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Sound Salvation

Jul 28, 2023 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
7:00 AM
Louis Armstrong - Yes! Yes! My! My!
Louis Armstrong Yes! Yes! My! My!
The Decca Singles 1935-1946 Verve Reissues 2017
Not even Shania Twain ever reached the coveted four exclamation point song title!
7:03 AM
Etta James - Got My Mojo Working
Etta James Got My Mojo Working
Blues to the Bone RCA Victor 2004
Etta sings Muddy!
7:06 AM
Big Mama Thornton - Little Red Rooster
Big Mama Thornton Little Red Rooster
Ball n' Chain Arhoolie Records 1989
Big Mama sings Wolf!
7:11 AM
The Allman Brothers Band - Trouble No More (Source)
The Allman Brothers Band Trouble No More (Source)
Bear's Sonic Journals (Live at Fillmore East, February 1970 - Deluxe Edition) Allman Brothers Band Recording Company (2015 Deal) 2018
Thanks, Bear, for a great live recording.
7:15 AM
Cowboy Junkies - What I Lost
Cowboy Junkies What I Lost N
Such Ferocious Beauty Latent Recordings 2023
I've only heard this single, but it's fiercer than I remember from this band.
7:20 AM
Raul Malo - Cosa’s Cumbia
Raul Malo Cosa’s Cumbia N
Say Less Mono Mundo B 2022
Great album of guitar instrumentals from this fabulous singer. (Again, though, he doesn't sing this time.)
7:24 AM
Dick Dale - Firing Up
Dick Dale Firing Up
At the Drags RockBeat Records 2012
A much older more rockin' instrumental.
7:26 AM
Link Wray - El Toro
Link Wray El Toro
The Moonlight Collection Afire 2014
If I play Dick Dale, I might as well play Link Wray, right?
7:29 AM
Chris Stamey - Realize
Chris Stamey Realize N
The Great Escape Car Records 2023
I haven't heard the whole album yet, but I'm down with everything Stamey has ever done, so I expect it's all as good as this song is.
7:32 AM
Graham Parker - Short Memories
Graham Parker Short Memories
Burning Questions Capitol Records 2007
I have been digging up deep Graham Parker cuts lately. Love this guy's music.
7:35 AM
Vintage Trouble - Holla!
Vintage Trouble Holla! N
Heavy Hymnal Cooking Vinyl Limited 2023
Another fine new record from these soulful rockers.
7:40 AM
Ken Kase - Philosophy Machine
Ken Kase Philosophy Machine L N
Ken Kase - EP 5480316 Records DK2 2023
Five dang near perfect songs from this St. Louis popmeister.
7:43 AM
The Lemon Twigs - Born To Be Lonely
The Lemon Twigs Born To Be Lonely N
Everything Harmony Captured Tracks 2023
These guys frequently just take my breath away.
7:48 AM
Kelly Clarkson - mine
Kelly Clarkson mine N
chemistry Atlantic Records 2023
One of the best singers of the century.
7:51 AM
Sleepy Kitty - November
Sleepy Kitty November N
Blessing/Curse Nordic Records Int. 2023
A wonderful return from these now former St. Louisians.
7:54 AM
Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka
Sinead O'Connor Mandinka
Lion and the Cobra Chrysalis Records 1987
I was shocked when I found out Sinead O'Connor passed away two days ago. I never spent nearly enough time with her records, but I remember this song stood way out from the pack back when it was new.
8:01 AM
The Claudettes - Irregulars
The Claudettes Irregulars N
Irregulars - Single Forty Below Records 2023
Brand new single - the band will be in town next Friday, Aug. 4, at the Blue Strawberry.
8:04 AM
Ollabelle - One More Time
Ollabelle One More Time
Neon Blue Bird Ollabelle Music 2011
I still get goose bumps remembering this band warming up their vocal harmonies when they were in the KDHX studio to record a live session.
8:07 AM
Brennen Leigh - The Bar Should Say Thanks
Brennen Leigh The Bar Should Say Thanks N
Ain’t Through Honky Tonkin’ Yet Signature Sounds Recordings 2023
One of the best collections of brand new country songs you'll find anywhere.
8:12 AM
John Anderson - The Band Plays On
John Anderson The Band Plays On
Paradise BNA Records Label 1996
I'm always happy to spin some John Anderson, one of the best country singers of the last forty plus years. And heck, this one has Levon Helm on it, too!
8:15 AM
Chris Eldridge - Little Sadie
Chris Eldridge Little Sadie N
I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 FLi Records, Budde Music 2023
Punch Brothers guitarist can sing, too.
8:21 AM
Elvis Costello - License to Kill
Elvis Costello License to Kill
Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International Amnesty International 2012
I've always had a soft spot for the songs on Infidels, because we played that album all the time in my first record store job. Costello does a nice job with it here.
