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Sound Salvation
Feb 12, 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.
| 7:00 AM |
| Poi Dog Pondering Your Silent Face Remnants of Summer Platetectonic Music 2018 I happen to think New Order peaked with this beautiful, mesmerizing, haunted track - and Poi Dog proved decades ago they are among the best at covering New Order. This is stunning.
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| 7:09 AM |
| King Khan Mister Mystery N The Infinite Ones Khannibalisim / Ernest Jenning Record Co. 2020 Short, jazzy psychedelic cut from the surprising new album.
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| 7:11 AM |
| Dr. Dog Weekend We All Belong We Buy Gold Records 2007 A lovely song I'd nearly forgotten from nearly 14 years back.
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| 7:14 AM |
| Nazz Open My Eyes Nazz Purple Pyramid Records 2018 The most popular song from Todd Rundgren's fantastic first band.
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| 7:17 AM |
| Paul McCartney Seize The Day N McCartney III Capitol Records 2020 Macca's latest is chock full of sweet little gems like this one.
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| 7:21 AM |
| The Vertigo Swirl These Are Lonely Times L N Isolationauts Rubberstamp Records 2021 The first new music I heard in 2021 (or the last new music released in 2020 - it was right on that cusp). Great St. Louis psychedelic band.
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| 7:25 AM |
| Willie Nile Magdalena House of a Thousand Guitars GB Music/River House 2009 Nile has released so many great songs over the last 40 years, with the bulk of them coming in the last 15 years.
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| 7:29 AM |
| Perfume Genius Without You N Set My Heart on Fire Immediately Matador 2020 An album from last year that keeps sounding better and better as time goes on.
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| 7:31 AM |
| Otis Clay Even Now Truth Is Echo Records 2013 One of the greatest soul singers of the last 50 years, and one who doesn't have the name recognition he deserves.
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| 7:37 AM |
| Johnnie Taylor I Got to Love Somebody's Baby Wanted: One Soul Singer Rhino Atlantic 2004 Taylor lasted a long, long time in the soul world, but for my money, his earliest stuff on Stax was the best.
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| 7:41 AM |
| Joe Louis Walker Moanin' News Cold Is the Night Craft 1986 I think this came out a couple years before I first heard Walker, who has made many, many very fine records for a long, long time.
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| 7:45 AM |
| Jimmy Witherspoon Every Time I Feel the Spirit Feelin' the Spirit HiFi Records 1988 In 1959, a fabulous conjunction of jazzy blues and mainstream pop - I think it works gloriously.
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| 7:48 AM |
| Eddy Arnold Suddenly My Thoughts Are All of You Songs of the Young World RCA/Legacy 1969 Here we have the juxtaposition of late 60s pop country with a big band jazz arrangement. Again, I'm happy to hear worlds collide.
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| 7:51 AM |
| Benny Goodman Sugar (That Sugar Baby of Mine) The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings RCA Victor 1997 Goodman on clarinet, Teddy Wilson on piano, Gene Krupa on drums, Lionel Hampton on vibes. This is wonderful fun.
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| 7:55 AM |
| Carl Mann South of the Border Sun Record's Must Haves!: Carl Mann Sun 2012 They made rockabilly versions of so many songs you'd never think to try that way. This is an oddity, but an enjoyable one.
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| 7:57 AM |
| Dan Bern Granpa N Ivan's Barbershop Kababa 2020 I'm so glad to have reconnected with the music of this great, idiosyncratic singer/songwriter.
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| 8:00 AM |
| Dave Edmunds Standing At the Crossroads Again Another Planet Music 2013 It's nice to know that Edmunds could still rock like this as of 8 years ago, at least.
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| 8:03 AM |
| Jim Lauderdale Blue Moon Junction Blue Moon Junction Sky Crunch Records 2013 An album of Jim Lauderdale music for Robert Hunter lyrics.
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| 8:08 AM |
| Rick Danko, Jonas Fjeld & Eric Andersen Angels In the Snow One More Shot Appleseed 2002 I remember when I first heard this trio being excited to hear new stuff from Danko, becoming acquainted with the very talented Anderson, and kind of not noticing how cool the Norwegian Fjeld was.
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| 8:12 AM |
| ABBA Honey, Honey (Swedish Version) Thank You for the Music Polar Music International AB 1994 As long as we're in Scandinavia, how about hearing Sweden's greatest export in their own language?
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| 8:15 AM |
| Foo Fighters Love Dies Young N Medicine at Midnight RCA Records Label 2020 Well knock me over with a feather - I wound up liking 8 out of 9 tracks on this new album, which is at least six more than I've liked in their whole career prior.
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| 8:21 AM |
| Tyla Gang Styrofoam Yachtless Beserkley 1977 I think Tyla Gang was the only band on the Beserkley label I didn't hear more than once back when I was discovering the whole New Wave/punk/underground scene in 1978 and 79. This is one crazy record.
