2020—08-August Program Guide
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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 2020 BLUES, JAZZ & REEFER—KEEPING THE MUSIC ALIVE Mondays The John Sinclair Radio Show plus Fly By Night with Steve The Fly Tuesdays The Blues 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 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 Radio Free Amsterdam continues to air our two hours of blues, jazz and related music each da every day, and offers a continuous fow of music by selecting the 24/7 stream option. You may have noticed that a listener called Paul Paul sent me a thumb drive with 5000 reefer songs on it a couple of months ago, and I’ve continued to exploit this treasure trove of classic tunes on my own radio show this month. Soul Lucille is back with new programs every week starting with #258 in August after a long hiatus due to family problems and some unfortunate health issues. Pushing the 24/7 button on our home page will bring you hour after hour of Radio Free Amsterdam programming on end— just like a real radio station. * AUGUST 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE Saturday, August 1 INDUSTRIAL BOOGIE BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 009 Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning his classic modern radio programs from the 1980s and 1990s originally aired on WEMU-FM in Ypsilanti MI and now heard every Saturday on Radio Free Amsterdam. Episode 009 features music by Red Prysock and an hour of tunes from the Motor City in the 1940s & ‘50s by John Lee Hooker, Eddie Burns, Doctor Ross, Todd Rhodes & His Orchestra, Little Willie John, Connie Allen, Dave Hamilton & The Peppers, Little Stevie Wonder, Robert Henry, Calvin Frazier with T.J. Fowler’s Orchestra, Andre Williams, and Boogie Woogie Red. WOMAN DRIVER THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 256 Lucille DJ is back on the air from controradio-fm in the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk including a guest spot with John Sinclair, playing tunes by Jean Dushon, Junior Parker, Jon Hendricks, the Staple Singers, Brother To Brother, Esther Marrow, The Hygrades, Brothers Johnson, Shirley Scott & The Soul Saxes, Fats Domino, Deacon John, Smiley Lewis, Ebo Taylor, Helene Smith, Tamiko Jones, Candido, Ronnie Foster, and James Brown.. Sunday, August 2 LESTER LEAPS IN JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 84 Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Vincent Herring, Johnny Griffin, Bruce Katz, Nita Cassidy, Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins, Oliver Nelson, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. DIS HERE JAZZ LUNATIQUE 288 David Kunian is kicking out the jams this week with selections from Egg Yolk Jubilee, Miles Davis, Happy Talk, Bob Dylan, Harry Belafonte, Theme from the Muppet Show, Taj Mahal, The Blues Brothers, Miles Davis Quintet, Charlie Parker, Bobby Timmons, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, The Zucchinis, and Ella Fitzgerald. Monday, August 3 KILLING JIVE JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 870 Episode 870 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 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 this week another hour of reefer and related music from the 1920s & 30s, with contributions from Tampa Red & The Chicago Five, Blind John Davis, The Cats & the Fiddle, Willie Bryant, The Harlem Hamfats with Rosetta Howard, The Ink Spots, The Four Clefs, The Meltone Boys, Bea Foote, Cab Calloway, Whistling Bob Howe with Frankie Griggs, Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe, Bessie Smith, Trixie Smith, Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon, Richard M. Jones & His Jazz Wizards, and The Mills Brothers. TAPPING MY OWN PHONE FLY BY NIGHT 373 Steve The Fly is tapping his own phone to come up with this week’s episode of Fly By Night, with mind-boggling selections by Charles Olson, David Amram, Alan Moore, Amiri Baraka, James “Blood” Ulmer, Robert Anton Wilson, Thelonious Monk, John Sinclair & Beatnik Youth, Dizzy Gillespie, Ezra Pound, and Lalo Schifrin. Tuesday, August 4 WEST END BLUES THE BLUES SHOW 446 Bruce Pingree is visiting the jazz side of the blues equation on The Blues Show this week with music by Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Fats Waller, the Forgotten Souls Brass Band, the Yockamo All Stars, and Nicholas Payton. RIP IT UP RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 416 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great sides in a tribute to Little Richard by Richard himself, the Mothers Of