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2018—05 May Program Guide The John Sinclair Foundation Presents RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 2018 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 Blues & Roots with John Sinclair Thursdays Beyond The Groove Yard with George Klein plus Mood Indigo with Leslie Keros 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 Ancestor Worship with John Sinclair plus Jazz Lunatique with David Kunian Sorry for the delay with this Program Guide for May, but I’ve been seriously under the weather for several weeks including the entire last week of the past month when normally my administrative work for Radio Free Amsterdam is done—editing each of 60 or 62 programs for the next month, mastering, annotating, uploading, and posting in appropriate order to our WordPress site so you can hear them in proper sequence. I may be a week behind with this particular Program Guide but our internet broadcasting has continued uninterrupted with classic blues radio shows by Bruce Pingree, Cary Wolfson, Scott Barretta, and John Sinclair; jazz shows by George Klein, Leslie Keros, and John Sinclair; awesome soul and rhythm & blues from Bob Putignano, Lucille DJ, Martino D’Lorenzo, and Linda Lexy; and freeform radio programs from Steve The Fly, David Kunian, and our flagship program, The John Sinclair Radio Show. MAY 2018 PROGRAM GUIDE Tuesday, May 1 BALL AND CHAIN THE BLUES SHOW 333 Bruce Pingree is playing a tribute this week to blues singers Denise LaSalle and Janis Joplin with cuts by Denise, Z.Z. Hill, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Garnett Mims & The Enchanters, Erma Franklin, Howard Tate, Big Mama Thornton, and Leadbelly. YIELD NOT TO TEMPTATION RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 302 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by John Hammond, Jimmy Reed, Eddie Taylor, Freddie King, B.B. King, Esther Phillips, Margie Evans, Kenny Parker, Andrew “Big Voice” Odom , Bobby “Blue” Bland, Curtis Salgado & Alan Hagar, and the Gregor Hilden Organ Trio. Wednesday, May 2 BRING IT ON HOME TO ME HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 37 Scott Barretta takes a good long look at the bluesier side of the great Clarksdale singer and producer Sam Cooke on this week’s episode of Highway 61 with a series of “live” recordings featuring Sam in full action. SHOUT BROTHER SHOUT BLUES & ROOTS 18 Episode 18 features Trumpet Records artists Willie Love & His Three Aces, the St. Andrews Gospelaires, the Argo Singers & the Southern Sons, the Blue Jay Gospel Singers, Brother Hugh Dent, the Carolina Kings of Harmony, and Sonny Boy Williamson, plus cuts by Wally Mercer, Walter “Wolfman” Washington & The Roadmasters, James Andrews, Danny & Blue Lu Barker, Henry Butler, Muddy Waters, Lafayette “Thing” Thomas, J.B. Lenoir, Joe Hill Louis, and Little Walter. Thursday, May 3 DON’T MESS WITH MR. T BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 227 George Klein presents tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine with Hammond B-3 organist Shirley Scott. Stanley & Shirley were married and recorded together frequently in the 1960s. Stanley is also heard here on various Blue Note albums as a leader and as a sideman with Horace Parlan. SWING TIME MOOD INDIGO 79 Leslie Keros is featured in a rebroadcast of her first episode of Mood Indigo with music by Shirley Scott & Stanley Turrentine, Lou Rawls, Melvin Sparks, David Egan, Oscar Pettiford, Lenny Marcus Trio, Dave Clark’s Blues Swingers, Elias Haslanger, Erwin Helfer & Katherine Davis, Lavelle Lacy, Terry Moore & Richard Gibbs, and Wycliffe Gordon. Friday, May 4 TIME AFTER TIME SOUNDS OF BLUE 139 Bob Putignano is playing music in Episode 139 by Michael Bloomfield & Al Kooper, Chicago Transit Authority, Johnnie Taylor, Joe Sample & David T. Walker, Al Kooper with Shuggie Otis, and Kimberly "KC" Allison. SUGAR PLUM THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 143 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 Johnnie Taylor & Carla Thomas, Ernie Hines, Funk Inc., Herbie Hancock, Milton Wright, Yusef Lateef, Idris Muhammad, Wynonie Harris, Eddie Burns, Sir Mack Rice, Butterball, Billy Hawks, and The Sweet Inspirations. Saturday, May 5 MR. HIGHWAY MAN BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 49 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 49 features music by Red Prysock, Link Wray, Z.Z. Top, Howlin’ Wolf, Slim Harpo, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, James Brown, Clifton Chenier, Charlie Musselwhite, and one unidentified artist in the middle. SUPER COOL PARTY TRAIN 34 Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in Detroit, where she’s playing music in Episode 34 by Tino Gross, Rufus Thomas, The Impressions, Lee Rogers, James Brown& The JB’s, Beginning