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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.

Sound Salvation
7:00 AM
The Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
The Sweet Ballroom Blitz
Sweet Fanny Adams RCA 1974
A song that begins by asking me if I'm ready! Heck yeah!
7:04 AM
The Association - Forty Times (Single Version)
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.
7:07 AM
The Troggs - With a Girl Like You
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.
7:09 AM
The Creation - How Does It Feel to Feel
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.
7:12 AM
Hoodoo Gurus - Tojo
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.
7:16 AM
The Ike Reilly Assassination - Fish Plant Uprising
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.
7:20 AM
Ray Charles - Basin Street Blues
Ray Charles Basin Street Blues
The Genius Hits the Road Polydor 1960
A little tale about New Orleans.
7:23 AM
Wanda Jackson - Silver Threads and Golden Needles
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.
7:25 AM
The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger
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.
7:28 AM
Rosanne Cash - Our Little Angel
Rosanne Cash Our Little Angel
Retrospective Columbia 1995
I'd completely forgotten she did this Elvis Costello song.
7:32 AM
Norah Jones & Mavis Staples - I'll Be Gone
Norah Jones & Mavis Staples I'll Be Gone
I’ll Be Gone - Single Blue Note Records 2019
Wonderful duet of two magical singers.
7:37 AM
Andrew Combs - Save Somebody Else
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.
7:41 AM
Marcus King - Beautiful Stranger
Marcus King Beautiful Stranger N
El Dorado Fantasy 2019
This man can really sing and play guitar, and the songs are quite good, too.
7:45 AM
The Band - Smoke Signal (Live-Academy of Music)
The Band Smoke Signal (Live-Academy of Music)
A Musical History (Remastered) Capitol Records 2005
Great live version of the song from Cahoots.
7:51 AM
Blue Magic - Just Don't Want to Be Lonely
Blue Magic Just Don't Want to Be Lonely
Blue Magic Rhino 2007
Magnificent cries of longing for love.
8:01 AM
Question Mark - Freaking Out
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.
8:05 AM
Funky Butt Brass Band - Cream
Funky Butt Brass Band Cream L N
Onward Funky Butt Brass Band 2020
What a cool version of the Prince classic!
8:10 AM
Raphael Saadiq - Sinners Prayer
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.
8:15 AM
Gang of Four - Ether
Gang of Four Ether
Entertainment! Rhino/Warner Records 1979
Nothing sounded like this record when it first came out.
8:20 AM
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Brenda's Iron Sledge
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.
8:23 AM
Titus Andronicus - (I Blame) Society
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!
8:26 AM
Bad Brains - Rock for Light
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.
8:28 AM
AC/DC - For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
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.
8:34 AM
Rick Estrin & the Nightcats - Cupcakin'
Rick Estrin & the Nightcats Cupcakin' N
Contemporary Alligator Records 2019
Fab instrumental number from one of America's greatest blues bands.
8:38 AM
KC and the Sunshine Band - Boogie Shoes
KC and the Sunshine Band Boogie Shoes
The Best Of Parlophone UK 1996
Absolutely perfect pop record.
8:42 AM
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Come Back and Finish What You Started
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.
8:45 AM
Renee Wahl & The Sworn Secrets - In the Field
Renee Wahl & The Sworn Secrets In the Field N
Cut to the Bone Double R Records 2019
Very fine singer and band.
8:49 AM
Leonard Cohen - Take This Longing
Leonard Cohen Take This Longing
New Skin for the Old Ceremony Columbia/Legacy 1974
He left us with so many wonderful songs.
8:53 AM
The Beach Boys - All This Is That
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.
9:00 AM
Bill Frisell - Everywhere
Bill Frisell Everywhere N
Harmony Blue Note Records 2019
Gorgeous record with Petra Haden on vocals.
9:06 AM
Laura Nyro - Gibsom Street
Laura Nyro Gibsom Street
New York Tendaberry Columbia 1969
She was one of a kind and brilliant.
9:11 AM
Pinegrove - Dotted Line
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.
9:15 AM
Taylor Steele & the Love Preachers - Jeremiah
Taylor Steele & the Love Preachers Jeremiah
Searching Taylor Steele & the Love Preachers 2019
Very fine Americana band from central Illinois.
9:20 AM
Laura Green - Cry
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!
9:25 AM
Carl Perkins - Glad All Over
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.
9:27 AM
The J. Geils Band - Struttin' with My Baby
The J. Geils Band Struttin' with My Baby
Bloodshot Atlantic Records 1973
From the magical music year of 1973.
9:30 AM
The Move - Wave The Flag And Stop The Train
The Move Wave The Flag And Stop The Train
Move Esoteric 1968
One of the greatest bands most Americans never knew.
9:33 AM
The Pogues - Wild Cats of Kilkenny
The Pogues Wild Cats of Kilkenny
Rum Sodomy & the Lash Warner Strategic Marketing 1985
Jeeminy, these guys could play!
9:36 AM
Dick Dale - Firing Up
Dick Dale Firing Up
At the Drags RockBeat Records 2012
I think he recorded this hot little number in 1983.
9:40 AM
Chris Knight - Mexican Home (feat. John Prine)
Chris Knight Mexican Home (feat. John Prine) N
Almost Daylight Drifters Church Productions 2019
Cool version of a John Prine song with John Prine.
9:45 AM
The Hold Steady - Epaulets
The Hold Steady Epaulets N
Thrashing Thru the Passion Frenchkiss Records 2019
My all-time favorite song about epaulets.
9:48 AM
Aaliyah - More Than a Woman
Aaliyah More Than a Woman
Aaliyah Blackground Records 2001
Her final album was her best - a great loss when she died so young.
9:52 AM
Maceo & All the King's Men - Mag Poo
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.