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Sound Salvation

Apr 20, 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
7:00 AM
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Give My Compliments to the Chef (The Old Grey Whistle Test 30/05/1975 Programme Number: LNF1708B)
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Give My Compliments to the Chef (The Old Grey Whistle Test 30/05/1975 Programme Number: LNF1708B)
Live at the BBC Spectrum 2009
No band like them!
7:06 AM
Cheap Trick - So Good to See You
Cheap Trick So Good to See You
In Color (Remastered) EPIC/LEGACY 1977
This album has so many songs that should have been huge hits.
7:10 AM
The Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen
The Merry-Go-Round Listen, Listen
Listen, Listen - The Definitive Collection (1966 - 1969) Rev-Ola 1969
Emmit Rhodes led this incredibly overlooked band of the late 60s.
7:13 AM
The Kinks - Don't You Fret
The Kinks Don't You Fret
Kinda Kinks Reprise 1965
A rarely heard little gem.
7:16 AM
The Beat Farmers - Bigger Stones
The Beat Farmers Bigger Stones
Tales of the New West Rhino 1985
On the short list of greatest songs from the 1980s.
7:19 AM
Grace Basement - Suicidal Friends
Grace Basement Suicidal Friends L N
Mississippi Nights Avonmore 2018
They'll be at Euclid Records tomorrow afternoon for Record Store Day.
7:23 AM
Franz Ferdinand - Slow Don't Kill Me Slow
Franz Ferdinand Slow Don't Kill Me Slow N
Always Ascending Domino 2018
I think they learned some stuff from their collaboration with Sparks a couple years back.
7:28 AM
Prince & The New Power Generation - 7
Prince & The New Power Generation 7
0(+> Warner Brothers. 1992
A golden oldie I hadn't heard in a long time.
7:34 AM
Jimi Hendrix - Send My Love to Linda
Jimi Hendrix Send My Love to Linda N
Both Sides Of The Sky Experience Hendrix 2018
You'd think they'd have released all the good stuff from Hendrix by now, but there are some pretty cool cuts on this latest collection of unreleased stuff.
7:39 AM
Joan Armatrading - Your Letter
Joan Armatrading Your Letter
To The Limit A & M 1978
When Joan Armatrading hits her sweet spots, she's as good as any body. She deserves more attention for her excellent body of work.
7:43 AM
Carrie Rodriguez - I Cry for Love
Carrie Rodriguez I Cry for Love
Give Me All You Got Ninth Street Opus 2013
One of her very finest songs, and she has a lot of good ones.
7:47 AM
Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey - Anymore
Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey Anymore
Mavericks RNA 1991
Classic from a classic album - two of America's finest songwriters.
7:50 AM
Sturgill Simpson - Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)
Sturgill Simpson Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)
A Sailor's Guide to Earth Atlantic 2016
A song about fatherhood and leaving for the road.
7:55 AM
The Turtles - Sound Asleep
The Turtles Sound Asleep
Solid Zinc: The Turtles Anthology Rhino 2007
A typically nice number from these popmeisters.
8:00 AM
Jambalaya Brass Band - Congo
Jambalaya Brass Band Congo N
Habana to New Orleans 890 West Music 2018
Such a great combination of New Orleans and Cuban elements.
8:05 AM
Mista Savona - Candela (feat. Solis & Randy Valentine)
Mista Savona Candela (feat. Solis & Randy Valentine) N
Havana Meets Kingston Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. 2017
Equally cool, combining Cuban music with Jamaican reggae.
8:10 AM
Toots & The Maytals - Fever
Toots & The Maytals Fever
Pressure Drop - The Definitive Collection Trojan 2002
Classic Jamaican song from one of my fave singers.
8:12 AM
The Claudettes - Taco Night Material
The Claudettes Taco Night Material N
Dance Scandal at the Gymnasium! Yellow Dog Records 2018
I'm not sure what she's singing about here, but I love the sound of it, and last night was Taco Night at my house.
8:15 AM
Elvis Presley - Make Me Know It
Elvis Presley Make Me Know It
Elvis Is Back! RCA 1960
A deep cut, but a neat one.
8:17 AM
Huey 'Piano' Smith and His Clowns - Little Chickee Wha Wha
Huey 'Piano' Smith and His Clowns Little Chickee Wha Wha
Having a Good Time With Huey "Piano" Smith and His His Clowns Edsel 1999
I could listen to Huey "Piano" Smith all day long - love these records.
8:20 AM
The Sleepy Rubies - Seagull
The Sleepy Rubies Seagull L N
Big Mountain - EP self-released 2018
St. Louis sisters with a powerful songwriting vision.
