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Sound Salvation

Nov 9, 2018 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
7:02 AM
Sweet Honey In The Rock - Chant
Sweet Honey In The Rock Chant
Twenty-Five... Ryko 1998
Something like 15 of the greatest live musical experiences of my life have been provided by this astounding collective.
7:06 AM
Tom Russell - Beyond the Blues
Tom Russell Beyond the Blues N
Old Songs Yet To Sing Frontera Records 2018
Tom and his prodigal long-time guitarist Andrew Hardin got together and revisited some of the classics.
7:09 AM
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Hommage à Grungie
Kate & Anna McGarrigle Hommage à Grungie
Dancer With Bruised Knees Carthage 1977
Kate McGarrigle sings about working.
7:14 AM
Peter Hammill - Sleep Now
Peter Hammill Sleep Now
The Calm (After the Storm) Charisma Catalogue 1993
I'm not a parent, but this song says things about what that experience must be like that I haven't heard or seen anywhere else.
7:18 AM
Paul Weller - Gravity
Paul Weller Gravity
True Meanings Parlophone UK 2018
This struck me as especially beautiful.
7:22 AM
The War and Treaty - Jeep Cherokee Laredo
The War and Treaty Jeep Cherokee Laredo N
Healing Tide Thirty Tigers 2018
This cut is just a barn burner!
7:26 AM
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - You'll Be Lonely
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings You'll Be Lonely
Give The People What They Want Daptone 2014
The longer we go on since she passed away, the more I appreciate her mammoth talent.
7:29 AM
The Blind Boys of Alabama - Morning Train
The Blind Boys of Alabama Morning Train
Absolutely the Best of Gospel, Vol. 3 Fuel 2000 2000
Clarence Fountain was the spectacular lead singer of this group for decades.
7:32 AM
Amy Ray - Dadgum Down
Amy Ray Dadgum Down N
Holler Daemon / Compass 2018
As if there was any chance I could resist a song with the word "dadgum" in the title!
7:36 AM
Johnny Irion - Angels Fly
Johnny Irion Angels Fly N
Driving Friend RTE 8 2018
Talented songwriter whose great uncle was John Steinbeck.
7:40 AM
The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
The Walker Brothers The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
Walker Brothers: The Collection Spectrum 1996
It must have been interesting having new singles from these guys and the Righteous Brothers coming out in rapid succession back in the day.
7:43 AM
Gene Pitney - True Love Never Runs Smooth
Gene Pitney True Love Never Runs Smooth
The Definitive Collection Charly 1999
A Burt Bacharach song sung by one of his finest interpreters.
7:46 AM
Elvis Costello & the Imposters - He's Given Me Things
Elvis Costello & the Imposters He's Given Me Things N
Look Now Concord 2018
More recent Bacharach co-write with Costello.
7:50 AM
Paul McCartney - Hand In Hand
Paul McCartney Hand In Hand
Egypt Station CAPITOL 2018
Presumably Paul wasn't remembering his one-time collaborator Costello had a song with this title 40 years ago.
7:53 AM
Villagers - Sweet Saviour
Villagers Sweet Saviour N
The Art of Pretending To Swim Domino Recording Co 2018
I still need to sit down and seriously engage with this album - the snippets I've heard sound excellent as ever.
8:01 AM
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Rumpus in Richmond
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Rumpus in Richmond
Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band RCA 2003
The Ellington Orchestra at one of the many heights of its powers.
8:03 AM
The Time Jumpers - Nothing But the Blues
The Time Jumpers Nothing But the Blues
The Time Jumpers Rounder Records 2012
This Nashville collective does the swing thing every now and again.
8:07 AM
Ray Price - One More Time
Ray Price One More Time
Ray Price's Greatest Hits Columbia 1961
This guy recorded hundreds of terrific songs in his very long career.
8:11 AM
Pam Tillis - Train Without a Whistle
Pam Tillis Train Without a Whistle
Rhinestoned AGR Television Records 2007
The second train song of the show (and Pat Wolfe played one near the end of his show, so the third in an hour and a half).
8:15 AM
Falling Fences - Anna Lee
Falling Fences Anna Lee L N
Falling Fences II Falling Fences 2018
St. Louis band that put out its second collection of fantastic songs earlier this year.
8:20 AM
The Gunbunnies - Break My Fall
The Gunbunnies Break My Fall
Paw Paw Patch Virgin 1990
Among my very favorite bands of their era - they played St. Louis quite a few times in their short-lived time together.