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| 8:23 AM |
| Little Steven All You Need Is Love (feat. The Disciples of Soul) Macca To Mecca! (feat. Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul) [Live] Wicked Cool 2019 Not an easy song to pull off live, but this is a seriously lovable version.
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| 8:28 AM |
| Ian Hunter You Stepped into My Dreams Long Odds and Out-Takes Chrysalis Records 1994 Ian Hunter's late-70s output was so chock full of goodness that even oddities like this ballad could pop when it finally got released.
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| 8:33 AM |
| Donny Hathaway Superwoman These Songs for You (Live) Rhino Atlantic 2004 Genius soul interpreter (and St. Louis native) takes on genius soul songwriter Stevie Wonder.
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| 8:41 AM |
| Aretha Franklin Search On Love All the Hurt Away Arista 1981 I would have fallen in love with this record if I'd heard it any time around its release - classic Aretha but in the era of funk.
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| 8:45 AM |
| Brandi Carlile Black Hole Sun N A Rooster Says - Single Low Country Sound/Elektra 2021 Very cool version of the Soundgarden song.
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| 8:52 AM |
| Chris Stapleton You Should Probably Leave N Starting Over Mercury Nashville 2020 Long-time fans tell me this is a good but not great album - I've got to check out the older stuff again one of these days, because I fell in love with this record.
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| 8:55 AM |
| Dave Alvin Albuquerque N From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings Yep Roc Records 2020 A place previously celebrated in song by the Partridge Family - not sure if anybody else did.
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| 9:00 AM |
| Tanya Tucker Down to My Last Teardrop Tanya Tucker EMI Music Nashville (ERN) 1994 An early 90s cut I only recently discovered - man, she can sell a song.
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| 9:03 AM |
| John Fogerty Weeping In the Promised Land N Weeping In the Promised Land - Single BMG Rights Management (US) LLC 2021 Fogerty lays things out, pulling no punches as to the state of the nation.
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| 9:07 AM |
| Cass McCombs What Isn't Nature A 4AD 2004 It's not fair to expect any song to follow the previous one, but something had to do it.
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| 9:12 AM |
| Logan Ledger Tell Me A Lie Logan Ledger Rounder 2020 T Bone Burnett produced this fine debut album from an Americana-drenched singer/songwriter.
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| 9:16 AM |
| Robyn Hitchcock Ole! Tarantula Ole! Tarantula Yep Roc Records 2006 How is this record 15 years old? It seems I ask questions like that every week about something or other, doesn't it?
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| 9:21 AM |
| Jonathan Wilson Simple Thing N Dixie Blur: Deluxe Edition Bella Union 2020 A case can be made that the bonus cuts are among the best on this record.
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| 9:25 AM |
| Céu Eye Contact (feat. Tropkillaz) N APKÁ! Urban Jungle Records 2020 A modern Brazilian singer actually known outside her native land.
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| 9:28 AM |
| Joshua Redman On the Sunny Side of the Street Joshua Redman Warner Records 1993 I think this is just Redman on tenor sax and Christian McBride on bass - it's definitely a delightful take on an old, old song.
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| 9:33 AM |
| Sun Ra Arkestra Queer Notions N Swirling Strut 2020 Led by 96-year-old Marshall Allen, the Arkestra carries Sun Ra's wondrous musical catalog into the future (and presumably the spaceways).
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| 9:40 AM |
| Selah Jubilee Singers Downward Road N Gospel Train: Classics From the Golden Age 45 RPM Records 2016 This is the only cut I've heard by this Gospel group active from the 30s through the 50s, but it's a corker.
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| 9:43 AM |
| Lee Johnson with the Dee Jays Tell Me Northern Soul - Greatest Soul Lost and Found Goldenlane 2011 A highly danceable early 60s short soul number.
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| 9:45 AM |
| The Boorays Trail of Souls L Pumpkin Pie Crustacean Brickhouse Acoustics, LLC 2005 Actually from the early 90s - one of St. Louis's best rock bands. I love the way this song builds from the long instrumental intro.
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| 9:47 AM |
| Heartbreakers Baby Talk (L.A.M.F. - The alternative mixes: Advision Sept 15) L.A.M.F: The Definitive Edition - Box Set Jungle Records 2012 Johnny Thunders rockin' punk style.
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| 9:50 AM |
| Richard Hell Time (Destiny Street demos) N Destiny Street Complete Omnivore 2021 One of Richard Hell's greatest songs, and definitely the best on Destiny Street, whatever version you heard.
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| 9:53 AM |
| Alison Krauss You Oughta Be Here With Me / I've Been a Long Time Leaving (feat. The Cox Family) King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller BMG 2018 Wonderful singing on a medley of a slow one and a fast one.
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| 9:57 AM |
| Sturgill Simpson Hero N Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 2 (Cowboy Arms Sessions) High Top Mountain Records 2020 You can hear the second volume of Simpson's bluegrass versions of his songs but you can't buy it physically yet.
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