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Sound Salvation
Jan 31, 2020 7:00 AM β 10:00 AM
Music
With Steve Pick
Steve Pick brings you Sound Salvation. It's 3 hours of the best new music liberally mixed with all the classics of the last century's worth of pop music, rock & roll, jazz, blues, country, soul and more. If it's worth hearing, you'll find it on Sound Salvation.
7:00 AM |
| The Sweet Ballroom Blitz Sweet Fanny Adams RCA 1974 A song that begins by asking me if I'm ready! Heck yeah!
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7:04 AM |
| The Association Forty Times (Single Version) Just the Right Sound: The Association Anthology Rhino/Warner Records 2006 These guys have to be among the most underrated great bands of all time.
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7:07 AM |
| The Troggs With a Girl Like You Hit Single Anthology UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1991 Even when they were singing a sweet love song, they just sounded sleezy.
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7:09 AM |
| The Creation How Does It Feel to Feel Making Time: The Complete Collection Vol. 1 Retroactive 1998 They lived at a time when English rock bands were cranking out classic singles right and left.
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7:12 AM |
| Hoodoo Gurus Tojo Stoneage Romeos Big Time Phonograph Recording Co. 2006 This was their second single, and a parody of some big Christmas song in Australia that I've never heard. I just love this one.
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7:16 AM |
| The Ike Reilly Assassination Fish Plant Uprising We Belong to the Staggering Evening Rock Ridge Music 2007 This guy made some great rock records for a few years there in the 00s.
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7:20 AM |
| Ray Charles Basin Street Blues The Genius Hits the Road Polydor 1960 A little tale about New Orleans.
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7:23 AM |
| Wanda Jackson Silver Threads and Golden Needles Wanda Jackson Doxy Records 1958 She made some of the finest rockin' and country singles of her day.
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7:25 AM |
| The Bar-Kays Soul Finger Stax-Volt: The Complete Singles 1959-1968 Rhino Atlantic 1991 One of the finest instrumental soul hits of 1967 or any year.
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7:28 AM |
| Rosanne Cash Our Little Angel Retrospective Columbia 1995 I'd completely forgotten she did this Elvis Costello song.
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7:32 AM |
| Norah Jones & Mavis Staples I'll Be Gone Iβll Be Gone - Single Blue Note Records 2019 Wonderful duet of two magical singers.
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7:37 AM |
| Andrew Combs Save Somebody Else Ideal Man New West Records 2019 He was raised in Dallas and he lives in Nashville and he's allied with country music, but I think he sounds completely his own man.
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7:41 AM |
| Marcus King Beautiful Stranger N El Dorado Fantasy 2019 This man can really sing and play guitar, and the songs are quite good, too.
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7:45 AM |
| The Band Smoke Signal (Live-Academy of Music) A Musical History (Remastered) Capitol Records 2005 Great live version of the song from Cahoots.
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7:51 AM |
| Blue Magic Just Don't Want to Be Lonely Blue Magic Rhino 2007 Magnificent cries of longing for love.
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8:01 AM |
| Question Mark Freaking Out Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria Soundway 2008 Nigeria had such a spectacularly diverse music scene in the 70s. It may still - I just never hear about what's happening there in music any more.
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8:05 AM |
| Funky Butt Brass Band Cream L N Onward Funky Butt Brass Band 2020 What a cool version of the Prince classic!
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8:10 AM |
| Raphael Saadiq Sinners Prayer N Jimmy Lee Columbia 2019 An album I liked quite a bit when it first came out in August, and then kind of forgot about for a long time. That happens sometimes through no fault of a record.
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8:15 AM |
| Gang of Four Ether Entertainment! Rhino/Warner Records 1979 Nothing sounded like this record when it first came out.
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8:20 AM |
| Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians Brenda's Iron Sledge Gotta Let This Hen Out Yep Roc Records 2008 This live album showed a side of Hitchcock I never got to see - the only time I saw him live he was solo.
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8:23 AM |
| Titus Andronicus (I Blame) Society N An Obelisk Merge Records 2019 A punk rock record that makes me think there's still life in those three chords yet!
