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This month the John Sinclair Radio Show passes Episode 900 with a pair of shows (899-900) that made up the WWOZ 1994 Mardi Gras Music Special hosted by Dr. John, recently rebroadcast by WWOZ for Mardi Gras 2021, Episode 901 is dedicated to sampler #29 from Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine, and 902 is a 1995 concert at the Funky Butt Café in honor of the passing of the great , thanks to Manny Lander.

All of our programmers and production staff contribute their work to this important project of the John Sinclair Foundation, offered free to the public throughout the universe for the past fifteen years, since the formation of Radio Free Amsterdam on January 1, 2005.

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MARCH 2021 PROGRAM GUIDE

Monday, March 1 TAKE IT TO THE STREETS JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 899

Episode 899 is coming from WWOZ-FM, , as the station’s Mardi Gras Special 1994 with Dr. John, written & produced by John Sinclair. with live music from Jazz Fest and around New Orleans by the Rebirth , Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, , Little Queenie, Dr. John, Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr. & Guardians of the Flame, Medicine Man Byrd, Big Chief Rollo & the Ninth Ward Hunters, Big Chief Smiley Ricks & the Wild Renegade Hunters, Spy Boy Nat and Big Chief Jake of the White Eagles, Big Chief Bo Dollis & the Wid Magnolias with Dr. John, Donald Harrison Sr. & the Guardians of the Flame with Donald Harrison Jr., Eddie Bo, the Pin Stripe Brass Band, the , the First Revolution Singers, the Rockin’ Jake Band, and Tommy Ridgley & the Untouchables.

FREAKS FOR THE FESTIVAL FLY BY NIGHT 402

Steve The Fly is playing music this week by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the Ebony Rhythm Band, Society, The Meters, Black Ivory, Earl King, Sly & The Family Stone, Chris Jones, James Brown, Julius Jones, Chet Ivy, Salon Butler & The New Breed, and Herbie Hancock.

Tuesday, March 2 DELTA BLUES THE BLUES SHOW 475

Bruce Pingree with a program of blues music this week by Son House in honor of the anniversary of his passing to the spirit world, plus sides from , the gospel singer , and .

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 445

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Hubert Sumlin, Nora Jean Bruso, , , , King Sid & The Four Princes, Nick Moss & The Flip Tops, Curtis Salgado, Mojo Buford, Shawn Pittman, Jeremy Spencer, and Little Brother Montgomery.

Wednesday, March 3 OOH MY SOUL BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 79

Episode 79 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils followed by an hour of Little Richard with the exception of two cuts by his mentor .

COLD SHOT BLUES EDITION 43

Leslie Keros is on the set with blues from Big Daddy Kinsey, , W.C. Clark, Boz Scaggs, Blue Diamonds, Andrew “Big Voice” Odom, Jimmy Dawkins, Carlos Johnson, , Gloria Shannon, B.B. King, Grant Green, Paul Geremia, , and .

Thursday, March 4 JOE SHOW NO. 10 FACE THE MUSIC 111

arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring Joseph Cherniavsky's Yiddish-American Jazz Band, Henderson's Club Alabam Orchestra, Napoleon's Emperors with Eddie Lang and Joe Tarto, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, Andy Anderson's Pelican State Jazz Band, Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band with Joe Darensbourg, Duke Derbigny's Orchestra with Joe "Cornbread" Thomas, Jelly Roll Morton's Hot Seven, Joe Daniels & his Hot Shots, Jones-Smith, Inc. with Jo Jones, Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra, Billie Holiday with Joe Eldridge, Jimmie Lunceford's Orchestra, Barney Bigard's Orchestra, Fats Waller, his Rhythm & Orchestra, and & his Orchestra with Joe Thomas.

SEEING RED THE GROOVE YARD 113

George Klein presents an hour of 1950s & ‘60s recordings by Curtis Fuller with Red Garland, , , and .

Friday, March 5 WAY OUT WEST ANCESTOR WORSHIP 17

Episode 17 from 2012 finishes up our long investigation into the early recordings of Sonny Rollins, closing with the Sonny Rollins Quintet with Kenny Dorham on Prestige in 1956 and the Sonny Rollins Trio sessions in Los Angeles in 1957 for Contemporary Records with Shelley Manne on drums and on bass for the titled Way Out West.

