Saturday, June 28

ROFOROFO FIGHT

TOKE TIME 95

This episode of Toke Time is the fourth installment of our elongated investigation into the music of Fela Kuti, taken from the 4^th disc in the 27-disc box set of Fela’s complete recordings called Roforofo Fight: The Fela Singles, recorded in 1972.

Saturday, June 28

LET YOUR HAIR DOWN

IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 09

The award-winning In The Soul Kitchen show with the legendary San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan now broadcasts In Exile from the Light Rail Studios in San Francisco. This week’s episode features great tunes by the Temptations, Chuck Carbo, James Brown, Don Covay, the Pilgrim Travelers, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Little Walter, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Richard Pryor, Robert Blair & The Violinares, Lee Dorsey, Guitar Junior, Guitar Slim, Danny Barker & the Creole Cats, Dr. John, the Fatback Band, The Spinners, and the Staple Singers.

Sunday, June 29

THE LESBIAN RASCALS TAKE IT TO THE BURNING WAT

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 102

The Hari Rascals and Lesbian Horse frolic again in the painful depths of the British Winter. You will hear judders and stops, aural gags such as doors closing and sound becoming muffled as if from inside a club toilet. You can dance to this but remember it's not about the physical act. You can dance in the brain. These songs address mortality and accept it—they are bitter sweet and contain many hidden shallows... Many drugs were harmed in the making of this. Please use Headphones responsibly. 100% original samples.

Sunday, June 29

BURN, K-DOE, BURN

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 55

David Kunian presents 60 minutes of musical and oratical dynamite from the late, great Emperor of the Universe, the one and only Mr. Magahonide The, the auteur of smash R&B singles from New Orleans like “Mother In Law,” “Tain’t It the Truth,” “Beating Like a Tom Tom” and “Make You Love Me’ under the production genius of Allen Toussaint. During the 1980s Mr. K-Doe hosted a weekly radio program for WWOZ-FM, a single episode of which has been preserved, digitally transferred, edited by David Kunian and offered here on Radio Free Amsterdam for your amazement and listening pleasure.

Monday, June 30

PLUS ONE

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 555

The gods have granted us a fifth episode for the month of June and it’ll be coming from somewhere in Amsterdam if all is still well, with music of the sort of quality and impact you have come to expect from this program.

Monday, June 30

MOUNT SHASTA

FLY BY NIGHT 66

Steve The Fly visits the Motor City all the way from London with this beautiful program of music by Yusef Lateef, Adam Rudolph, Marcus Belgrave, Phil Ranelin, Tribe, and John Sinclair with the Planet D Nonet.

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Tuesday, July 1

LAST KIND WORD

THE BLUES SHOW 132

Bruce Pingree with a program of Mother’s Day music this week by the Rev. Edward W. Claibourne, Mattie Delaney, Geechie Wiley, Elvie Thomas, Louise Johnson, Victoria Spivey, and Ella Fitzgerald.

Tuesday, July 1

SEÑOR BLUES

MESSIN’ WITH THE BLUES 13

Leslie Keros spotlights several artists playing at the Blues on the Fox Festival in Aurora, Illinois— Joe Louis Walker, Jimmie Vaughan, Tab Benoit, and Taj Mahal—and pays tribute to the recently departed jazz icon Horace Silver with music by Horace, BMR4, Elias Haslanger, and Clifford Brown.

Wednesday, July 2

LEGALIZE MY NAME

JAZZ ROOTS 48

Pearl Bailey with the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and with the Axel Stordahl Orchestra plus classic Pete Fountain are in the Jazz Roots spotlight this week, with a pair of closing cuts by Louis Armstrong.

Wednesday, July 2

DRINKING BLUES

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 09

Scott Barretta raises a prolonged toast this week to music inspired by alcoholic spirits and the conduct resulting from serious imbibing, with a program of drinking music by Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Billy Gayles & the Kings of Rhythm, Billy “Red” Love, Jimmy Rogers, Big Bill Broonzy, Curly Weaver, Memphis Minnie, Merline Johnson, Washboard Sam, Al Jackson, Mr. Swing with Bobby Plater’s Orchestra, Amos Milburn, Jimmy Liggins, Milt Buckner & His Beale Street Gang, Dave Bartholomew, Tiny Grimes & His Rockin’ Highlanders, Sticks McGhee, Floyd Dixon, Big Joe Turner, and Jack McVea.

Thursday, July 3

DAWGING AROUND

BLUES EDITION 61

Leslie Keros as another smoking edition of blues by Big Daddy Kinsey, Johnnie Bassett, Mr. Bo, Little Willie John, John Lee Hooker, Eddie Burns Blues Band, Eddie Kirkland, Washboard Willie, Billy Boy Arnold, Big Bill Broonzy, Georgia White, Mose Allison, and King Curtis & Champion Jack Dupree.

Thursday, July 3

RIVER'S INVITATION

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 102

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Finis Tasby, James Peterson, Jimmy Reed, Sherman Robertson, Guy Davis, Shemekia Copeland, Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges, Kid Ramos with Janiva Magness, Bobby Radcliffe, Irma Thomas, Bobby Parker with Carlos Santana, Luther Allison, and Kenny “Blue” Ray.

Friday, July 4

THE MAGIC CITY

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 95

This week’s episode of Ancestor Worship presents your host’s most favorite Arkestra creations, from the ESP-Disk Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra, Volume 2 and the Saturn Records release The Maic City, both from 1966. These recordings represent the Arkestra at its first full peak and it gives me reat pleasure to offer them here.

Friday, July 4

THE YEAR 1949 IN RHYTHM & BLUES (PART 5)

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 44

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’with The Bartender at WTJU-FM in Charlottesvile VA with another installment of great rhythm & blues sides from 1949 by Nat “King: Cole, Roy Milton, Tommy Douglas, Charles Brown, Lionel Hampton, Dinah Washington, Big Joe Turner, Sonny Thompson, Frank Culley, Larry Darnell, Ella Mae Morse, Hot Lips Page, and Camille Howard.

Saturday, July 5

OPEN & CLOSE

TOKE TIME 96

Our second month of selections from the 27-disc box set of the complete recordings of Fela Kuti begins with the Africa '70 band with music from the early 1970s albums Open & Close and Afrodisiac.

Saturday, July 5

COMING HOME

IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 10

Harry Duncan is In The Soul Kitchen with tunes by the Spinners, LaBelle, the Natural Four, The Emotions, Dottie Pierson, Laura Lee, Clarence Carter, Candi Staton, Howard Tate, Paul Kelly, Tyrone Davis, Walt Weiskopf, Robbie Amin, Ornette Coleman, and Alice Coltrane.

