Sound Salvation (Music)
With Steve Pick
Fri Sep 28th 2012 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
7:01am | David Byrne & St. Vincent “Who” from Love This Giant (4AD 2012) N —These guys sound invigorated working together - and I love the sound of this cut, the baritone sax, the crazy samples, the pounding beat.Buy it! |
7:05am | Orquesta Aragon “El Enfermo” from The Heart of Havana Vol. 1 (RCA 1992) —Chippy and chirpy and elegant.Buy it! |
7:08am | Gene Chandler “Duke of Earl” from The Best of Gene Chandler: The Duke of Earl (Collectables www.oldies.com 2000) —When I was growing up, and on into my 20s, you could hear this song all the time. Nowadays, it seems to have fallen into obscurity. That ain't right.Buy it! |
7:10am | Freddie Scott “Are You Lonely For Me Baby” from Lost Soul (Legacy 1994) —One of the finest soul singers nobody ever talks about.Buy it! |
7:13am | Solomon Burke “Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms)” from Home In Your Heart: The Best of Solomon Burke (Rhino 1992) —Are the arms open or empty? There seems to be a disagreement on the internet, though they are definitely empty in the song itself.Buy it! |
7:18am | J.D. McPherson “Scandalous” from Signs and Signifiers (Rounder 2012) N —You'd think they don't write 'em like this anymore, but here it is.Buy it! |
7:20am | Shirley & Lee “I Want to Dance” from The Legendary Masters Series, Vol. 1 (EMI 1990) —Ah, Shirley - nobody else ever sounded like her.Buy it! |
7:23am | Jerry Lee Lewis “Cool Cool Ways” from Wild One: Rare Tracks (Rhino 1989) —The Killer! 'Nuff said.Buy it! |
7:25am | Dwight Yoakam “Missing Heart” from 3 Pears (Warner Brothers 2012) N —Dwight Yoakam simply doesn't know how to make a bad record.Buy it! |
7:32am | Conway Twitty “Somebody's Needin' Somebody” from Love Songs (Collectables www.oldies.com 2006) —How to make all those pronouns seem specific.Buy it! |
7:36am | Lefty Frizell “My Baby's Just Like Money” from Hillbilly Boogie (Columbia Legacy 1994) —Money goes from hand to hand and your baby goes from man to man. Oops.Buy it! |
7:38am | George Jones & Tammy Wynette “Golden Ring” (Razor & Tie 1976) —Country music royalty right here.Buy it! |
7:41am | The Time Jumpers “New Star Over Texas” from The Time Jumpers (Rounder 2012) N —Nashville studio players get together with Vince Gill and have themselves a Western Swing kind oftime.Buy it! |
7:46am | Ray Wylie Hubbard “Mother Blues” from The Grifter's Hymnal (Bordello 2012) N —Be careful of the things you wish for. You might get 'em. Brilliant, brilliant song.Buy it! |
7:52am | Imelda May “All For You” from Mayhem (Decca 2011) —My fave young vocalist of the past couple years. Love her stuff.Buy it! |
7:55am | James Carr “The Dark End of the Street” from The Essential James Carr (Razor & Tie 1995) —The greatest of all cheating songs - and that's saying something.Buy it! |
8:02am | John Hiatt “We're Alright Now” from Mystic Pinball (New West 2012) N —Yup, it's a new record from Mr. Hiatt, and it's got some great songs and some merely good ones, just like most of his records.Buy it! |
8:06am | Paul Simon “Congratulations” from Paul Simon (Columbia 1972) —40 years ago? Wha'?Buy it! |
8:10am | Rufus Wainwright “One Man Guy” from Poses (DreamWorks 2001) —Rufus sings his daddy's song.Buy it! |
8:15am | Chick Corea & Gary Burton “Eleanor Rigby” from Hot House (Concord Jazz 2012) N —Exquisite piano and vibes take on a familiar song.Buy it! |
8:22am | Bee Gees “Love You Inside Out” from Spirits Having Flown (Reprise 1979) —A great song I've only recently discovered - I guess this wasn't as ubiquitous as their other hits of the time.Buy it! |
8:26am | Michael Kiwanuka “Rest” from Home Again (Interscope 2012) N —Sweet and soulful, almost country soul.Buy it! |
