Grateful Dead Compilations ??/??/39 {DttC077} Noteworthy Aiko Aikos (A Collection)

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{DttC077} Noteworthy Aiko Aikos (A Collection)

            Grateful Dead

Dead To The Core Project

Noteworthy Aiko Aikos (A Collection)

This is a collection of noteworthy versions of Aiko Aiko performed by

the Grateful Dead. It appears to be quite difficult to say much about

exactly where the song comes from. New Orleans \"obviously\", but then

there are claims that it was actually a Haitian folk song dating back

into the early parts of the 20th century. A song called \"Jock-A-Mo\"

was written by James Crawford in New Orleans -- it sounds remarkably

like Aiko Aiko. The Dixie Cups, a singing group consisting of two

sisters and their cousin, first recorded it as Aiko Aiko: their

version went to #20 on the charts. The song is a story of two \"tribes\"

of Mardi Gras Indians on parade: they collide on the parade route, and

boy golly do the threats and boasts flow thick.

The lyrics actually go \"Hey now, hey now, Aiko! Aiko! an de\'. Jackomo

fe no a na nae\', Jackomo fe na ne\'.\" The phrase \"Aiko Aiko\" is said to

be derived from the languages of Gambia: in those languages, Ago!

means \"listen!\" or \"attention!\". My ear tells me that the Grateful

Dead often sang it \"Aiko Aiko all day\", but, they were not known to be

particularly careful in the lyric way.

The collection is closely based on a list put together by Eric Wybenga

and published in his book _Dead To The Core: An Almanac of the

Grateful Dead_. Eric picked mostly later versions of Aiko Aiko (the

band first played it in 1977), so with one exception (80-09-02) we can

offer SBD versions of the songs here. Both \'86 versions in this

collection are played with the Neville Brothers. Eric suggests a Sept

10, 1991 version of Aiko with Branford that I do not believe actually

happened in this time-line, I have replaced it with a 10-27-91 version

of Aiko with Carlos Santana and Gary Duncan.

The track names are self-explanatory: they list the date of the

performance, the SHNID of the source, and shortened names of the songs

included in the track. Most of these Aiko Aikos are standalone. I

found echos of the Aikos to come in the Drums or Space that preceeded

them, so I sometimes left those attached to the song. When I could not

split the Aiko from its neighbors, I included a larger jam. And of

course I had to leave Woman Smarter in there (the difference? it\'s up

two steps in key...). I decoded the wav\'s with flac or shorten as

appropriate to the source, joined the wav\'s with shntool, edited them

(in the edges and fades way) with Wavelab, fixed the bad headers with

shntool, and then compressed things with flac. I used flac v1.2.1,

shorten v3.6.0, shntool v3.0.2, ane Wavelab V6.

First shared via bitTorrent at bt.eTree.org, Febuary 2009, by SteveSw.

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    30:49.29      326231852 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6148  gd80-09-02.26094.Space-AikoAiko-MorningDew-SugarMag.flac

    17:37.44      186558332 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5954  gd82-08-10.12453.Space-AikoAiko.flac

    16:05.21      170275436 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6110  gd85-03-31.14671.AikoAiko-Samson.flac

    16:54.55      178999004 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6837  gd85-06-24.25315.AikoAiko-Samson.flac

    14:57.54      158357852 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6236  gd86-02-11.11716.Drums-AikoAiko.flac

    28:34.09      302370812 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5235  gd86-12-30.77446.Drums-AikoAiko-WomanSmarter.flac

     8:12.12       86817068 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6285  gd90-03-18.90486.AikoAiko.flac

    27:44.13      293560220 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5996  gd91-10-27.81199.AikoAiko-Mona.flac

    10:36.13      112221020 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6481  gd95-03-18.32055.AikoAiko.flac

    11:37.21      123000236 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6381  gd95-03-27.03194.AikoAiko.flac

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