8:27 AM
Gregory Porter - Mona Lisa
Gregory Porter Mona Lisa N
Nat King Cole & Me Blue Note / Decca 2017
If you're gonna sing Nat King Cole, you gotta take on his signature song - Porter does it exquisitely.
8:32 AM
Chicago - Someday (August 29, 1968)
Chicago Someday (August 29, 1968)
Chicago Transit Authority Columbia 1969
Protest song about bad treatment of protesters. With killer horns!
8:36 AM
Chris Cornell - You Never Knew My Mind
Chris Cornell You Never Knew My Mind N
Johnny Cash: Forever Words Legacy 2018
One of his last recordings was this stunning musical treatment of a poem from Johnny Cash.
8:42 AM
Aretha Franklin - Pledging My Love/The Clock
Aretha Franklin Pledging My Love/The Clock
Rare & Unreleased Recordings From the Golden Rein of The Queen of Soul Rhino 2007
First she covers Johnny Ace, then she segues seamlessly into a song I don't know - it's all brilliant.
8:46 AM
Jimmy Witherspoon - Rain is Such a Lonesome Sound
Jimmy Witherspoon Rain is Such a Lonesome Sound
Goin' to Kansas City Blues (Remastered) RCA 1957
I should have played this on a rainy day, but I'm not always smart like that.
8:49 AM
Count Basie - Blues In Hoss' Flat
Count Basie Blues In Hoss' Flat
Chairman of the Board Roulette 1959
The Basie band of the 50s deserves a lot more respect than it often gets. Powerful!
8:53 AM
Leon Russell - Delta Lady
Leon Russell Delta Lady
Leon Russell Shelter Records 1970
When I was 12, I so wanted to grow up to be like Leon! Of course, I never had the talent, or the dark eyes, or the Moses beard, but I did have a slightly shorter version of the hairstyle.
9:00 AM
Bob Dylan - Forgetful Heart
Bob Dylan Forgetful Heart
Together Through Life Columbia 2009
From back in the days when he sang his own songs.
9:04 AM
Half Knots - Proof
Half Knots Proof L
Proof self 2013
St. Louis band whose singer/songwriter Danny Kathriner moved on from to Cave States.
9:10 AM
Marie/Lepanto - Clean Gift
Marie/Lepanto Clean Gift
Tenkiller Big Legal Mess 2018
Will Johnson and Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster have made a fine combination under this weird moniker.
9:14 AM
Courtney Marie Andrews - Two Cold Nights in Buffalo
Courtney Marie Andrews Two Cold Nights in Buffalo N
May Your Kindness Remain Fat Possum / Mama Bird Recording Co. 2018
Very fine singer/songwriter.
9:19 AM
Ike Reilly - Do the Death Slide!
Ike Reilly Do the Death Slide!
Born On Fire Rock Ridge Music 2015
I love this guy - great rock'n'roll.
9:23 AM
The Jam - Thick as Thieves
The Jam Thick as Thieves
Setting Sons Polydor 1979
I remember buying the import of this LP, with the embossed cover. I think it came out before the American album, too - had to have it right away.
9:26 AM
Lou Christie - Lightnin' Strikes
Lou Christie Lightnin' Strikes
EnLIGHTNIN'ment The Best of Lou Christie Rhino 1990
He was like all Four Seasons rolled into one.
9:30 AM
Erika Wennerstrom - Gravity
Erika Wennerstrom Gravity N
Sweet Unknown Partisan / Knitting Factory 2018
I'm very much digging this new solo record from the Heartless Bastards singer.
9:37 AM
Conor Oberst - Tachycardia
Conor Oberst Tachycardia N
Salutations Nonesuch 2017
I can't help loving this song, a big admission from this longtime Oberst hater.
9:42 AM
Kamikaze Cowboy - Tony's Song (River Valley)
Kamikaze Cowboy Tony's Song (River Valley) L
Hurry Sundown Cowboy Angel 1996
The late Bob Reuter - I do miss his well-thought comments on so many things in this world.
9:45 AM
The Weather Station - Kept It All to Myself
The Weather Station Kept It All to Myself N
The Weather Station Paradise of Bachelors 2017
Very nice Canadian band.
9:48 AM
Garland Jeffreys - Truth Serum
Garland Jeffreys Truth Serum
Truth Serum Thirty Tigers 2013
He's made an awful lot of good records over 45 years or so now.
9:52 AM
William DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You Got
William DeVaughn Be Thankful for What You Got
Soul Hits of the 70's: Didn't it Blow Your Mind Vol. 12 Rhino 1991
Who sampled this and turned it into a hip hop hit? I'm blanking.