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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 2020

BLUES, & REEFER—KEEPING THE MUSIC ALIVE

Mondays ​ The John Sinclair Radio Show

plus Fly By Night with Steve The Fly ​ ​ Tuesdays ​ The Show with Bruce Pingree ​ plus Blues From the Red Rooster Lounge with Cary Wolfson ​ ​ Wednesdays

BluesTime International with Roger White ​ ​ ​ plus Blues Edition with Leslie Keros ​ ​ Thursdays

Face The Music with arwulf arwulf ​ plus The Groove Yard with George Klein ​ ​ Fridays

New Orleans Music Show with John Sinclair ​ plus Sounds of Blue with Bob Putignano ​ ​ Saturdays

Founding Fathers with DJ Papa Saint Juan (1-4) ​ ​ Big City Blues Cruise with Martino D’Lorenzo ​ plus The Soul Lucille Show with Lucille DJ ​ ​ Sundays

Jazz at Daybreak with Leslie Keros ​ plus Jazz Lunatique with David Kunian ​ ​ Founding Fathers with DJ Papa Saint Juan (5-6) ​ ​

Halfway through 2020 we’re still cooking at RadioFreeAmsterdam.org with our daily two hours of ​ ​ blues, jazz & reefer music presented by our dozen veteran deejays. And speaking of reefer music, a listener called Paul Paul

sent me a thumb drive with 5000 reefer songs on it, and I’ve started exploiting it this month on my radio show.

Plus we’ve got a special presentation contributed by DJ Papa Saint Juan

th that starts on July 4 ​ and continues on Saturday mornings through the month, five one-hour ​ programs of Founding Fathers music under the general title The Shot Heard ‘Round The World. ​

Pushing the 24/7 button on our home page will bring ou hour after hour of Radio Free Amsterdam programming on end—

just like a real radio stationsent me a thumb drive with 5000 reefer songs on it, and I’ve started exploiting it this month on my radio show. JULY 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE

Wednesday, July 1

SWEET DREAMS

BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 45

Episode 45 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Harmonica Shah, Willie D. Warren, Eddie Burns, Robert Noll, Johnny “Yard Dog” Jones, The Butler Twins, Down River Dan, and the Downchild Blues .

AIN'T THAT GOOD NEWS

BLUES EDITION 09

Leslie Keros with blues music from Big Daddy Kinsey, , Barbara Lynn, the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Harvey Mandel, Jerry Ricks, , Hank Crawford, Memphis Slim, Andrew “Big Voice” Odom, Guitar Shorty (Henry Fortescue),

Magic Slim, and Magic Sam.

Thursday, July 2

JIM DAWGS

FACE THE MUSIC 77

arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music from th the first half of the 20 ​ century featuring Sam Morgan’s Jazz Band, Sidney Bechet’s One Man ​ ​ Band, & the Ramblers, Bud Freeman Trio, Wild Bill Davison & his Commanders, Lester Young with Jones-Smith Inc., Herschel Evans with ’s Orchestra, Coleman Hawkins with Count Basie’s Orchestra, Gene Sedric with & his Rhythm, Alix Combelle avec Benny Carter et son Orchestra, Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra, Ben Webster Quintet, Buddy Tate & his Orchestra, the Flip Philips Hiptet, the Ike Quebec All ​ Stars, the Coleman Hawkins Quartet, the Lester Young Quartet, and the Charlie Parker Quintet.

WAKE UP

THE GROOVE YARD 79

George Klein presents an hour of 1950s & ‘60s recordings by John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, Sarah Vaughan, Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce, Hampton Hawes, and Stan Getz.

Friday, July 3

FOOD STAMP BLUES

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 10

Jamming at the 420 Café in Amsterdam on a Wednesday afternoon with thrilling sides by Eluard Burt & Co, the ReBirth Brass Band, the Golden Eagles, James Andrews, Tommy Ridgley, Roy Brown, Lloyd Price, Professor Longhair, Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters, Rockie Charles, the Treme Brass Band, the Wild Magnolias, , , Smiley Lewis, Shirley & Lee,

and Brother Tyrone & The Mindbenders.