Sunday, July 6

MAMA ROUX

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 103

Caleb Selah entertains his house guest John Sinclair with a program of selections acceptable to both parties by Dr. John, Angola Prisoners, Washboard Sam, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Little Richard, Howard Tate, Bob Dylan, Roberta Flack, Grootna, the Dixie Cups, and the Wild Magnolias.

Sunday, July 6

SUN RA SUMMER SOLSTICE SHOW (PART 1)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 38

Producer David Kunian hosts his annual salute to Sun Ra on WWOZ-FM in New Orleans with another spectacular serving of recognized and obscure classics by the great composer and his Arkestra in honor of the 2009 Summer Solstice, spaced with typically pointed commentary from the producer.

Monday, July 7

MOVIN’ ON

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 556

Episode 556 is coming from the Nieuwezijds Kolk outside the Coffeeshop Betty Boop on its penultimate day of existence, as this shop and Homegrown Fantaseeds, Abraxis and the Grasshopper will shut their doors tomorrow leving a big gap in the coffeeshop culture in Amsterdam, so we’re commemorating this sad occasion by cutting this show and including excerpts from our first internet broadcasts of November 22, 2004 at the Homegrown Fantaseeds on the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal including commentary by the late Larry Hayden and a poem & remarks by the late Mr. Lee Bridges, plus music from today by Detroit Junior, the Forgotten Souls Brass Band, Count Basie & His Orchestra, Ted Jackson, John Sinclair & Steve The Fly, Daisy May, Homesick James & His Dusters, Curtis Mayfield, Ed Sanders, The Founder Effect, and Horace Silver

Monday, July 7

LET'S GO HANG OUT AT TESCO

FLY BY NIGHT 67

Steve The Fly pops into the local supermarket to hear some tunes by Medeski, Martin, Wood & Nels Kline, Steve Noble & Alan Wilkinson, and Sun Ra & His Arkestra, capped by a few words from the late Ken Campbell.

Tuesday, July 8

SONG FOR MY MOTHER

THE BLUES SHOW 133

Bruce Pingree is playing Mother’s Day blues this week with music by Lucille Hegamin, Lizzie Miles, Rosetta Howard & the Harlem Hamfats, Sarah Martin, Lillian Glynn, Merline Johnson, Gerri Hall, Irma Thomas, Jean Knight, Carolyn Porter, Barbara Lynn, Tracey Nelson, Marcia Ball, Rev. J.M. Gates, Rev. Lonnie Ferris, Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues, Inez Andrews & The Caravans, Mavis Staples & Lucky Peterson, and Angela Strehli.

Tuesday, July 8

BOOM BOOM

CHICAGO BOUND 14

Leslie Keros spinning from the heart of Chicago with tunes by Robert Jr. Lockwood, Billy Branch & the Sons of Blues, Magic Slim, Willie Buck, Jimmy Dawkins, George ‘Harmonica’ Smith, Cash McCall, Sunnyland Slim, Shakey Jake Harris, Al Smith, Jimmie Lee Robinson, Muddy Waters, Hip Linkchain, and Willie Mabon.

Wednesday, July 9

THE BUMPS

JAZZ ROOTS 49

Tom Morgan has Preston Jackson & His Uptown Band in the Jazz Roots spotlight this week, followed by Elzadie Robinson, Jeanette James & Her Syncho Jazzers, Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons, and Helen Humes.

Wednesday, July 9

MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 10

This week Preston Lauderbach of the Stax Museum in Memphis sits in for Highway 61 host Scott Barretta with a program of stone Memphis blues from the Stax/Volt archives, including selections by Little Milton, Rufus Thomas, Gus Cannon, John Lee Hooker, Steve Cropper/Pops Staples/Albert King, Isaac Hayes, Little Sonny, Carla Thomas, Otis Redding, Mabel John, Sir Mack Rice, Deanie Parker, Johnnie Taylor, Sam & Dave, Wendy Renee, Booker T & the Mgs, and the great Albert King.

Thursday, July 10

ECHOES OF HARLEM (PART 1)

CROSSROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 62

Leslie Keros with a special show presenting an hour of mid- to late 1950s jazz performed by musicians depicted in the classic photograph and ensuing documentary film titled A Great Day in Harlem, including cuts by Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young & Roy Eldridge, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk Quartet, Gene Krupa, Coleman Hawkins, Pee Wee Russell, Horace Silver, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Plus 4, and Johnny Griffin with the Joe Morris Orchestra.

Thursday, July 10

DIRTY POOL

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 103

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Beverley Martyn, Skip James, John Martyn, Otis Rush, John Nemeth, Jimmy Dawkins, Ford Blues Band, John Mayall with C.J. Chenier, Melvin Taylor & The Slack Band, and Ronnie Earl.

Friday, July 11

MONORAILS AND SATELLITES

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 96

The music for tonight’s investigation into the early recorded music of Sun Ra takes us into the mid-1960s with selctions taken from the albums Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra, Volume 2 (ESP-Disk), The Magic City,Monorails and Satellites, and Outer Spaceways Incorporated, all from Saturn Records and all featuring the magnificent Solr Arkestra at its best. Monorails and Satellites spotlights the piano of Sun Ra.

Friday, July 11

THE YEAR 1949 IN RHYTHM & BLUES (PART 6)

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 45

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’with The Bartender at WTJU-FM in Charlottesvile VA with another installment of great rhythm & blues sides from 1949 by Charles Brown, Eddie Mack, Dinah Washington, Ray Charles, Camille Howard, Lionel Hampton, Louis Jordan, Ivory Joe Hunter, Big Joe Turner, Roy Milton, Nat “King” Cole, Cleo Brown, and Goree Carter.

Saturday, July 12

CONFUSION

TOKE TIME 97

Fela Kuti & The Africa '70 are featured in this week’s installment of music from the 27-disc box set of Fela’s complete recordings with selections from the early 1970s albums Confusion and Gentleman.

Saturday, July 12

BROADWAY FREEZE

IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 11

Our newest program offering at Radio Free Amsterdam and Detroit Life Radio features the legendary San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan and his award-winning In The Soul Kitchen show, now celebrating its 27^th year on the air at KUSF. This episode features deep soul, gospel, jazz, and blues you can use from All The People, Roger Collins, Harvey Scales & the 7 Sounds, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Willie Mabon, Bobby “ Blue” Bland, Little Walter,Roosevelt Sykes, Bill Abel, TheFamous Blue Jay Singers of Birmingham, Alabama, The O’Jays, The Notations, Rudy Love & the Love Family, The Impressions, The Temptations, Sam & Dave, and Donnie Hathaway.

