2018—12 December Program Guide
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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 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 Blues & Roots with John Sinclair plus The Dr. Doo Wop Show with William Levy Thursdays Mood Indigo with Leslie Keros plus Beyond The Groove Yard with George Klein Fridays Sounds of Blue with Bob Putignano plus The Soul Lucille Show with Lucille DJ Saturdays Big City Blues Cruise with Martino D’Lorenzo plus Party Train with Linda Lexy Sundays Roots & Branches with Famous Coachman or The Black Pope plus Jazz Lunatique with David Kunian * Welcome to December and another month of distinctive programming from RadioFreeAmsterdam.org, our internet radio station dedicated to Blues, Jazz & Reefer, with a stellar lineup of classic blues radio shows by Bruce Pingree, Cary Wolfson, and John Sinclair; stellar jazz shows by Leslie Keros, whose Mood Indigo program completed its run of 252 episodes, and by George Klein, whose Beyond The Groove Yard show repeats his initial run of episodes for the month; awesome rhythm & blues and soul from Bill Levy, Bob Putignano, Lucille DJ, Tino Gross, and Linda Lexy; freeform shows by Steve The Fly, David Kunian, and our flagship program, The John Sinclair Radio Show, plus a series of programs from our Vintage Radio Vaults by the late great Detroit blues deejay Famous Coachman on WDET-FM and a special episode featuring the legendary Black Pope. Push the 24/7 button and listen to hour after hour on end of Radio Free Amsterdam programming—just like a real radio station. DECEMBER 2018 PROGRAM GUIDE Saturday, December 1 BOOM BOOM BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 75 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 75 features music by Red Prysock, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, T-Bone Walker, Professor Longhair, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Guitar Junior, B.B. King, and Buddy Guy. CLAP YOUR HANDS PARTY TRAIN 60 Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in Detroit, where she’s playing music by Tino Gross, Mitty Collier, Little Willie John, Cookie & His Cupcakes, Sherri Taylor & Singin’ Sammy Ward, Reginald Milton & The Soul Jets, Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Showstoppers, The Marathons, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Phil Flowers, The Rollers, Bobby Patterson, Jackson 5, Helene Smith, Etta James, Otis Redding, the Howling Diablos Sunday, December 2 STOOP DOWN BABY ROOTS & BRANCHES 23 Our second installment of Famous Coachman’s Blues & Music After Hours show on WDET-FM in Detroit in 1991 has music by Chick Willis, Buddy Guy, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Latimore, Joe Simon, Albert Collins, Lynn White, Gyp Roberts, B.B. King, and an unidentified gospel group to close the show. PASSION DANCE JAZZ LUNATIQUE 201 David Kunian is playing an hour of music by the great pianist McCoy Tyner from albums dating from the sixties to the present. Monday, December 3 MOVE YOUR HAND JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 783 Episode 783 is coming from the Advantage Living Center rehab faciity where I’m recovering from a fall on my ass and playing music taken mostly from a collection I found in my files called Blue Note Singles, augmented by some other Blue Note funk by Dexter Gordon & Jackie McLean and Kenny Werner. ROACHA-CHA BLAKEBEATS FLY BY NIGHT 286 Steve Fly dips into his wax collection and constructs a hanging garden of jazz drum delights featuring Art Blakey and Max Roach playing songs by Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, and Roach, the Fly spins bare back to back rhythms of the Afro-jazz bop persuasion. Special thanks to John Sinclair. Tuesday, December 4 RATS AND ROACHES THE BLUES SHOW 360 Bruce Pingree is playing music in Episode 360 by B.B. King, Snooky Pryor, Mel Brown, Sunnyland Slim, and Silas Hogan from September 16, and Pee Wee Crayton, Johnny Nicholas, Cutis Salgado & Alan Hagar, Marcia Ball, and Sax Gordon. JAMMING WITH OTIS RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 329 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Otis Rush, Otis Rush, Jimmy Dawkins, Joe Louis Walker, Bob Margolin, Gary Primich, and Otis Grand. Wednesday, December 5 SLIDE ME DOWN BLUES & ROOTS 45 Episode 45 in our Blues & Roots series with John Sinclair for WWOZ-FM in New Orleans at the turn of the century features music by Little Walter, Al Hibbler, L.C. McKinley, Ernest Cotton, Cowboy Jack Cooley, Harold Burrage, Johnny Adams, Champion Jack Dupree, Otis & Lucille Spann, and multiple cuts by both Smiley Lewis, and Roosevelt Sykes. CRAZY OVER YOU THE DR.DOO WOP SHOW 07 Dr. Doo