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8:26 AM |
| Bad Brains Rock for Light Rock for Light Bad Brains Records 2017 In 1983, Ric Okasek produced this definitive document of this band's hardcore power.
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8:28 AM |
| AC/DC For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) Columbia 1981 I saw this great band five or six times, and after the first one, I learned it was wiser for my ears to leave before they played this song at the encore, and shot off all those cannons.
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8:34 AM |
| Rick Estrin & the Nightcats Cupcakin' N Contemporary Alligator Records 2019 Fab instrumental number from one of America's greatest blues bands.
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8:38 AM |
| KC and the Sunshine Band Boogie Shoes The Best Of Parlophone UK 1996 Absolutely perfect pop record.
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8:42 AM |
| Gladys Knight & The Pips Come Back and Finish What You Started The One and Only (Expanded Edition) Legacy Recordings 2014 A 1978 cut I don't think I knew until very recently.
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8:45 AM |
| Renee Wahl & The Sworn Secrets In the Field N Cut to the Bone Double R Records 2019 Very fine singer and band.
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8:49 AM |
| Leonard Cohen Take This Longing New Skin for the Old Ceremony Columbia/Legacy 1974 He left us with so many wonderful songs.
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8:53 AM |
| The Beach Boys All This Is That Carl and the Passions - "So Tough" Capitol Records 2015 A rare co-write by Carl Wilson, Al Jardine, and Mike Love.
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9:00 AM |
| Bill Frisell Everywhere N Harmony Blue Note Records 2019 Gorgeous record with Petra Haden on vocals.
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9:06 AM |
| Laura Nyro Gibsom Street New York Tendaberry Columbia 1969 She was one of a kind and brilliant.
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9:11 AM |
| Pinegrove Dotted Line Marigold Rough Trade 2020 A band I hadn't paid attention to before, but which is growing on me with this new record.
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9:15 AM |
| Taylor Steele & the Love Preachers Jeremiah Searching Taylor Steele & the Love Preachers 2019 Very fine Americana band from central Illinois.
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9:20 AM |
| Laura Green Cry L N Green Eyed Blues Unknown 2020 Look at the talent on this album:Bob LΓΆhr, Art Dwyer, Rich McDonough, Joe Meyer, Michele Isam, Chris Shepherd, Carl Pandolfi, Ellen Hinkle, Rob Lee, Ron Roskowske, Bill Murphy, Aaron Griffin, Charlie Pfeffer and Renee Smith! Engineered and co-produced by David Torretta!
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9:25 AM |
| Carl Perkins Glad All Over Original Sun Greatest Hits Rhino 1986 A car accident stopped his ascendence to the major sales ranks of 50s rock'n'roll, but artistically, he's up there for me.
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9:27 AM |
| The J. Geils Band Struttin' with My Baby Bloodshot Atlantic Records 1973 From the magical music year of 1973.
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9:30 AM |
| The Move Wave The Flag And Stop The Train Move Esoteric 1968 One of the greatest bands most Americans never knew.
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9:33 AM |
| The Pogues Wild Cats of Kilkenny Rum Sodomy & the Lash Warner Strategic Marketing 1985 Jeeminy, these guys could play!
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9:36 AM |
| Dick Dale Firing Up At the Drags RockBeat Records 2012 I think he recorded this hot little number in 1983.
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9:40 AM |
| Chris Knight Mexican Home (feat. John Prine) N Almost Daylight Drifters Church Productions 2019 Cool version of a John Prine song with John Prine.
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9:45 AM |
| The Hold Steady Epaulets N Thrashing Thru the Passion Frenchkiss Records 2019 My all-time favorite song about epaulets.
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9:48 AM |
| Aaliyah More Than a Woman Aaliyah Blackground Records 2001 Her final album was her best - a great loss when she died so young.
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9:52 AM |
| Maceo & All the King's Men Mag Poo Doing Their Own Thing Charly Records 2006 I can't for the life of me figure out when this song was originally released, but it sounds to me like about 1972.
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