COMING HOME

SOUNDS OF BLUE 248

nd Bob Putignano is playing music this week by in honor of his 72 ​ birthday, featured ​ ​ as a leader and with Cream, Derek & the Dominos, and Delaney & Bonnie with Eric Clapton

Saturday, July 4

WINDS OF CHANGE

FOUNDING FATHERS 01

DJ Papa Saint Juan has created a 6-hour travelogue tied to Independence Day under the title Founding Fathers, with selections by Garland Jeffreys, , The Neville Brothers, Rod Stewart, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Richie Havens, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Buffalo Springfield, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Love, Sly & The Family Stone, The Doors, Jim Morrison, and Roy Harper. St. Juan quotes our Founding Fathers: “It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” (Samuel Adams); What do We mean by the Revolution?The War? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an Effect and Consequence of it. The Revolution was in the Minds of the People, and this was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen Years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington.” (John Adams); and ““That government is best

which governs least.” (Henry David Thoreau).

BACON FAT

BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 005

Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big ​ City Blues Cruise bus, spinning Episode 005 with music by Red Prysock, Dizzy Dixon, T-Bone ​ Walker,

Gene Chandler, The Dells, The Treniers, Sugar Boy & The Cane Cutters, The Clovers, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, ,

Andre Williams, The Blues Brothers, ,

Professor Longhair, Junior Wells, and Jimmy Reed.

SOULVILLE

THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 252

Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy and a guest set by John Sinclair, with tunes by Mitty Collier, Bunny Sigler, The Notations, Honey Cone, Johnny Otis, Don Bryant, Mable John, Sir Mack Rice, Little Queenie & The Percolators, , Walter “Wolfman” Washington & The Roadmasters, Jimmy Radcliffe, Ruth McFadden, The Fantastic Johnny C, Jesse Morgan,

the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and Prince Phillip Mitchell.

Sunday, July 5

MOVING FORWARD

JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 80

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Joey DeFrancesco with Jimmy Smith, Joey Alexander, Nicholas Bearde, Jerry & Andy Gonzalez & the Fort Apache Band, Tim Ray, Count Basie, Judy Roberts

& Greg Fishman, Ken Fowser, Connie Han, and .

THE WIZARD

JAZZ LUNATIQUE 284

David Kunian is playing music by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Fela with Tony Allen, Henry Grimes, Don Cherry, the Mark Ribot Trio, Charlie Parker with the Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, the American Jazz Quintet,

McCoy Tyner, and Professor Longhair & Uganda Roberts.

Monday, July 6

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 866

Episode 866 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam’s headquarters at 55 Peterboro St. where I’m featuring an hour of music from the archives, including cuts by Cannonball Adderley,

Johnny Bristol, & the Blues Insurgents, , Jim McCarty & The Millionaires, James Semark, Jeff Grand,

Jr. Walker & the All Stars, Jimmy Ruffin, Kim Weston,

Laith al-Saadi, and Charlie Parker with strings.

SPYGATE SWING

FLY BY NIGHT 369

Steve The Fly is spinning sides by Robert Anton Wilson, , Allen Ginsberg, Alan Moore & Gary Lloyd, , Count Basie, Ezra Pound, Charles Mingus, William S. Burroughs, Lester Young,

Alan Moore & Gary Lloyd, Sun Ra, James Joyce, Thelonious Monk,

Ken Campbell, Miles Davis, John Zorn,

The Flamingos, and Eddie Jefferson.

Tuesday, July 7

ROCKIN’ THE BOOGIE

THE BLUES SHOW 442

This episode of The Blues Show with Bruce Pingree features great music from. L.C. “Good ​ ​ Rockin’” Robinson, & , , and Pinetop Perkins & Willie th “Big Eye” Smith, all in celebration of the 97 ​ birthday of pianist ​ Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins on July 7th.

FAST FREIGHT RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 412

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Donny ​ ​ Hathaway, Ronnie Earl, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, , Tyler Morris with J,W., Tim Hardin,

John Primer & Bob Corritore, , Mark Hummel

& the Blues Survivors, Peppermint Harris,

Big Jay McNeely, and Frank Frost.

Wednesday, July 8

FRESH OUT

BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 46

Episode 46 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Downchild Blues Band, John Sinclair, ,

John Lee Hooker, Christone Kingfish Ingram, David Julia,

Harpdog Brown, and .

