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Sound Salvation
Jun 17, 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.
| 7:00 AM |
| Captain Beefheart Ashtray Heart Doc at the Radar Station Virgin 1980 I remember reading about this record when it was new, and how much he had influenced XTC and my other fave New Wave acts, so I had to own it. Yup, that was a good thing.
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| 7:03 AM |
| The Coral Miss Fortune N Distance Inbetween Ignition Records 2016 One of the finest rock bands of this century. They don't get near enough credit for that.
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| 7:07 AM |
| The Who Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy MCA 1971 51 years on, and this song still packs a mighty punch.
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| 7:10 AM |
| The Turtles I Can't Stop Solid Zinc: The Turtles Anthology Rhino 2007 An unreleased cut from 1970 that's so darn good I can't understand how it sat on the shelf.
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| 7:12 AM |
| Woah Thunder Hop To It L N single self 2016 St. Louis band puts out a flexi-disc single (but fortunately, they gave me a CD that I can actually play on the air).
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| 7:17 AM |
| Andrew Bird Roma Fade N Are You Serious Concord Loma Vista 2016 Best whistler in pop music.
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| 7:21 AM |
| Rokia Traoré Maye N Né So Sony 2016 Wonderful singer from Mali.
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| 7:27 AM |
| The Monkees Me and Magdalena N Good Times! Rhino 2016 Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard wrote this, and it fits the aesthetic of the Monkees nicely.
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| 7:32 AM |
| The Explorers Club It's You Grand Hotel Rock Ridge 2012 I'd forgotten how good these guys were - wonder if they're still together.
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| 7:36 AM |
| The Beach Boys Let Him Run Wild Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!) CAPITOL 1965 Well, yeah, the Explorers Club sound a bit like these guys.
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| 7:38 AM |
| Fleetwood Mac Sunny Side of Heaven Bare Trees Reprise Records 1972 Beautiful instrumental from an undervalued F. Mac era.
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| 7:42 AM |
| Boomtown Rats Lookin' After No. 1 Boomtown Rats Universal Int'l 1977 I just realized yesterday Mutt Lange produced the first three Rats albums.
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| 7:46 AM |
| AC/DC Ride On Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Atlantic 1976 Meanwhile, down in Australia.
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| 7:52 AM |
| Roky Erickson & The Aliens Bloody Hammer I Have Always Been Here Before: The Roky Erickson Anthology Shout! Factory 2005 I don't much like horror movies, but I do like horror rock like this.
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| 8:00 AM |
| Janet Jackson Again Janet Virgin 1993 I love this ballad to death!
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| 8:04 AM |
| Vicki Sue Robinson Turn the Beat Around The Disco Years (Turn the Beat Around) Vol. 1 Rhino 1991 I'd never noticed just how amazing the verses are in this song - that's because the chorus and the beat and the arrangement are so great!
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| 8:08 AM |
| The Persuasions Cain's Blood Sunday Morning Soul Bullseye Blues 2000 One never gets tired of hearing these great voices.
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| 8:12 AM |
| Sister Rosetta Tharpe Up Above My Head (I Hear Music in the Air) Down By The Riverside Mastersong 2002 Pure joy!
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| 8:15 AM |
| Muddy Waters I Got My Brand on You At Newport 1960 MCA Records 1960 I can only imagine how powerful it must have been to be in this man's musical presence.
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| 8:19 AM |
| Ray Wylie Hubbard Coochy Coochy The Grifter's Hymnal Bordello Records 2012 Ringo Starr song turned darker and dirtier.
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| 8:24 AM |
| Wynonna & The Big Noise Something You Can't Live Without N Wynonna & The Big Noise Curb Records, Inc. 2016 One of the most powerful songs I've heard this year - man, she can sing!
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| 8:31 AM |
| The James Hunter Six Something's Calling N Hold On! Daptone 2016 Such a sweet sound on this song.
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| 8:35 AM |
| The Jive Five Rain Their Greatest Hits Collectables 1990 Late doo wop or early soul?
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| 8:37 AM |
| Irma Thomas She'll Never Be Your Wife A Woman's Viewpoint: The Essential 1970s Recordings Kent Soul 2006 Irma Thomas and Swamp Dogg - a potent combination.
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| 8:40 AM |
| Bonnie Raitt The Ones We Couldn't Be N Dig In Deep Red Wing Records 2016 Bonnie singing a sad ballad - stunning!
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| 8:46 AM |
| Los Lobos Is This All There Is? (feat. Little Willie G.) The Ride Hollywood 2004 Neatly funkified version of their song.
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| 8:50 AM |
| Brothers Osborne Stay a Little Longer N Pawn Shop EMI Music Nashville (ERN) 2016 I can't get enough of this song!
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| 9:00 AM |
| Radiohead Black Star The Bends Capitol Records 1995 I remember seeing these guys open for R.E.M. when this record was new, and thinking, yeah, they're pretty darned good.
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| 9:04 AM |
| Thao & The Get Down Stay Down Hand to God N A Man Alive Ribbon Music 2016 Every time I hear this album or any part thereof, I feel good.
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| 9:08 AM |
| Escondido Idiot N Walking With a Stranger Kill Canyon 2016 I'm not sold on much of the rest of this record, but this song kicks butt.
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| 9:11 AM |
| Miss Molly Simms Real Good Man L N Borrowed or Sold self 2016 She's always been good, but I think she's really hit her stride with this new EP.
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| 9:16 AM |
| Paul Rodgers & Nils Lofgren Abandoned Love Chimes of Freedom - The Songs of Bob Dylan (Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International) Caroline International (P&D) 2012 Two veterans doing a nifty version of this obscure Dylan gem.
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| 9:20 AM |
| Warren Zevon Lord Byron's Luggage My Ride's Here Artemis 2002 How can you go wrong with a song that starts, "Lord Byron had a lot of luggage" and includes "He didn't get to bathe very often but he liked to change his clothes all the time
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| 9:25 AM |
| Eleanor Friedberger Two Versions of Tomorrow N New View Frenchkiss 2016 Wonderful songwriting, terrific singing.
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| 9:32 AM |
| Chris Maxwell Drunk Barber Shaved the World N Arkansas Summer Max Recordings 2016 I saw a list of some hep website's 50 fave albums this year, and I think this one is probably better than 49 of them.
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| 9:36 AM |
| Santana Choo Choo N Santana IV RCA 2016 Just a blast from the original line-up.
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| 9:40 AM |
| Wee Willie Walker Read Between the Lines If Nothing Ever Changes Little Village Foundation 2015 Terrific r'n'b singer who deserves more attention.
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| 9:44 AM |
| Brandy Clark Daughter N Big Day in a Small Town Warner Brothers. 2016 Oh my gosh, this record is brilliant! Way better than her very good debut.
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| 9:48 AM |
| Patty Loveless Draggin' My Heart Around On Your Way Home Epic 2003 I really should play more of her stuff - it's always a pleasure.
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| 9:51 AM |
| April Smith & The Great Picture Show Movie Loves a Screen Songs for a Sinking Ship Little Roscoe 2010 A rockin' little number from a band I have no memory of how I discovered.
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| 9:54 AM |
| Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper This World Can't Stand Long Bluegrass - Early Cuts 1931-1953 JSP 2004 I love the mandolin on this - "We should know it can't stand long for it's too full of hate."
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