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Sound Salvation
May 29, 2020 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.
| 7:00 AM |
| Sparks Sainthood Is Not in Your Future N A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited 2020 Almost 50 years since their first album, and the Mael brothers are as tuneful, hilarious, eccentric, and delightful as ever.
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| 7:04 AM |
| Sloan Follow the Leader The Double Cross Yep Roc Records 2011 Terrific pop song from a band with loads of 'em.
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| 7:07 AM |
| Elvis Costello & The Imposters Turpentine Momofuku Lost Highway Records 2008 I haven't pulled this one out in a long time - this song is solid Costello.
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| 7:13 AM |
| Brownsville Station Do the Bosco No BS Warner Brothers 1970 Somebody should collect all the great dance songs of the 70s - the Bosco, the Strand, the Hustle - you know.
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| 7:15 AM |
| Paul Revere & The Raiders Good Thing The Spirit of '67 Columbia/Legacy 1966 Powerful rocker with Beach Boys styled harmonies.
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| 7:20 AM |
| Wire Oklahoma N Mind Hive pinkflag 2020 It's not essential to keep up with every new record by these guys after 43 years, but it's nice to know you still can.
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| 7:23 AM |
| Nduduzo Makhathini Umlotha N Modes of Communication: Letters from the Underworlds Universal Music (Pty) Ltd. 2020 South African jazz pianist with a lot of McCoy Tyner mixed in his playing.
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| 7:33 AM |
| McCoy Tyner Four by Five The Real McCoy Blue Note Records 2012 A 1967 classic from McCoy himself.
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| 7:40 AM |
| Don Drummond Thoroughfare Ska Kings of the First Wave with the Skatalites, The Ethiopians, And Don Drummond Positive Vibrations 2014 Basically a Skatalites track with the trombone player's name up front, which means it's a scorcher.
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| 7:43 AM |
| Eddie Holland I'm on the Outside Looking In The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 3: 1963 UNI/MOTOWN 2006 If this fun uptempo soul number had actually been a hit, Holland might not have had enough time to team with his brother and Mr. Dozier to write some of the greatest songs of all time for other singers.
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| 7:46 AM |
| The Ovations I'm Living Good (feat. Louis Williams) Goldwax Recordings (feat. Louis Williams) Ace Records 2013 1969 unheralded soul cut.
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| 7:49 AM |
| Chicago Mother Chicago III (Remastered) Rhino 2004 I was recently trying to think of musicians that completely lost their way after a bout with greatness, and Chicago would be an obvious example - Four excellent albums followed by deep mediocrity.
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| 7:53 AM |
| Jeff Parker 3 for L N Suite for Max Brown International Anthem/Nonesuch 2020 This man is one of the most exciting younger guitarists in jazz today.
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| 8:00 AM |
| Brothers Lazaroff Pink Supermoon (For J.P.) L N Breathe with You - EP Self-released 2020 A beautiful song celebrating the influence of the late great John Prine.
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| 8:02 AM |
| John Moreland Terrestrial N LP5 Old Omens 2019 Another fine record from this excellent singer-songwriter.
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| 8:07 AM |
| Bonnie Raitt Love Has No Pride (Remastered Version) Give It Up (Remastered Version) Rhino/Warner Records 1972 Lovely song from very early in her long career.
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| 8:10 AM |
| Badfinger Without You (2010 Remaster) No Dice (Expanded Edition) EMI Catalogue 2010 Of course, Nilsson had the bigger hit, and the more grandiose rendition, but the original is just as great in its own way.
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| 8:15 AM |
| Susana Baca Coco y Forro Afrodiaspora Editora Pregon 2018 Fantastic singer songwriter from Peru.
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| 8:21 AM |
| Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey Nothing Is Wrong N Our Back Pages Omnivore 2020 If you've spent nearly 40 years loving the dB's and this song, it's a special treat to hear the original voices do a new acoustic version of it.
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| 8:25 AM |
| Waxahatchee Oxbow N Saint Cloud Merge Records 2020 Katie Crutchfield from Alabama writes and sings cool songs.
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| 8:28 AM |
| Peter Mulvey Back in the Wind Silver Ladder Signature Sounds Recordings 2014 Singer/songwriter out of Milwaukee.
