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Sound Salvation
Aug 30, 2019 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 |
| Rhiannon Giddens Wayfaring Stranger (with Francesco Turrisi) N there is no Other (with Francesco Turrisi) Nonesuch 2019 Such a wonderful vocalist on this old, old song.
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7:05 AM |
| Steve Gunn Chance The Unseen In Between Matador 2018 He used to play in Kurt Vile's band, but his own material is way better than that would imply.
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7:09 AM |
| Prefab Sprout Jordan: The Comeback Jordan: The Comeback Epic 1990 A great song that has nothing to do with Michael Jordan - he was too young at the time to have a comeback.
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7:13 AM |
| Lucy Wainwright Roche & Suzzy Roche Rhythm of the Rain Mud & Apples Bunny Records 2016 Daughter and mother sing a beautiful version of a song from when mother was very young.
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7:16 AM |
| Johnny Thunders You Can't Put Your Arms Round a Memory So Alone Rhino/Warner Records 1978 Punk rocker with a romantic heart!
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7:21 AM |
| Fleetwood Mac Silver Heels Heroes Are Hard To Find Rhino/Warner Records 1974 An article on Consequence of Sound once called this the worst Fleetwood Mac song ever - I think it's fun and sweet.
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7:25 AM |
| Andrew Bird Sisyphus N My Finest Work Yet Loma Vista Recordings 2019 Typically playful lyrics playing with the myth of rolling that rock up the hill for eternity, and a cool tune to boot.
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7:29 AM |
| Sade Be That Easy Soldier of Love RCA Records Label 2010 Has she done a record since this one? It was virtually ignored, but I liked it quite a bit.
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7:33 AM |
| John Lennon One Day (At a Time) Mind Games UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2010 Very deep cut from this 1973 album.
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7:36 AM |
| Brian Andrew Marek Big City Dreams L N Modern Variety Rubberstamp Records 2019 How many people in the world have written and recorded as many terrific songs as Marek has these past 20 years or so?
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7:41 AM |
| Roky Erickson & The Aliens Stand For The Fire Demon The Evil One Sympathy For The Record Industry 1980 Roky's demons led to some pretty entertaining horror-rock!
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7:46 AM |
| The Clash Guns on the Roof Give 'Em Enough Rope Sony Music UK 2013 This was my first Clash album, and as a result, I love it more than most do.
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7:50 AM |
| Bad Brains The Regulator Bad Brains ROIR 1982 Nobody played hardcore punk better.
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7:51 AM |
| Minutemen Nothing Indeed Double Nickels On the Dime SST 1984 No band was ever more full of life on stage!
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7:53 AM |
| Iggy Pop We Are the People N Free Caroline International (License External) 2019 This new album isn't like anything he's ever done - he's doing poems over soundscapes.
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7:56 AM |
| The Remains Time of Day The Remains Epic/Legacy 1965 Back when I first got into punk and New Wave, I was also buying up reissues of classics from the sixties - this was one of the best.
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8:01 AM |
| Jimmy Smith Sugar Hill Home Cookin' SINETONE AMR 2010 Kenny Burrell steals the show on this 1960 classic.
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8:06 AM |
| Count Basie When the Sun Goes Down The Complete Decca Recordings Verve Reissues 1992 A 1939 little swinger that features Basie's piano.
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8:09 AM |
| Menahan Street Band Seven Is the Wind The Crossing Daptone Records 2012 One of the finest of the retro-soul instrumental bands.
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8:14 AM |
| Esperanza Spalding Thang (Hips) N 12 Little Spells (Deluxe Edition) Concord Records 2019 Definitely one of my fave records so far in 2019 at the 2/3 mark.
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8:20 AM |
| Gary Clark Jr. Don't Wait Til Tomorrow N This Land Warner Records 2019 My candidate for most unexpectedly terrific album this year.
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8:24 AM |
| Marvin Gaye Checking Out (Double Clutch) You're the Man UNI/MOTOWN 2019 Marvin was doing all sorts of different things back in the What's Going On era.
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8:30 AM |
| Sly & The Family Stone Time There's a Riot Goin' On Epic 1971 Sly invented whole new worlds on this record when he played and sang almost all the parts himself.
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8:33 AM |
| Al Green Take Me to the River Explores Your Mind Demon 1999 For a while there in the 70s, it seemed as though everybody wanted to record this wondrous song.
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8:36 AM |
| Bedouine Bird Gone Wild N Bird Songs of a Killjoy Spacebomb Records LLC 2019 She's opening for Jose Gonzalez at the Pageant tonight, and doing an in-store at Vintage Vinyl at 6 pm.
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8:42 AM |
| T-Bone Burnett Boomerang Truth Decay Takoma 1980 You can hear the effect of his playing with Bob Dylan a few years before this was recorded.
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8:46 AM |
| Nils Lofgren Attitude City N Blue with Lou CATTLE TRACK ROAD RECORDS 2019 The old skills never go away. This is probably Nils' best records in ages.
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8:51 AM |
| Fairport Convention Poor Will & the Jolly Hangman Full House Island 1970 The Thompson/Swarbrick/Pegg/Nicol/Mattacks version of the band may have been their peak of many peaks.
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9:00 AM |
| Jefferson Starship Fast Buck Freddie Red Octopus Rhino 1975 The most Airplane like Starship song.
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9:03 AM |
| The B-52's Devil In My Car Wild Planet Island Records 2015 Let's dance!
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9:08 AM |
| The Rotations Heavies Cowabunga! The Surf Box Rhino 1996 Surfing with sound effects.
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9:10 AM |
| ZZ Top Poke Chop Sandwich XXX RCA 1999 There is so much fun to be had with ZZ Top these past 25 years, after the hits dried up.
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9:15 AM |
| Santana Breaking Down The Door (feat. Buika) N Africa Speaks Concord Records 2019 Another of my fave albums so far this year.
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9:21 AM |
| Lee Fields & The Expressions Blessed with the Best N It Rains Love Big Crown Records 2019 I do love the way he sings.
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9:24 AM |
| Diplomats of Solid Sound Good to Do N A Higher Place Pravda 2019 This is one rock solid band working in a soul revival style that doesn't ape what so many others are doing.
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9:27 AM |
| The Supremes My World Is Empty Without You The Ultimate Collection Motown 2016 One of their many masterpieces.
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9:30 AM |
| Dengue Fever Cannibal Courtship Cannibal Courtship Concord Records, Inc. 2011 Recently, I played a song of theirs sung by the guy in the band; this time it's the woman who sings most of them.
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9:35 AM |
| Spectator The Only One L N Charlie, Baby Nordic Records Int. 2019 Impressive new record from this St. Louis band.
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9:41 AM |
| Public Image Ltd. Disappointed 9 (Remastered) Virgin Catalogue 2011 A record from 30 years ago I'd completely overlooked.
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9:48 AM |
| Bonerama Misty Mountain Hop N Bonerama Plays Zeppelin Basin Street 2019 I am completely in favor of any trombone versions of Led Zeppelin songs.
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9:53 AM |
| Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert Not the Time N When the Sun Goes Down Dead Reckoning Records 2019 I had lost track of Kane some 25 years ago - nice to know he's still making good music.
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