The John Sinclair Foundation Presents RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 2020 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 Internationalwith Roger White plus Blues & Roots with John Sinclair Thursdays Jazz at Daybreak with Leslie Keros plus The Groove Yard with George Klein Fridays Face The Music with arwulf arwulf 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 Crossroads with Leslie Keros plus Jazz Lunatique with David Kunian This Program Guide has been much delayed by my inability to function properly since suffering a heart attack on February 10 and open heart surgery on Valentine’s day, from which I’ve been recovering at Detroit Heart Hospital and then Hartford Rehab Center on the west side of Detroit. I’m about to go home today and continue my recovery on an outpatient basis at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan while I concentrate on making and posting the programs for April on Radio Free Amsterdam. It took me an inordinate amount of time to complete the March programming but now it’s all in order and thanks to Steve The Fly everything is posted for the month, so here’s the Program Guide for your records. Next month’s Guide should be right on time on the first of the month, even though it’s April Fool’s Day. Pushing the 24/7 button on our home page will bring you hour after hour of Radio Free Amsterdam programming on end— just like a real radio station. MARCH 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE Sunday, March 1 HOME BOY CROSSROADS 27 Leslie Keros is on the set from 2012 with an hour of music by Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Vaughan, Winard Harper, Chet Baker, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Oscar Peterson, Poncho Sanchez, Marv Jenkins, and Milt Jackson. PALM COURT STRUT JAZZ LUNATIQUE 266 David Kunian is offering a new combination of Sun Ra’s annual New Year’s concert and the opening salvo of Carnival music for 2020 with cuts by Sun Ra & His Arkestra, King James & The Special Men, the Astro Infinity Arkestra, the Wld Magnolias, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, and the Golden Eagles Monday, March 2 PARADISE VALLEY WALK JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 848 Episode 848 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters in the Cass Corridor with an hour of music by the Planet D Nonet from their albums Blowin’ The Blues, Dave’s Garage, Blowin’ Away The Blues, Swinging The D, Live at the Scarab Club, and Kings of Kansas City Swing in our second hour of a long-awaited salute to the great Detroit drummer, bandleader and producer RJ Spangler, co-leader (with trumpeter James O’Donnell) of the Planet D FLY’S KITCHEN FLY BY NIGHT 351 Steve The Fly is navigating in the dark with music & words by Howard The Dolphiin, Robert Anton Wilson, Yukari Watanabe, Ken Nordine, Fats Domino, the 9th Ward Warriors with the Rebirth Brass Band, Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers, Pink Anderson, Lenny Bruce, Lambert Hendricks and Ross, New Flesh featuring Fly, Fly Agaric featuring RAW, Edd Byrns, Doctor Marshmallow Cubicle, Donovan, The Fugs, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Andre Williams. Tuesday, March 3 ST. LOUIS BLUES THE BLUES SHOW 424 Bruce Pingree is playing music this week by Johnny Rawls, Seth Rosenbloom, Fillmore Slim, Bruce Katz, Albert Ammons, Henry Gray, Detroit Junior, Wilbur Harrison, Hubert Sumlin, Elmore James, Bill Davis Trio, W.C. Handy & His Memphis Blues Band, Lt. Jim Europe’s 369th Division Hellfighters Band, and Handy’s Orchestra of Memphis. LITTLE BY LITTLE RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 394 Cary Wolfson is spinnning at The Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Dave Specter, Junior Wells, Ike Turner’s Kings Of Rhythm, Joanna Conner, Doug Duffy & Badd, Mississippi Heat, Tucker & Thomas, 11 Guys Quartet, Brody Buster’s One Man Band, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Bob Margolin, Prof. Louie & The Crowmatix, and Barry Levenson. Wednesday, March 4 LIQUOR STORE LEGEND BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 28 Episode 28 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Jimmy Reed. The Coasters, Patti LaBelle, Chuck Leavell, Dawn Tyler Watson, Meg Williams, Howard Glazer, and Eliza Neals. AIN’T DOING TOO BAD BLUES & ROOTS 112 Episode 112 features great recoirdings by Little Walter, Ivory Lucky (Ted Taylor), Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers, Johhny Morrisette, Jimmy Reed, The Marigolds, Earl Gaines with Louis Brooks & His Hi-Toppers, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Ike Turner, Albert King, Magic Slim & The Teardrops, Matilda Jones, Super Chikan, R.L. Burnside, and Robert Bilbo Walker. Thursday, March 5 DANCE SONG JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 62 Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Nina Simone, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Bill Evans Trio, Scott Hamilton, Allen Harris, Richie Cole & Tony Monaco, Louis Smith, and Benny Golson. RIFFTIDE THE GROOVE YARD 62 George Klein presents trumpeter Howard McGhee in a variety of significant bebop sessions from the mid-1940s into the early 1960s, recorded mostly on Savoy Records. Friday, March 6 TUBA WRESTLERS OF THE 1920S FACE THE MUSIC 61 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music featuring tuba men Harry Prather with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers, Billy Taylor, Bill Benford, Milt Hinton with Tiny Parham & his Musicians, Pete Briggs with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven, Bud Scott with King Oliver’s Dixie Syncopators, Moses Allen with the Chickasaw Syncopators, June Cole with Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra, Vernon Page with Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra, Lawson Buford, Jabbo Smith’s Rhythm Aces, Cyrus St. Clair with Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten, Elmer James with Chick Webb & his Orchestra, and James Jackson with Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders. TAKE A LOOK AROUND SOUNDS OF BLUE 231 Bob Putignano is playing music in this week’s episode by Joe Walsh, the James Gang, and Lee Michaels. Saturday, March 7 THE BEAT PATCH BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 141 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 Ypsilant. Episode 141 features music by Red Prysock, Howling Wolf, Little Milton, Elmore James, The Ventures, Eric Clapton with the John Mayall & the Blues Breakers, the Todd Rhodes Orchestra, John Lee Hooker, The Richard Brothers with Boogie Woogie Red, Peter Debree & The Wanderers, Andre Williams, Eddie “Guitar” Burns, and Jackie Wilson. BUSTIN’ LOOSE THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 235 Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk with tunes by Earl King, Both Worlds, Brother Jack McDuff, Lea Roberts, Carol Woods, Esther Marrow, Ben Vereen, Con Funk Shun, The Blackbyrds, John Boutté, Harlem River Drive, Kim Weston, Chuck Brown, the Average White Band, Chairmen Of The Board, and Jimmy McGriff. Sunday, March 8 PROMETHEAN CROSSROADS 28 Leslie Keros is back with an hour of music by Mulgrew Miller, Donald Byrd, Bobby Hutcherson, and Woody Shaw. PRISONER OF LOVE JAZZ LUNATIQUE 267 David Kunian is playing music this week by Egg Yolk Jubilee, an extremely rare Art Neville recording, Dave Jordan in conversation with David Kunian, Dr. John, James Booker, and The Meters. Monday, March 9 HONEST WOMAN JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 849 Episode 849 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam’s temporary Detroit headquarters in the Hartford Rehab Clinic where I’m recuperating from open heart surgery on Valentine’s Day and making a program of music by the great Detroit blueswoman Thornetta Davis interspersed with a conversation between Thornetta and Robert Jr & Sugar Mae of Bg City Rhythm & Blues magazine recorded on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise liner in the Caribbean Sea last year. FLY’S KITCHEN FLY BY NIGHT 352 Steve The Fly is navigating in the dark with music & words by Howard The Dolphiin, Robert Anton Wilson, Yukari Watanabe, Ken Nordine, Fats Domino, the 9th Ward Warriors with the Rebirth Brass Band, Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers, Pink Anderson, Lenny Bruce, Lambert Hendricks and Ross, New Flesh featuring Fly, Fly Agaric featuring RAW, Edd Byrns, Doctor Marshmallow Cubicle, Donovan, The Fugs, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Andre Williams. Tuesday, March 10 WIND BLOWN BLUES THE BLUES SHOW 425 Bruce Pingree is playing music this week by Meade Lux Lewis, Joe Kennedy Jr, Louis Jordan, Alberta Hunter, Bettye LaVette, Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band, Mike Zito & Friends, The Nick Moss Band, Junior Watson, Rick Estrin & The Night Cats, and Chuck Berry. LITTLE BY LITTLE RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 395 Cary Wolfson is spinnning at The Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Dave Specter, Junior Wells, Ike Turner’s Kings Of Rhythm, Joanna Conner, Doug Duffy & Badd, Mississippi Heat, Tucker & Thomas, 11 Guys Quartet, Brody Buster’s One Man Band, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Bob Margolin, Prof. Louie & The Crowmatix, and Barry Levenson. Wednesday, March 11 CALL ME MOONSHINE BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 29 Episode 29 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Eliza Neals, the Rusty Wright Band, Doug Deming & The Jewel Tones, Kenny Parker, and Colin Linden & Luther Dickinson. WE WILL FLY AWAY BLUES & ROOTS 113 Episode 113 is playing the blues from New Orleans with selections by Little Walter, Paula & The Pontiacs, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Henry Gray & the Cats, Bryan Lee, Li’l Buck Sinegal, James Rivers, Coco Robiceaux, Eddie Bo, Tommy Ridgley, Snooks Eaglin, Lavelle White, Sugar Boy Crawford, Professor Longhair, and Walter “Wolfman” Washington.