2021—06 June Program Guide
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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 2021 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 Ancestor Worship 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 * Our internet radio station continues in its 16th year to air two hours of original programming every day and offers a continuous flow of music on the 24/7 stream on our website just like a real radio station. This month Soul Lucille, broadcasting soul & funk from Florence, Italy on controradio-fm, is contributing her 300th program to Radio Free Amsterdam; Bob Putignano will reach 300 Sounds of Blue shows next month; and Roger White will make it 100 BluesTime International episodes next month as well. 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 sixteen years since the formation of Radio Free Amsterdam on January 1, 2005. * JUNE 2021 PROGRAM GUIDE Tuesday, June 1 STEP IT UP & GO THE BLUES SHOW 488 Bruce Pingree with a program of blues & gospel music this week from 2013 celebrating the birthdays of bluesman Paul Rishell and the great Arthur Neville, who had just turned 75. GOOD MORNING BLUES RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 458 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Sue Foley, Della Reese, Big Maybelle, Earl Gilliam, Jimmy Dawkins, Bobby Radcliff, John Mayall, Veronica Lewis, Lurrie Bell, Michael Burks, Mary Flower, and Buddy Guy. Wednesday, June 2 I GOTTA MOVE BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 93 Roger White is playing music in Windsor, Ontario this week by Elmore James, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Nathaniel Mayer, Melvin Davis, Rusty Day, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, Catfish Hodge, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, and Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac. ONE TRUE VINE BLUES EDITION 57 Leslie Keros has an hour of first-rate blues music from 2013 by Big Daddy Kinsey, Tampa Red & Big Maceo, Otis Rush, Mark Hummel, Mavis Staples, Michael Bloomfield, Little Johnny Jones, Jimmy Thackery, Andrew Odom, J.B. Lenoir, James Cotton, Ramsey Lewis, Muddy Waters, Buster Benton, Little Esther & Little Willie Littlefield, and Pinetop Perkins. Thursday, June 3 HARLEM STRUT FACE THE MUSIC 124 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor in 2016 with his weekly dose of great music featuring multiple selections by James P. Johnson and Fats Waller, plus Luckey Roberts, Willie “The Lion” Smith, The Louisiana Sugar Babes, Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra, Morris’s Hot Babies and the Arto Blue Flame Syncopators. HAITIAN FIGHT SONG THE GROOVE YARD 126 George Klein presents the last of four hours on the early recordings of Charles Mingus on his Debut Records label featuring Mingus as leader & sideman in various early & mid 1950s sessions. Friday, June 4 BLOWIN' THE BLUES AWAY ANCESTOR WORSHIP 30 Episode 30 comprises the second installment of our month-long investigation into the compositions and performances of pianist Horace Silver and his stellar Quintet, recording for Blue Note Records between 1959 and 1962 when they were one of the leading jazz attractions in America, featuring saxophonist Junior Cook, trumpeter Blue Mitchell, bassist Gene Taylor and drummer Louis Hayes, replaced by fellow Detroiter Roy Brooks when Hayes joined the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1959. John Harris Jr. replaces Brooks on the final selection, from 1962. CROSSCUT SAW SOUNDS OF BLUE 295 Bob Putignano is playing the Sounds of Blue this week with great blues from Otis Rush and Albert King. Saturday, June 5 HIGH RISE BIG CITY BUES CRUISE 053 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 053 from 1982 featuring music by Red Prysock, Cecil Gant, T-Bone Walker, Stick McGhee, Big Joe Turner, Elmore James, Roy Brown, Otis Rush, James Cotton, Billy Wright, Gene Phillips & the Rhythm Rockers, Junior Wells & Buddy Guy, Freddie King, and Amos Milburn. DAMN RIGHT IT’S GOOD THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 299 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 Shane Martin, Joe Tex, Os Diagonais, Latin Breed, Gwen McCrae, 100 Proof Aged In Soul, Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, the Golden Echoes, Lucy Rodgers, The Gospel Comforters, Lyn Collins, MFSB, Boncana Maiga, The Undisputed Truth, Jungle Fire, T-Connection, Wilson Pickett, and the Wynton Kelly Trio. Sunday, June 6 OLD FASHIONED JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 126 Leslie Keros is showcasing modern jazz at its best in 2018 on Jazz at Daybreak, with selections in