WILD RICE SOUNDS OF BLUE 282

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Quicksilver Messenger Service, Michael Franks, Roy Buchanan, Joe Bonamassa & Lee Ritenhour, Sugarloaf Express, and Lee Ritenhour.

Saturday, March 6 HIGH RISE BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 040

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 040 featuring music by Red Prysock, Cecil Gant, T-Bone Walker, Stick McGhee, , , Roy Brown, , , Billy Wright, Gene Phillips & the Rhythm Rockers, Junior Wells & , Freddie King, and Amos Milburn.

CHECK OUT YOUR MIND THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 286

Lucille DJ is back on the air from the heart of with a killer hour of soul & super heavy including a guest spot by John Sinclair, with tunes by Ronnie Dyson, , Milton Wright, Les McCann, Horace Family, James Brown, Willie Wright, Millie Jackson, Reuben Howell, Junior Walker & The All Stars, , , & The Supremes, , , People’s Choice, Eddie Henderson, Rufus & , and Ernie Hines.

Sunday, March 7 ECHOES OF JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 114

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by birthday honoree Lee Morgan, Dee Alexander, Jerry Bergonzi, & his Orchestra, Dado Moroni, John diMartino, and Steve Slagle. . STRANGE STRINGS JAZZ LUNATIQUE 318

David Kunian is playing the second hour of his annual Sun Ra music special to start off his new year, featuring several selections from the album called Strange Strings and other Sun Ra classics.

Monday, March 8 IT AIN’T MY FAULT JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 900

Episode 900 is coming from WWOZ-FM, New Orleans, as the second hour of the station’s Mardi Gras Special 1994 with Dr. John, written & produced by John Sinclair. with live music from Jazz Fest and around New Orleans by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Danny Barker, Robert Lowery & Virgil Thrasher, Beau Jocques & the Zydeco Hi Rollers, Dr. John, John Mooney & Bluesiana, Germaine Bazzle & the Red Tyler Band, Charles Neville & Diversity, the Algiers Stompers Brass Band with the Perfect Gentlemen Social Aid & Pleasure Club, Dr. John & Tommy Ridgley, the , the Fred Kemp Quintet with Smokey Johnson, and the Guardians of the Flame.

MR. WRIGGLES FLY BY NIGHT 403

Steve The Fly is playing music this week by Yusef Lateef, The Meters, Dave Serano, Dizzy Gillespie, Lalo Schifrin, James Brown, Camile Bob, The Visioneers, Eddie Henderson, Tribe, Lee Michaels, Fat Larry’s Band, and Parliament.

Tuesday, March 9 CHAMPAGNE & REEFER THE BLUES SHOW 476

Bruce Pingree is coming all the way from WUNH-FM in New Hampshire in 2012 with a program of blues by Li’l Ed & The Blues Imperials, J.B. Hutto & The New Hawks, & The Teardrops, Heat, Rick Estrin, Deanna Bogart, Butch Thompson, Henry Butler, , the Rockin’ Johnny Band, Lindsay Alexander, Quintus McCormick, and Michael “Ironman” Burkes.

EASY BABY RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 446

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge in Boulder CO with great blues sides by Elvis Costello & , , Catfish Keith, Tony Furtado, Guy Davis, Andy Cohen, & Hot Tuna. Lonnie Johnson, and Hubert Sumlin.

Wednesday, March 10 WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN’ BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 80

Episode 80 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, a cut by the Beatles, half an hour of Little Richard, plus cuts from Ally Venable & the Rough Blues Caravan, Johnny Bergin and Albert Castiglia.