Sunday, July 13

ENNUI (PART 1)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 104

Sick shit from Caleb Selah and the housedem.com cadre in Blackheath, to be continued next week as well. Ouch!

Sunday, July 13

SUN RA SUMMER SOLSTICE SHOW (PART 2)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 39

Producer David Kunian hosts his annual salute to Sun Ra on WWOZ-FM in New Orleans with another spectacular serving of recognized and obscure classics by the great composer and his Arkestra in honor of the 2009 Summer Solstice, spaced with typically pointed commentary from the producer.

Monday, July 14

WHO KNOWS

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 557

Episode 553 will be coming from our home base in Amsterdam with a musical program yet to be determined. Who knows?

Monday, July 14

DIG ON IT

FLY BY NIGHT 68

Steve The Fly is digging ddep this week into an hour of music by Sunnyland Slim, Little Walter, Eddie Bo, Michael Longo, Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Screaming Jay Hawkins, The Spaniels, the Gil Evans Orchestra, Sonny Rollins-Dizzy Gillespie-Sonny Stitt, Jimmy McGriff, and King Tubby.

Tuesday, July 15

MOTHER HEARD A VOICE

THE BLUES SHOW 134

Bruce Pingree is paying respects to Mother’s Day with a program of music this week by Big Mama Thornton, Marcia Ball, Etta James & The Roots Band, Essa Mae Brooks, Katie Mae Young, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and Arizona Dranes.

Tuesday, July 15

BIRD’S NEST BOUND

MESSIN’ WITH THE BLUES 14

Leslie Keros is Messin’ with the Blues again with music from Eric Lindell, Anson Funderburgh, Oliver Sain, North Mississippi All Stars, Albert King. Robben Ford, Shirley Brown, Clarence Carter, Eddie Cotton, Planet D Nonet, Mr. B: Hillbilly Holiday and the Joe Krown-Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington-Russell Batiste trio.

Wednesday, July 16

JET PROPELLED PAPA

JAZZ ROOTS 50

Helen Humes is featured at the top of Jazz Roots this week, followed by Percy Humphrey’s Crescent City Joymakers and Louis Armstrong.

Wednesday, July 16

SUN RECORDS SPECIAL

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 11

This week on Highway 61 Scott Barretta investigates the blues output generated by Sam Phillips at Sun Records in Memphis in the early 1950s, including classic blues and R&B recordings by Billy “The Kid” Emerson, Pat Hare, Memphis Ma Rainey, Johnny O’Neal, Earl Hooker, Sammy Lewis, Rufus Thomas, Pinetop Perkins, Roscoe Gordon, James Cotton, Little Milton, Billy Lee Riley, Little Junior Parker, Elvis Presley, Frank Frost, Willie Nix, Sleepy John Estes, Dr. Ross, and Hot Shot Love.

Thursday, July 17

DON'T YOU KNOW

BLUES EDITION 62

Leslie Keros is cooking in Chicago with great blues sides by Big Daddy Kinsey, Willie Buck, Bonnie Raitt, Ray Charles, Stephanie Trick, Eddie Harris, Rick Estrin & the Nightcats, Jimmy Smith, Joanna Connor, Deanna Bogart, Cafe R&B, Janiva Magness, Lightnin' Slim, and Johnnie Bassett.

Thursday, July 17

SNAKE DRIVE

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 104

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Son Seals, Porkchop Willie, R.L. Burnside, the Nick Moss Band, Mikey Junior, Brewer Phillips & The Houserockers, B.B. King, Snooks Eaglin, Eden Brent, Jerry Lee Lewis, John & Sylvia Embry, and Alvin “Red” Tyler.

Friday, July 18

OUTER SPACEWAYS INCORPORATED

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 97

This week’s installment of the saga of Sun Ra on records centers on the Saturn Records albums Outer Spaceways Incorporated and My Brother The Wind from the second half of the 1960s, featuring the Solar Arkestra in all its splendor at its early peak in New York City.

Friday, July 18

THE YEAR 1949 IN RHYTHM & BLUES (PART 7)

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 46

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’with The Bartender at WTJU-FM in Charlottesvile VA with great sides by Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Charles Brown, Amos Milburn, Nat “King” Cole, Earl Jackson, Hot Lips Page, Dinah Washington, Big Joe Turner, Roy Milton, James Von Streeter, Nat “King” Cole, Lionel Hampton, and Ray Charles.

Saturday, July 19

WHY BLACK MAN DEY SUFFER

TOKE TIME 98

We're listening this week to selections from the early 1970s Fela Kuti albums Why Black Man Dey Suffer and Alagbon Close included in the 27-disc box set of the complete Fela recordings.

Saturday, July 19

FUNKY WORM

IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 12

The award-winning In The Soul Kitchen show with the legendary San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan is now celebrating its 27^th year on the air at KUSF-FM even as KUSF has been taken off the air by the University of San Francisco and now broadcasts In Exile from the Light Rail Studios in San Francisco. This week’s episode of In The Soul Kitchen features great tunes from O.V. Wright, Jean Plum, the Ohio Players, Marva Whitney, Al Green, Andrew Hill, Greg Osby & Andrew Cyrille, Jason Moran, Courtney Pine, the Re-Birth Brass Band, Baba Mal, Alice Coltrane, and William DeVaughn.

Sunday, July 20

ENNUI (PART 2)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 105

The ultimate Fuck You Sound for your battered eardrums: ennui upon ennui from Caleb Selah and the housedem cabal.

Sunday, July 20

SUN RA SUMMER SOLSTICE SHOW (PART 3)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 40

Producer David Kunian hosts his annual salute to Sun Ra on WWOZ-FM in New Orleans with another spectacular serving of recognized and obscure classics by the great composer and his Arkestra in honor of the 2009 Summer Solstice, spaced with typically pointed commentary from the producer.

Monday, July 21

WHAT NEXT

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 558

Episode 558 should find us back in Amsterdam for another relaxed program from the 420 Café or wherever else we might want to broadcast from, playing whatever music we might want to—as always.

