There's so much good music coming out of Colombia. Listening to Fonseca or Carlos Vives, sometimes even Shakira, you catch a whiff of the jungle or the mountains in the sound of the Andean flute called the gaita or in the use of drums that sound just a little bit different. It always leaves me wishing I could hear more.

With La Bodega, you get a lot more. Toto La Momposina is a woman on a mission and that mission is to bring the music of the Colombian coast to a larger audience. That coast is where Andean Indian and Afro-Caribbean rhythms meet and celebrate together.

It makes me glad I'm part of that larger audience.