8:24 AM
The Swimming Pool Q's - The Knave
The Swimming Pool Q's The Knave
The Swimming Pool Q's A&M 1984
Another of my fave bands, this one a few years before the last one. I never got to see them live, though.
8:29 AM
Willie Nile - You Gotta Be a Buddha (In a Place Like This)
Willie Nile You Gotta Be a Buddha (In a Place Like This)
Beautiful Wreck of the World River House 2005
This week's ear-worm for me - now it can be yours!
8:33 AM
Spirit - Sweet Stella Baby
Spirit Sweet Stella Baby
Clear Ode/Epic/Legacy 1969
Spirit occupy a place entirely their own in music history - nobody else ever sounded quite like them.
8:36 AM
The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
The Electric Prunes I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
I Had Too Much to Dream Rhino/Warner Bros. 1967
One of the greatest psychedelic rock records of all time!
8:40 AM
Queen - Who Needs You
Queen Who Needs You
News of the World Elektra 1977
I hear there's a movie out about these guys.
8:43 AM
The Easybeats - Where Old Men Go
The Easybeats Where Old Men Go
Easybeats Collection Line 1989
How they rocked in Australia back in the 60s.
8:45 AM
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
Uncle Tupelo Anodyne L
Anodyne Sire/Reprise 1993
Wait - it's been 25 years since they released their last album? Seems less time than that since I saw their first show at Cicero's.
8:51 AM
Dawes - Time Flies Either Way
Dawes Time Flies Either Way N
Passwords HUB Records 2018
Lovely song. I don't spend enough time thinking about how much these guys please me until I accidentally hear them again.
9:01 AM
Jamey Johnson, Willie Nelson, Chris Stapleton & Lee Ann Womack - Gotta Serve Somebody
Jamey Johnson, Willie Nelson, Chris Stapleton & Lee Ann Womack Gotta Serve Somebody N
Muscle Shoals: Small Town, Big Sound BMG 2018
This is an impressive group of folks tackling the Dylan number.
9:10 AM
Alejandro Escovedo - Sonica USA
Alejandro Escovedo Sonica USA N
The Crossing Yep Roc 2018
"I saw the Zeros and they looked like me." I can only imagine what that must have meant.
9:13 AM
Kevin Gordon - Drunkest Man in Town
Kevin Gordon Drunkest Man in Town N
Tilt and Shine Kevin Gordon 2018
One of my fave singer/songwriters these past dozen or so years.
9:16 AM
The Jayhawks - Come Cryin' to Me
The Jayhawks Come Cryin' to Me N
Back Roads and Abandoned Motels Legacy 2018
Becoming my fave song on this fine new record.
9:21 AM
Jill Sobule - Tomorrow Is Breaking
Jill Sobule Tomorrow Is Breaking
Nostalgia Kills Pinko 2018
She's playing tonight at the Duck Room.
9:23 AM
Manik Myk - Complicit (Space Force Edition)
Manik Myk Complicit (Space Force Edition) L N
The World We Settle For Manik Myk 2018
Myk pulls no punches in his assessment of current events.
9:27 AM
Shooter Jennings - Living in a Minor Key
Shooter Jennings Living in a Minor Key N
Shooter Elektra Records 2018
Waylon's son hearkens back to some of his dad's style (though their voices are very different).
9:31 AM
Jackson Browne & David Lindley - For Everyman
Jackson Browne & David Lindley For Everyman
Love Is Strange [Live] Inside 2006
These long time collaborators revisited some of their hits for this excellent live recording.
9:36 AM
Prairie Rehab - Xs & Os
Prairie Rehab Xs & Os L N
Houses self-released 2018
Fine St. Louis band.
9:42 AM
John Prine - Unlonely
John Prine Unlonely
The Missing Years Oh Boy Records 1991
This album has so many great songs I'd completely forgotten this one for many years.
9:46 AM
Nick Lowe - Lover Don't Go
Nick Lowe Lover Don't Go
The Impossible Bird Rounder Records 1994
Nick Lowe - master of heartbreak songs.
9:51 AM
William Elliott Whitmore - Ain't No Sunshine
William Elliott Whitmore Ain't No Sunshine N
Kilonova Bloodshot Records 2018
Nice reconsideration of the Bill Withers classic.
9:53 AM
Southern Culture on The Skids - Galley Slave (2018 B.C.)
Southern Culture on The Skids Galley Slave (2018 B.C.) N
Bootleggers Choice Kudzu Records 2018
Killer instrumental to end things up on an upbeat tone.