Sound Salvation (Music)
With Steve Pick
Fri Jun 17th 2011 7.00am–10.00am
R=listener request. N=music new at the station. L=local music. Your purchases using the Buy it! links
Time zone: central
7:00am | Keith Richards “Eileen” from Main Offender (Virgin 1992) —Keith threw a lot of really good songs - and some really good guitar riffs - into those two solo albums. Not exactly a vocal treasure, but spirited, to be sure.Buy it! |
7:04am | Paul McCartney “Coming Up” from McCartney II (CAPITOL 2011) N —I bought this 45 back in the day - played it a zillion times. McCartney disco is crazy! This and "Funky Town" were my fave raves at the same time.Buy it! |
7:08am | Elvis Costello “National Ransom” (Hear Music 2010) —He'll be at the Pageant on July 1. I'll be at the Pageant on July 1. Which one of us will sing?Buy it! |
7:14am | Sloan “Follow the Leader” from The Double Cross (Yep Roc 2011) N —These guys put together some utterly infectious songs.Buy it! |
7:17am | Booker T. Jones “Progress” from The Road From Memphis (Anti 2011) N —I don't think Jim James sings this quite as soulfully as it deserves, but this song really gets under my skin every time I hear it.Buy it! |
7:20am | Liam Finn “Cold Feet” from Fomo (Yep Roc 2011) N —Probably my fave song after early listens to the new album, which comes out this Tuesday.Buy it! |
7:25am | Eilen Jewell “Queen of the Minor Key” (Signature Sounds Recording Company 2011) N —A spectacularly effective rockabilly number.Buy it! |
7:27am | Dave Alvin “Manzanita” from Eleven Eleven (Yep Roc 2011) —A lovely duet with the great Christy McWilson. Dave Alvin will be at Off Broadway on July 7.Buy it! |
7:33am | Over the Rhine “The Laugh of Recognition” from The Long Surrender (GSD 2011) N —I am still enamored with the mysteriously intoxicating sound of this record,.Buy it! |
7:37am | Solomon Burke “I Gotta Be With You” from Hold On Tight (Universal 2011) N —The final record from one of America's greatest singers was a fitting legacy for this giant of soul.Buy it! |
7:43am | Isaac Hayes “Something” from Stax Does the Beatles (stax 2008) —Originally from the Issac Hayes Movement album, yet another stunning example of the orchestrated brilliance of the man's records for a couple years there.Buy it! |
7:53am | Marianne Faithfull “Goin' Back” from Horses And High Heels (Naive 2010) N —Goffin and King and Marianne Faithfull - gorgeous!Buy it! |
8:03am | Pelvic Girdles “Longest Thing” from Sad Hammer (self 2011) N L —A nicely moody little number from this St. Louis trio.Buy it! |
8:08am | Magazie “The Light Pours Out of Me” from Where the Power Is (Virgin 2011) N —Picking 16 songs to represent the career of Magazine, who made 5 albums (4 studio, 1 live), most of which were perfect, just means you're leaving stuff off. But it also means there's Magazine on the shelves at the radio station!Buy it! |
8:12am | The Jans Project “Torn Between” from The Jans Project (Jans Project 2011) N L —This song just makes me happy. I haven't paid any attention to the words, thoujgh - I don't know if he's as happy as I am.Buy it! |
8:17am | Spirit “Fresh Garbage” from Spirit (Epic 1969) —They couldn't have made this groove without the cowbell.Buy it! |
8:20am | Bruce Springsteen “Seaside Bar Song” from TRACKS (Columbia 1998) —Bruce tried to match the punk rock energy thing, and he needed a cowbell to fuel it.Buy it! |
8:24am | Paul Revere & The Raiders “Good Thing” from The Essential Paul Revere & the Raiders (Legacy 2011) N —These guys sound better and better with each passing year after they made these records.Buy it! |
8:27am | The Coasters “Down in Mexico” from The Very Best of The Coasters (Rhino 1993) —Carl Gardner, lead singer of this fabulous vocal group, passed away the other day - I regret I didn't have time to scope out more than one track to pay tribute.Buy it! |
8:33am | Fairport Convention “Who Knows Where the Time Goes” from Ebbets Field 1974 (It's About Music 2011) N —Sandy Denny's voice - nuff said.Buy it! |
8:40am | Paul Simon “Dazzling Blue” from So Beautiful or So What (Universal 2011) N —The cat scan's eye sees what the heart's concealing. Wow.Buy it! |
8:46am | Dengue Fever “Family Business” from Cannibal Courtship (Concord 2011) N —A bouncy little number indicting heavy arms dealers.Buy it! |
8:48am | Raphael Saadiq “Just Don't” from Stone Rollin' (Columbia 2011) N —Saadiq is taking soul revivalism into the future.Buy it! |
8:53am | Pat Metheny “Betcha By Golly Wow” from What's It All About (Nonesuch 2011) N —You probably didn't know you wanted to hear a stunningly beautiful version of the Stylistics classic played on solo baritone guitar. That's what I'm here for, to give you what you didn't know.Buy it! |
9:03am | Buddy Miller's Majestic Silver Strings “Freight Train” from Buddy Miller's Majestic Silver Strings (New West 2011) N —Frisell, Ribot, Miller, Leisz. Damn!Buy it! |
9:06am | Robert Plant “Silver Rider” from Band Of Joy (Rounder 2010) —My goddam ear wax problem forced me to miss the Robert Plant concert the other night - my goodness, what a band he has!Buy it! |
9:12am | Kate & Anna McGarrigle “Naufragee du Tendre” from Tell My Sister (Nonesuch 2011) N —A beautiful song in French that was so much fun to play back when I was acting as a guitar player.Buy it! |
9:17am | April Smith “Terrible Things” from Songs For a Sinking Ship (April Smith 2010) —I know nothing about her but she writes great songs.Buy it! |
9:20am | Brothers Lazaroff “What Are You Telling Me?” from Give 'Em What They Need (self-released 2010) L —These guys are opening for Charles Walker & the Dynamites tonight at Off Broadway - get there early, they are terrific.Buy it! |
9:23am | Ha Ha Tonka “Dead Man's Hand” from Death of a Decade (Bloodshot www.bloodshotrecords.com 2011) N —A gentle, mellow but stern number.Buy it! |
9:26am | Aurelio “Yange” from Laru Beya (Real World Records 2010) —Gorgeous music from Honduras.Buy it! |
9:34am | Sarah Jarosz “My Muse” from Follow Me Down (SUGAR HILL www.sugarhillrecords.com 2011) N —Everything I've heard from this record is exquisite.Buy it! |
9:38am | Teddy Thompson “Tell Me What You Want” from Bella (Verve Forecast 2011) —Why can't Teddy Thompson sell more records?Buy it! |
9:42am | k.d. lang & The Siss Boom Bang “A Sleep With No Dreaming” from Sing It Loud (Nonesuch 2011) N —One of my all-time fave singers.Buy it! |
9:46am | Steve Earle “Meet Me in the Alleyway” from I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (New West 2011) N —A compelling song, even if the effects on the vocal make it hard to understand him.Buy it! |
9:50am | Joe Ely “You Can Bet I'm Gone” from Satisfied at Last (Rack 'Em 2011) N —It's no surprise I'm digging the new Joe Ely record - the man is consistently good.Buy it! |
9:53am | Rum Drum Ramblers “Gonna Haunt You” from Mean Scene (self-released 2011) N L —That banshee howling at the opening is scary, and then the song is pure pleasure.Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.