Monday, July 21

SILVER SUNSHINE

FLY BY NIGHT 69

Steve The Fly is basking in the silver sunshine of a beautiful Amsterdam summer afternoon listening to music & wwords by Horace Silver, Sun Ra, Amiri Baraka & the Billy Harper Sextet, Charles Mingus, Robert Anton Wilson, Medeski Martin Wood & Kline, Jimi Hendrix, John Sinclair & His Amsterdam Blues Scholars, Steve Fly Agaric 23, and Ken Campbell.

Tuesday, July 22

CRIME SCENE

THE BLUES SHOW 135

Bruce Pingree is playing the blues with music this week byTerika Singleton, Joe Louis Walker, The Holmes Brothers, Mark Hummel, The Charles Burton, Blues Band, The Blues Doctors, Kim Simmons & Savoy Brown, Damon Fowler, Tommy Castro & the Painkillers, Mark Nomad, The Robert Cray Band, and Catfish Keith.

Tuesday, July 22

SWING TIME

CHICAGO BOUND 15

Leslie Keros is playing the finest of Chicago blues by Robert Jr. Lockwood, John & Sylvia Embry, A.C. Reed, Jimi ‘Prime Time’ Smith, Art Hodes, Steve Freund, Jim Brewer, Billy Boy Arnold, Koko Taylor, Otis Rush, Dave Clark’s Blues Swingers, Rob Stone & the C-Notes, and John Primer.

Wednesday, July 23

FAST AND FURIOUS

JAZZ ROOTS 51

Johnny Dunn & His Jazz Hounds and Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra share the Jazz Roots spotlight this week with Tom Morgan.

Wednesday, July 23

LIVING BLUES

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 12

This week on Highway 61 Scott Barretta spotlights the artists featured in the current issue of Living Blues magazine, published at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, and plays recordings by Buddy Guy, Michael Powers, Cool John Ferguson, Cootie Stark, Little Pink Anderson, and Howard Tate.

Thursday, July 24

ECHOES OF HARLEM (PART 2)

CROSSROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 63

Leslie Keros with a special show presenting an hour of mid- to late 1950s jazz performed by musicians depicted in the classic photograph and ensuing documentary film titled A Great Day in Harlem, including cuts by Sonny Rollins, Maxine Sullivan, Benny Golson, Buck Clayton with Jimmy Rushing, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, and Thelonious Monk.

Thursday, July 24

THAT’S BIG

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 105

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge tonight with great blues sides by Irma Thomas, Marcia Ball & Tracy Nelson, Steve Freud & Gloria Hardiman, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, Porkchop Willie, Dave Specter with Otis Clay, Selwyn Birchwood, Walter Trout, Frank-O Johnson, Snooks Eaglin, Clifton Chenier, the Terry Hanck Band, and Li’l Buck Sinegal.

Friday, July 25

NOTHING IS

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 98

The music for tonight’s program is selected from the ESP-Disk CD called College Tour Volume 1: The Complete Nothing Is..., comprisiong music recorded by the Arkestra on a late-60s tour of New York state universities and colleges sponsored by the record company and ioncluding other artists on the label like pianist Burton Greene, who introduces the band onstage here for a continuous program of music by the Solar Myth-Science Arkestra.

Friday, July 25

THE YEAR 1949 IN RHYTHM & BLUES (PART 8)

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 47

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’with The Bartender at WTJU-FM in Charlottesvile VA more great sides from 1949 by Larry Darnell, L.C. Williams, Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Roy Milton, Amos Milburn, Camille Howard, Lionel Hampton, Dinah Washington, and Carl Campbell.

Saturday, July 26

EXPENSIVE SHIT

TOKE TIME 99

Fela Kuti & The Africa '70 are in the Toke Time spotlight this week with selections from the Expensive Shit and He Miss Road albums take from the 27-disc box set of the complete recordings of Fela Kuti.

Saturday, July 26

NERVOUS BOOGIE

IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 13

The award-winning In The Soul Kitchen show with the legendary San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan is now celebrating its 27^th y, ear on the air at KUSF-FM even as KUSF has been taken off the air by the University of San Francisco and now broadcasts In Exile from the Light Rail Studios in San Francisco. This week’s episode of In The Soul Kitchen features great tunes from Junior Wells & The Aces, The Falcons, Justin Hinds & the Dominos, Tinariwen, Frankie Lee Sims, Muddy Waters, Eddie Taylor, Paul Gayten, Lee Dorsey, The Southern Sons, Ruby Johnson, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Jeff Parker.

Sunday, July 27

STREET LEVEL INTELLECTUALS

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 106

Another hour of total weirdness from Caleb Selah at The Fuck You Sound in London to make you bash your head against the wall and call for help.

Sunday, July 27

SUN RA MOON LANDING (PART 1)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 56

David Kunian and guest navigator John Bouille explore the spaceways in honor of the 40^th anniversary of the Moon Landing with a three-hour selection of music—of which this episode comprises Hour One—by Sun Ra & His Arkestra, severely enhanced by a series of spoken commentaries by Ra himself.

Monday, July 28

MORE FROM THE DAM

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 559

This episode will be coming from somewhere in Amsterdam if all is still well, with music of the sort of quality and impact you have come to expect from this program.

Monday, July 28

WHAT'S THAT?

FLY BY NIGHT 70

Steve The Fly is asking the eternal question with this scintillatig program of music by the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Horace Silver, The Nels Cline Singers, Roland Kirk, Kenny Burrell, the Wild Magnolias, Medeski Martin Wood & Cline, and Steve Fly & Quark.

Tuesday, July 29

THE SPELL

THE BLUES SHOW 136

Bruce Pingree is playing blues in honor of the birth of King Records founder Sid Nathan this week by King & Federal Records artists Freddie King, Albert King, Smokey Smothers, Kid Thomas, Bobby King, Hank Ballard & The Mdnighters, Lirttle Willie John, Wynonie Harris, Bull Moose Jackson, James Brown, Little Willie Littlefield, Sonny Thompson, Willie Mabon, Lonnie Johnson, and Champion Jack Dupree.

Tuesday, July 29

NOTHING BUT LIFE

MESSIN' WITH THE BLUES 15

Leslie Keros is Messin' With The Blues with conversation and music by BMA nominee Guy Davis and selections from Eric Bibb, Ruthie Foster, John Jackson, Paul Geremia, Larry Garner, Dr. John, Little Sonny, Bonnie Raitt, John Dee Holeman, and Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry.

Wednesday, July 30

WHOOPIN’ BLUES

JAZZ ROOTS 52

Jimmy Durante and the Eureka Brass Band are featured on Jazz Roots this week, with a closing number by Duke Ellington.

