2017—11 November Program Guide
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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 2017 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 Highway 61 Blues with Scott Barretta plus Sounds of Blue with Bob Putignano Thursdays Beyond The Groove Yard with George Klein plus Ancestor Worship with John Sinclair Fridays In The Soul Kitchen with Harry Duncan plus The Soul Lucille Show with Lucille DJ Saturdays Big City Blues Cruise with Martino D’Lorenzo plus Party Train with Linda Lexy Sundays Mood Indigo with Leslie Keros plus Jazz Lunatique with David Kunian The long-awaited launch of the heralded new Radio Free Amsterdam website and music service of the John Sinclair Foundation at johnsinclair.us is now set for Wednesday, November 22, 2017, the anniversary of the first John Sinclair Radio Show broadcast in 2004. The new site is now named radiofreeamsterdam.org, and the RFA Archive of all programs broadcast since 2004, formerly at radiofreeamsterdam.com, will now be located at www.johnsinclair.us as archive.radiofreeamsterdam.org Our lineup presents great radio shows by Bruce Pingree, Cary Wolfson, Scott Barretta, George Klein, Leslie Keros, Harry Duncan, Lucille DJ, Martino D’Lorenzo, Linda Lexy, Steve The Fly, Bob Putignano, David Kunian, and our flagship program, The John Sinclair Radio Show. You can tune in to our 24/7 stream at http://streema.com and ride the music around the clock—just like a real radio station. NOVEMBER 2017 PROGRAM GUIDE Wednesday, November 1 DRINKING BLUES HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 09 Scott Barretta raises a prolonged toast this week to music inspired by alcoholic spirits and the conduct resulting from serious imbibing, with a program of drinking music by Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Billy Gayles & the Kings of Rhythm, Billy “Red” Love, Jimmy Rogers, Big Bill Broonzy, Curly Weaver, Memphis Minnie, Merline Johnson, Washboard Sam, Al Jackson, Mr. Swing with Bobby Plater’s Orchestra, Amos Milburn, Jimmy Liggins, Milt Buckner & His Beale Street Gang, Dave Bartholomew, Tiny Grimes & His Rockin’ Highlanders, Sticks McGhee, Floyd Dixon, Big Joe Turner, and Jack McVea. LET’S STRAIGHTEN IT OUT SOUNDS OF BLUE 113 Bob Putignano is playing music this week by the Grateful Dead, Horace Silver, Steely Dan, Otis Redding, Barbara Morrison and Latimore. Thursday, November 2 HOTEL HAPPINESS BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 201 George Klein presents classic Blue Note recordings by organist Jimmy Smith in the 1950s & ‘60s, accompanied by Lee Morgan, Blue Mitchell, Curtis Fuller, Ike Quebec, Stanley Turrentine, and Kenny Burrell. FREEDOM TIME ANCESTOR WORSHIP 66 Episode 66 presents a second hour of music from the box set called Freedom, Rhythm & Sound from Soul Jazz Records with cuts from the 1960s & ’70s from Gato Barbieri & Dollar Brand, Amina Claudine Myers, The Pharaohs, Ralph Thomas, Horace Tapscott & The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Michael White, Roy Brooks & The Artistic Truth, Errol Parker, and Sun Ra & His Arkestra. Friday, November 3 NERVOUS BOOGIE IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 13 This week’s episode of In The Soul Kitchen with San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan features great tunes from Junior Wells & The Aces, The Falcons, Justin Hinds & the Dominos, Tinariwen, Frankie Lee Sims, Muddy Waters, Eddie Taylor, Paul Gayten, Lee Dorsey, The Southern Sons, Ruby Johnson, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Jeff Parker. GREEN POWER THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 117 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 Ann Peebles, Bobby Womack, Black Ivory, Curtis Mayfield, Little Richard, Little Sister, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the Sun Sounds Orchestra, Robert Lowe, Lloyd Parks & U Brown, Graham Central Station, Milton Wright, the Gary Bartz Ntu Troop, Mandrill, and Allen Toussaint. Saturday, November 4 HIDEAWAY BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 23 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 23 features an entire program of music by the great Freddie King, including performances recorded live at the 1973 Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival by John Sinclair, special guest on this episode, plus three great cuts by B.B. King and Red Prysock with Martino’s opening theme. BIG TEN INCH RECORD PARTY TRAIN 08 Detroit’s own Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in Royal Oak, where she’s playing music in Episode 8 by Tino Gross, Bull Moose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats, Bobby Womack, Vicki Anderson, Cedric Burnside, The Chambers Brothers, Brainstorm, Al Green, Billy Sha-Rae, Sam & Dave, Chuck Berry, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, Eddie Kirk, Dolly Gilmore, Booker T & The MGs, Cash McCall, Bloodstone, and Paul Stuart Davies with the original Vandellas. Sunday, November 5 VAMPED BY A BROWNSKIN MOOD INDIGO 53 Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Ehud