(Mariachi/Spoken word/Outsider music) Luie Luie - Touchy - 1974, MP3, 320 kbps

Based in Southern California, Luie is a multi-instrumentalist on a mission. As he explains in the opening track, "El Touchy," he made Touchy in 1974 "all by myself," jumping among the harp, bells, guitar, percussion, Moogs, "and what have you," but always with that signature trumpet — or, in the case of his "Touch of Light," "up to 14 trumpets." The music is great, his mishmash of styles making for some really zany jukebox gems. But it's the uber-enthusiast whose voice prefaces every track that really made me a sucker for this guy: He tells you how much he loves everything from magical hand-touched tortillas to talk of "more advanced forms of life on other planets, money, finance, dirty rotten politicians, wars, energy, no energy ..."