Sound Salvation (Music)
With Steve Pick
Fri Feb 22nd 2013 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
6:59am | Tegan and Sara “Love They Say” from Heartthrob (Warner Brothers 2013) N —I was caught completely by surprise when these long-time indie guitar strummers turned into synth popmeisters. This album is pure pleasure.Buy it! |
7:03am | Free Energy “Hey Tonight” from Love Sign (Free Energy 2013) N —I'm continuing to dig this new record - always nice to hear a young band with some melodic gifts and a rock'n'roll drive.Buy it! |
7:06am | Garland Jeffreys “Rock and Roll Music” from The King of In Between (Big Lake 2012) —There's nothing like rock and roll music, is there?Buy it! |
7:09am | The Animals “Gonna Send You Back to Walker” from The Singles Plus (BR 1994) —Perfect combination of musicians - just love the way the guitar, bass, and keyboards work here.Buy it! |
7:12am | The Blues Magoos “She's Coming Home” from Kaleidoscopic Compendium: The Best of the Blues Magoos (Mercury 1992) —One of the best songs about infidelity I know - that sexy grinding rhythm lets us know how the singer wants them both.Buy it! |
7:17am | The Kinks “Sitting In My Hotel” from Everybody's In Show-Biz (Velvel 1972) —The Kinks will undoubtedly get an uptick in airplay as we get ready for the big Kinks tribute benefit for KDHX Mar. 30 at Off Broadway.Buy it! |
7:21am | David Olney “Postcard From Mexico” from One Tough Town (Red Parlor 2007) —It's always nice to be reminded just how great this guy is.Buy it! |
7:24am | Ray Davies “The Voodoo Walk” from Working Man's Cafe (V2 2007) —I wonder if Ray Davies solo material will be included in the Kinks tribute. Of course, there are a couple hundred great songs to consider.Buy it! |
7:30am | Jimbo Mathus & the Tri-State Coalition “Run Devil Run” from White Buffalo (Fat Possum 2013) N —Nice and spooky and swampy.Buy it! |
7:34am | The Incurables “Famous Last Words” from The Fine Art Of Distilling (self 2012) N —Ah, Jimmy Griffin! Is there anything this guy can't do? What a killer pop song!Buy it! |
7:37am | Neil Young “Little Wing” from Hearts and Doves (Reprise 1980) —Sweet little song from Neil.Buy it! |
7:40am | Danny Barnes “Overdue” from Pizza Box (ATO 2009) —Former Bad Livers front-man has done alright as a solo artist.Buy it! |
7:45am | Punch Brothers “Soon Or Never” from Who's Feeling Young Now? (Nonesuch 2012) —One terrific song from one of the world's most creative contemporary groups.Buy it! |
7:49am | John Hiatt “I Know How to Lose You” from Mystic Pinball (New West 2012) N —A sad tale, a beautiful tune.Buy it! |
7:53am | Jesse Colter “You Can Pick 'Em” from Out of the Ashes (Shout! Factory 2006) —It's nearly 7 years since this delightful album appeared - does she have another one in her? I'd love to hear more.Buy it! |
8:01am | Tim Lee 3 “Devil's Rope” (Cool Dog Sound 2013) N —Screw the Black Keys! This is what they've been trying to achieve! Love this cut!Buy it! |
8:05am | Melody Den “Storylines” (Perdition 2013) N L —My dream is to see a Tim Lee 3 / Melody Den show this year.Buy it! |
8:08am | The Slide Brothers “Don't Keep Me Wonderin'” from Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers (Concord Records 2013) N —If one sacredl steel player is good, four must be spectacular. This Allman Brothers cover sure is.Buy it! |
8:13am | Cash Box Kings “Black Toppin'” (blind pig blindpigrecords.com 2013) N —Killer Chicago blues stylin' here.Buy it! |
8:19am | Aretha Franklin “I Need a Strong Man (The To-To Song)” from Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul (Rhino 2007) —Aretha could do no wrong back in those days - listen to her soar on this cut.Buy it! |
8:23am | Petula Clark “Happy Heart” from The Ultimate Petula Clark (BMG Heritage 2003) —This song keeps reminding me of something else, but I can't quite put my finger on what it is.Buy it! |
8:26am | Simone “To Voltando” from The EMI Years (Blue Note 1997) —Great Brazilian music - I used to actually know her place in the Brazilian pantheon, but my world music knowledge continues to slip away.Buy it! |
8:33am | Miles Davis “Bitches Brew” from Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 2 (Columbia 2013) N —Stunning live version!Buy it! |
8:48am | Graham Central Station “My Radio Sure Sounds Good To Me” from The Jam: Anthology (Rhino 2001) —Should be the theme song of this station, right?Buy it! |
8:52am | Little Esther “Mainliner” from I Paid My Dues (Proper unk 2006) —Let me be your sidetrack baby til your mainline comes along.Buy it! |
8:54am | Ted Taylor “You Must Have Been Meant For Me” from Greatest Hits (Collectables www.oldies.com 1995) —Man, I love this guy and his falsetto.Buy it! |
9:02am | Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell “Back When We Were Beautiful” from Old Yellow Moon (Nonesuch 2013) N —This song, written by Matraca Berg, just may be the most devastatingly gut-wrenching thing I've heard in ages.Buy it! |
9:06am | Richard Thompson “Simple Again” from Live at the BBC (Universal 2011) —Speaking of gut-wrenching.Buy it! |
9:09am | Richard Thompson “Straight and Narrow” from Electric (New West 2013) N —Figured we needed Richard to rock out a bit after those two songs back to back.Buy it! |
9:15am | Brandy Johnson “Wooden Wheels” from Worried Well (self 2003) —St. Louis singer/songwriter with lots of talent who seems to have dropped out of the game.Buy it! |
9:19am | One Direction “Tell Me a Lie” from Up All Night (Sony 2011) —Kelly Clarkson writes great songs - One Direction rocks this one.Buy it! |
9:22am | Love “My Little Red Book” from Love (Elektra 1966) —You gotta love a good pop/rock number.Buy it! |
9:25am | Linton Kwesi Johnson “Inglan Is a Bitch” from Independant Intravenshan: The Island Anthology (Island 1998) —The combination of LKJ and Dennis Bovell was unbeatable.Buy it! |
9:32am | Dengue Fever “Tap Water” from Escape from Dragon House (BRG 2005) —What a magnificent sound these guys have!Buy it! |
9:36am | Punishment of Luxury “Puppet Life” from 1-2-3-4 Punk and New Wave 1976-1979 (Unknown 1999) —One of the stranger records from that burst of creative expression when all things seemed possible.Buy it! |
9:39am | Mott the Hoople “Ballad of Mott the Hoople” from Mott (Columbia 1973) —All bands should write a song about themselves at some point or another. But none will be better than this at it.Buy it! |
9:46am | Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison “Waterfall” from Cheater's Game (Thirty Tigers 2013) N —I just love her voice - glad to have something new from her, and the love between them comes out in their harmonies.Buy it! |
9:49am | Darden Smith “Bull By the Horns” from Marathon (Darden Music 2010) —One of the most underrated songwriters out there - the guy has never disappointed me in the 25 or more years since I discovered him when he opened for Rosanne Cash at Mississippi Nights.Buy it! |
9:52am | Carrie Rodriguez “I Cry For Love” from Give Me All You Got (Ninth Street Opus 2013) N —Cool version of her mentor Chip Taylor's song.Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.