Invention, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Henry Gray & The Cats, Lou Ann Barton, Mark Hummel, The Isley Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bryan Lee, Curtis Salgado, The Beatles, and Johnny Otis Wednesday, August 5 LESSON TO LEARN BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 50 Episode 50 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Rick Holmstrom & the Hollywood Blue Flames, Laith al-Saadi, the Nick Moss Band, Santo & Johnny, and Danny Gatton. SUITCASE BLUES BLUES EDITION 14 Leslie Keros with blues music from Big Daddy Kinsey, Tracy Nelson, Luther Johnson, Tampa Red, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Angela Strehli, Lil' Ed & Dave Weld, David Maxwell & Otis Spann, Linsey Alexander, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Andrew Brown, Barbara Lynn, and Johnnie Bassett & Bill Heid. Thursday, August 6 GHOSTS FACE THE MUSIC 82 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring Albert Ayler & Don Cherry, Gato Barbieri, Pharoah Sanders, and others. WAIL THE GROOVE YARD 84 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, August 7 HASTA LA VISTA NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 16 John Sinclair is playing music from New Orleans at the 420 Café in Amsterdam in 2008 with tunes by Eluard & Co, Huey “Piano” Smith & The Clowns, Eddie Bo, Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Charmaine Neville, Anders Osborne, Lloyd Price, Little Mr. Midnight, Little Richard, Mem Shannon & the Membership, the Naked Orchestra, and James Andrews. GUMBO VARIATIONS SOUNDS OF BLUE 254 Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, The Derek Trucks Band, and The Ed Palermo Big Band. Saturday, August 8 TOO SMALL TO DANCE BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 010 Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, with Episode 010 featuring a second hour of tunes from the Motor City in the 1940s & ‘50s by Doctor Ross, Lorraine Alterman, Marvin Gaye, Little Ernest Tucker, Todd Rhodes & His Orchestra, Hank Ballard & The Midnighters, Eddie Kirkland, Dizzy Gillespie, Jackie Wilson, Roomful of Blues, John Lee Hooker, The Richard Brothers with Boogie Woogie Red, Peter Debree & The Wanderers, Andre Williams, and Eddie Burns. SWEET THANG THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 257 Lucille DJ is back on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk including a guest spot by John Sinclair, with tunes by The Soul Children, Major Lance, Bill Withers, Barbara Randolph, Ann Peebles, Leo's Sunshipp, Gil Scott-Heron, the Wild Magnolias, Rebirth Brass Band, Parliament, Chocolate Milk, The Last Poets, Eugene McDaniels, Eddie Henderson, Grady Tate, and Don Covay. Sunday, August 9 PACEMAKER JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 86 Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Frank Strozier, Harold Mabern, Monty Alexander, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Lester Young, Horace Silver, Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Steve Fidyk, and Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. ASTRO BLACK JAZZ LUNATIQUE 289 David Kunian is kicking out the jams this week with selections from Egg Yolk Jubilee, Woody Guthrie, Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Barrence Whitfield & the Sun Ra Soul Savage Arkestra, Spike Jones, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, and Josh Paxton & Debbie Davies. Monday, August 10 LET’S TALK ABOUT LOVE JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 871 Episode 871 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters at 55 Peterboro St. where I’m continuing my recovery from open heart surgery and featuring an hour of new music from guitarist Lurrie Bell’s album Let’s Talk About Love—including “Let’s Talk About Love,” “Chicago Is Loaded with the Blue,” “Earthquake and Hurricane,” “Cold Chills,” “Feeling Good,” “Directly From My Heart To Yours,” “Turn To Me,” “Missing You,” “Why Am I Treated So Bad,” “Winehead Woman,” “You Ought To Be Ashamed,” and “My Dog Can’t Bark”—interspersed with conversational segments with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine. SOMETHING’S GOING ON FLY BY NIGHT 374 Steve The Fly Is Flying By Night with a stellar program of selections by Robert Anton Wilson, Daddy Cleanhead & the Chuck Higgins Band, Big 'T' Tyler, Donald Harrison Jr & Dr. John, Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers, the Treme Brass Band, Tuba Fats' Chosen Few, the Stooges Brass Band, 9th Ward Warriors & Re-Birth Brass Band, Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie, Allen Toussaint, and Rev.