MELLOW DOWN EASY

BLUES EDITION 10

Leslie Keros with blues music from Big Daddy Kinsey, Little Walter, Mose Allison, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughan with Lonnie Mack, the Jimmy Burns Band, Janiva Magness, Ronnie Earl, Big Joe Tumer & the Count Basie Orchestra, Johnny Adams, Red, B. B. King,

Sippie Wallace, Johnnie Bassett. and Joe Weaver & the Blue Notes.

Thursday, July 9

AN EDUCATIONAL MEDIUM

FACE THE MUSIC 78

arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music from th the first half of the 20 ​ century featuring the Vagabonds, the Paul Whiteman ​ ​ Orchestra, the Kentucky Blowers, the Wolverine Orchestra, Mike Bernard, Unknown Banjoist, Willy White, the Orchestra, Hippolyte Belhomme, Lewis Carroll, Anthony Braxton & Peter Wilson, and Irvine Arditti.

OUTWARD BOUND

THE GROOVE YARD 80

George Klein presents multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy in various 1960s sessions as leader and sideman

with Charles Mingus and Mal Waldron.

Friday, July 10

SHAKE YOUR RUGALATOR

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 11

John Sinclair is spinning records from New Orleans at the 420 Cafe in Amsterdam back in 2008, featuring sides by Eluard & Co, Craig Klein, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux,

Champion Jack Dupree, Chief Smiley Ricks & Indians of the Nation, Black Eagles, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Dr. John, ,

Chuck Carbo, and Kermit Ruffins.

STREET CORNER TALKING

SOUNDS OF BLUE 249

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Savoy Brown featuring Kim Simmonds, Johnny ​ Feds & Friends, Duane Eddy, Wilson Pickett

with Duane Allman, Deborah Coleman, Larry McCray,

It's a Beautiful Day, Hot Tuna, Little Feat, Steppenwolf,

and Deborah Coleman with Rox Potvin.

Saturday, July 11

DANCING IN THE STREET

FOUNDING FATHERS 02

This is the second hour of DJ Papa Saint Juan’s 6-hour travelogue tied to Independence Day under the title Founding Fathers, with selections by Patti Smith, The Who, Junior Murvin, Little Richard, Nina Simone,

Billy Stewart, , The Equals, The Clash, The Temptations, Curtis Mayfield, Dock Reed-Henry Reed-Vera Hall, Clarence Ashley, Irene Williams, Mahalia Jackson, and Claude Mackay.

LIPSTICK TRACES

BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 006

Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big ​ City Blues Cruise bus, spinning Episode 006 with music by Red Prysock, Snooks Eaglin, Benny ​ Spellman,

The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Los Lobos, , B.B. King, Muddy Waters, & Memphis Slim, and .

SAVE THE WORLD

THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 253

Lucille DJ is on the air from controradio in the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk including a guest spot by John Sinclair, with tunes by Both Worlds, The Southside Movement. Larry Saunders, Baby Face Willette, Billy Stewart, Esther Phillips, Creative Source,

the Wild Magnolias, the Rebirth Brass Band, Professor Longhair,

the Turner Brothers, 24 Carat Black, Tony Leveille

et Ses Challengers Sound, Milt Buckner, and Caesar Frazier.

Sunday, July 12

FACE TO FACE

JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 81

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band, Oscar Brown Jr., Akiko Tsuruga, ​ ​ the Boogie Ensemble, Champion Jack Dupree,

Bob Lark, and Gary Burton & Pat Metheny.

ZIP CITY

JAZZ LUNATIQUE 285

David Kunian is playing music by Egg Yolk Jubilee,

Professor Longhair & Uganda Roberts, Slim Harpo, Roger Manning,

the Drive-By Truckers, Nicholas Payton,

Grant Green, and John Coltrane.

Monday, July 13

GOOD GRACIOUS

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 867

Episode 867 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters at 55 Peterboro St. where I’m featuring an hour of jazz music from the archives this week, including cuts by Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Lou Donaldson, Oliver Nelson, Lester Young,

Lee Morgan, Larry Young, and Ornette Coleman.

NORTH EAR FEAST

FLY BY NIGHT 370

Steve The Fly is looking forward to the North Sea Jazz Festival again with music by Nina Simone, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Horace Andy, Herbie Hancock, Al Haig-Art Themen-Peter King, Thelonious Monk, John Sinclair, Steve Fly & Laith Al Saadi, Muddy Waters,

Sonny Rollins-Don Cherry-Billy Higgins-Henry Grimes, and Bobby Enriquez-Richie Cole-Benny Reitveld.