8:26 AM
Bryan Ferry - Gates of Eden
Bryan Ferry Gates of Eden
Dylanesque BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. 2007
Because it's surrounded by classic after classic, people often forget this Dylan song from Bringing It All Back Home. Bryan Ferry does a nice version.
8:32 AM
The Band of Heathens - Single in the Same Summer
The Band of Heathens Single in the Same Summer N
Simple Things BOH Records 2023
8:36 AM
The National - This Isn’t Helping (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
The National This Isn’t Helping (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) N
First Two Pages of Frankenstein 4AD 2023
Highly enjoyable record every time I remember to play something from it.
8:41 AM
Spriguns Of Tolgus - Curragh Of Kildare
Spriguns Of Tolgus Curragh Of Kildare
Jack With A Feather Cherry Red Records 1975
The British folk-rock band with the least memorable name ever. But great music.
8:46 AM
Steeleye Span - The Blacksmith
Steeleye Span The Blacksmith
Hark! The Village Wait Castle Communications 1970
Maddy Prior and Tim Hart were joined by Ashley Hutchings, Dave Mattacks, and Gerry Conway (the drummer, not the comic book writer) on this debut album.
8:50 AM
Bruce Cockburn - You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance
Bruce Cockburn You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance
Inner City Front (Bonus Track Version) True North 2002
The Canadian singer/songwriter is hard to classify, but has a lot of great songs in his huge repertoire.
8:54 AM
Clashing Plaids - Rudabaga
Clashing Plaids Rudabaga N
Mach 1 2475687 Records DK 2023
A song guaranteed to put a smile on your face and a rumble in your belly.
9:01 AM
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Jimmy Mack
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas Jimmy Mack
Martha Reeves & the Vandellas: The Definitive Collection UNI/MOTOWN 2008
A Motown classic I hadn't heard in ages.
9:04 AM
Magic Sam - That's All I Need
Magic Sam That's All I Need
West Side Soul Delmark 1990
A bit of a soul number from this great blues record back in 1968.
9:07 AM
Sugaray Rayford - One
Sugaray Rayford One
In Too Deep Forty Below Records 2022
Soul, blues, r&b all swirl around in this fine record from last year.
9:12 AM
Malpass Brothers - Love Slips Away
Malpass Brothers Love Slips Away N
Lonely Street Billy Jam Records 2023
Country traditionalists with some real talent.
9:14 AM
Jim & Jesse - Paradise
Jim & Jesse Paradise
The Jim & Jesse Story CMH RECORDS 1992
Mandolin giant Jesse McReynolds passed away a month ago - this is their great take on the John Prine song.
9:17 AM
Dolly Parton - I Couldn't Wait Forever
Dolly Parton I Couldn't Wait Forever
As Long as I Love Monument/Legacy 1970
She's been doing what she does for a long, long time.
9:21 AM
Jackson Browne - Off of Wonderland
Jackson Browne Off of Wonderland
Time the Conqueror Sony Music Japan International 2008
For some reason, this album resonated with me more than most latter day Browne records.
9:24 AM
Sunny Sweeney - My Bed (feat. Will Hoge)
Sunny Sweeney My Bed (feat. Will Hoge)
Provoked Aunt Daddy Records 2014
An excellent singer/songwriter in the Americana field.
9:27 AM
The New Pornographers - Last and Beautiful
The New Pornographers Last and Beautiful N
Continue as a Guest Merge Records 2023
Rock solid new record from this veteran band.
9:32 AM
Surprise Chef - Friendship Theme
Surprise Chef Friendship Theme N
Friendship EP Big Crown Records 2023
One of the coolest instrumental bands working nowadays.
9:35 AM
Tracy Nelson - Compared To What (feat. Terry Hanck)
Tracy Nelson Compared To What (feat. Terry Hanck) N
Life Don’t Miss Nobody BMG Rights Management (US) LLC 2023
A song made famous by Les McCann and Eddie Harris, sung beautifully by Nelson and Hanck.
9:41 AM
Taj Mahal - One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)
Taj Mahal One For My Baby (And One More For the Road) N
Savoy Stony Plain Records 2023
Great version of this old chestnut.
9:49 AM
Frank Sinatra - You Brought a New Kind of Love (2007 - Remaster)
Frank Sinatra You Brought a New Kind of Love (2007 - Remaster)
I've Got You Under My Skin (2007 - Remaster) Dreyfus Jazz 2007
A song I know best from the Marx Brothers movie when they each pretend to be Maurice Chevalier to get off a ship they had stowayed on.
9:52 AM
Benny Goodman Sextet - St. Louis Blues
Benny Goodman Sextet St. Louis Blues
Small Groups: 1941-1945 Columbia 1989
You can't go wrong with Goodman's Sextet recordings.
9:55 AM
Winfield Parker - One of These Mornings
Winfield Parker One of These Mornings
Mr. Clean: Winfield Parker at Ru-Jac Omnivore Recordings 2016
Obscure but excellent soul singer.