WALK THE WALK BLUES EDITION 44

Leslie Keros is on the set from 2012 with blues from Big Daddy Kinsey, David Maxwell, Carl Weathersby, Deanna Bogart, Big Mama Thornton, James Cotton, , Zuzu Bollin, , Johnnie Johnson, Chris Smither, Earl Hooker, -James Cotton-, the Reunion Blues Band, and B.B. King. . Thursday, March 11 TIN PAN TICKET NO. 2 FACE THE MUSIC 112 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, AnNTHn Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring a further broadcast adventure using as a whimsical cypher a series of old-fashioned song titles discovered lurking in the pages of W.S. Burroughs’ experimental novel, The Ticket That Exploded, including music by ’s One Man Band, The American Quartet, The Hoosier Hot Shots, Charley Straight & his Orchestra, the Clarence Williams Blue Five, Sung by a Computer, Bing Crosby with Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra. Dicky Wells et son Orchestre avec Django Reinhardt, Steely Dan, Billie Holiday, Sidney Bechet, the Barney Bigard Sextet with , Slim Gaillard, Fats Waller, The Three Deuces, Tut Soper & Baby Dodds, the Albert Ammons Rhythm Kings with Gene Ammons, Fats Waller & his Rhythm, Bud Freeman, and Jimmy Durante.

NEW BLUES THE GROOVE YARD 114

George Klein presents a focus on pianist Phineas Newborn Jr. in various trio sessions from the 1950s & ‘60s that display his formidable talent and technique.

Friday, March 12 BIRD & DIZ AT TOWN HALL ANCESTOR WORSHIP 18

Episode 18 from 2012 features a “live” concert by Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker and their sextet with Don Byas, Al Haig, Curley Russell, Max Roach, and special guest drummer Big Sid Catlett at Town Hall in City on June 22, 1945, introduced by Symphony Sid, and “live” sessions featuring Bird with the Jazz at the Philharmonic All Stars of Norman Granz recorded in 1946 (or either 1947) and 1949.

FEEL SO BAD SOUNDS OF BLUE 283

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Lee Ritenour, the Sugar Loaf Express, Michael Franks, , the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Roy Buchanan.

Saturday, March 13 LET’S GET HIGH BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 041

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 041 featuring music by Red Prysock, Brownie McGhee, Willie Johnson, Leo Baxter, Eddie Johnson & His Orchestra, Paul Perryman, Willie Mabon, Big Joe Turner, LaVelle Prince with the Maxwell Davis Orchestra, , Calvin Bowes, Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy, Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm, Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers, Howling Wolf, Magic Sam, Albert Collins, Eddie Boyd, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Freddie Hall.

STREET FEVER THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 287

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 Fantastic Johnny C, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Marva Whitney, The Intruders, The New Birth, Valerie Simpson, Jimmy McGriff, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, , , Brick, The Temptations, Sound Experience, Terry Callier, and the Fatback Band.

Sunday, March 14 COFFEE POT JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 115

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Bill O’Connell, Vic Juris, The Lost Melody, the Cootie Williams Orchestra with Eddie Mack, Tony Monaco, Lee Morgan, Steve Turre, Ryan Cohan, and Frank Catalano.

TIPITINA JAZZ LUNATIQUE 319

David Kunian is playing music this week by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Public Enemy, The Honey Drippers, , , , Allen Toussaint, Rebirth Brass Band & Galactic, , Rebirth Brass Band & Big Chief Black Feather, the New Orleans Nightcrawlers, and the .

Monday, March 15 DREAMING JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 901

Episode 901 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in ’s Cass Corridor with n investigation of the 29th Big City Rhythm & Blues Sampler from Robert jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens, including music by Robert Jr, Sugar Mae & Handsome Bob, Mojo Morganfield, Little Freddie King with Tino Gross, Pat Smillie, Hurricane Ruth, The Lizard Kings, Luther Badman Keith, Cathy Grier, Gemini Dragon, Tony O, the Paz-Man Supersession, Dave Fields, Emma Wilson, , and Bees Deluxe.

POPCORN SWEAT FLY BY NIGHT 404

Steve The Fly is playing music this week by Mongo Santamaria, Pure Essence, The U.F.O’s, David Axelrod, The Meters, James Brown, The Upsetters, Julio Zavala, The JB’s, , Timothy McNearly, Jimi Hendrix, and The Heliocentrics.