Tuesday, July 14

I’LL TAKE YOU THERE

THE BLUES SHOW 443

This episode of The Blues Show with Bruce Pingree features great blues music from Pinetop ​ ​ Perkins and the Legendary Blues Band and a presentation of recordings by Mavis Staples & the Staples Singers

in a birthday salute to Mavis, born July 10 in Chicago.

THE BLUES SCHOOL

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 413

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Lucinda ​ ​ Williams, Tony Joe White, Rich Harper, Shawn Pittman, Junior Mance, Long John Hunter & Tom “Bluesman” Hunter, Bobby Cole, Mark Hummel Blues Survivors, , J.B. Hutto,

Mel Brown & The Homewreckers, Otis Spann, and Eric Clapton.

Wednesday, July 15

MAN OF STONE

BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 47

Episode 47 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils,

Bobby “Blue” Bland, Zoom, Dawn Tyler Watson, Mary Bridget Davies, Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps, Laura Rain & The Caesars,

Alexis P. Suter, and John Mayall.

PLAY IT COOL

BLUES EDITION 11

Leslie Keros on a hot summer night in Chicago with music by Big Daddy Kinsey, Johnnie Bassett, Rory Block with Eric Bibb, Mississippi Heat with Lurrie Bell & Inetta Visor, Kenny “Blue” Ray,

Carlos Johnson & Billy Branch, , , Junior Wells & Junior Mance, the Chicago Boogie Ensemble, , , Odetta, Debbie Davies, and Joe Louis Walker & .

Thursday, July 16

MICHIGAN WATER

FACE THE MUSIC 79

arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music from th the first half of the 20 ​ century featuring Pat Flowers, & his Hot Seven, Four ​ Pods of Pepper, Clarence Williams, & his Orchestra, Omer Simeon & his Dixie Rhythm Kings, Memphis Jug Band, Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra, Rosa Henderson & James P. Johnson,

the Norfolk Jazz Quartet, & his Gang,

the Jones & Collins Astoria Hot Eight, & his Cotton Club Orchestra, Sidney Bechet’s Blue Note Quartet, Jimmy Yancey,

and the Charlie Parker All Stars. ​

STRETCHING OUT

THE GROOVE YARD 81

George Klein presents an hour of 1950s & ‘60s recordings by

Elmo Hope’s all-star sextets, Roland Kirk,

with Gerry Mulligan, Dinah Washington,

and Hank Mobley with Lee Morgan.

Friday, July 17

THE BELLS ARE RINGING

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 12

John Sinclair is back at the 420 Café on a Wednesday afternoon in the spring of 2008 with non-stop music from New Orleans by Eluard Burt & Co:, Smiley Lewis, Tommy Ridgley, Roy Brown, Danny Barker & His Creole Cats, , Kermit Ruffins, the New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Professor Longhair, Snooks Eaglin, Kirk Joseph's Backyard Groove, Johnny Adams, Rockie Charles,

Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters,

the Li’l Rascals Brass Band, and Brother Tyrone & The Mindbenders.

DIXIE CHICKEN

SOUNDS OF BLUE 250

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Steppenwolf, Little Feat, Deborah Coleman, and ​ Larry McCray

Saturday, July 18

KEEP MOVING

FOUNDING FATHERS 03

This is the Hour 3 of DJ Papa Saint Juan’s 6-hour travelogue tied to Independence Day under the title Founding Fathers, with selections by Seal, John Coltrane, Randy Newman, The Last Poets, James Brown,

Gil Scott-Heron, Otha Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band,

Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul, Black Uhuru, Langston Hughes, Artists United Against Apartheid, Miles Davis,

Dr. Martin Luther King, and Keith LeBlanc.

YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT

BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 007

Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on WEMU-FM in Ypsilanti

in the early 1980s. Episode 007 features conversation with guitarist

Jim McCarty and music by Red Prysock, Earl Hooker, Albert Collins,

the Blues Band, Eddie “Guitar” Burns, Dr. Ross,

Little Willie John, Connie Allen & the Todd Rhodes Orchestra,

Little Stevie Wonder, and an unidentified artist to close the show.

