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Sound Salvation
Mar 5, 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 |
| Patsy Montana He's a Wild and Reckless Cowboy (feat. The Prairie Ramblers) Patsy Montana (Doxy Collection) Doxy Records 2014 I don't know what year this came out, but man, I love the heck out of an old country & western song with a vocalist who sounds like Popeye the Sailor.
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| 7:03 AM |
| The Stanley Brothers If I Lose The Famous Song Hits of the Stanley Brothers Starday King Records 2006 Carter and Ralph Stanley sang so beautifully together, and I'm feeling like some banjo songs today.
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| 7:05 AM |
| Justin Moses Wise & Born N Fall Like Rain Mountain Fever Records 2020 Some spectacular modern instrumental bluegrass.
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| 7:07 AM |
| Louis Armstrong Someday (You'll Be Sorry) Satchmo Serenades Verve 2000 I'm starting to find some impressive Armstrong cuts outside the places I'd always expected to find them - the Decca recordings are not universally beloved, but this is sweet.
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| 7:11 AM |
| Maceo Parker Fun in the Sun Southern Exposure MINOR MUSIC 1993 Did I even hear this album when it was new? I was so high on the record he did a couple years before this one, it's weird I didn't realize this one is pretty cool, too.
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| 7:16 AM |
| Marvin Gaye One for My Baby (And One for the Road) Moods of Marvin Gaye UNI/MOTOWN 2014 I never heard this record before - was always afraid it would be disappointing. But Marvin Gaye's take on Great American Songbook material was wilder than I imagined - you couldn't rein this guy in.
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| 7:22 AM |
| Little Junior Parker Look on Yonders Wall Little Junior Parker LRC Ltd. / Groove Merchant Records 1992 I learned this song from Tommy Bankhead, but this is a pretty cool version, too.
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| 7:25 AM |
| Al Green Have You Been Making Out OK Call Me Fat Possum 2009 For a few years in the 70s, Al Green could do nothing but make magical recordings.
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| 7:29 AM |
| Ferlin Husky You Pushed Me Too Far Capitol Collectors Series Capitol 1989 I've said it before and I'll say it again - Sound Salvation doesn't endorse all the actions described in songs played on the show. Especially not murdering.
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| 7:31 AM |
| Pearl Charles As Long As You're Mine N Magic Mirror Kanine 2021 This young woman has made a heckuva fine record filled with all sorts of different pop and r&b and even disco forms.
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| 7:35 AM |
| Elvis Costello & the Imposters Country Darkness The Delivery Man UMG 2004 An acquaintance told me the other day this is one of his two favorite Costello records - he doesn't have a computer, so he won't know for sure I played this in his honor unless I run into him and tell him.
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| 7:40 AM |
| Edwin Starr Agent Double-O Soul Soul Master UNI/MOTOWN 1968 There aren't enough double nought soul songs.
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| 7:43 AM |
| The Band Time To Kill N Stage Fright (Deluxe Remix 2020) CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 2020 The live stuff on this newly expanded reissue is astounding. Better than any originally released live Band record.
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| 7:46 AM |
| Aly Bain & Jerry Douglas Work Song featuring Liam Ó Maonlaí Transatlantic Session Series 4 Volume 3 Whirlie 2010 There are way more albums than you probably expect by this unlikely duo teaming with all sorts of fantastic guests. I don't know this singer, but I love the enthusiasm on this Cannonball Adderley song.
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| 7:52 AM |
| Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares 2 U I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Chrysalis Records 1990 For thirty years, this song has managed to sound more earth shattering every single time I hear it.
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| 7:57 AM |
| Sonny Green People Are Talking About Me Rare Soul: Groove and Grind 1963-1973 RockBeat 2015 LA soul singer whose records are rare, but if they're all as good as this one, they're wonderful.
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| 8:00 AM |
| The Sweet Inspirations Knock On Wood The Sweet Inspirations Atlantic 1967 This smacks of album filler, but damn! It's lovely album filler! Harmony vocals on this wonderful song!
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| 8:03 AM |
| Aretha Franklin You Can't Always Get What You Want Love All the Hurt Away Arista 1981 Man, this is wrong headed but brilliant. Trying to turn this particular Stones song into disco two years after disco stopped being popular, and holding Aretha back until the cool improvs at the end - but damned if it doesn't work on some weird level anyway.
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| 8:09 AM |
| Dave Alvin (Variations on Earl Hooker's) Guitar Rumba N From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings Yep Roc 2020 Who doesn't love a good guitar rumba?
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| 8:14 AM |
| Pee Wee Ellis I Will Be There (feat. Van Morrison) What You Like MINOR MUSIC 1997 Ellis had been a key cog in James Brown's band, then worked on several Van Morrison records. Bringing Van in to sing this song on his own record was a great idea.
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| 8:17 AM |
| The Hold Steady Riptown N Open Door Policy Positive Jams 2021 An excellent new record from this rock solid rock band.
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| 8:21 AM |
| Camper Van Beethoven Eye of Fatima Parts 1 & 2 Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty Cooking Vinyl 2008 The two parts don't sound like they have much in common, and were in fact separated on the original album on which they appeared, but I'll take any excuse to play them both.
