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Sound Salvation
Oct 23, 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.
| 7:00 AM |
| Bessie Smith Blue Spirit Blues 1925-1933 Nimbus 1989 Running in chronological order this week, so let's go way back to the late 20s for a masterpiece from the great Bessie Smith, with a sort of Halloween number.
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| 7:03 AM |
| Gus Cannon's Stompers Walk Right In The Best of Cannon's Jug Stompers Yazoo 2001 Do you know it's been more years since the mid-60s pop revival of this song than had passed between the original and that famous cover?
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| 7:06 AM |
| The Carter Family Church In the Wildwood Prayers From Hell: White Gospel & Sinner's Blues 1927-1940 Trikont 2000 Chills I get when the three of them harmonize and sing around each other.
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| 7:10 AM |
| Sunset Jubilee Singers Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow There Will Be No Sweeter Sound (The Columbia OKeh Post-War Gospel Story 1947-1962) Columbia 1998 I know nothing really about this group, but I know great singing when I hear it.
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| 7:13 AM |
| Big Maceo So Long Baby Bluebird Recordings 1941-1942 RCA 1997 One of the earliest great Chicago blues piano players.
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| 7:17 AM |
| Art Gibson I'm a Truck Drivin' Man Fifty Years of Country Music From Mercury Records Mercury 1995 One of the oldest of the great truck driving songs I know.
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| 7:20 AM |
| Cecil Gant Cecil's Boogie We're Gonna Rock: The Essential Cecil Gant Indigo 2003 I never get tired of great boogie!
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| 7:22 AM |
| Cozy Eggleston Cozy's Best Honkers & Bar Walkers Vol 1 Delmark 1988 Nor do I ever get tired of a big swingin' jump blues.
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| 7:25 AM |
| Little Esther Hound Dog The Early Hits 1949-1954 JSP 2010 I love the grit she uses to deliver this one.
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| 7:28 AM |
| Ray Charles Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River) The Genius Hits the Road Polydor 1960 Ray Charles could sing just about anything!
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| 7:32 AM |
| The Coasters (When She Wants Good Lovin') My Baby Comes to Me 50 Coastin' Classics Rhino 1992 She goes to see the baker when she wants some cake, she goes to see the butcher when she wants some steak . . .
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| 7:35 AM |
| Elvis Presley I Was the One Elvis Presley RCA 1956 For a long time, I thought this song was too schlocky, but man, he delivers the heck out of it.
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| 7:38 AM |
| The Everly Brothers Poor Jenny Heartaches & Harmonies Rhino 1994 Oh, the joys of the Boudleaux & FeliceBryant collaborations
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| 7:40 AM |
| Clyde McPhatter I Never Knew The Essential Collection Spectrum Music 2002 McPhatter never really hit the big time after he left the Drifters, but he still made cool records.
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| 7:43 AM |
| Betty Harris Cry to Me Sisters of Soul Rhino 2003 How many great Bettys were there in the sixties?
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| 7:47 AM |
| Jimmy Witherspoon Love Me Right Mod Jazz Kent Dance 1996 This cut swings hard!
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| 7:49 AM |
| Martha Reeves & The Vandellas A Tear For the Girl Live Wire: Singles 1962-72 Motown 1993 Beautiful testifyin'!
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| 7:52 AM |
| Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson We Were Made For Each Other The Best of Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson Ichiban/Soul Classics 1995 A fine soul duo from the late 60s.
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| 8:02 AM |
| The Easybeats St. Louis The Very Best of the Easybeats Varese Sarabande 2003 I never need anybody to show me the way to St. Louis.
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| 8:05 AM |
| Rod Stewart Only a Hobo Gasoline Alley Mercury 1970 The definitive version of this Bob Dylan song right here.
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| 8:09 AM |
| Captain Beefheart Lick My Decals Off, Baby Lick My Decals Off, Baby Reprise 1970 I remember very clearly the glorious day I picked this album up in the cut-out bins at Peaches.
