in Postwar America: Photographs & Illustrations 1945-1060 – exhibition at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida
Amor Narcótico by Chi Chi Peralta & Son Familia – free download @ Amazon.com
Trinidad Express article on Calypso at Dirty Jim’s
The Chair & Automan – James Slusher’s podcast
The John Michael Hersey Band Official Home Page