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Sound Salvation

Nov 20, 2015 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
Roy Hawkins - They Raided the Joint
Roy Hawkins They Raided the Joint
The Bob Geddins Blues Legacy JSP 2009
A sad tale of unfair arrest. Some were playing poker and some was rolling crooked dice / Some were standing in the corner jiving other men's wives.
7:03 AM
Bennie Smith - Buddah-B
Bennie Smith Buddah-B L
Shook Up Fedora Records 2001
Great cut from the late great St. Louis bluesman.
7:06 AM
Wee Willie Walker - I've Been Watching You
Wee Willie Walker I've Been Watching You N
If Nothing Ever Changes Little Village Foundation 2015
This guy has toiled in obscurity too long - he's so darned good!
7:10 AM
Delbert McClinton - Givin' It Up For Your Love
Delbert McClinton Givin' It Up For Your Love
Best of Delbert McClinton Curb 1991
A man who walks the line between blues, country, rock, and soul!
7:14 AM
Dr. Feelgood - Keep It Out of Sight
Dr. Feelgood Keep It Out of Sight
I'm a Man (Best of the Wilko Johnson Years 1974-1977) Rhino 2015
Wilko Johnson's guitar playing is pure rhythm!!!
7:18 AM
The Del-Lords - Heaven
The Del-Lords Heaven
Johnny Comes Marching Home American Beat 1986
Such a delightful chorus - it makes my head spin to swim in the call and response.
7:21 AM
Buffalo Springfield - Leave
Buffalo Springfield Leave
Buffalo Springfield ATCO 1966
Neil Young & Stephen Stills rocking those guitars!
7:24 AM
Cindy Bullens - Love Letter From Las Vegas
Cindy Bullens Love Letter From Las Vegas
Dream #29 Blue Lobster 2005
I've lost touch with the work of Cindy Bullens again - I heard her in 1979, and in 2005, and now what's she doing?
7:30 AM
Keith Richards - Lover's Plea
Keith Richards Lover's Plea N
Crosseyed Heart Mindless 2015
Gorgeous soulful ballad with an earnest, if not slick, vocal.
7:34 AM
The Band - The Rumor
The Band The Rumor
Stage Fright Capitol Records 1970
Every note, every word, every sound comes together to achieve musical perfection here.
7:38 AM
Laura Nyro - Lonely Women
Laura Nyro Lonely Women
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession Columbia 1968
Nyro sang to the beat of her own drummer, that's for sure.
7:42 AM
Palaver - Too Anxious to Believe
Palaver Too Anxious to Believe L N
Palaver self-released 2015
Steve Carosello & Charlie Brumley have made an album of complete originality and beauty - brilliant vocal and piano partnership.
7:47 AM
Marshall Crenshaw - Knowing Me, Knowing You
Marshall Crenshaw Knowing Me, Knowing You
Live . . . My Truck Is My Home Razor & Tie 1994
One great songwriter singing two other great songwriters.
7:52 AM
Big Star - Life Is White
Big Star Life Is White
Radio City Ardent 1974
Nothing to do but bow down to this work of genius.
8:01 AM
The Kinks - Word of Mouth
The Kinks Word of Mouth
Word Of Mouth RCA / Legacy 1984
I didn't give this record much of a chance when it was new, but there are some really nice cuts, like this rocker, for instance.
8:05 AM
Thin Lizzy - Are You Ready
Thin Lizzy Are You Ready
Live and Dangerous Friday Music Records 1978
Raise those fists in the air and rock!
8:07 AM
Robert Pollard - Faulty Superheroes
Robert Pollard Faulty Superheroes N
Faulty Superheroes Guided By Voices Inc 2015
It's impossible to absorb all of Pollard's output, but this cut is him at the top of his game.
8:11 AM
Richard Thompson - All Buttoned Up
Richard Thompson All Buttoned Up N
Still Fantasy 2015
Maybe this song owes a debt to his own Backstreet Slide, but it's still pretty cool.
8:16 AM
Tom Verlaine - Breakin' My Heart
Tom Verlaine Breakin' My Heart
Tom Verlaine Collector's Choice 1979
This is like some Velvet Underground song that never existed - it's simply incredible!
8:23 AM
The Rolling Stones - She Said Yeah
The Rolling Stones She Said Yeah
December's Children ( And Everybody's) ABKCO 1965
This cover of the Larry Williams song was punk rock way avant la lettre.
8:24 AM
Rory Gallagher - Doing Time
Rory Gallagher Doing Time
Defender Buddha 1988
Some late period uplifting Rory.
