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 airs 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 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 Robert Palmer, 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. * MARCH 2021 PROGRAM GUIDE Monday, March 1 TAKE IT TO THE STREETS JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 899 Episode 899 is coming from WWOZ-FM, New Orleans, 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 Brass Band, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, Earl King, 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 Dirty Dozen Brass Band, 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 Lurrie Bell, the gospel singer Robert Johnson, and Junior Wells. 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, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Adams, Sunnyland Slim, 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 Esquerita. COLD SHOT BLUES EDITION 43 Leslie Keros is on the set with blues from Big Daddy Kinsey, Eric Clapton, W.C. Clark, Boz Scaggs, Blue Diamonds, Andrew “Big Voice” Odom, Jimmy Dawkins, Carlos Johnson, Robert Nighthawk, Gloria Shannon, B.B. King, Grant Green, Paul Geremia, David Maxwell, and Carl Weathersby. 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 Benny Carter & 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, Stanley Turrentine, Dizzy Gillespie, and Booker Ervin. 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 Ray Brown on bass for the album 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, 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. CHECK OUT YOUR MIND THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 286 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 Ronnie Dyson, Marvin Gaye, Milton Wright, Les McCann, Horace Family, James Brown, Willie Wright, Millie Jackson, Reuben Howell, Junior Walker & The All Stars, the Undisputed Truth, Willie Hutch, Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Temptations, The Impressions, People’s Choice, Eddie Henderson, Rufus & Chaka Khan, and Ernie Hines. Sunday, March 7 ECHOES OF HARLEM JAZZ AT DAYBREAK 114 Leslie Keros is playing music this week by birthday honoree Lee Morgan, Dee Alexander, Jerry Bergonzi, Duke Ellington & 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 Rebirth Brass Band, 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, Magic Slim & The Teardrops, Mississippi Heat, Rick Estrin, Deanna Bogart, Butch Thompson, Henry Butler, Roosevelt Sykes, 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 & Allen Toussaint, Luther Allison, Catfish Keith, Tony Furtado, Guy Davis, Andy Cohen, Charlie Musselwhite & 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, Billy Boy Arnold, Zuzu Bollin, Etta James, Johnnie Johnson, Chris Smither, Earl Hooker, Billy Branch-James Cotton-Sugar Ray Norcia, 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.