Wednesday, July 30

EISENHOWER BLUES

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 13

Scott Barretta presents a program of idiosyncratic political blues by Andrew Tibbs, J.B. Lenoir, Memphis Slim, Homesick James, Johnny Young John Lee Hooker, Junior Wells, Cassandra Wilson, Louisiana Red, Percy Mayfield, and Willie King.

Thursday, July 31

BOOGIE DISEASE

BLUES EDITION 63

Leslie Keros is playing a lotta blues tonight with selections by Big Daddy Kinsey, Phillip Walker, Frank Frost, Roy Milton, John Hammond, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Gene Taylor, James Cotton with Joe Louis Walker, Jim Suhler & Alan Haynes, Robert Nighthawk, Jimmy McCracklin, Doctor Ross, Preston Shannon Band, and Muddy Waters.

Thursday, July 31

BLUES JUICE

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 106

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Kenny "Blue" Ray, Baby Calloway, Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon, Robert Ealey, Steve Freud & Gloria Hardiman, Guitar Shorty, Otis Rush, Otis Redding, Shuggie Otis, Ann Peebles, John Nemeth, Janiva Magness, Kid Ramos, and Dave Specter with Otis Clay.

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John Sinclair – “Mohawk” CD

Released Monday 24th March 2014 on Iron Man Records

Album Preview:  Mohawk streaming on SoundCloud.

John Sinclair, the renegade poet, scholar and cultural revolutionary releases his new album on Monday 24th March 2014. John, has been described as an Archetype of the 1960′s art, music and literary synthesis, and who today, is still kicking with both feet on his trajectory for cultural transformation. His new record features ten tracks from his book of verse: always know: a book of monk. Twenty poems planted firmly in a single-shot session, and carefully trimmed down to ten exhibits for this album. Beatnik poems, great odes and personal reflections of the Be-Bop jazz persuasion, all flowering together.

Album Preview:  John Sinclair's new album Mohawk streaming on SoundCloud.<<<

AUGUST 2014 PROGRAM GUIDE

Friday, August 1

SPACE AURA

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 99

Episode 99 completes Sun Ra & The Arkestra’s College Tour of New York State university campuses In May 1966, from the CD compilation College Tour Volume 1: The Complete Nothing Is... with Sun Ra on Piano, John Gilmore on tenor saxophone, Marshall Allen on alto saxophone, Pat Patrick on baritone sax, Robert Cummings on baritone clarinet, Teddy Nance and Ali Hassan on Ttrombones, Ronnie Boykins on bass & tuba, Clifford Jarvis at the drums, James Jackson on the log drum and flute, and Nimrod Hunt on the Sun Horn and gong.

Friday, August 1

THE YEAR 1949 IN RHYTHM & BLUES (PART 9)

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 48

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’ at WTJU-FM in Charlottesvile VA with another incredible serving of rhythm & blues records from the year 1949, featuring Todd Rhodes, Ella Mae Morse, Roy Milton, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Louis Jordan, Lionel Hampton, Big Joe Turner, Amos Milburn, T.J. Fowler, Dinah Washington, Ray Charles, Smilin’ Snooky Lynn, and Pearl Bailey & Moms Mabley.

Saturday, August 2

EVERYTHING SCATTER

TOKE TIME 100

Episode 100 continues our long presentation of the recorded works of Fela Kuti with wo albums from 1974 called Everything Scatter

and Noise For Vendor Mouth, taken from the 27-disc box set of the complete Fela recordings courtesy of Caleb Selah and The Fuck You Sound in London.

Saturday, August 2

NO CITY LIKE NEW ORLEANS

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 01

The New Orleans Music Show with John Sinclair first beamed out of the 420 Café in Amsterdam on Wednesday afternoons at 4:20 starting January 2, 2008. For this edition the narrative segments have been excised resulting in an actual solid hour of New Orleans musical power by Chief Smiley Ricks, the Wild Magnolias, the New Orleans Jazz Vipers, Irma Thomas, Kermit Ruffins & the Barbeque Swingers, James Andrews, Earl King, Kirk Joseph's Backyard Groove, Glen David Andrews & His Lazy Six, Guitar Slim, Jr, Dr. John & the Lower 911, Eddie Bo, and the Golden Eagles with the Forgotten Souls Brass Band.

Sunday, August 3

FUCK YOU SOUND SAY FUCK (PART !)

CALEB SELAH PRESENTS THE FUCK YOU SOUND 107

Caleb Selah kicks off a new series of long-form Fuck You Sounds called SAY FUCK from the new housedem.com studios in London with lots of new tricks and weird kicks.

Sunday, August 3

SUN RA MOON LANDING (PART 2)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 57

The second hour of the Sun Ra Moon Landing show presented by David Kunian with John Bouille at WWOZ-FM in New Orleans on the 40^th anniversary of American men walking on the moon begins with a long philosophical disquisition by Sun Ra over music called “Living in a Space Age” followed by a series of potent selections from the collected works of the master composer and readings from Ra’s words by Bouille and Kunian himself.

Monday, August 4

COMING UP

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 560

An hour of music yet to be selected from a location in Amsterdam yet to be determined but quite possibly our home base at the 420 Café.

Monday, August 4

MINGUS TIME

FLY BY NIGHT 71

Steve The Fly presents a brilliant program of the works of the great bassist, composer and bandleader Charles Mingus, from the early 1950s into the 1960s, start to finish.

Tuesday, August 5

SLOW LEAKE

THE BLUES SHOW 137

Bruce Pingree is paying homage to the great blues pianist called Lafayette Leake on hus birthday with a program of music featuring Lafayette with Howling Wolf, Jimmy Dawkins, Taildragger, Magic Sam, Willie Dixon, Big Three Trio, Jody Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson, Buddy Guy, Chuck Berry, Junior Wells, Jesse Fortune, and Koko Taylor.

Tuesday, August 5

BLUES UP AND DOWN

CROSSROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 01

Producer/host Leslie Keros focuses on the blues side of jazz on Crossroads: Where Jazz Meets Blues on WHPK-FM in Chicago. Her original episode for Radio Free Amsterdam features recordings by Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Deep Blue Organ Trio, Kenny Burrell, Mark “Mr. B” Braun, Zoot Sims, Ella Fitzgerald, the Legacy Band, Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, B. B. King, and T-Bone Walker.

Wednesday, August 6

RHAPSODY IN BLUE

JAZZ ROOTS 53

Jazz Roots presents the composer George Gershwin in a piano performance of his classic “Rhapsody In Blue” and other compositions, followed by Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra with Count Basie plus a closing number from the grreat Lil Green.