8:31am | Richard Thompson “The End of the Rainbow” from Live at the BBC (Universal 2011) —The world's bleakest song.Buy it! |
8:35am | Tom Verlaine “True Story” from Words From the Front (Collector's Choice 1982) —This remarkable album just keeps haunting me after 30 years - Verlaine wrote the songs based on letters from soldiers fighting in WWI.Buy it! |
8:41am | City Squirrel “Seeking Out Approval” from Defeat (Red Pill 2012) N —St. Louis expatriate Stephan Bayley writes and sings great songs.Buy it! |
8:44am | Ann Wilson “Get Together” from Hope & Glory (Zoe www.thehip.com 2007) —Stunning cover of a song that one would never think needed to be heard again - I love when somebody can find nuance in songs I didn't think had any left.Buy it! |
8:48am | Iris DeMent “Go On Ahead and Go Home” from Sing the Delta (Flariella 2012) N —You can hear the whole album streaming at kdhx.org - I was floored the other day when I listened. It's released next Tuesday, Oct. 2.Buy it! |
8:52am | Jon Brion “Ruin My Day” from Meaningless (self 2001) —You've heard his work as a producer, but you may have overlooked his very fine original music.Buy it! |
8:56am | Meat Puppets “Electromud” from Meat Puppets (Ryko 1982) —Because I get frisky now and then.Buy it! |
9:01am | Redd Kross “Dracula's Daughter” from Researching the Blues (Merge 2012) N —I think this one sounds like a Blind Eyes song. That's a compliment to both bands.Buy it! |
9:04am | MC5 “Back in the USA” from Back In the USA (Rhino 1970) —One of my all-time favorite Chuck Berry covers.Buy it! |
9:06am | The Hives “Go Right Ahead” from Lex Hives (Disques Hives 2012) N —The Hives make me so happy.Buy it! |
9:09am | Iggy Pop “Butt Town” from Brick By Brick MP3/FILE ALBUM (Virgin 1990) —This was the last Iggy album I felt like playing more than once or twice. Still like it a lot.Buy it! |
9:15am | Dr. John “Ice Age” from Locked Down (Nonesuch 2012) N —This one sucks me into that deep groove every time I hear it.Buy it! |
9:19am | Johnny Osbourne “Jah Promise” from Truths and Rights (Heartbeat 1992) —Just feel that bass, and that falsetto harmony, and the lovely tuneful crooning of Mr. Osbourne.Buy it! |
9:23am | Gonzaguinha “Tanacara” from Brazil Classics: Beleza Tropical Vol. 2 (Luaka Bop 1998) —Whatever happened to that worldbeat NPR show that used this as the theme song?Buy it! |
9:27am | Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir “Stani Mi, Maytcho (Get Up My Daughter)” from Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, Vol. 2 (Nonesuch 1988) —I've said it before and I'll say it again - quite possibly the most beautiful music on the planet.Buy it! |
9:32am | Bert Jansch “On the Edge of a Dream” from Edge of a Dream (Sanctuary 2002) —A late career record wherein Jansch just has a great time delivering songs, here in a rock band context.Buy it! |
9:35am | Slade “Get On Up” from Slade Alive Vol. 2 (Universal 1978) —This was a rock band, my friends.Buy it! |
9:41am | Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Southern Pacific” from Re-ac-tor (Reprise 1980) —In the week that I listened to Americana closely and really fell in love with it, I'm being as perverse as Neil Young, and playing a song from 30+ years ago on the radio.Buy it! |
9:46am | Buffalo Killers “Blood On Your Hands” from Dig. Sow. Love. Grow. (Alive 2012) N —Other than Cat and me, are no KDHX djs enjoying these guys?Buy it! |
9:49am | Matthew Sweet “Room to Rock” from Sunshine Lies (Shout! Factory 2008) —Boy, Matthew sounds like Tom Petty on this one.Buy it! |
9:53am | Chicago “What Else Can I Say” from Chicago III (Rhino 1971) —Those early albums by Chicago were so damn good - what the heck happened to them?Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.