Tuesday, March 16 PRECIOUS MEMORIES THE BLUES SHOW 477

Bruce Pingree beaming out of New Hampshire in 2012 with a program of blues & gospel music by. Ronnie Earl, Larry Garner, Etta James, The Lee Brothers, McCloud Sons of Thunder, Blind Boys of Alabama, , Butch Thompson & Pat Donahue, Poor Howard Stith & Mike “Bullfrog” Rogers, and Rev. Payton’s Big Damn Band.

BACKYARD BLUES PARTY RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 447

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by John Nemeth, Jeremy Spencer, Sue Foley, , Etta James, , Arthur Adams, James Morgan, Little Charlie & The Nightcats, Stringbean & The Stalkers, , and Lonnie Mack.

Wednesday, March 17 PAIN AND PARADISE BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 81

Episode 76 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Hodge, the Catfish Hodge Bluesbusters, Chris Canas, Jose Ramirez, and Joe Weaver with Sean Carney.

TOOL BAG BOOGIE BLUES EDITION 45

Leslie Keros is playing the blues in 2012 with cuts from Big Daddy Kinsey, Johnny Dyer, Shirley Brown, Elmore James, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Howard & the White Boys, Jimmy Burns, , , Lavelle White, , Bessie Smith, Chris Cain, and Matt “Guitar” Murphy.

Thursday, March 18 TIN PAN TICKET NO. 2 FACE THE MUSIC 113

arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring a further broadcast adventure using as a whimsical cypher a series of old-fashioned song titles discovered lurking in the pages of W.S. Burroughs’ experimental novel, The Ticket That Exploded, including music by Sidney Bechet’s One Man Band, The American Quartet, The Hoosier Hot Shots, Charley Straight & his Orchestra, Clarence Williams Blue Five, Sung by a Computer, Bing Crosby with Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra, Dicky Wells et son Orchestre avec Django Reinhardt, Steely Dan, Billie Holiday, Sidney Bechet, the Barney Bigard Sextet with Art Tatum, Slim Gaillard, Fats Waller, The Three Deuces, Tut Soper & Baby Dodds, Albert Ammons Rhythm Kings with Gene Ammons, Fats Waller & his Rhythm, Bud Freeman, and Jimmy Durante.

NO REGRETS THE GROOVE YARD 115

George Klein presents an hour of 1950s & ‘60s recordings by Charles Mingus, Freddie Redd, Teddy Edwards with Gerald Wiggins, and Hampton Hawes.

Friday, March 19 MY SEARCH ANCESTOR WORSHIP 19

Episode 19 from 2012 presents the Complete of the Charles Mingus Orchestra recorded October 12, 1962, a set of chaotic recordings originally issued by United Artists Records late in 1962 and fully restored and digitally mastered by Blue Note Records in the 1990s. The Orchestra includes Eric Dolphy, , and Dannie Richmond; plus a trumpet section with Rolf Ericson, Lonnie Hillyer, Ernie Royal, Clark Terry, Richard Williams, and Snooky Young; trombonists Eddie Bert, Jimmy Cleveland, Willie Dennis, Paul Faulise, Quentin Jackson, and Britt Woodman; plus Buddy Collette, Charlie Mariano, Charles McPherson, , , and Jerome Richardson in the section. Whew!

FEEL SO BAD SOUNDS OF BLUE 284

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by & Merl Saunders, Jacquet, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Lou Donaldson, Bobby Rush, and Raphael Wressnig & Alex Schultz.

Saturday, March 20 CALL OPERATOR 210 BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 042

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 042 featuring music by Red Prysock, Albert Collins, R.B. Stidham, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Maxwell Davis, Willie Mabon, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Floyd Dixon, , Roomful of Blues, , Little , and Amos Milburn.

SHE’S LOOKIN’ GOOD THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 288

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 Wilson Pickett, Renaldo Domino, Parliament, Mike James Kirkland, Lorraine Ellison, Hampton Hawes, The Staple Singers, Larry Graham & Graham Central Station, The Brothers Johnson, Steve Wonder, Smokey Robinson,

Gladys Knight & The Pips, the Voices of East Harlem, Tower of Power, Ronnie Laws, and the Lafayette Afro Rock Band.

Sunday, March 21 PING-PONG JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 116

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Adam Shulman, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Apache Band, Chanda Rule & the Sweet Emma Band, Willie Pickens, Eddie Harris, David “Fathead” Newman, and Emmet Cohen.

