SOMETIME BETWEEN THE involuntary hip spasms brought on by Congolese singer Ricardo Lemvo’s soukous band as I nibbled on fried bananas and the melancholy induced by Irish folk-rocker Paul Brady’s antihero anthem “Nobody Knows” as I wolfed down fish and chips, the full scope and substance of the Houston International Festival hit me. I also had the option of hearing other musicians from the “spotlight nation” of Ireland, such as the earthy-yet-ethereal jam band Kila, as well as Ghanaian master drummer Obo Addy and the band Kukudru. I saw American music icons like bluegrass patriarch Ralph Stanley and Texans like Houston boogie-blues guitarist Texas Johnny Brown. Former Texan Lucinda Williams performed songs from her then-unreleased Essence, and British folk-rocker Richard Thompson played a rare solo…The post We Are the World appeared first on Texas Monthly.