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Sound Salvation
May 8, 2020 7:00 AM โ 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 Who Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy Geffen 1990 I can only imagine following the Who in real time when records like this one were coming out every few months. I was only 6 in 1965 when this song was new.
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7:03 AM |
| The Isley Brothers It's Your Thing It's Our Thing Epic/Legacy 1969 About a decade into their career, the Isleys started an entirely new era with this wondrous record.
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7:06 AM |
| Sir Douglas Quintet Michoacan The Best of Doug Sahm & Sir Douglas Quintet (1968 - 1975) Mercury Records 1990 Around the same time as the last song, this was Texas meeting San Francisco.
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7:09 AM |
| The Walker Brothers Rhythms of Vision Nite Flights Columbia 1978 Nice little song on the last record before Scott Walker became known as a "godlike genius."
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7:12 AM |
| Paul Burch Prince Ali's Fortune Telling Book of Dreams N Light Sensitive Plowboy Records 2020 A very fine album from this Nashville singer-songwriter.
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7:15 AM |
| Joe Henry General Tzu Names the Planets for His Children N The Gospel According to Water Sheer Sound 2019 I hope Joe Henry is doing well these days - I haven't heard any updates on his condition since his cancer diagnosis last year.
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7:19 AM |
| Meat Puppets Nightcap Dusty Notes Megaforce + 2019 I love the fact that almost 40 years after they formed this band, the Meat Puppets are still making cool music.
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7:24 AM |
| Rufus Wainwright Sanssouci Milwaukee At Last!!! (Live) Verve (Adult Contemporary) 2009 This excellent live album offered a great overview of Wainwright's first golden decade.
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7:30 AM |
| Allison Moorer A Soft Place to Fall Alabama Song MCA Nashville 1998 How has it been 22 years since Moorer was trying to make it in mainstream country?
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7:33 AM |
| Shelby Lynne I Got You N Shelby Lynne Everso Records 2020 Brand new music from Allison Moorer's big sister.
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7:39 AM |
| Dolly Parton I Will Always Love You Jolene RLG/Legacy 1974 Back in 1993, I think, I heard this song on a jukebox in a bar and loved it so much I bought this album the next day. Then a day or so later I played it on my radio show when somebody called and told me she'd heard Whitney Houston do the same song. I didn't believe it was true.
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7:42 AM |
| Offa Rex Bonny May The Queen of Hearts Nonesuch 2017 A wonderful record by Olivia Chaney with the Decemberists.
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7:48 AM |
| Lucinda Williams When the Way Gets Dark N Good Souls Better Angels Highway 20 Records 2020 I'm enjoying this new record more than many of her last several.
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7:52 AM |
| Ike & Tina Turner Honky Tonk Women The Collection EMI Gold 2008 Powerful live take on the Stones song.
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7:55 AM |
| Freddie Scott Where Were You Are You Lonely for Me? Columbia/Legacy 1966 There is so much gold out there in the world of soul music.
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7:59 AM |
| Nduduzo Makhathini Yehlisan'uMoya Modes of Communication: Letters from the Underworlds Universal Music (Pty) Ltd. 2020 This South African pianist leads a powerhouse mostly South African band in a stunning new record.
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8:07 AM |
| Rebirth Brass Band Who's Rockin', Who's Rollin'? Move Your Body Basin Street 2014 New Orleans musical heroes.
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8:12 AM |
| Funky Butt Brass Band Cruel, Cruel World L Onward Funky Butt Brass Band 2020 St. Louis musical heroes.
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8:17 AM |
| Amos Milburn It's A Long Long Time The Motown Sessions, 1962-1964 UNI/MOTOWN 2009 I love the fact that Berry Gordy gave us all these great sessions with Amos Milburn long after he had a prayer of having hit records any more.
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8:21 AM |
| The Claudettes Grandkids, Wave Bye-Bye N High Times in the Dark Forty Below 2020 A song that's as cool as its title is intriguing.
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8:25 AM |
| The Beatles Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da The Beatles (The White Album) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2009 Dedicated to everybody else who was in Concert Choir with me back in '76 or '77 when we sang this one.