Wednesday, August 6

NASHVILLE JUMPS

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 14

Highway 61 host Scott Barretta spotlights the historic Nashville blues scene with a nod to WLAC Radio, the 50,000-watt clear-channel powerhouse that beamed crucial rhythm & blues recordings all over the eastern United States during the 1950s and beyond. Featured artists from the Nashville legacy are Pvt. Cecil Gant, Jimmy Sweeny, Billy McAllister, Christine Catrell, Ivory Joe Hunter, Shy Guy Douglas, Johnny Jones, Lillian Offitt, Esquezito, Arthur Gunter, Bernard Harrison, Gene Allison, Arthur Alexander, Roscoe Shelton, Herbert Hunter, Sam Baker, Joe Henderson, and Johnny Jones.

Thursday, August 7

BOOGIE WOOGIE STOMP

BLUES EDITION 01

Our first episode of Blues Edition with Leslie Keros is a special New Year’s Eve show from WDCB-FM in Chicago featuring music from 2011 blues CD releases by Ben Waters, Demetria Taylor, Paul Geremia, Clarence Johnson, Quintus McCormick, Grana Louise, the Cash Box Kings, Sharon Lewis and Texas Fire, Mary Flower with Curtis Salgado, Tracy Nelson, and Toronzo Cannon, with an opening theme by Big Daddy Kinsey.

Thursday, August 7

HIT BY A TRUCK

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 107

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides this week from Travis Haddix, Johnny Rawls, Giles Corey’s Stoned Soul, Dave Specter, Bobby Parker, Sam Moore, John Lee Hooker, Sleepy John Estes, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, John Nemeth, Li’l Band O’Gold, Percy Sledge, Otis Redding, and Bob Corritore.

Friday, August 8

THE NIGHT OF THE PURPLE MOON

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 100

Episode 100features the Sun Ra album The Night of the Purple Moon, featuring Ra on two Mini-Moogs and rocksichord; John Gilmore on tenor saxophone & drums; Danny Davis on alto saxophone, alto clarinet, flute, conga, and drums; and Stafford James on electric bass, probably recorded in New York City in 1970. The set ends with an elongated reading from My Brother The Wind, Volume I.

Friday, August 8

THE YEAR 1949 IN RHYTHM & BLUES (PART 10)

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 49

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’ at WTJU-FM in Charlottesvile VA with a final hour of the finest rhythm & blues records of the year 1949, featuring Big Joe Turner, King Carl Davis, Roy Milton, Johnny Otis, Hot Lips Page, Ella Mae Morse, Ray Charles, Little Miss Cornshucks, Charles Brown, Amos Milburn, and Lionel Hampton.

Saturday, August 9

EXCUSE O

TOKE TIME 101

Episode 101 presents another chapter in our prolonged investigation into the music of Fela Kuti from the 27-disc box set of his complete recordings provided to us by Caleb Selah at The Fuck You Sound in London with a pair of albums from 1975 titled Monkey Banana and Excuse O featuring Fela’s brilliant lyrics and thrilling musical ensemble

Fela Kuti & The Africa '70 are featured in this week’s installment of music from the 27-disc box set of Fela’s complete recordings with selections from the early 1970s albums Confusion and Gentleman.

Saturday, August 9

GOOD ROCKING TONIGHT

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 02

The second episode of the New Orleans Music Show with John Sinclair is jumpin’ with music by Eluard Burt & Co, Roy Brown, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, Earl King, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Bayou Renegades, the Wild Magnolias, Dr. John, Willy Deville, Irma Thomas, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Chuck Carbo, Smiley Lewis, and the Re-Birth Brass Band.

Sunday, August 10

FUCK YOU SOUND SAY FUCK (PART 2)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 108

The second installment in Caleb Selah’s new series of long-form Fuck You Sounds called SAY FUCK from the new housedem.com studios in Blackheath, London.

Sunday, August 10

SUN RA MOON LANDING (PART 3)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 58

Producer David Kunian concludes his three-hour salute to Sun Ra and the American Moon Landing of 1969 with another spectacular serving of recognized and obscure classics by the great composer and his Arkestra, spaced with spoken passages from Ra himself and pointed commentary from Kunian and co-navigator John Bouille.

Monday, August 11

WHO KNOWS

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 561

One thing we know is that this edition of The John Sinclair Radio Show will be produced at a location in Amsterdam and posted on Monday at 4:20 am.

Monday, August 11

MCLEAN SPACES

FLY BY NIGHT 72

Steve The Fly visits the pulsating musical world of the great alto saxophonist, composer & bandleader Jackie McLean from his recordinsg for Blue Note Records in the 1960s.

Tuesday, August 12

I CAN’T QUIT YOU

THE BLUES SHOW 138

Bruce Pingree with another hour of blues in tribute to pianist Lafayette Leake, featuring Leake recordings with J.B. Lenoir, Homesick James, Otis Rush, Howling Wolf, Billy Boy Arnold, Mighty Joe Young, Bo Diddley, Willie Dixon, Koko Taylor, and Sonny Boy Williamson, plus a closing cut from the new album by Jakeris Singleton.

Tuesday, August 12

REFRACTIONS

CROSSROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 02

Producer/host Leslie Keros focuses on the blues side of jazz on Crossroads: Where Jazz Meets Blues on WHPK-FM in Chicago. Her second episode for Radio Free Amsterdam features recordings by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Smith, Donald Byrd, Cyrus Chestnut, Frank Butler, Cannonball Adderley, Floyd McDaniel, Ray Bryant, Joe Newman, and Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers.

Wednesday, August 13

HOT LIPS

JAZZ ROOTS 54

Tom Morgan is featuring the Original Memphis Five this week, also labeled Jazzbo’s Carolina Serenaders for their 1922 recordings, followed by Kansas City Frank Melrose (also known as Broadway Rastus) from the late 1920s and early ‘30s, and a closing number from Lizzie Miles.

Wednesday, August 13

PONDEROSA STOMP

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 15

Scott Barretta’s Highway 61 program visits the Ponderosa Stomp In Memphis for a program of music by Lazy Lester, Eddie Bo, Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry, Warren Storm, Paul ‘Little Buck’ Sinegal, Billy Boy Arnold, Jody Williams, Dennis Binder, Henry Gray, Wiley & the Checkmates, Fillmore Slim, Harvey Scales & the Seven Sounds, Bobby Patterson, Syl Johnson, Big George Brock, James ‘Blood’ Ulmer, and Willie Cobb.