JOCKAMO JAZZ LUNATIQUE 320

David Kunian is playing music this week by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Sly & The Family Stone, David Locke’s Black Monument Ensemble, Barrence Whitfield & His Soul Savage Arkestra, The B-52s, David Bowie, Danny Barker with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Olu Dara, Danny Barker & His Creole Cats, Dr. John with The Meters, and James Booker.

Monday, March 22 A JOYFUL NOISE JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 902

Episode 902 is coming from the Funky Butt Club on Rampart Street in New Orleans in 1995, the site of a memorial concert for the great writer and musical expert named Robert Palmer who passed away from liver failure while a resident of Barracks Street in the Crescent City. Palmer was a close friend and mentor to me and well loved by everyone on the scene, so we came together at the Funky Butt to honor Bob’s memory with performances by an unidentified artist, Manny Lander, Charlie Miller & Jonathan Frelich, Mark Bingham, Tav Falco, JoBeth Britton with James Grauerholz & Daniel, and The Grand Finale with Michael Ray, with an added number by John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars with Dr. Dorothy Moore recorded at the 2006 Detroit Jazz Festival.

WOODWARD AVENUE FLY BY NIGHT 405

Steve The Fly is playing music this week by The Heliocentrics, Jimmy Smith & , B.B King, , Dr. John, amsey Lewis, the , Pat Metheny, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Yusef Lateef.

Tuesday, March 23 AMAZING GRACE THE BLUES SHOW 478

Bruce Pingree is beaming out of New Hampshire in 2012 with a program of blues & gospel music by Ronnie Earl, Larry Garner, Etta James, The Lee Brothers, Ronnie Earl, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Butch Thompson & Pat Donahue, Poor Howard Stith & Mike “Bullfrog” Rogers, and Rev. Payton’s Big Damn Band.

HOLLER & STOMP RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 448

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Jesse Thomas, the Cash Box Kings, , Robin Trower, John Nemeth, Lil Joe Washington, Hubert Sumlin, Kenny Neal, Magic Sam, B.B. King, Bobby “Blue” Bland & B.B. King, and Charlie Singleton.

Wednesday, March 24 ST. LOUIS BLUES BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 82

Episode 82 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Mike Zito & III, Joe Bonamassa, Ryan Perry, Sonny Landreth, Ray Manzarek, Eliza Neals, and Chris Canas.

BLOWING THE BLUES BLUES EDITION 46

Leslie Keros is playing the blues in 2012 with cuts from Big Daddy Kinsey, Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Hubert Sumlin, George “Harmonica” Smith, Junior Parker, , Jay McShann, Ted Robinson & Dave Spector, Jimmie Vaughan & LuAnn Barton, Irene Reid, Guy Davis, Jimmy “T-99” Nelson, The Rhythm & Blues Kings, Johnny Shines & Big Walter Horton, and H-Bomb Ferguson.

Thursday, March 25 HOLIDAY INCURSIONS FACE THE MUSIC 114

arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor during the 2013 holiday season with his weekly dose of great music featuring cuts by Boyd Raeburn & his Orchestra, Billy Vaughn & his Orchestra, David Carroll, Mauna Loa Islanders, Buddy Williams & his Golden Echo Music, John Lee Hooker, Wild Man Fischer, John Otway, Red Nelson, John Goodman, Lenny Bruce, Raul Julia, Mickey Katz & his Kosher, The Little White Knish, Ivor Cutler, Johnny Pineapple & his Islanders, Joseph N. Welch-Harry S. Truman- Emile de Antonio, The Three Sounds, Billy Mure, Busby Berkeley, and Lionel Newman & his Orchestra with the voices of Lee Harvey Oswald, Milton Berle, & Hugh Downs.

STABLEMATES THE GROOVE YARD 116

George Klein presents pianist in his first two recordings as a leader: Mal 1 (1956) and Mal 2 (1957), featuring Idrees Suleiman, Gigi Gryce, Bill Hardman, , Jackie McLean, and John Coltrane in various configurations.

