This week's social commentary, courtesy of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys: "Little bee sucks the blossom, big bee gets the honey. Darkie raise the cotton, white man gets the money."
Death Valley Radio 746 features tasty songs about Southern cuisine, Jacob Garchik's atheist gospel trombones, and a salute to 20th-century American composer Frank Zappa. Also: new music from Habib Koité and Eric Bibb, Ablayé Cissoko and Volker Goetze, and the Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere.