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Sound Salvation

Aug 5, 2016 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 Beatles - She Loves You
The Beatles She Loves You
Past Masters, Vols. 1 & 2 Capitol Records 2012
Well, why not start with that great drum drop?
7:02 AM
Bob Kuban & The In-Men - Teaser
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Look Out For The Cheater Musicland USA 1966
The late great Walter Scott on vocals!
7:05 AM
Gerry & The Pacemakers - It's Gonna Be Alright (Mono)
Gerry & The Pacemakers It's Gonna Be Alright (Mono)
You'll Never Walk Alone (The EMI Years 1963-1966) Parlophone 2008
What a fun record!
7:07 AM
Van Morrison - Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)
Van Morrison Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)
Blowin' Your Mind Bang/Epic 1967
One of Van's greatest recordings. Co-written by Wes Farrell, who went on to work with the Partridge Family.
7:10 AM
Bee Gees - Love Me
Bee Gees Love Me
Children Of The World RSO 1976
Even in the disco era, they could melt your heart with a ballad.
7:15 AM
Lucy Wainwright Roche & Suzzy Roche - Rhythm of the Rain
Lucy Wainwright Roche & Suzzy Roche Rhythm of the Rain
Mud & Apples Bunny Records 2016
Gorgeous take on the oldie but goodie.
7:18 AM
Aaron Neville - Sarah Ann
Aaron Neville Sarah Ann
Apache Tell It Records 2016
Aaron goes a little bit doo wop on this cut from his excellent new album.
7:22 AM
The 5 Royales - I Got to Know
The 5 Royales I Got to Know
The Complete Singles 1952-1962 Real Gone 2014
One of the most underrated of all 50s groups.
7:24 AM
Clyde McPhatter - Money Honey
Clyde McPhatter Money Honey
Clyde McPhatter: The Essential Collection Spectrum 2002
Cool remake of the song he did with the Drifters previously.
7:27 AM
Marvin Gaye - There Goes My Baby
Marvin Gaye There Goes My Baby
Motown Legends: Mercy Mercy Me Motown 1993
A cover of a Drifters song that didn't have Clyde McPhatter on it.
7:31 AM
Kasey Chambers - Stalker
Kasey Chambers Stalker
BitterSweet SUGAR HILL 2015
Not exactly a love song.
7:34 AM
Little Big Town - You Can't Have Everything
Little Big Town You Can't Have Everything
The Reason Why CAPITOL NASHVILLE 2010
I've kind of lost track of these guys - gotta rectify that one of these days.
7:37 AM
Bun E. Carlos - Count on Me (feat. Xeno)
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Greetings from Bunezuela! SPV Recordings 2016
Xeno was the original singer for Cheap Trick before they recorded. He's no Robin Zander, but he's pretty good.
7:42 AM
Brian Andrew Marek - Aberdeen
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"Drowner" Rubberstamp 2016
As catchy and delightful a song as I've heard this year. I'm sorry I missed his rare live show last night.
7:46 AM
Graham Parker - Get Started, Start a Fire
Graham Parker Get Started, Start a Fire
The Mona Lisa's Sister RCA 1988
Such a brilliant song from one of my all-time fave songwriters.
7:51 AM
Heart - Johnny Moon
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Beautiful Broken Concord 2016
It's amazing that Heart can still be making records as good as or sometimes better than ever.
7:55 AM
The Go-Go's - Speeding
The Go-Go's Speeding
Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's I.R.S. Records 1994
An obscure early song unearthed for this odds and ends compilation.
8:00 AM
Louis Armstrong - All of Me
Louis Armstrong All of Me
Louis Armstrong Big Bands 1931-1932 Vol. 2 JSP 1990
Oh, that trumpet! Oh that vocal!
8:03 AM
Ray Charles - The Man I Love
Ray Charles The Man I Love
Blues + Jazz Atlantic 1961
Ray Charles was also a great improvising pianist - as this lovely take of the Gershwin classic shows.
8:07 AM
Helen Forrest - But Not For Me
Helen Forrest But Not For Me
50 Sublimes Chanteuses de Jazz: 1940 - 1953 Body & Soul 2002
You gotta love a sublime chanteuse.
8:11 AM
Bob Dylan - Polka Dots and Moonbeams
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Fallen Angels Columbia 2016
I'm really starting to love this record the more I hear it.
8:16 AM
Brian Eno - Fickle Sun (iii) I'm Set Free
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The Ship Warp 2016
Sublime version of the Velvet Underground song.