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| 8:12 AM |
| John Lennon Slippin' and Slidin' Rock 'N' Roll CAPITOL 1975 Rompin' Little Richard cover.
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| 8:15 AM |
| The Sweet No You Don't Sweet Fanny Adams RCA 1974 Big ol' heavy pop/rock song!
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| 8:20 AM |
| AC/DC Live Wire High Voltage Atlantic 1976 This is how to properly rock!
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| 8:26 AM |
| Nick Lowe American Squirm Labor of Lust Yep Roc 1978 That's Elvis Costello on backing vocals here.
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| 8:28 AM |
| The Blasters Barefoot Rock Non Fiction Warner Brothers. 1983 Blistering cover of the Junior Parker cut.
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| 8:32 AM |
| The Teardrop Explodes Passionate Friend Wilder Mercury 1981 Those first two Teardrop Explodes records hold up really well.
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| 8:36 AM |
| Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians Bass Element of Light Glass Fish 1986 That's bass like the fish, not bass like the instrument.
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| 8:39 AM |
| Continental Drifters Here I Am N Drifted: In the Beginning & Beyond Omnivore 2015 Recorded in 1992, as far as I know, not released until now.
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| 8:42 AM |
| The Delgados Accused of Stealing The Great Eastern Beggars Banquet 2000 One of the best songs of the last 20 years, for sure.
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| 8:50 AM |
| The Blind Eyes January Modernity Blind Eyes Much missed St. Louis band with so many catchy songs.
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| 8:54 AM |
| Robert Randolph & The Family Band Amped Up Lickety Split Blue Note 2013 This is some definitely amped up stuff.
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| 9:01 AM |
| Camerado Sleepyheads Camerado Undertow 2014 Great song from Mark Ray's fab band.
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| 9:05 AM |
| Heartless Bastards Into the Light N Restless Ones Partisan 2015 Intriguing song from this band which is full of surprises.
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| 9:09 AM |
| Brothers Lazaroff Mary L N Day and Night self-released 2015 Fantastic new song from this talented St. Louis band.
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| 9:13 AM |
| Dungen Allas Sak N Allas Sak Mexican Summer 2015 Swedish band that sounds like no other on earth.
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| 9:18 AM |
| Joshua Redman & The Bad Plus Dirty Blonde N The Bad Plus Joshua Redman Nonesuch 2015 This collaboration brings out interesting facets in each component. I like it.
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| 9:23 AM |
| Lizz Wright Lean In N Freedom & Surrender Concord 2015 Wright is more and more becoming one of my favorite singers with every time I hear anything from this new album.
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| 9:30 AM |
| Amy Helm Roll the Stone N Didn't It Rain eOne Music/Woodstock 2015 I like that odd banjo roll under her beautiful vocals here.
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| 9:34 AM |
| Eleni Mandell Town Called Heartache N Dark Lights Up Yep Roc 2015 She's got a nice way with a metaphor.
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| 9:37 AM |
| Craig Finn Maggie I've Been Searching For Our Son N Faith in the Future Partisan 2015 I had no expectations for Finn's solo records, but I like hearing him in different musical contexts.
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| 9:41 AM |
| Jimbo Mathus Shoot Out the Lights N Blue Healer Fat Possum 2015 Jimbo keeps delivering solid rock'n'roll.
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| 9:45 AM |
| The Bottle Rockets I Don't Wanna Know L N South Broadway Athletic Club Bloodshot Records 2015 One of the finest records released this year, I think.
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| 9:48 AM |
| Los Lobos Mis-Treater Boogie Blues N Gates of Gold 429 Rcds. 2015 It boggles the mind that a band like this, which has been consistently excellent and occasionally sublime for 35 years could get such little support in the fan vote for the R&R Hall of Fame.
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| 9:51 AM |
| Kevin Gordon Immigrant N Long Gone Time self 2015 Kevin Gordon makes great records, and not enough people know about him - he's such a sharp lyricist, and he delivers the words in convincing fashion.
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