DEAL WITH IT THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 254

Lucille DJ is on the air from controradio in the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk including a guest set by John Sinclair, playing tunes by Bernie Hayes, Camille Bob, Thelma Jones, Mfalme, Ronnie Keaton, Rickey Calloway with the Soul Surfers,

The Boogaloo Combo, The Bar Kays, Hunt's Determination Band, Bubbha Thomas & The Lightmen, Dr. John, Chuck Carbo, Eddie Bo, Carolyn Franklin, the Keith Mansfield Orchestra, Daniele Patucchi, United Family, The Daktaris, and Marva Whitney.

Sunday, July 19 ​ THE MOON WAS YELLOW

JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 82

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Chick Corea, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Michael Moore & Bill Charlap, Duke Ellington,

Ray Charles, Jutta Hipp, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday,

and Brother Jack McDuff & Sonny Stitt.

THE MIDNIGHT CREEPER

JAZZ LUNATIQUE 286

David Kunian is playing music by Egg Yolk Jubilee, excerpts from the Midnight Creeper Show, Little Milton, Bobby “Blue” Bland, King Curtis,

Little Richard, Count Basie, Slim Harpo, Mission of Burma,

Bobby Hutcherson, David Kunian, Jessica Southea, Jericho Brown,

John Sinclair, Buddy Guy, and Treat Her Right. .

Monday, July 20

DOPE HEAD BLUES

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 868

Episode 868 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters at 55 Peterboro St. where I’m featuring an hour of music from the vast archive of reefer songs I’ve just received from a listener called Paul Paul, from Australia I think, who attached the following text: “I collect ​ songs about marijuana and I have about 5000. I sent them to you on a USB stick. I have spent the last 4 years collecting them and they are from over 120 countries and territories and date from 1924 to 2020. The 30's was the golden age of reefer music and Cab Calloway was king.” I’ll be featuring music from this collection for some months to come, and we’ll start today with a collection called Reefer Madness with contributions from Helen Ward with Gene Krupa, Frankie ​ ​ Newton, Chick Webb with Ella Fitzgerald, Julia Lee, Barney Bigard, Bessie Smith, Fats Waller, Victoria Spivey, Lil Green, Cab Calloway,

Jack Teagarden with , Lead Belly, Don Redman,

Jerry Kruger with , Trixie Smith, and Stuff Smith

NORTH JAZZ EAR

FLY BY NIGHT 371

Steve The Fly is getting ready for the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam by listening to music from Peter King, Charlie Parker

& Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Jefferson, Medeski, Martin & Wood,

Billy Martin's Wicked Knee, Rebirth Brass Band with Lenny Kravitz,

the Dee Felice Trio, Charles Lloyd-Eric Harland-Zakir Hussain,

Jimmy Cobb-Ron Carter-Gary Bartz-Louis Banks, and Sonny Rollins.

Tuesday, July 21

MOST OF ALL

THE BLUES SHOW 444

This episode of The Blues Show with Bruce Pingree salutes the great Harvey Fuqua, leader of ​ ​ the Moonglows, and producer who just passed away in Detroit at age 80, with a flurry of Chess singles by the Moonglows, follows with another tip of the musical hat to

Pinetop Perkins, who just made 97 years old, and then features

Robert Randolph & the Family Band.

LOOKIN’ GOOD

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 414

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Magic Sam, the ​ ​ Swan Silvertones, Big Maybelle, Tab Benoit, Guitar Shorty, Johnny Shines, Bonnie Raitt, A.C. Reed & Bonnie Raitt, , Clarence Spady, & Bob Corritore, Cookie & The Cupcakes, Jody Williams & Billy Stewart, and Mitch Kashmar.

Wednesday, July 22

BLOODSHOT EYES

BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 48

Episode 48 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils,

John Mayall, Little Richard, The Beatles, Harpdog Brown,

the Altered 5 Blues Band, and Wynonie Harris. RUM & COCA COLA

BLUES EDITION 12

Leslie Keros with blues music from.Big Daddy Kinsey, Preston Shannon, Mel Brown, Joe Krown, Blind Blake, Coco Montoya,

Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, Johnny Adams, Big Joe & The Dynaflows, Cephas & Wiggins, Andrew “Jr. Boy” Jones, Eden Brent,

and Walter “Wolfman:” Washington & The Roadmasters.