8:21 AM
Devotchka - Contrabanda
Devotchka Contrabanda
Live With the Colorado Symphony self-released 2012
Love this song and its Latin fire.
8:25 AM
Michael Kiwanuka - One More Night
Michael Kiwanuka One More Night
Love & Hate Interscope 2016
I've run into this song a couple of times recently played in the background at coffee shops and the like. It always makes the day feel better.
8:30 AM
Graham Nash - Myself At Last
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This Path Tonight Blue Castle Music 2016
It's nice to know Graham Nash can still make such a nice record.
8:35 AM
Paul Kelly - Everything's Turning to White
Paul Kelly Everything's Turning to White
Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits - Songs From The South, Vols. 1 & 2 Dramatico Entertainment Ltd 2012
Powerful tale.
8:40 AM
Kevin Bowers - Lady Day Fortune
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Nova self-released 2016
Great song sung by Jimmy Griffin!
8:45 AM
Leland Sundries - Studebaker
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Music for Outcasts L'Echiquier Records 2016
I'm liking these guys, still not knowing much about them but they rhyme "begin" with "sanguine." Can't argue with that.
8:49 AM
The Kinks - Cliches of the World (B-Movie)
The Kinks Cliches of the World (B-Movie)
State of Confusion Arista 1983
I'd almost forgotten this nifty song.
8:54 AM
Jerry Nolan - Take a Chance
Jerry Nolan Take a Chance
Manhattan Mayhem (a History of the Dolls) Jungle Records 2003
Pretty nifty little obscure cut from the New York Dolls drummer.
9:01 AM
Detroit - Rock 'N Roll
Detroit Rock 'N Roll
Detroit Akarma 1971
Definitive version of a definitive song! Second Velvet Underground cover of the show today.
9:05 AM
The Faces - As Long As You Tell Him
The Faces As Long As You Tell Him
Five Guys Walk Into A Bar... Warner Bros. / Rhino 1975
Even their b-sides were great.
9:09 AM
Thin White Rope - Bartender's Rag
Thin White Rope Bartender's Rag
The Ruby Sea Frontier 1991
They never lost what made them so darned terrific.
9:14 AM
Big Dipper - When Men Were Trains
Big Dipper When Men Were Trains
Supercluster - The Big Dipper Anthology Merge Records 2008
A song that makes little sense except when you hear it.
9:16 AM
Bob Mould - Black Confetti
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Patch the Sky Merge 2016
His new album roars with the classic Mould sound.
9:20 AM
Dick Dale - One Double One Oh!
Dick Dale One Double One Oh!
Better Shred Than Dead: The Dick Dale Anthology Rhino 1997
Typically brilliant Dick Dale instrumental.
9:23 AM
The Meters - Stay Away
The Meters Stay Away
Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology Rhino 1995
Come on life, let's get funkified.
9:30 AM
Huey 'Piano' Smith and His Clowns - She Got Low Down
Huey 'Piano' Smith and His Clowns She Got Low Down
Having a Good Time With Huey "Piano" Smith and His His Clowns Edsel 1999
Dig that New Orleans vibe.
9:33 AM
Johnny Copeland - Slow Walk You Down
Johnny Copeland Slow Walk You Down
It's Me - Classic Texas Soul 1965-72 Kent 2013
He's known as a great bluesman, but he sure did make some fabulous soul records for a while.
9:36 AM
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tracks of My Tears
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles The Tracks of My Tears
Ooo Baby Baby: The Anthlogy Motown 2002
Sometimes you have to listen to the classics just so you don't take them for granted - it's still breathtaking!
9:39 AM
Gene Pitney & George Jones - I've Got a New Heartache
Gene Pitney & George Jones I've Got a New Heartache
George Jones & Gene Pitney Musicor 1965
No more unexpected duet partners exist, and yet, of course, it's brilliant.
9:42 AM
Sara Watkins - Tenderhearted
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Young In All The Wrong Ways New West 2016
Sometime Nickel Creek member is just fine on her own.
9:46 AM
Billy Bragg - The Warmest Room
Billy Bragg The Warmest Room
Talking With The Taxman About Poetry Elektra / Asylum 1986
I don't think Bragg ever topped this third album, though he kept on making good records.
9:50 AM
Jerry Douglas - Takarasaka
Jerry Douglas Takarasaka
Restless On the Farm Sugar Hill Records 1998
The world's greatest dobro player!
9:53 AM
Levon Helm - False Hearted Lover Blues
Levon Helm False Hearted Lover Blues
Dirt Farmer Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard Records 2007
Those last two studio records he made were such treasures.