Sound Salvation (Music)
With Steve Pick
Fri Nov 9th 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
7:02am | Bob Mould “Angels Rearrange” from Silver Age (Merge www.mergerecords.com 2012) —This is a classic Husker/Sugar-styled Mould record.Buy it! |
7:05am | The Feelies “Original Love” from Crazy Rhythms (A&M 1979) —Ah, that nervous energy!Buy it! |
7:08am | Emitt Rhodes “You Should Be Ashamed” from Listen, Listen: The Best of Emitt Rhodes (Varese 1995) —A true master of melody.Buy it! |
7:11am | The Sights “Bad Man” from Left Over Right (HRM 2011) —I guess I just don't understand how I'm made out to be the bad man when I'm just doing what I could. Is it no good?Buy it! |
7:14am | The Beatles “And Your Bird Can Sing” from Revolver ALBUM (CAPITOL 1966) —The single greatest record of all time.Buy it! |
7:17am | Levon Helm “Wide River to Cross” from Dirt Farmer (Vanguard vanguardrecords.com 2007) —Buddy & Julie Miller wrote this gem which is becoming a modern classic - no better version than this one, though.Buy it! |
7:22am | The Mastersons “I Don't Know” from Birds Fly South (New West 2012) N —That guitar lick ain't fancy, but it's insistent.Buy it! |
7:26am | Peter Wolf “I Don't Wanna Know” from Midnight Souvenirs (Verve 2010) —Allmusic says this is a betrayal song to dance to. I'll buy that.Buy it! |
7:31am | Webb Wilder “If You're Looking For a Fool” from Born To Be Wilder (blind pig blindpigrecords.com 2008) —One of the most reliably enjoyable roots rockers of the past 25 years.Buy it! |
7:34am | Aaron Griffin and Mojo Rising “Phone Booth” from Mojo Rising (AGMR 2012) N L —This 17-year-old St. Louis kid has no business playing guitar and singing this Robert Cray song with this much fire and imagination. Sure, his dad's been a fixture on the blues scene for years, but this is surprisingly great stuff.Buy it! |
7:41am | The Linemen “Dust and Despair” from Reconsider (self 2009) L —It was cool to see these guys reunite for the KDHX celebration a few weeks back.Buy it! |
7:47am | Court Yard Hounds “April's Love” from Court Yard Hounds CD ALBUM (Columbia 2010) —Just beautiful.Buy it! |
7:50am | The Everly Brothers “Empty Boxes” from Heartaches & Harmonies (Rhino 1994) —First sisters, then brothers. Sometimes this show just programs itself.Buy it! |
7:53am | Luke Ritchie “Off Your Guard” from The Water's Edge (MQZ Renewables 2011) —I owe Steve Carosello for introducing me to this tremendously talented singer/songwriter.Buy it! |
8:01am | Pet Shop Boys “Breathing Space” from Elysium (Astralwerks www.trojanrecords.com 2012) N —You can just float on the melody and the bed of gentle synth sounds.Buy it! |
8:06am | Benny Andersson Band “Story of a Heart” (Decca 2009) —This brilliant album snuck out three years ago, and I only just heard it about it a few weeks back. It's got a lot of different facets, including this song, which is quite possibly as great as anything he ever did in ABBA.Buy it! |
8:11am | Eleni Mandell “Two Faces” from Artificial Fire (Zedtone 2009) —Moody and intoxicating.Buy it! |
8:18am | John Lennon “Remember” from Gimme Some Truth (CAPITOL 2010) —Remember when you were young how the hero was never hung.Buy it! |
8:22am | The dB's “The Adventures of Albatross and Doggerel” from Falling Off the Sky (Bar/None 2012) N —One week from tomorrow at the Duck Room. You'll be very sorry if you miss this show.Buy it! |
8:29am | City Squirrel “Lori Blue” from Defeat (Red Pill 2012) —Beautiful song about a lovely person who left us way too soon.Buy it! |
8:35am | Wanda Jackson “California Stars” from Unfinished Business (SUGAR HILL www.sugarhillrecords.com 2012) N —I played this last week, but it's such a sweet version, I thought I'd share it with those of you who don't wake up earlier.Buy it! |
8:39am | Brothers Lazaroff “She Loves to Dance” from Science Won (self 2012) N L —Subconscious does it again - there's a line in here, "like watching stars collide," which undoubtedly made me play this after the previous song.Buy it! |
8:43am | Dan Bern “Haarlem” from Drifter (self 2012) N —One of our finest songwriters continues to toil in obscurity, but man, listen to this song.Buy it! |
8:46am | Dion “Statesboro Blues” from Bronx in Blue (Razor & Tie 2005) —A highly personal take on a song that's survived for decades.Buy it! |
8:47am | Robert Johnson “Stop Breakin' Down Blues” from The Complete Collection (Columbia 1990) —It'll make you lose your mind.Buy it! |
8:49am | Nathan James & the Rhythm Scratchers “Make It On Your Own” from What You Make of It (Delta Groove 2012) N —One of the coolest blues records I heard this year.Buy it! |
8:54am | Elmore James “Dark and Dreary” from The Best Of Elmore James: The Early Years (Ace 1995) —I love the Elmore James cuts with the saxophones.Buy it! |
9:01am | Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra “Sare Kon Kon” from Antibalas (Daptone 2012) N —Taking the Afrobeat style to new approaches.Buy it! |
9:09am | Charles Mingus “Fifty-First Street Blues” from East Coasting (Shout Factory 1957) —So many things to love here - the swing, the swagger, the tune, the solos.Buy it! |
9:16am | Brian Setzer “Drive Like Lightning (Crash Like Thunder) (Live)” from Rockabilly Riot! Live From the Planet (SURFDOG 2012) N —One of the world's best guitar players, and a heck of a vocalist. Man, this cut burns.Buy it! |
9:22am | The Mar-Kets “Surfer's Stomp” from Cowabunga! The Surf Box (Rhino 1996) —I'm sure it wasn't easy to be a teen back in the early 60s, but stuff like this makes it sound as though it was.Buy it! |
9:24am | Lesley Gore “Judy's Turn to Cry (Italian)” from Hits & Rarities 1964-1969 (Teensville 2011) —Pay close attention, and you can learn to speak Italian through pop song.Buy it! |
9:26am | The Sugarman 3 “Dirty Water” from What the World Needs Now (Daptone Records www.daptone.com 2012) N —Bet you never realized you needed a cool instrumental take on the Standells.Buy it! |
9:31am | RICK JAMES “Big Time” from Bustin' Out: The Very Best of Rick James (Motown 1994) —For a few years there, Rick James just churned out these effortlessly funky delights.Buy it! |
9:38am | Howard Tate “I'm Your Servant” from Get It While You Can - The Complete Legendary Verve Sessions (Hip-O 2004) —What a singer!Buy it! |
9:40am | True Gospel Wymics “Oh Yes That's Right” from Oxford American Arkansas Masters (Oxford American 2009) —What's a Wymic? Who knows, but this is a strong, bluesy gospel cut.Buy it! |
9:45am | Bruce Springsteen “Swallowed Up (In the Belly of the Whale)” from Wrecking Ball (Columbia 2012) —I actually can't think of anything to say about this one. I just like it.Buy it! |
9:51am | Tom Petty “Love Is a Long Road” from Full Moon Fever (MCA 1989) —I hadn't heard this in a long time - what a great song.Buy it! |
9:55am | Darden Smith “Over My Beating Heart” from Marathon (Darden Music 2010) —A lot of talented folks put their albums out themselves now that bigger labels don't remember them.Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.