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| 8:26 AM |
| Dirty Projectors No Studying N 5EPs Domino 2020 One of the most consistently experimental and intriguing bands of the past dozen or more years.
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| 8:29 AM |
| Pentangle Hunting Song Basket of Light Castle Communications 2001 1969 record from one of the greatest of all English folk bands.
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| 8:35 AM |
| John Renbourn & Bert Jansch Orlando After the Dance Shanachie 2005 I'm pretty sure these two guitar players who were in Pentangle recorded this before they formed that band.
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| 8:37 AM |
| Katy Kirby Secret Language N Cool Dry Place Keeled Scales 2021 Remarkable young singer/songwriter with idiosyncratic melodies and lyrics - I love the opening line which references Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and I also love the use of the word "oh."
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| 8:42 AM |
| Paul McCartney Women And Wives N McCartney III Capitol Records 2020 Paul's known his share of both.
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| 8:45 AM |
| Barry Gibb Too Much Heaven (feat. Alison Krauss) N Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers' Songbook, Vol. 1 Capitol Records 2021 Well of course Krauss sings this beautiful song magnificently alongside B.G.
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| 8:48 AM |
| Carlinhos Brown Meia Lua Inteira (Ao Vivo) N Umbalista Verão (Ao Vivo) Carlinhos Brown 2021 You can concentrate on the rhythms or the song or both at the same time - three ways to win!
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| 8:53 AM |
| Gene Vincent Good Lovin' Complete Recordings 1956-1964 CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1990 Gene Vincent could sound like Buddy Holly if he felt like it.
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| 8:55 AM |
| Buddy Holly Because I Love You Reminiscing Geffen 1963 A nice ballad you don't hear every day.
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| 8:58 AM |
| Manfred Mann Another Kind of Music As Is Mercury 1966 There are some wild and wacky cuts hidden away on old Manfred Mann albums. This is possibly the wackiest.
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| 9:01 AM |
| The Easybeats Down to the Last 500 Absolute Anthology 1965 – 1969 Alberts 2017 I'm always happy to discover another Easybeats song I didn't know yet.
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| 9:04 AM |
| The Wailers Dirty Robber The Fabulous Wailers Norton 1959 That great Northwestern rock'n'roll sound!
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| 9:07 AM |
| Redd Kross Deuce Teen Babes From Monsanto Merge Records 2018 I'd much rather hear this than the Kiss original.
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| 9:10 AM |
| Tough Age My Life's a Joke & I'm Throwing It Away N Which Way Am I? Mint 2020 Not many modern punk bands hit me in the sweet spot - this is pretty cool, though.
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| 9:12 AM |
| Richard Hell Lowest Common Denominator N Destiny Street Complete Omnivore 2021 Do you really need three different versions of this second Richard Hell album? Well, they all sound pretty good to me!
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| 9:14 AM |
| Memphis Minnie Has Anyone Seen My Man? Memphis Minnie Vol. 4 (1938-1939) Document Records 1991 There weren't many well recorded female blues singer/guitarists in the 30s - Minnie was magnificent.
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| 9:17 AM |
| Lazy Lester Hey Mattie (Previously unreleased: Take 1) Rides Again - Expanded Edition Ace Records 2011 A blues singer/harmonica player I hadn't heard (though I'd heard of him) until recently.
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| 9:22 AM |
| Sammy Price Step Down, Step Up Jazz Foundations, Vol. 64: Sammy Price Werner Last's Favourites Jazz 2009 Blues pianist well worth hearing.
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| 9:24 AM |
| Curtis Salgado Damage Control N Damage Control Alligator Records 2021 Terrific new record from this blues'n'soul singer.
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| 9:28 AM |
| Billy & The King Bees Bango Stax-Volt: The Complete Singles 1959-1968 Rhino Atlantic 1991 One of the most obscure Stax singles - man, I love this box set!
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| 9:31 AM |
| Sonny James Mean Ole Mississippi Only the Lonely Capitol Nashville 1969 Very nice late 60s country record.
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| 9:33 AM |
| Tony Trischka Greenwood Blue Ribbon Bluegrass Rounder 1993 Oh, yeah, I'm still in the mood for banjos.
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| 9:35 AM |
| Sturgill Simpson Jesus Boogie N Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 2 (Cowboy Arms Sessions) High Top Mountain Records 2020 Banjos and irreverence! Heck yeah!
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| 9:40 AM |
| Corb Lund Never Not Had Horses N Agricultural Tragic New West Records 2020 One of the most amazing songs from last year.
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| 9:44 AM |
| Chris Smither Cold Trail Blues Leave the Light On Self Produced 2006 Smither has never made a record less than excellent - so it's nice to dip into old ones now and again.
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| 9:48 AM |
| Albert King You Threw Your Love On Me Too Strong Years Gone By Stax 1983 Just your basic brilliant East Side of St. Louis left-handed blues guitarist genius.
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| 9:52 AM |
| Doug Carn, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge Dimensions N Doug Carn JID005 Jazz Is Dead 2020 This is jazz on the border of r&b.
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| 9:56 AM |
| Kelley Stoltz Tomorrow N Ah! (Etc) Agitated 2020 Stoltz has been making strong pop records since 1999, but this is the first one I've paid close attention to - nice stuff!
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