Thursday, July 23

BE BA DA BOOM

FACE THE MUSIC 80

arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music from th the first half of the 20 ​ century featuring Rudy Vallee & his Connecticut Yankees, The Versatile ​ ​ Three, Ciro’s Club Coon Orchestra, Esther Bigeou, Seven Musical Magpies,

Eudie L. Bowman, Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers,

Mamie Smith’s Jazz Hounds, Mississippi Mud Steppers, Herve Duerson, Frank Hutchison, Arnold Wiley, Scrapper Blackwell, Blind Boy Fuller, Papa Charlie Jackson, Blind Blake, Jimmy Blythe & Charles Clark,

and Tut Soper & Baby Dodds.

GONE WITH THE WIND

THE GROOVE YARD 82

George Klein presents an hour of 1950s & ‘60s recordings by Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller & Hank Mobley at Birdland, Dorothy Ashby, Stanley Turrentine & Shirley Scott, Dave Pike, and Jackie McLean.

Friday, July 24

RULER OF MY HEART

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 13

Non-stop music from New Orleans by Eluard Burt & Co, , the Hawketts, Fats Domino, Irma Thomas, Guitar Slim,

the Golden Eagles, the Guardians of the Flame, the Golden Comanches,

The Hard Head Hunters, Earl King & , Guitar Slim Jr:, Eddie Bo, Glen Andrews & the Lazy Six, Dr. John, and Earl Turbinton.

CHANGES REVISITED

SOUNDS OF BLUE 251

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Deborah Coleman, ​ Larry McCray with Dickey Betts, The Allman Brothers Band,

and the Sue Foley-Deborah Coleman-Rox Potvin combination.

Saturday, July 25

WHITE HOUSE BLUES

FOUNDING FATHERS 04

This is Hour 4 of DJ Papa Saint Juan’s 6-hour travelogue tied to Independence Day under the title Founding Fathers, with selections by Bonzo Goes To Washington, Gwendolyn Brooks, Steinski,

George W. “Chimpolean” Bush, Ten Years After, The Clash,

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, Leadbelly, Charlie Poole

& The North Carolina Ramblers, John Trudell,

Chief Leonard Crow Dog, Los Lobos, Neil Young, The Beatles,

The Grateful Dead, and Paul Oakenfold.

I GET NERVOUS

BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 008

Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on on WEMU-FM in Ypsilant in 1982, with Episode 008 featuring music by Red Prysock, Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim, The Isley Bros., Little Richard, The Heartbreakers,

The Robins Mr. Bo, The Dubs, Bobby Charles, The Royal Jokers,

Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard & The Upsetters, Tico & the Triumphs,

an unidentified artist, , Peter Madcat Ruth,

Albert King, and .

COMPARED TO WHAT

THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 255

Lucille DJ is on the air from controradio-fm in the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk including a guest spot by John Sinclair, with tunes by Bobby Blue Bland, Bottom & Company, Smash, Chet Baker, Roberta Flack, Funk Factory, Jamal Trice, The Bar Kays, Li’l Rascals Brass Band, James Andrews, Irma Thomas, Exit 9, Charles Earland, Sammy Ambrose, and & Milt Jackson.

Sunday, July 26

LESTER LEAPS IN

JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 83

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by the Vincent Herring-

Bobby Watson-Gary Bartz ensemble, Johnny Griffin, Bruce Katz,

Eva Cassidy, the Oscar Peterson Trio, Archie Shepp,

and Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.

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BULLET POINTS

JAZZ LUNATIQUE 287

David Kunian is kicking out the jams this week with selections from Egg Yolk Jubilee, Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers, Archie Shepp, The Naughty Professor, David Kunian, Kazumi Yamazaki, Jericho Brown, Charlie Parker All Stars, Little Richard, and Sun Ra.

Monday, July 27

PIPE DREAM BLUES

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 869

Episode 869 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters at 55 Peterboro St. where I’m featuring another hour of music from the vast archive of reefer songs I’ve just received from a listener called Paul Paul, who says “I collect songs about marijuana and I have ​ about 5000.” He sent them to me on a USB stick and I’ll be featuring material from this treasure trove of reefer music for some time to come. This week we’ll hear cuts by Fats Waller, ​ Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds Of Joy, Baron Lee & the Blue Rhythm Band, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Bea Foote, Don Redman,

Bill Rogers, Trio Garnica Ascencio, Hermanos Bañuelos,

Herbert Payne, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Lucille Bogan, Cleo Brown, Cow Cow Davenport, & The Chicago Five,

Curtis Jones, and Josie Miles.