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| 8:31 AM |
| David Lindley Quarter of a Man El Rayo-X Elektra Asylum 1981 I remember being thrilled by his El Rayo-X band performances at Mississippi Nights in the 80s.
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| 8:34 AM |
| Patti Smith Break It Up Horses Arista/Legacy 1975 Sometimes everything about an album, right down to the cover photo, is absolutely perfect.
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| 8:39 AM |
| Theo Hill Mantra N Reality Check Posi-Tone Records 2020 I've been finding a lot of really good jazz piano albums so far this year. This one also features Joel Ross on vibraphones.
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| 8:46 AM |
| Fiona Apple i want you to love me N fetch the bold cutters Epic 2020 I wonder how many years before she won't be able to hold out the "you" for as many measures as she does here.
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| 8:50 AM |
| Cameo I Just Want to Be Secret Omen Island Def Jam 1979 An early heavy funk classic from these guys.
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| 8:55 AM |
| The Youngbloods Euphoria Earth Music Legacy Recordings 1967 I do tend to like these guys more than a lot of people do - at least they don't get much play in rock critic circles.
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| 9:01 AM |
| Ramones I Can't Make It On Time End of the Century Rhino/Warner Records 1979 I remember all the hype at the prospect of Phil Spector producing the Ramones, and then all the disappointment when it wasn't colossal. Now, 41 years later, it actually sounds better than you might think you remember.
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| 9:03 AM |
| Soul Asylum Busy Signals N Hurry Up and Wait Blue Elan Records 2020 I sure didn't expect this band would still be making decent records after all these years.
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| 9:06 AM |
| Drive-By Truckers Rosemary with a Bible and a Gun N The Unraveling ATO Records 2020 First track on the fine new record.
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| 9:10 AM |
| The Kinks Young and Innocent Days Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) Sanctuary Records 1969 Some days this is my favorite Kinks album.
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| 9:13 AM |
| DeVotchKa Second Chance This Night Falls Forever Concord Records 2018 I remember seeing this band play at the Way Out Club a million years ago.
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| 9:19 AM |
| Tami Neilson Tell Me That You Love Me N CHICKABOOM! Outside Music 2020 New Zealand country rockabilly blues singer/songwriter.
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| 9:21 AM |
| Webb Wilder Be Still N Night Without Love Landslide 2020 I still believe in the Webb Wilder credo.
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| 9:25 AM |
| Whitney Rose In a Rut We Still Go to Rodeos MCG Recordings 2020 Cool Canadian country singer.
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| 9:28 AM |
| Jim Lauderdale Mountaineer N When Carolina Comes Home Again Yep Roc Records 2020 Mountaineer, mountain air - not anything I care about but I love the song.
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| 9:31 AM |
| Patsy Cline Yes, I Understand Here's Patsy Cline Geffen 1965 Deep cut from Patsy's wonderful catalogue.
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| 9:34 AM |
| Charlie Feathers Peepin' Eyes The Legendary Sun Classics LicenseMusic ApS 2010 A 1955 country classic.
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| 9:36 AM |
| Robbie Fulks I Like Being Left Alone Revenge! Yep Roc Records 2007 An early adapter of extreme social distancing.
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| 9:41 AM |
| Buffalo Springfield Flying On the Ground Is Wrong Buffalo Springfield Rhino/Elektra 1966 One of Neil Young's earliest masterpieces, even sung quite nicely by Richie Furay.
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| 9:43 AM |
| Marshall Crenshaw West of Bald Knob #447 Razor & Tie 1999 21 years ago, smack in the middle of Crenshaw's wondrous output.
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| 9:47 AM |
| Al Green What Is This Feeling Let's Stay Together Hi Records 1972 The magnificent Rev. Green.
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| 9:50 AM |
| Slim Harpo Rainin' in My Heart I'm a King Bee Marmot Music 2015 A 1961 masterpiece.
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| 9:53 AM |
| John Lee Hooker Wobbling Baby Don't Turn Me from Your Door Rhino Atlantic 1992 The king of the boogie!
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| 9:54 AM |
| Santana Soul Sacrifice Santana (Legacy Edition) Columbia 1969 The first Santana song that made me fall in love with that Latin-rock sound!
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