Friday, March 26 PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS ANCESTOR WORSHIP 20

Episode 20 examines some of the brilliant music created by Charles Mingus & his Jazz Workshop for Atlantic Records between 1956 and 1959, starting with his recording of “Pithecanthropus Erectus” from January 30, 1956 with Jackie McLean and J.R. Monterose and ending with selections from the Blues & Roots session of February 4, 1959 with Jackie McLean, Booker Ervin, Pepper Adams, , and Dannie Richmond. Some of these selections may be found on the Atlantic collection titled Thirteen Pictures: The Charles Mingus Anthology.

DREAM ON SOUNDS OF BLUE 285

Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Little Richard, Lou Donaldson, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Don Byron, and Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders.

Saturday, March 27 CONFESSING THE BLUES BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 043

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 043 featuring music by Red Prysock, Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie Johnson, Elmo Nixon & the Henry Haines Orchestra, the Jimmy Dawkins Band, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Frank “Honeyboy” Patt, B.B. King, Buddy & Ella Johnson, Doc Jones, Frankie Lee Sims, and Roy Brown.

TAKE IT OFF HER THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 289

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 Little Richard, Vicki Anderson, Kool & The Gang, Parliament, Donny Hathaway, Junior Walker & The All Stars, The Undisputed Truth, Willie Hutch, Veda Brown, Stargard, Pleasure, and James Brown.

Sunday, March 28 WE’RE A WINNER JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 117

Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Terell Stafford, The Yoko Miwa Trio, Sara Gazarek, David “Fathead” Newman, Dave Stryker, the Chick Corea Akoustic Band, the Michael O’Neill Quartet, Martin Taylor, Andy Brown, and Brother Jack McDuff:

THE FREEDOM SUITE JAZZ LUNATIQUE 321

David Kunian is playing music this week by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Public Enemy, The Honey Drippers, Max Roach, Martin Luther King Jr, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Sanchez, David Bowie, The Gun Club, The David S. Ware Quartet, John Sinclar & the Planet D Nonet, and Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers.

Monday, March 29 HIGH TIMES JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 903

Episode 903 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in Detroit’s Cass Corridor with another hour of reefer music from the 1960s, courtesy of our listener Paul Paul who sent me a USB drive last year containing 5000 dope songs, including this selection of numbers by The Beatles, The Fugs, The Original Surfaris, The Other Half, Pink Anderson, Richie Havens, the C.A. Quintet, Steppenwolf, The Blades Of Grass, Orville Dorp, The Renaissance, The Seeds, The Rolling Stones, The Zipps, Smoke, West Coast Natural Gas, and Lowell Fulson.

CHUNKY FLY BY NIGHT 406

Steve The Fly is playing music this week by Black Heat, Ronnie Foster, Kool & The Gang, Joe Washington, Uncle Louie, , The Eight Minutes, Black Heat, Kool & The Gang, James Brown, The Meters, Earl King, Eddie Bo, and Art Farmer.

Tuesday, March 30 ROCK MY SOUL THE BLUES SHOW 479

Bruce Pingree with a program of blues & gospel music from 2012 by John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars, Li’l Ed & The Blues Imperials, the Holmes Brothers, Rev. Lonnie Ferris, Aubrey Ghent, , Fontella Bass, Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, Ben Harper & the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Clara Ward Singers, and Arizona Dranes.

GONE FOR GOOD RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 449

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by J.B. Hutto, Guitar Shorty, Tail Dragger, Magic Sam, B.B. King, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Boz Scaggs, and Elvin Bishop.

Wednesday, March 31 NO HALF STEPPIN’ BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 83

Episode 83 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Sean Carney, Joe Weaver, Victor Wainwright, Sonia Leigh, Wauchope, Zachary & Prather, , Dallas Hodge, Crystal Shwanda, Casey Hensley, and Mose Allison.

GREASY SPOON BLUES EDITION 47

Leslie Keros is playing the blues with sides by Big Daddy Kinsey, Toronzo Cannon, Paul Geremia, Larry Davis, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Son Seals, Otis Rush, Johnny B. Moore, Johnny Nicholas & the All Stars, Jimmy Thackery, Robert Covington, the Tony Monaco Trio, and B.B. King.

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