Wop has risen from the ashes of the past like a rock & roll phoenix to bring some great music from the Golden Age of American Music as played on his programs from the turn of the century for Radio 100 in Amsterdam, with cuts in Episode 7 by The Coasters, The Jaguars, The Four Fellows, Lee Andrews & The Hearts, The Calvanes, The Scott Brothers, The Five Satins, The Washington Squares, The Blues Brothers, Al Bowley, Ben E. King, Marvin Gaye, The Falcons, Don Latin & The Digitones, The Sireens, and Ruth Brown. Thursday, December 6 NITTY GRITTY MOOD INDIGO 105 Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Shirley Scott & Stanley Turrentine, Carl Saunders & Phil Woods, Jesse Davis, Joey DeFrancesco, Camille Howard, Hal Singer, Fred Wesley & The J.B.’s, Lalama Brothers, Norman Simmons, and Houston Person. BACK TO THE TRACKS BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 01 This month we’re broadcasting George Klein’s first series of his fine jazz program called Beyond The Groove Yard, coming out of Ypsilanti, Michigan with an hour of music celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Blue Note Records by playing great cuts by Tina Brooks, Freddie Redd, Jackie McLean, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, Sonny Red, and Donald Byrd. Friday, December 7 SMOOTH SAILING SOUNDS OF BLUE 166 Bob Putignano is playing music in Episode 166 by Rahsaan Roland, Arnett Cobb, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, The Gene Harris Trio, Percy Heath, The Three Sounds and Jack McDuff. FUNKY MAMA THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 170 Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk and a guest spot by John Sinclair with tunes by Archie Bell & The Drells, Millie Jackson, Alice Clark, Sly & the Family Stone, The Isley Brothers, Charles Earland, Azymuth, Joe Lovano & Hank Jones, Lou Donaldson, Bernie Worrell, Ice, The Temptations, Gil Scott-Heron, and James Brown. Saturday, December 8 LEAPING ON LENOX BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 76 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 76 features music by Red Prysock, Earl Hooker, Big Walter Horton, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Billy Wright, Magic Sam, James Cotton, Lightning Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Robert Johnson, Albert Collins, Eddie Burns, and John Lee Hooker. RAISE YOUR HAND PARTY TRAIN 61 Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in Detroit, where she’s playing music by Tino Gross, The Falcons, Marie Knight, Charles Sheffield, The Charmettes, Abraham & The Metronomes, The Fantastic Johnny C, Clarence Reid, Nathan Bartell, The Bar-Kays, James Brown, The Isley Brothers, Leroy Hutson, Eddie Floyd, The Staples Singers, Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens, The Mighty Hannibal, Tino G's Dumpster Machine, and Walter “Wolfman” Washington & The Roadmasters. Sunday, December 9 AFTER HOURS ROOTS & BRANCHES 24 Out third installment of Famous Coachman’s Blues & Music After Hours show on WDET-FM, Public Radio in Detroit from 1991 features music by Erskine Hawkins, Eddie Burns, A.C. Reed, Joe Hunter, Little Milton, Otis Rush, Lynn White, Jimmy Forrest, Dorothy Moore, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Denise LaSalle, Albert Collins, the Butler Twins, Little Joe Blue, Willie D. Warren, and Sonny Boy Williamson. REACTOR JAZZ LUNATIQUE 202 David Kunian is celebrating Halloween 2018 with a program of music by Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Public Enemy, Screaming Jay Hawkins, The Gun Club, Prince La La, Tammy Lynn & the AFO Executives, Candace Graves, R + R = Now, Go Go Penguin, and Dyson Malone & The Tangle. Monday, December 10 STRIKE HARD JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 784 Episode 784 is coming from the Advantage Living Center rehab faciity in Warren MI where they’re going to hold me for another week or two until i’m fully recovered from a fall on my ass last month, and i’m playing music today from a pair of interesting collections i found in my files called Far Out Jazz & Afro Funk and Funk Soul Sisters, with tunes by Marcos Valle, Future Warriors, Ann Sexton, Eighties Ladies, Betty Wright, Jody Gayles, Betty Harris, The Jones Girls, Trouble Man, Deniece Chandler, and Ella Washington. UNFUNKY UFO FLY BY NIGHT 287 Steve The Fly is flying the friendly skies in Epiode 287 with selections from Robert Anton Wilson, Parliament, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, James Brown, The Meters, and Sun Ra & His Arkestra. Tuesday, December 11 DEACON’S HOP THE BLUES SHOW 361 Bruce Pingree is playing music this week by Ray Charles, Roy Buchanan, Tiny Bradshaw, and Big Jay McNeely.