Thursday, August 14

YOU GOT TO ROLL

BLUES EDITION 02

Our second episode of Blues Edition with Leslie Keros is the second half of her special New Year’s Eve show from WDCB-FM in Chicago featuring music from blues artists who passed away in 2011, including Howard Tate, Doyle Bramhall,Big Jack Johnson, Eddie Kirkland, Hubert Sumlin with Howlin’ Wolf and with Ronnie Earl, Pinetop Perkins with Marcia Ball and with Muddy Waters, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith with Kim Wilson and his own band, and the great David “Honey Boy” Edwards.

Thursday, August 14

COMMIT A CRIME

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 108

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides this week from Booba Barnes, Howlin’ Wolf, Guy Davis, Judy Roderick & The Forbears, Derek Trucks Band, Dave Herrero, Otis Grand, Tracy Nelson, Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges, Chief Schabuttie Gilliame, Taj Mahal, and Kenny “Blue” Ray.

Friday, August 15

SPACE PROBE

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 101

Episode 101 continues our centennial celebration of the life and music of Sun Ra with his 1970 album Space Probe with Ra on Mini-Moog plus appearances by Marshall Allen on flute, James Jacson on the log drums and Nimrod Hunt on the hand drums, followed by selections from the compilation album Out There A Minute from 1962 sessions at the Choreographers Workshop and the 1965 Magic City sessionsin New York City plus a pair of cuts from from the 1968 album Continuation with the stellar Arkestra featuring Marshall Allen, Danny Davis, Danny Ray Thompson, John Gilmore, Pat Patrick and Robert Cummings in the reed section, Kwame Hadi and Akh Tal Ebah on trumpets, Ali Hassan on trombone, Ronnie Boykins on bass, Robert Barry, Nimrod Hunt and James Jacson on percussions and Art Jenkins on the space voice.

Friday, August 15

THE YEAR 1950 IN RHYTHM & BLUES (PART 1)

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 50

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’ to the glorious year of 1950 in rhythm & blues history with great sides from New Orleans by Paul Gayten & Annie Laurie, Percy Mayfield, Dave Bartholomew, Professor Longhair, Archibald, Roy Brown, Blazer Boy, Big Joe Turner, Fats Domino, and Cousin Joe.

Saturday, August 16

KALAKUTA SHOW

TOKE TIME 102

Fela Kuti founded the Kalakuta Republic at his commune in Nigeria and established a performance and dance concert venue there where he began recording shows with the Africa 70 band like the ones we’re featuring this week: Kalakuta Show and Ikoyi Blindness, part of the 27 disc box set of the Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti.

Saturday, August 16

FUNKY YEAH

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 03

New Orleans music from the 420 Café in Amsterdam on a Wednesday afternoon in 2008 with John Sinclair spinning discs by Eluard Burt & Co.,

Eddie Bo, the Wild Magnolias, Germaine Bazzle with the Red Tyler Quartet, the High Steppers Brass Band, Tuba Fats, Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters, Tommy Ridgley, Snooks Eaglin, the Treme Brass Band, and Irma Thomas.

Sunday, August 17

FUCK YOU SOUND SAY FUCK (PART 3)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 109

More patented weirdness from Caleb Selah in his SAY FUCK series from the new housedem.com studios in London.

Sunday, August 17

HOMAGE TO AMIRI BARAKA

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 101

This episode of Vintage Radio Vaults celebrates the life and art of the great American poet, playwright, novelist, historian, social critic and political and cultural activist Amiri Baraka with music & verse from Baraka, Howling Wolf, the New York Art Quartet, Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Roy Campbell, David Murray, and Albert Ayler.

Monday, August 18

WHAT NEXT

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 562

Episode 562 should find us back at the 420 Café—or wherever else we might want to broadcast from—for our final program in Amsterdam until the Cannabis Cup in November, playing whatever music we might want to listen to—as always.

Monday, August 18

KIRK REGARD

FLY BY NIGHT 73

Steve The Fly has the great Rahsaan Roland Kirk in the spotlight tonight with selections from his Mercury albums and his Prestige album with Brother Jack McDuff, ending with Kirk’s salute to his former employer Charles Mingus.

Tuesday, August 19

DROP A DIME

THE BLUES SHOW 139

Bruce Pingree is playing new blues this week by Joe Louis Walker, Jerika Singleton, The Holmes Brothers, Kim Simmonds & Savoy Brown, Charles Burton Blues Band, Mark Hummel, Damon Fowler, Robert Cray Band, the Blues Doctors, and Catfish Keith, plus some classic B.B. King to close the show.

Tuesday, August 19

MAIN STEM

CROSSROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 03

Producer/host Leslie Keros focuses on the blues side of jazz on Crossroads: Where Jazz Meets Blues on WHPK-FM in Chicago. Her third episode for Radio Free Amsterdam features recordings by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Smith, Anita O’Day, the Bill Charlap Trio, Paul Chambers, Bunky Green & Wynton Kelly, Ramsey Lewis, Planet D Nonet, Abbey Lincoln, Wes Montgomery, and Mitch Kashmar.

Wednesday, August 20

BALLIN’ THE JACK

JAZZ ROOTS 55

Tom Morgan has Lizzie Miles, Wingy Manone, and the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the Jazz Roots spotlight this week.

Wednesday, August 20

MISTY BLUE

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 16

Scott Barretta features the contemporary Mississippi blueswoman Dorothy Moore on this week’s episode of Highway 61 with excerpts from an elongated conversation with Ms. Moore and musical selections from her great Malaco Records singles and albums.

Thursday, August 21

FREEDOM TRAIN

BLUES EDITION 03

Blues Edition with Leslie Keros pays homage to Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement with a great program of music by Big Daddy Kinsey, Old Friends with Sunnyland Slim, Big Walter Horton and others, Nina Simone, Josh White, Irma Thomas, Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Ronnie Earl, theNorth Mississippi Allstars, Mavis Staples, Bob Dylan, Eva Cassidy,Champion Jack Dupree,Billie Holiday, and Otis Taylor.

Thursday, August 21

Scratch My Back

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 109

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides this week by Taj Mahal, Eva Cassidy, R.L. Griffin, John Németh, Charlie Musselwhite, Lurrie Bell, Jay Owens, B.B. King, Shemekia Copeland, Guy Davis, and Ronnie Earl.

