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Sound Salvation
Jan 1, 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 |
| Magic Sam That's All I Need West Side Soul Delmark 1967 Great blues classic to open the New Year with.
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| 7:00 AM |
| Hampton Hawes The Awful Truth Four! Fantasy Records 2007 A pianist you don't always remember, but a good one.
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| 7:03 AM |
| Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes Bad Luck The Best of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes Legacy 1995 Teddy Pendergrass at the top of his game over a ridiculously tight rhythm section.
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| 7:09 AM |
| Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes Walking on a Thin Line N Soultime Leroy 2015 New music from Southside harkens back to his glory days a bit.
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| 7:14 AM |
| Fleetwood Mac Man of the World Men of the World: The Early Years Sanctuary 2005 Simply beautiful and perfect.
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| 7:17 AM |
| Christine Perfect When You Say The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions Blue Horizon 2008 Speaking of perfect, here's young Christine.
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| 7:20 AM |
| Christine Perfect for you The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions Blue Horizon 2008 She obviously enjoyed that phrase in her song titles.
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| 7:23 AM |
| Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band Cherchez la femme / Se si bon Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band RCA Records Label 1976 There was nothing quite like these guys back in the day or ever since.
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| 7:32 AM |
| The Members Soho a Go Go At the Chelsea Nightclub (Bonus Track Version) THE MEMBERS 1979 I played that first Members album a million times back when I was first discovering the whole New Wave thing.
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| 7:36 AM |
| David Johansen Cool Metro David Johansen Razor & Tie 1978 I knew nothing about the New York Dolls, but I knew I loved the songs I heard from this album. And I still think it's at least as good as the Dolls were.
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| 7:39 AM |
| Chris Isaak Down in Flames First Comes The Night Vanguard 2015 Chris Isaak has come roaring back with a terrific new album after a couple that were merely okay.
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| 7:44 AM |
| Skylar Gudasz I'm so Happy I Could Die I'm So Happy I Could Die - Single Daniel 13 2015 I learned of this song from Peter Holsapple on Facebook. I think this woman is going to have a nice career.
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| 7:47 AM |
| Poi Dog Pondering Everybody's Trying Wishing Like a Mountain and Thinking Like the Sea Columbia 1989 For a few years there in the late 80s, these guys were among the greatest live bands on the planet.
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| 7:52 AM |
| The Wainwright Sisters Long Lankin Songs in the Dark PIAS 2015 Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche made an album of really cool lullabies.
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| 8:02 AM |
| Sparks Occupation Introducing Sparks Lil' Beethoven 1977 I am slowly becoming aware of the magnificence I've mostly missed these past 40 years.
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| 8:07 AM |
| The Partridge Family You Are Always on My Mind Up To Date Bell 1971 This was a major, major record in my 12-year-old life.
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| 8:10 AM |
| Cam Half Broke Heart N Untamed Arista 2015 I discovered Cam when a Voice contestant did a version of one of her songs that I could tell was a good song, but Cam does it better, then I found Cam has even cooler songs than that one.
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| 8:14 AM |
| Illinois Jacquet All Of Me (01-18-51) Complete Jazz Series 1951 - 1952 Complete Jazz Series Something about this version really connected with me recently.
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| 8:17 AM |
| Lester Young and Teddy Wilson All of Me The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Verve 1999 Then I heard this one that's even better. You decide.
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| 8:22 AM |
| Anita O'Day Just One of Those Things Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter Verve 1959 I imagine this is what music sounds like to The Flash.
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| 8:24 AM |
| Gabriel Kahane Musso and Frank (6667 Hollywood Blvd) The Ambassador Masterworks 2015 I saw this guy open up for Punch Brothers a few weeks back, and I think I've really missed the boat, because he's so good!
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| 8:30 AM |
| Jelly Roll Morton Doctor Jazz The Pearls Bluebird 1988 I could just play this stuff all day long - Morton's music had such life in it!
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| 8:33 AM |
| Henry Threadgill Black Hands Bejewelled easily slip into another world novus 1988 Threadgill has long been enamored of Morton, and while this cut doesn't sound like it shares direct influence, it has a similar spark and love of melody.
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| 8:40 AM |
| The Mamas & The Papas My heart stood still Gold Geffen 2005 Harpsichord, finger picked acoustic guitar, and sublime harmonies - then the rhythm section kicks in!
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| 8:42 AM |
| The Mamas & The Papas Straight Shooter If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears Dunhill 1966 So many masterpieces in such a short time.
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| 8:47 AM |
| Carly Simon The Desert Come Upstairs FLASHBACK 1980 Why did everybody wait so long to tell me how good this record was? 35 years, people! I thought you had my back!
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| 8:50 AM |
| Donna Summer Journey to the Center of Your Heart Bad Girls casablanca 1979 Somehow I only recently discovered this gem from her biggest selling record.
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| 9:01 AM |
| Graham Parker & The Rumour Endless night The Up Escalator Arista 1980 That time when Bruce Springsteen sang backing vocals for Graham Parker!
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| 9:04 AM |
| Bob Dylan Day of the Locusts New Morning Columbia 1970 I'd almost forgotten this little gem from the first Bob Dylan album I ever owned.
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| 9:08 AM |
| Terry Reid Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace Superlungs Astralwerks 2005 A rock'n'roll classic that somehow never became as famous as it should have.
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| 9:13 AM |
| Cheap Trick high roller Heaven Tonight Epic 1978 One of my faves from the first Cheap Trick album I ever owned.
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| 9:17 AM |
| Marshall Crenshaw Our Town Field Day Warner Bros. 1983 The first album was so good, it took me a long time to realize the second one was just as loaded with great songs.
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| 9:21 AM |
| Any Trouble It Doesn't Mean a Thing N Present Tense Cherry Red Records 2015
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| 9:24 AM |
| The Bizarros The Waves Cry Complete Collection 1976-1980 Windian 2012 One of the most unjustly ignored bands from the late 70s explosion of creativity.
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| 9:26 AM |
| Radio Birdman Hand of Law The Essential Radio Birdman (1974 - 1978) Sub Pop Records 2001 My friend Steve Lindstrom ranted this song into my heart on Facebook recently.
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| 9:31 AM |
| Rocket From the Tombs Waiting for the Snow N Black Record Fire Records 2015 I love the fact that this band exists again.
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| 9:34 AM |
| The Dictators stay with me Blood Brothers Asylum Records 1978 While I still think Go Girl Crazy is perfection, I'm starting to come around on the joys of this harder rocking record.
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| 9:38 AM |
| Elvis Costello (I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea This Year's Model Columbia 1978 Have I ever mentioned I kinda like this guy?
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| 9:41 AM |
| Music Machine Talk Talk (Turn On) the Music Machine Performance 1966 I was trying to figure out where this record came from - most garage bands were aping the Yardbirds or the Stones, but this doesn't do that nearly as explicitly. But it sure is brilliant.
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| 9:45 AM |
| Duke Ellington Afrique (take 1) The Conny Plank Session Groenland 2015 Late in life, Ellington took the Orchestra to Germany and recorded this completely original music with Conny Plank at the production helm.
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