8:30 AM
Sonny Landreth - Keys to the Highway
Sonny Landreth Keys to the Highway N
Bound By the Blues Provogue 2015
Nobody else sounds like this guy - one of the best guitarists alive.
8:35 AM
The Claudettes - Ne T'en Vas Pas
The Claudettes Ne T'en Vas Pas N
No Hotel Yellow Dog Records 2015
That means "Stick around."
8:38 AM
Jill Scott - Can't Wait
Jill Scott Can't Wait N
Woman Atlantic 2015
It's great to have Jill Scott back making classic soul music again. It's been a while.
8:44 AM
Vinícius Cantuária - Normal
Vinícius Cantuária Normal
Vinicius (Cliche do Cliche) Transparent Music 2001
I'm a sucker for good Brazilian music.
8:49 AM
Django Reinhardt - Hot Lips
Django Reinhardt Hot Lips
The Classic Early Recordings in Chronological Order JSP 2000
I'm equally a sucker for the work of Reinhardt & Grappelli records.
8:52 AM
Dinah Washington - Trouble In Mind
Dinah Washington Trouble In Mind
The Fabulous Miss D! - The Keynote, Decca and Mercury Singles (1943-1953) Hip-O Select 2010
She could sing just about anything and make it great - and here she starts with a wonderful song and makes it better.
8:55 AM
The King Pins - The Hop Scotch
The King Pins The Hop Scotch
The King Pins Meet the Spellbinders Marginal 1998
An early 60s dance song about playing hop scotch. Why not?
9:01 AM
Fleetwood Mac - Come
Fleetwood Mac Come
Say You Will Warner Brothers. 2003
One of those epic Lindsey Buckingham songs.
9:07 AM
Jackson Browne - My Stunning Mystery Companion
Jackson Browne My Stunning Mystery Companion
The Naked Ride Home Elektra 2002
I can't believe it's been 13 years since this record came out - seems still like a very recent Jackson Browne album.
9:12 AM
Danny Wilson - Ruby's Golden Wedding
Danny Wilson Ruby's Golden Wedding
Meet Danny Wilson Virgin 1987
Criminally undervalued late 80s band.
9:16 AM
The Drifters - On Broadway
The Drifters On Broadway
Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974 Atlantic 1988
I always flash back to the commercials for Radio Free Europe which used this song.
9:19 AM
Lyn Taitt & The Jets - Napoleon Solo
Lyn Taitt & The Jets Napoleon Solo
Hold Me Tight - Anthology 1965-1973 Trojan 2005
Some nice early rock steady here in a musical tribute to The Man From Uncle.
9:21 AM
Lee Dorsey - Give It Up
Lee Dorsey Give It Up
Wheelin' and Dealin' - The Definitive Collection Arista 1997
Lee Dorsey wrote his own material sometimes, and it stood up to the work of Allen Toussaint nicely.
9:25 AM
James Hunter - I'll Walk Away
James Hunter I'll Walk Away
Believe What I Say Ace 1996
He emerged perfectly suave and cool, didn't he?
9:30 AM
Lizz Wright - Somewhere Down the Mystic
Lizz Wright Somewhere Down the Mystic N
Freedom & Surrender Concord 2015
Beautiful song, beautiful singer.
9:36 AM
Mbongwana Star - 1 Million C'est Quoi
Mbongwana Star 1 Million C'est Quoi N
From Kinshasa World Circuit 2015
Music from the Congo that makes me want to dance!
9:41 AM
Dungen - Sista Festen
Dungen Sista Festen N
Allas Sak Mexican Summer 2015
Typically un-typical Swedish rock.
9:44 AM
The Vondrukes - Goodacre
The Vondrukes Goodacre L
Runaway, Goodbye Love self-released 2011
One of my fave bands in this city.
9:47 AM
The English Beat - Mirror In the Bathroom
The English Beat Mirror In the Bathroom
I Just Can't Stop It Go-Feet 1980
I was lucky enough to see this band three times - three shows of pure joy.
9:50 AM
John Renbourn - Buffalo
John Renbourn Buffalo N
The Attic Tapes Riverboat 2015
Revelatory collection of early casual and live Renbourn performances.
9:53 AM
Bob Dylan - Sitting On Top of the World
Bob Dylan Sitting On Top of the World
Good As I Been to You Columbia 1992
Dylan's 2 early 90s acoustic folk records recharged his creative batteries, and are pretty fun to hear even if they hadn't.