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 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 New Orleans Music Show with John Sinclair ​ plus Sounds of Blue with Bob Putignano ​ ​ Saturdays Founding Fathers with DJ Papa Saint Juan (1-4) ​ ​ 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 ​ ​ Founding Fathers with DJ Papa Saint Juan (5-6) ​ ​ Halfway through 2020 we’re still cooking at RadioFreeAmsterdam.org with our daily two hours of ​ ​ blues, jazz & reefer music presented by our dozen veteran deejays. And speaking of reefer music, a listener called Paul Paul sent me a thumb drive with 5000 reefer songs on it, and I’ve started exploiting it this month on my radio show. Plus we’ve got a special presentation contributed by DJ Papa Saint Juan th that starts on July 4 ​ and continues on Saturday mornings through the month, five one-hour ​ programs of Founding Fathers music under the general title The Shot Heard ‘Round The World. ​ Pushing the 24/7 button on our home page will bring ou hour after hour of Radio Free Amsterdam programming on end— just like a real radio stationsent me a thumb drive with 5000 reefer songs on it, and I’ve started exploiting it this month on my radio show. JULY 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE Wednesday, July 1 SWEET DREAMS BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 45 Episode 45 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Harmonica Shah, Willie D. Warren, Eddie Burns, Robert Noll, Johnny “Yard Dog” Jones, The Butler Twins, Down River Dan, and the Downchild Blues Band. AIN'T THAT GOOD NEWS BLUES EDITION 09 Leslie Keros with blues music from Big Daddy Kinsey, Otis Rush, Barbara Lynn, the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Harvey Mandel, Jerry Ricks, Dinah Washington, Hank Crawford, Memphis Slim, Andrew “Big Voice” Odom, Guitar Shorty (Henry Fortescue), Magic Slim, and Magic Sam. Thursday, July 2 JIM DAWGS FACE THE MUSIC 77 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music from th the first half of the 20 ​ century featuring Sam Morgan’s Jazz Band, Sidney Bechet’s One Man ​ ​ Band, Coleman Hawkins & the Ramblers, Bud Freeman Trio, Wild Bill Davison & his Commanders, Lester Young with Jones-Smith Inc., Herschel Evans with Count Basie’s Orchestra, Coleman Hawkins with Count Basie’s Orchestra, Gene Sedric with Fats Waller & his Rhythm, Alix Combelle avec Benny Carter et son Orchestra, Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra, Ben Webster Quintet, Buddy Tate & his Orchestra, the Flip Philips Hiptet, the Ike Quebec All ​ Stars, the Coleman Hawkins Quartet, the Lester Young Quartet, and the Charlie Parker Quintet. WAKE UP THE GROOVE YARD 79 George Klein presents an hour of 1950s & ‘60s recordings by John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, Sarah Vaughan, Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce, Hampton Hawes, and Stan Getz. Friday, July 3 FOOD STAMP BLUES NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 10 Jamming at the 420 Café in Amsterdam on a Wednesday afternoon with thrilling sides by Eluard Burt & Co, the ReBirth Brass Band, the Golden Eagles, James Andrews, Tommy Ridgley, Roy Brown, Lloyd Price, Professor Longhair, Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters, Rockie Charles, the Treme Brass Band, the Wild Magnolias, Little Richard, Snooks Eaglin, Smiley Lewis, Shirley & Lee, and Brother Tyrone & The Mindbenders. COMING HOME SOUNDS OF BLUE 248 nd Bob Putignano is playing music this week by Eric Clapton in honor of his 72 ​ birthday, featured ​ ​ as a leader and with Cream, Derek & the Dominos, and Delaney & Bonnie with Eric Clapton Saturday, July 4 WINDS OF CHANGE FOUNDING FATHERS 01 DJ Papa Saint Juan has created a 6-hour travelogue tied to Independence Day under the title Founding Fathers, with selections by Garland Jeffreys, Marvin Gaye, The Neville Brothers, Rod Stewart, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Richie Havens, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Buffalo Springfield, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Love, Sly & The Family Stone, The Doors, Jim Morrison, and Roy Harper. St. Juan quotes our Founding Fathers: “It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” (Samuel Adams); What do We mean by the Revolution?The War? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an Effect and Consequence of it. The Revolution was in the Minds of the People, and this was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen Years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington.” (John Adams); and ““That government is best which governs least.” (Henry David Thoreau). BACON FAT BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 005 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 005 with music by Red Prysock, Dizzy Dixon, T-Bone ​ Walker, Gene Chandler, The Dells, The Treniers, Sugar Boy & The Cane Cutters, The Clovers, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Elmore James, Andre Williams, The Blues Brothers, Albert King, Professor Longhair, Junior Wells, and Jimmy Reed. SOULVILLE THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 252 Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk and a guest set by John Sinclair, with tunes by Mitty Collier, Bunny Sigler, The Notations, Honey Cone, Johnny Otis, Don Bryant, Mable John, Sir Mack Rice, Little Queenie & The Percolators, Earl King, Walter “Wolfman” Washington & The Roadmasters, Jimmy Radcliffe, Ruth McFadden, The Fantastic Johnny C, Jesse Morgan, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and Prince Phillip Mitchell. Sunday, July 5 MOVING FORWARD JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 80 Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Joey DeFrancesco with Jimmy Smith, Joey Alexander, Nicholas Bearde, Jerry & Andy Gonzalez & the Fort Apache Band, Tim Ray, Count Basie, Judy Roberts & Greg Fishman, Ken Fowser, Connie Han, and Pete Candoli. THE WIZARD JAZZ LUNATIQUE 284 David Kunian is playing music by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Fela with Tony Allen, Henry Grimes, Don Cherry, the Mark Ribot Trio, Charlie Parker with the Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, the American Jazz Quintet, McCoy Tyner, and Professor Longhair & Uganda Roberts. Monday, July 6 SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 866 Episode 866 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters at 55 Peterboro St. where I’m featuring an hour of music from the archives, including cuts by Cannonball Adderley, Johnny Bristol, Johnnie Bassett & the Blues Insurgents, Joe Weaver, Jim McCarty & The Millionaires, James Semark, Jeff Grand, Jr. Walker & the All Stars, Jimmy Ruffin, Kim Weston, Laith al-Saadi, and Charlie Parker with strings. SPYGATE SWING FLY BY NIGHT 369 Steve The Fly is spinning sides by Robert Anton Wilson, James Brown, Allen Ginsberg, Alan Moore & Gary Lloyd, Mezz Mezzrow, Count Basie, Ezra Pound, Charles Mingus, William S. Burroughs, Lester Young, Alan Moore & Gary Lloyd, Sun Ra, James Joyce, Thelonious Monk, Ken Campbell, Miles Davis, John Zorn, The Flamingos, and Eddie Jefferson. Tuesday, July 7 ROCKIN’ THE BOOGIE THE BLUES SHOW 442 This episode of The Blues Show with Bruce Pingree features great music from. L.C. “Good ​ ​ Rockin’” Robinson, Pinetop Perkins & Earl Hooker, Muddy Waters, and Pinetop Perkins & Willie th “Big Eye” Smith, all in celebration of the 97 ​ birthday of pianist ​ Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins on July 7th. FAST FREIGHT RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 412 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Donny ​ ​ Hathaway, Ronnie Earl, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Fats Domino, Tyler Morris with J,W., Tim Hardin, John Primer & Bob Corritore, Etta James, Mark Hummel & the Blues Survivors, Peppermint Harris, Big Jay McNeely, and Frank Frost. Wednesday, July 8 FRESH OUT BLUESTIME INTERNATIONAL 46 Episode 46 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, Downchild Blues Band, John Sinclair, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Christone Kingfish Ingram, David Julia, Harpdog Brown, and Little Walter. MELLOW DOWN EASY BLUES EDITION 10 Leslie Keros with blues music from Big Daddy Kinsey, Little Walter, Mose Allison, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughan with Lonnie Mack, the Jimmy Burns Band, Janiva Magness, Ronnie Earl, Big Joe Tumer & the Count Basie Orchestra, Johnny Adams, Louisiana Red, B. B. King, Sippie Wallace, Johnnie Bassett. and Joe Weaver & the Blue Notes. Thursday, July 9 AN EDUCATIONAL MEDIUM FACE THE MUSIC 78 arwulf arwulf is holding forth at WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor with his weekly dose of great music from th the first half of the 20 ​ century featuring the California Vagabonds, the Paul Whiteman ​ ​ Orchestra, the Kentucky Blowers, the Wolverine Orchestra, Mike Bernard, Unknown Banjoist, Willy White, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Hippolyte Belhomme, Lewis Carroll, Anthony Braxton & Peter Wilson, and Irvine Arditti. OUTWARD BOUND THE GROOVE YARD 80 George Klein presents multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy in various 1960s sessions as leader and sideman with Charles Mingus and Mal Waldron. Friday, July 10 SHAKE YOUR RUGALATOR NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 11 John Sinclair is spinning records from New Orleans at the 420 Cafe in Amsterdam back in 2008, featuring sides by Eluard & Co, Craig Klein, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Champion Jack Dupree, Chief Smiley Ricks & Indians of the Nation, Black Eagles, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Dr. John, Eddie Bo, Chuck Carbo, and Kermit Ruffins.