Asherie, the Mike Jones Trio, Rhythm Future Quartet, Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Lenny Marcus Trio & Friends, Herlin Riley, Corey Kendrick Trio, Houston Person & Ron Carter, Tony Lustig, Gregory Porter, and Duke Ellington. KING CHARLEMAGNE JAZZ LUNATIQUE 149 David Kunian is playing music in Episode 149 by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Clair Caffery & Carl Briselle, Shelby Lynn & Allison Moore, Joe Jackson, Steely Dan, Jim Carroll, Christian Scott, Grace Kelly, Geri Allen, the Jim Carroll Band, and the AFO Executives. Monday, November 6 IT’S TOO FUNKY IN HERE JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 730 Episode 730 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in Detroit with an hour of music by James Brown digitally transferred from a cassette of my Blue Sensations 84 radio show from WDET-FM in Detroit on June 23, 1991 that featured the 4-CD box set titled Star Time, including a mix of James’s It’s Too Funky In Here with Kalamu ya Salaam’s poem “If We Don’t Make This Constant Music.” LONELY FIRE FLY BY NIGHT 234 Steve The Fly is on fire this week with sides by Eldridge Holmes, Sly & The Family Stone, jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, the john Coltrane Quartet, and Joanna Newsome. Tuesday, November 7 ATOMIC COCKTAIL THE BLUES SHOW 308 Bruce Pingree is playing music this week by Charles Mingus, Slim Gaillard, Toronzo Cannon, Selwyn Birchwood, Li’l Ed & The Blues Imperials, Mark Nomad, the Andy “T-Nick” Nixon Band, Larry Simon & Groove Bacteria with Eric Mingus, the Cash Box Kings, Willie King & The Liberators, the Rance Allen Group, Taj Mahal, and Keb’ Mo’. I SMELL TROUBLE RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 277 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Janiva Magness, Ike & Tina Turner’s Kings Of Rhythm, Ike & Tina Turner, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Carolyn Wonderland, Killer Blues Band, Tracy Nelson, Big James & The Chicago Playboys, Jimmy Reed, Otis Taylor, Mike Bloomfield, Buddy Guy, and Bee Houston. Wednesday, November 8 MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 10 This week Preston Lauderbach of the Stax Museum in Memphis sits in for Highway 61 host Scott Barretta with a program of stone Memphis blues from the Stax/Volt archives, including selections by Little Milton, Rufus Thomas, Gus Cannon, John Lee Hooker, Steve Cropper/Pops Staples/Albert King, Isaac Hayes, Little Sonny, Carla Thomas, Otis Redding, Mabel John, Sir Mack Rice, Deanie Parker, Johnnie Taylor, Sam & Dave, Wendy Renee, Booker T & the Mgs, and the great Albert King. SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE SOUNDS OF BLUE 114 Bob Putignano is playing music in Episode 114 by The Leslie Drayton Orchestra, Barbara Morrison, Horace Silver, Danny Gatton with Joey DeFrancesco, "Papa" John DeFrancesco, and Melvin Sparks. Thursday, November 9 ALL DAY LONG BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 202 George Klein continues a survey of Blue Note recordings by organist Jimmy Smith, accompanied by prominent Blue Note artists such as Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Stanley Turrentine, Lou Donaldson, and others. NICE GUYS ANCESTOR WORSHIP 67 Music by the Art Ensemble Of Chicago this week with Paris recordings from 1969-70 issued as the film soundtrack Les Stances à Sophie and on the BYG album Nice Guys, with reedmen Joseph Jarman and Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie on trumpet, Malachi Favors on bass, Don Moye at the drums, and vocalist Fontella Bass. Friday, November 10 FUNKY WORM IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 12 This week’s episode of In The Soul Kitchen with the legendary San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan features great tunes from O.V. Wright, Jean Plum, the Ohio Players, Marva Whitney, Al Green, Andrew Hill, Greg Osby & Andrew Cyrille, Jason Moran, Courtney Pine, the Re-Birth Brass Band, Baba Mal, Alice Coltrane, and William DeVaughn. CONCRETE RESERVATION THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 118 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 Eddie Kendricks, Leon Thomas, Syl Johnson, Charles Bradley, Little Milton, and a host of others. Saturday, November 11 BEATNIK BEAT BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 24 Martino D’Lorenzo is featuring guitarist Freddie King this week, recorded live at the 1973 Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival by John Sinclair, special guest on this episode, and preceded by music from Red Prysock, Sil Austin with the Tiny Bradshaw Orchestra, the Cecil Young Quartet, Paul Gayten, Albert King, and Ray Charles. INTERNATIONAL LOVER PARTY TRAIN WITH LINDA LEXY 09 Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in Royal Oak, playing music in Episode 9 by Tino Gross, Bunny Sigler, Frankie Lyman & The Teenagers, Jan Bradley, The Dramatics, Koko Taylor, the Bolton Brothers, Mary Davis, Al Wilson, People’s Choice, Lyn Collins, Bobby Rush, Ike & Tina Turner, Lillian Dupree, The Turbans, Prince, and Jimmy Bones.