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Sound Salvation

Sep 10, 2021 7:00 AM – 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
7:02 AM
Captain Beefheart - Somebody in My Home (Live from the Avalon Ballroom, C.A. 1966)
Captain Beefheart Somebody in My Home (Live from the Avalon Ballroom, C.A. 1966)
Plastic Factory (Live) Go Faster Records 2015
The young Captain stomped the blues.
7:07 AM
Chris Spedding - Boogie City
Chris Spedding Boogie City
Chris Spedding (Expanded Edition) Rhino 2018
One of the greatest guitar players that never became a household name.
7:08 AM
Jeff Beck - Morning Dew
Jeff Beck Morning Dew
Live At the Fillmore West, San Francisco 1968 London Calling 2019
Rod Stewart and Beck were amazing here.
7:13 AM
Albert King - Jailhouse Rock
Albert King Jailhouse Rock
Blues for Elvis: King Does the King's Things (Remastered) Stax 1991
I love the way Albert King approaches this song.
7:16 AM
Don Covay - Overtime Man
Don Covay Overtime Man
Checkin' in with Don Covay Mercury Records 1988
A neat 1972 single by the soul master that should have been a bigger hit.
7:21 AM
The Undisputed Truth - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
The Undisputed Truth I Heard It Through The Grapevine
The Undisputed Truth UNI/MOTOWN 1971
Motown sure did love to record this song - this less well known version deserves some exposure.
7:23 AM
Barrett Strong - Whirlwind
Barrett Strong Whirlwind
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Barrett Strong UNI/MOTOWN 2003
Early Motown from 1960.
7:26 AM
Barrence Whitfield & the Savages - Daddy's Gone to Bed
Barrence Whitfield & the Savages Daddy's Gone to Bed
Dig Thy Savage Soul Bloodshot Records 2013
One of the wildest soul performers I ever saw.
7:29 AM
Big Brother & The Holding Company - The Last Time
Big Brother & The Holding Company The Last Time
Big Brother & the Holding Company Columbia/Legacy 1966
I owned this album on 8-track at one time.
7:31 AM
Little Walter - Boom, Boom out Goes the Light
Little Walter Boom, Boom out Goes the Light
His Best: The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection Geffen 1997
One of the greatest blues records I know.
7:34 AM
Leon Russell - Fever
Leon Russell Fever
Life Journey Blue Note (BLU) 2014
A fine rendition of the Little Willie John classic.
7:40 AM
Nina Simone - No Woman, No Cry (Outtake)
Nina Simone No Woman, No Cry (Outtake)
Portrait Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 2017
I only just first heard this great version of the Bob Marley song.
7:43 AM
Amythyst Kiah - Hangover Blues
Amythyst Kiah Hangover Blues N
Wary + Strange Rounder 2021
An extremely talented young singer and songwriter.
7:47 AM
Cedric Burnside - Pretty Flowers
Cedric Burnside Pretty Flowers
I Be Trying Single Lock Records 2021
Burnside sounds like he's channeling some of that Tuareg guitar approach here.
7:51 AM
Durand Jones & The Indications - I Can See (feat. Aaron Frazer)
Durand Jones & The Indications I Can See (feat. Aaron Frazer) N
Private Space Dead Oceans 2021
Very nice retro-soul.
7:54 AM
B.B. King - Neighborhood Affair
B.B. King Neighborhood Affair
Guess Who Geffen 1972
There are some real gems on those early 70s albums when they were trying to cross him over to a soul audience.
8:01 AM
ABBA - Don't Shut Me Down
ABBA Don't Shut Me Down
single 1221 AB 2021
For the first time in like 40 years, we have new songs from ABBA. Very exciting!
8:05 AM
Jake Bugg - Lost
Jake Bugg Lost N
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning RCA Records Label 2021
This young man has been very big in England for a while now. He comes up with catchy songs.
8:08 AM
Bleachers - Chinatown (feat. Bruce Springsteen)
Bleachers Chinatown (feat. Bruce Springsteen) N
Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night RCA Records Label 2021
This song took me a couple listens to really get a feel for it, but now I love it.
8:13 AM
Modest Mouse - Leave A Light On
Modest Mouse Leave A Light On N
The Golden Casket Epic 2021
I keep coming back to songs from this record - I guess I like it even more than I thought.
8:17 AM
Angelique Kidjo - Fired Up (feat. Blue-Lab Beats & Ghetto Boy)
Angelique Kidjo Fired Up (feat. Blue-Lab Beats & Ghetto Boy)
Mother Nature Universal Music Division Decca Records France 2021
With help from Blue Lab Beats and Ghetto Boy, Kidjo lives up to the song title here.
8:22 AM
Alejandro Escovedo - Pasos Por Las Sombras
Alejandro Escovedo Pasos Por Las Sombras N
La Cruzada Yep Roc Records 2021
Alejandro recruits some guest singers to do all the songs from his last album The Crossing in Spanish.