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8:28 AM |
| Neil Finn & Paul Kelly Don't Dream It's Over Goin' Your Way Omnivore Recordings 2013 Two Australian titans team up on one of their most beautiful anthems.
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8:32 AM |
| Fiona Apple Rack of His N Fetch The Bolt Cutters Epic 2020 I love the playfulness of this song title and the sexual disappointment she describes.
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8:36 AM |
| Wings Name and Address London Town Paul McCartney Catalog 1993 You don't hear this one every day, now do ya?
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8:39 AM |
| The Dinosaurs Rock n Roll Moron L The Dinosaurs Big Muddy Records 2017 The b-side of Bob Reuter's first 7 inch record with his great band - I bought this single in 1979 when it was new.
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8:41 AM |
| 999 My Dad Trashed My Submarine Bish! Bash! Bosh! Cleopatra Records 2020 I saw these guys live in 1980 and 1982 - they started the band in 1976, and 3 of the 4 members are still going strong.
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8:44 AM |
| The Cure Grinding Halt Three Imaginary Boys UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2004 Way Back in 1979, when these guys hadn't figured out what their sound would end up becoming.
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8:47 AM |
| Joy Division Shadowplay Unknown Pleasures London Records 2007 Another 1979 song, from an album I never really listened to until recently.
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8:51 AM |
| The Strokes The Adults Are Talking N The New Abnormal Cult Records/RCA Records 2020 I find this to be a pretty good record for driving - now if only I had more places to go these days.
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8:59 AM |
| Aoife O'Donovan Lakes of Pontchartrain N Bull Frogs Croon (And Other Songs) - EP Yep Roc Records 2020 Lovely version of the old Christy Moore song.
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9:03 AM |
| Destroyer Kinda Dark N Have We Met Dead Oceans 2020 I played this record a bunch when it first came out, but then forgot about it for a while until the other day. Very nice stuff.
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9:07 AM |
| Pretenders Samurai ยกViva el Amor! Rhino/Warner Records 2004 Really lovely song from a record almost exactly half way through Chrissie Hynde's career so far.
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9:11 AM |
| The Mastersons King of the Castle N No Time for Love Songs Red House Records 2020 Sometimes they sing backup for Steve Earle, sometimes they make their own kind of music.
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9:15 AM |
| Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey From A Window To A Screen N Our Back Pages Omnivore 2020 Great acoustic version of this Chris Stamey classic.
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9:19 AM |
| The Secret Sisters Healer in the Sky N Saturn Return New West Records 2020 Quite a lovely tune, quite beautiful harmonies.
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9:23 AM |
| Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band All That's Left Is Fare-Thee-Well (feat. Charlie Sexton) N Just Like Moby Dick Paradise of Bachelors 2020 Also featuring Shannon McNally.
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9:26 AM |
| The Allman Brothers Band Ramblin' Man Brothers and Sisters (Super Deluxe Edition) Mercury Records 2013 Sometimes those classic rock songs actually deserve the word.
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9:31 AM |
| Betty Harris Nearer to You Betty Harris: The Lost Queen of New Orleans Soul Sansu Records 1967 Rule of thumb - if a soul singer was named "Betty," she was probably great.
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9:34 AM |
| The Chi-Lites You Smiled the Same Old Way A Letter to Myself Brunswick Records 2002 The Chi-Lites hit the jackpot in the early 70s - spectacular production, great songs, and, of course, brilliant singing.
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9:41 AM |
| Electric Light Orchestra One Summer Dream Face the Music Epic/Legacy 1975 It's worth digging deep into ELO catalogue sometimes.
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9:47 AM |
| Albert King Born Under a Bad Sign Born Under a Bad Sign (Mono) Craft Recordings 2019 Albert King backed by Booker T. & the MGs was a match made in musical heaven.
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9:50 AM |
| Steve Miller Band Living In the U.S.A. Sailor (with Boz Scaggs) Steve Miller - Owned 2016 Somewhere inside this fat groove is some social commentary.
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9:54 AM |
| MC5 Back In the USA Back In the USA Rhino Atlantic 2005 One of the greatest Chuck Berry interpretations.
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