Sound Salvation (Music)
With Steve Pick
Fri Oct 14th 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
6:59am | Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane “Heart to Hang Onto” from Gold (Hip-O 2005) —It's membership drive, so I will be brief - what a gorgeous song!Buy it! |
7:05am | Todd Rundgren “A Long Time, A Long Way to Go” from Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren (Rhino 1971) —Not Laura Nyro but an incredible simulation.Buy it! |
7:07am | Lee Michaels “Streetcar” from Carnival of Life (One Way 1968) —An early one from Mr. Michaels, including a guitarist.Buy it! |
7:11am | John Wesley Harding “Sing Your Own Song” from The Sound of His Own Voice (Yep Roc 2011) N —Good advice.Buy it! |
7:14am | The Bangles “Anna Lee (Sweetheart Of The Sun)” from Sweetheart of the Sun (Model Music Group 2011) N —Pop perfection!Buy it! |
7:18am | Bram Tchaikovsky “Girl of My Dreams” from Strange Man, Changed Man (Hip-O 1979)Buy it! |
7:22am | Little Big Town “Runaway Train” from The Reason Why (CAPITOL NASHVILLE 2010) —Fleetwood Mac in Nashville.Buy it! |
7:26am | Martina McBride “You Can Get Your Lovin' Right Here” from Eleven (Universal Republic 2011) N —Brand new and great!Buy it! |
7:40am | Martha Wainwright “I Am Woman” from Song of America (31 Tigers 2007) —I like this idiosyncratic approach to a song I hadn't thought of for decades.Buy it! |
7:44am | Shelby Lynne “I'll Hold Your Head” from Revelation Road (Everso 2011) N —A toe-tapper about Shelby and little sister Allison cowering while her parents were fighting.Buy it! |
7:50am | Alejandro Escovedo “Fall Apart With You” from Street Songs of Love CD ALBUM (Fantasy 2010) —A quiet little gem.Buy it! |
7:55am | Wilco “Sunloathe” from The Whole Love (Anti- 2011) N —Another little quiet one.Buy it! |
8:05am | The Creation “Nightmares” from Complete Collection Vol. 1 Making Time (Sin-Drome 1998) —La la la la la la. That's an actual quote.Buy it! |
8:08am | Britney Spears “Toxic” from In the Zone (Jive 2003) —Everybody dance!Buy it! |
8:12am | Lou Reed “Vicious” from Transformer (RCA 1972) —Bonus cowbell.Buy it! |
8:19am | Joan Armatrading “There Ain't a Girl Alive” from Into the Blues CD ALBUM (429 2007) —A rockin' cowbell!Buy it! |
8:23am | Marvin Gaye “Stubborn Kind of Fellow” from Anthology (Motown 1995) —Which Funk Brother rocked the cowbell?Buy it! |
8:26am | JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound “Want More” (Bloodshot www.bloodshotrecords.com 2011) N —This is a great song! And with cowbell.Buy it! |
8:29am | The O'Jays “992 Arguments” from Back Stabbers (Philadelphia International 1972) —One of the greatest soul album cuts of all time.Buy it! |
8:35am | Raphael Saadiq “Radio” from Stone Rollin' (Columbia 2011) N —Rockin' soul from a veteran of the 90s thinking about the 60s.Buy it! |
8:46am | Phil Judd “Dictionary of Love” from Other Love: Split Enz and Beyond (Raven 1997) —So many great songs from Phil Judd and I'm always happy to learn them.Buy it! |
8:50am | Lindsey Buckingham “In Our Own Time” from Seeds We Sow (Buckingham 2011) —Lovely new tune.Buy it! |
8:54am | Rocket From the Tombs “Sister Love Train” from Barfly (FIRE 2011) N —David Thomas of Pere Ubu and the great Richard Lloyd on guitar.Buy it! |
8:58am | Dead Kennedys “California Uber Alles” from Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables VINYL ALBUM (Alternative Tentacles 1980) —The song may not make sense lyrically any more, but it does still kick some butt.Buy it! |
9:01am | Manfred Mann “Do Wah Diddy Diddy” from Best of Manfred Mann: The Definitive Collection (EMI 1992) —A song I first learned from Bill Murray in Stripes.Buy it! |
9:03am | Johnny Kidd & The Pirates “Casting My Spell” from The Very Best of Johnny Kidd & the Pirates (EMI 2008) —One of Pete Townshend's favorite guitarists.Buy it! |
9:06am | Nancy Sinatra “These Boots are Made For Walking” from Boots (Reprise 1966) —Well, you know this one.Buy it! |
9:17am | Nick Lowe “Sensitive Man” from The Old Magic (Yep Roc 2011) N —A sweet little song.Buy it! |
9:20am | Matthew Sweet “Oh, Oldendaze!” from Modern Art (Missing Piece 2011) —A little song from Sweet. He's in town tomorrow night at the Duck Room.Buy it! |
9:29am | The Feelies “The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness” from Crazy Rhythms (A&M 1979) —He never helps out in the yard.Buy it! |
9:30am | Joe Henry “Odetta” from Reverie (Anti 2011) N —Sublime.Buy it! |
9:43am | Bill Frisell “Nowhere Man” from All We Are Saying (Savoy 2011) N —Exquisite take on the Beatles song.Buy it! |
9:48am | Levon Helm “You'll Never Again Be Mine” from The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams (Egyptian / CMF / Columbia 2011) N —Levon Helm takes some old Hank Williams lyrics and turns them into something gorgeous.Buy it! |
9:51am | Merle Haggard “Laugh It Off” from Working in Tennessee (Vanguard vanguardrecords.com 2011) N —If you find yourself in lockup, write a song about a jail.Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.