Of The End, Mark Holder & The Positives, Carrie Riley & The Fascinations, Brotherhood, Richi Corbin Trio featuring Barbara Trent, The Sisters Love, the Soul Merchants, Don Hollinger, Warren Lee, Martha & The Vandellas, Prince Charles, John Sinclair, and Howlin’ Wolf. Sunday, May 6 BETWEEN TWO WORLDS ANCESTOR WORSHIP 92 Our celebration of the Sun Ra centennial continues with this program of selections from a series of albums recorded in Chicago between 1956-59, including Angels and Demons at Play (Saturn LP 407, 1956), Jazz in Silhouette (Saturn LP 205, 1958), and The Nubians of Plutonia (Saturn LP 406, 1958-59). SPIRIT VESSELS JAZZ LUNATIQUE 175 David Kunian is hosting the great New Orleans poet Dennis Formento reading from his new book Spirit Vessels and featuring sides by The Honeydrippers, Carlos Santana & The Isley Brothers, Orgone, Tom Waits, Aerosmith, Charlie Parker, George Lewis, and Allen Toussaint. Monday, May 7 HEALING CHANT JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 756 Episode 756 is coming from the Radio Free Amsterdam studios in Detroit’s Cass Corridor, where I’m recovering this week from cataract surgery and paying homage to my friend, saxophonist, poet and composer Charles Neville of New Orleans’ Neville Brothers, or “Charlie the horn man” as his brother Aaron always called him, who passed away last week at the age of 79. We’ll hear music recorded with his band Diversity at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in the early 1990s, a new poem in his honor composed and recited by Don Paul, music by Roger Lewis with Kirk Joseph from a recent Charles Neville memorial at Sweet Lorraine’s in New Orleans, selections by Charles with the Harvey Diamond Quartet and the Workingman's Jazz Band, my recording of his poem “History 101” with Wayne Kramer and the Blues Scholars, and three cuts by the Neville Brothers from their album Live On Planet Earth.. QUADRANGLE FLY BY NIGHT 260 Steve The Fly is playing sides this week by Jackie McLean, Fenton Robinson, Charles Mingus, Clifford Brown, Yusef Lateef, Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie, John Zorn, Sun Ra & His Arkestra, King Tubby, Jackie Wilson, and John Lennon. Tuesday, May 8 MORNING TRAIN THE BLUES SHOW 334 Bruce Pingree is playing music this week in honor of the long departed bluesmen Leadbelly and Blind Willie Johnson, plus cuts by Curtis Salgado & Alan Hager, Tinsley Ellis, Catfish Keith, and Afrissippi. TEENAGE BEAT RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 303 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Kim Wilson, the Original Blues Brothers Band, Sean Costello, Taj Mahal, Hollywood Blue Flames, Jimmy Reed , Z.Z. Hill, Preston Shannon, Kenny Parker, Mud Morganfield, Otis Grand, Mr. Sipp, and Kenny “Blue” Ray. Wednesday, May 9 LIGHTNING STOMP HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 38 Highway 61 takes us to Texas this week with a program of music and commentary by the great Lightning Hopkins including an interview segment with Sam Charters and songs by Lightning Hopkins, Lightning & Thunder, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Big Joe Williams. POISON IVY BLUES & ROOTS 19 Out of the Vintage Radio Vaults at Radio Free Amsterdam comes this special episode of Blues & Roots with John Sinclair from WWOZ-FM in New Orleans on January 16, 2000 with music by B.B. King, T-Bone Walker, Amos Milburn, Little Esther & the Johnny Otis Orchestra, Willie Mabon, Ruth Brown, Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters, Big Joe Turner, Ray Charles, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Elmore James, Buddy Guy, Albert King, Jimmy Reed, and Little Walter. Thursday, May 10 STOLEN SWEETS BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 228 George Klein continues a focus on husband-and-wife team Shirley Scott and Stanley Turrentine, with an emphasis on several albums on Prestige under Shirley’s name. She is also heard with guitarist Kenny Burrell and vibraphonist Lem Winchester. GOOD GROOVE MOOD INDIGO 80 Leslie Keros is back with a rebroadcast of her second episode in this series featuring John Pizzarelli, Richard “Groove” Holmes, Johnnie Bassett, Ben Sidran, Arthur Migliazza, Dr. John & Donald Harrison, Davell Crawford, LaVern Baker, Baby Face Willette, Scott Hamilton, and Roy Hargrove. Friday, May 11 SWEET REVIVAL SOUNDS OF BLUE 140 Bob Putignano is playing more music in Episode 140 by The Crusaders, Johnnie Taylor, Al Kooper & Shuggie Otis, Chicago Transit Authority, and Jefferson Airplane. ANTS IN MY PANTS THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 144 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 James Brown, Kitty White, Ike & Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, The Ohio Players, and a host of others.
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