LET'S LOOT THE SUPERMARKET

FLY BY NIGHT 372

Steve The Fly is raising hell and causing mayhem with this week’s selection of goodies from Billy Martin's Wounded Knee,

Mick Farren & Jack Lancaster, Eddie Jefferson, Ed Sanders, DKT-MC5 featuring John Sinclair, Beatnik Youth featuring John Sinclair

& Howard Marks, Mick Farren & The Deviants,

and Subatomic Particle Homesick Blues.

Tuesday, July 28

TRUE THING

THE BLUES SHOW 445

Bruce Pingree is playing music this week by Kwan Lewis, Kid Pinky, Roosevelt Sykes, Eddie Tigner, Willa Mae Buckner,

Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Catfish Keith, Shirley Lewis Experience,

John Mayall, a pair of unidentified artists, Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Howling Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, and Albert Collins.

ROCK THIS HOUSE

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 415

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Jody Williams, ​ ​ Otis Rush with Eric Clapton,

the Hollywood Fats Band, Lloyd Glenn & Gatemouth Brown,

Elliott Sharp’s Terraplane, Jean Knight, Howlin’ Wolf, Son House,

John Mooney, Freddie King, Peter Golding, Son Seals,

William Clarke, and Bill Perry.

Wednesday, July 29

ROCK MR. BLUES

BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 49

Episode 49 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, a long set of classics by Wynonie Harris, four cuts by Big Mama Thornton, two by Alexis P. Suter, and one each from Jason Ricci and

Rick Holmstrom & the Hollywood Blue Stars.

WALKIN' THE BOOGIE

BLUES EDITION 13

Leslie Keros with blues music from Big Daddy Kinsey, Bobby Rush, Pete Mayes, E.G. Kight, Albert Collins & Debbie Davies, Sonny Boy Williamson & Matt Guitar Murphy, John Littlejohn, Ray Charles,

Aretha Franklin, Band, Walter Trout, John Lee Hooker, Floyd Dixon, , Janiva Magness,

and Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne.

Thursday, July 30

FATS WALLER INSTRUMENTALS

FACE THE MUSIC 81

arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music from th the first half of the 20 ​ century, this week featuring an entire hour of Fats Waller & his Rhythm. ​ ​

WAIL

THE GROOVE YARD 83

George Klein presents a second hour of music by pianist Bud Powell, with a focus on sessions with horn players Fats Navarro, Sonny Rollins, Curtis Fuller, and Coleman Hawkins, plus the concert at Massey Hall by The Quintet with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Powell,

Charles Mingus, and Max Roach.

Friday, July 31

TAKE OFF THAT DRESS

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 14

Great music from New Orleans at the 420 Café in Amsterdam on this Wednesday afternoon in May 2008 with John Sinclair spinning sides by Eluard Burt & Co, Eddie Bo, Chuck Carbo, Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, the Barons, Danny Barker, Tommy Ridgley,

Big Chief Peppy & Troy Andrews, Chief Smiley Ricks, the Flaming Arrows, Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns, Dr. John, Champion Jack Dupree, Craig Klein, and Earl King.

LOW DOWN & DIRTY

SOUNDS OF BLUE 252

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Rufus Thomas, George Benson, the Steve Gadd ​ Band, & Derek Trucks, Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton with Carlos Santana,

and King Curtis with Duane Allman.

VOLUNTEERS

FOUNDING FATHERS 05

This is Hour 5 of DJ Papa Saint Juan’s 6-hour travelogue tied to Independence Day under the title Founding Fathers, with selections by Big Maybelle, , Dion, The New Lost City Ramblers,

Peter Rowan, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Presley, Angel Snow, Eva Cassidy, and the Jefferson Airplane.

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND

FOUNDING FATHERS 06

This is the final hour of DJ Papa Saint Juan’s 6-hour travelogue tied to Independence Day under the title Founding Fathers, with selections by Tim Hardin, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Joe Cocker & The Grease Band, , Chip Monck, Janis Joplin, Woody Guthrie,

Winds Of Change, Bob Marley & The Wailers, and Sonny Rollins.

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