8:27 AM
Emily Duff - Gimme Back My Love
Emily Duff Gimme Back My Love N
Razor Blade Smile Mr. Mudshow Music 2021
Rock solid and tough.
8:30 AM
Connie Smith - To Pieces
Connie Smith To Pieces N
The Cry of the Heart Fat Possum 2021
I can't remember when I've heard a classic country musician make a better new album.
8:33 AM
Emmylou Harris & the Nash Ramblers - Roses in the Snow (Live)
Emmylou Harris & the Nash Ramblers Roses in the Snow (Live) N
Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert (Live) Nonesuch 2021
This is exciting - a new live album from the classic Nash Ramblers period of Emmylou back around 1990 - I saw them twice, two magnificent shows.
8:36 AM
Sierra Ferrell - Bells Of Every Chapel (feat. Billy Strings)
Sierra Ferrell Bells Of Every Chapel (feat. Billy Strings) N
Long Time Coming Rounder 2021
A fabulous young singer coming out of bluegrass.
8:42 AM
Duke Ellington - Bakiff
Duke Ellington Bakiff
The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts, January 1943 Prestige 1977
Highlighting the incomparable Ray Nance on violin and composer Juan Tizol on trombone.
8:48 AM
Dinah Washington - I Thought About You
Dinah Washington I Thought About You
The Complete Dinah Washington On Mercury, Vol. 4 (1954-1956) Mercury Records 1988
She was incomparable.
8:52 AM
Billy Eckstine - What's New?
Billy Eckstine What's New?
The Legendary Big Band Savoy 2002
A record you could have heard on jukeboxes back in 1950.
8:55 AM
Lowell Fulson - It's Your Fault, Baby
Lowell Fulson It's Your Fault, Baby
Blue Shadows Caribe Sound 2019
This one hit the jukeboxes in 1956.
9:01 AM
Roy Wood - Keep Your Hands On the Wheel
Roy Wood Keep Your Hands On the Wheel
On the Road Again Rhino/Warner Records 1979
It's always nice to discover some Roy Wood I hadn't heard before.
9:05 AM
Mickey Dolenz - Carlisle Wheeling
Mickey Dolenz Carlisle Wheeling
Dolenz Sings Nesmith 7a 2021
I don't know why this wonderful record isn't getting a lot more attention.
9:10 AM
Robyn Hitchcock - The Rain
Robyn Hitchcock The Rain
Groovy Decay Yep Roc Records 2007
Hitchcock's second solo album, before he had any Egyptians.
9:15 AM
The Cure - Close To Me
The Cure Close To Me
The Head On the Door Rhino/Elektra 1985
Man, they made some great singles.
9:19 AM
Sloan - The Other Man
Sloan The Other Man
Pretty Together murderecords 2001
This album is twenty years old. How did that happen?
9:23 AM
Chad & Jeremy - Paxton's Song (Smoke)
Chad & Jeremy Paxton's Song (Smoke)
3 In the Attic (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sidewalk 1968
I first heard these guys on the TV Batman show when I was probably 8 years old. Didn't Catwoman steal their voices?
9:26 AM
The Pretty Things - House Of Ten
The Pretty Things House Of Ten
Emotions Snapper Classics 2000
In 1967, a little light-weight pretty thing.
9:30 AM
David Wax Museum - There It Was and There It Goes
David Wax Museum There It Was and There It Goes N
Euphoric Ouroboric Mark of the Leopard 2021
I really appreciate their oddball approach - they charm me.
9:33 AM
Tift Merritt - Bar With a TV On
Tift Merritt Bar With a TV On
See You On the Moon (Bonus Track Version) Concord 2010
A bonus track that's as good as anything on the album proper.
9:37 AM
Pretenders - Kid
Pretenders Kid
Pretenders Rhino/Warner Records 2004
A classic record that sounded brilliant in 1979 and only sounds better every year thereafter.
9:41 AM
The Orlons - Crossfire!
The Orlons Crossfire!
Cameo Parkway: The Best of the Orlons, 1961-1966 ABKCO Music and Records, Inc. 2005
I hadn't played this wonderful 3/4 girl group in too long.
9:44 AM
Descendents - It's a Hectic World
Descendents It's a Hectic World N
9th & Walnut Epitaph 2021
Catchy and hectic.
9:46 AM
Shannon & The Clams - I Need You Bad
Shannon & The Clams I Need You Bad N
Year Of The Spider Easy Eye Sound 2021
Such a fun record!
9:49 AM
Peter Wolf - Sky High
Peter Wolf Sky High
Long Line Rhino/Warner Records 2005
A 1996 cut from this terrific singer.
9:53 AM
Jupiter & Okwess - Mieux Que Ça
Jupiter & Okwess Mieux Que Ça
Na Kozonga Zamora Label 2021
Fabulous Congolese band.