Episode 1 by Shirley Scott & Stanley Turrentine, Nancy Wilson, Javon Jackson, Bobby Lewis, Peter Sommer Septet, Brad Mehldau, Clark Terry & Red Mitchell, Nicole Henry, Eastern Rebellion, Wes Montgomery, and the Mike Longo Trio. TURN ME LOOSE JAZZ LUNATIQUE 331 David Kunian is playing music this week from Egg Yolk Jubilee, the Annie Soundtrack, James Booker, Todd Snyder, The Radiators, Bob Dylan, Bobby Lounge, Elizabeth Cook, Z.Z. Top, Prince, Iggy Pop with Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Red Garland. Monday, June 7 EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 913 Episode 913 is coming from the Cass Corridor headquarters of Radio Free Amsterdam in Detroit with another hour of killer blues and conversation compliments of Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine, this time featuring the venerable Chicago guitarist and singer Jimmy Johnson and his new Delmark album, Every Day of Your Life. We’re going to dedicate this show to the recently departed Bob Koester, founder and proprietor of Delmark Records for 70 years and a truly great American. BLUE MIDNIGHT FLY BY NIGHT 417 Steve The Fly is smoking his way through a great set of music in 2014 by Stevie Wonder, Funkadelic, Willie West, A Perfect Circle, The Philly Armada Orchestra, Jimi Hendrix, Betty Harris, Willie & The Sugarpoppers, Chuck Berry, Little Walter, Magic Sam, Allen Toussaint, Merry Clayton, John Coltrane, and Al Young. Tuesday, June 8 LET’S ROCK THE BLUES SHOW 489 Bruce Pingree is playing the blues by Paul Rishell, Susan Tedeschi, Mike Wheeler, Craig Chiquito, Robert Cray Band, Gary Clarke Jr, Poor Howard Stith & Mike “Bullfrog” Rogers, John Namath, the Blues Broads with Tracy Nelson, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, Art Neville, and Professor Longhair. KEEP IT TO YOURSELF RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 459 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Muddy Waters, Chris Cain, Veronica Lewis, Little Al Thomas & The Crazy House Band, Shakura S’aida, William Clarke, Lafayette “Thing” Thomas, Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite, Susan Tedeschi, Johnny B. Moore, The Soul of John Black, and Bill Perry. Wednesday, June 9 I GOTTA MOVE BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 94 Roger White is playing music in Windsor, Ontario this week by Elmore James, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Nathaniel Mayer, Melvin Davis, Rusty Day, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, Catfish Hodge, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers with Peter Green, and Fleetwood Mac. HOT POTATO BLUES EDITION 58 Leslie Keros files another episode of Blues Edition from Chicago in 2013 with music from Buddy Guy, Little Sonny, Cash McCall, Eric Bibb, Johnnie Bassett, Ann Peebles, Teddy Edwards Quartet, Betty Everett, Eddie Taylor, Eddie Burns Blues Band, Z.Z. Hill, Joe Louis Walker, Mary Lane, Janiva Magness, Hip Linkchain, Billy Branch & Kenny Neal, and Mary Bridget Davies. Thursday, June 10 BLITZKREIG BABY FACE THE MUSIC 125 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor in 2012 with his weekly dose of great music featuring Luckey Roberts, Willie “The Lion” Smith, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Basie’s Bad Boys, Duke Ellington & his Orchestra, Una May Carlisle, Glenn Hardman & his Hammond Five, Artie Shaw & his Gramercy Five, Art Tatum, Mary Lou Williams, Claude Hopkins, the Lester Young Quartet, and Roland Kirk. BLUES IN THE CLOSET THE GROOVE YARD 127 George Klein presents an hour of jazz from the 1950s and ’60s by Stan Getz & Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Redd, Red Garland, and John Coltrane. Friday, June 11 SILVER'S SERENADE ANCESTOR WORSHIP 31 Episode 31 presents another thrilling hour with the Horace Silver Quintet and a stellar array of sidemen including Blue Mitchell, Carmell Jones, Woody Shaw and Charles Tolliver (trumpet), Junior Cook, Joe Henderson, Tyrone Washington, and Stanley Turrentine (tenor saxophone), Gene Taylor, Teddy Smith, Bob Cranshaw, and Larry Ridley (bass), and John Harris Jr., Roy Brooks, Roger Humphries, and Mickey Roker (drums), recorded for Blue Note Records between 1962 and 1968. TROUBLE, TROUBLE SOUNDS OF BLUE 296 Bob Putignano is playing the Sounds of Blue this week with another hour of great blues from Albert King and Otis Rush, with a special appearance by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Saturday, June 12 CONFESSING THE BLUES BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 054 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 054 from 1982 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.