Friday, August 22

THE COSMIC EXPLORER

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 102

Episode 102 in our investigation into the earlier music of Sun Ra & His Arkestra features selections from the Space Probe album on Art Yard Records—with Marshall Allen on flute, Sun Ra at the piano & electronic keyboards, James Jacson on log drums, and Nimrod Hunt on hand drums—from 1969-1970; The Solar-Myth Approach, Volumes 1 & 2 on BYG Actuel from 1970-1971 with the full Arkestra plus June Tyson; and a closing selection from Nuits de la Fondation Maeght with the full Arkestra recorded in performance at Saint Paul de Vence, France, on August 5th. 1970.

Friday, August 22

THE YEAR 1950 IN RHYTHM & BLUES (PART 2)

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 51

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’ to 1950 in rhythm & blues history with part two featuring sides from New Orleans by Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, LarryDarnell, Paul Gayten & Annie Laurie, Dave Bartholomew, Joe Liggins, Professor Longhair, Roy Brown, and Cousin Joe.

Saturday, August 23

JOHNNY JUST DROP

TOKE TIME 103

Our investigation into the Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti drawn from the 27 disc box set features a pair of albums from the mid-1970s called

J.J.D. and Unnecessary Begging with the Africa 70.

Saturday, August 23

GIMME MY MONEY BACK

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 04

An hour of great music from New Orleans presented by John Sinclair from the 420 Café in Amsterdam, featuring recordings by Eluard Burt & Co, Pud Brown & Danny Barker, Smiley Lewis, the Soul Rebels, Roy Brown, Rockie Charles, Re-Birth Brass Band, Professor Longhair, Snooks Eaglin, the New Orleans Jazz Vipers, Treme Brass Band, and the Wild Magnolias.

Sunday, August 24

FUCK YOU SOUND SAY FUCK (PART 4)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 110

The sickness spreads with SAY FUCK part 4 from Caleb Selah at the new housedem.com London bunker in Blackheath.

Sunday, August 24

HOMAGE TO AMIRI BARAKA (PART 2)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 102

The second hour of David Kunian’s tribute tothe great American poet, playwright, novelist, historian, social critic and political and cultural activist Amiri Baraka features music & verse from Baraka, Yusef Lateef, Miles Davis, The Roots, and David Murray with Baraka and Steve McCall.

Monday, August 25

BACK IN LONDON

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 563

Coming from the new Blackheath Studios in London with music of the sort of quality and impact you have come to expect from this program.

Monday, August 25

JACKIRK MCLINGUS

FLY BY NIGHT 74

Steve The Fly is mixing it up tonight big time with fantastic sides by Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Jackie McLean.

Tuesday, August 26

BOUNCE BALL

THE BLUES SHOW 140

Bruce Pingree is paying tribute this week ro North Mississippi hill country fife master and bandleader Otha Turner and the great Algiers, Louisiana guitarist & singer, Memphis Minnie, with selections from the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, the Afrosippi All Stars, and Memphis Minnie & Kansas City Joe McCoy.

Tuesday, August 26

SEVEN COME ELEVEN

CROSSROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 04

Producer/host Leslie Keros focuses on the blues side of jazz on Crossroads: Where Jazz Meets Blues on WHPK-FM in Chicago. Her fourth episode for Radio Free Amsterdam features recordings by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Taylor Eigsti, John Coltrane, Karrin Allyson, Junior Mance, Gene Harris, Herb Ellis & Joe Pass, Zoot Sims, Sonny Clark, Cedar Walton, and Lee Morgan.

Wednesday, August 27

WHO DAT PARADE

JAZZ ROOTS 56

Tom Morgan has assembled a rib-tickling program of early jazz novelty tunes for this episode of Jazz Roots that also commemorates Mardi Gras 2010 and the unprecedented victory of the New Orleans Saints in the Super Bowlwith music from Duke Ellington, the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Cliff Edwards, Harry Reeser, Gracie Fields, Louis Jordan, Slim Gaillard, Louis Prima, Wingy Manone, the Ink Spots, the Golden Gate Quartet, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Johnny Mercer, Mildred Bailey, and the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra.

Wednesday, August 27

BOOGIE ROCK

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 17

This week’s episode of Highway 61 features the early recordings of B.B. King and some of the artists who influenced him during his formative years in Memphis in the late 1940s and early 1950s, including Lowell Fulson, John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, Tampa Red, Robert Nighthawk, Jimmy Witherspoon, Gatemouth Moore, Dr. Clayton, and Lonnie Johnson.

Thursday, August 28

JUST A DREAM

BLUES EDITION 04

Blues Edition with Leslie Keros pays homage to Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement with a great program of music by Big Daddy Kinsey, Otis & Cassie Taylor, Otis Spann, Leadbelly, Solomon Burke, Big Bill Broonzy, Jim Brewer, Odetta, Joe Williams, Charles Brown, Lucky Peterson, the Southern Sons, Dave Specter & Steve Freund, the Soul Stirrers, the Pilgrim Travelers, and Liz McComb.

Thursday, August 28

HIGH SAILING

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 110

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides this week by Darrell Nulisch, Fo’ Reel, Shane Dwight, Janiva Magness, Prof. Louie & The Crowmatix, Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers, Pat Hare, Claude & The Nightones, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Johnny Winter, Barry Goldberg & Michael Bloomfield, and Bob Corritore.

Friday, August 29

THE SOLAR-MYTH APPROACH

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 103

Episode 103 continues our centennial salute to the music of Sun Ra with a listen to recordings from the early 1970s recorded for BYG Actuel Records in France, El Saturn Records, and ABC/Impulse with the Solar Myth Arkestra featuring Marshall Allen, Danny Davis, John Gilmore, Danny Ray Thompson, Pat Patrick, Eloe Omoe and James Jacson on reeds; Kwame Hadi and Akh Tal Ebah on trumpets; Ali Hassan and Charles Stephens on trombones; Ronnie Boykins on bass; Alzo Wright on cello and viola; Clifford Jarvis, Lex Humphries and Tommy "Bugs" Hunter at the drum sets; Nimrod Hunt on hand drums; and the great June Tyson on vocals. Sun Ra & His Arkestra entered the 1970s with the French double-LP called The Solar Myth Approach, recorded in New York City during 1970-1971 with Sun Ra on piano, electric celeste, Mini-Moog synthesizer, the space-master organ, and the Hohner Clavinet. Saturn Records LP 200, Universe in Blue, followed in 1971, and Astro Black was recorded for Impulse Records at El Saturn Studios in Chicago on May 7th. 1972. The album was released by Impulse as part of a distribution deal which resulted in thereissue of a series of obscure El Saturn LPs, making Ra’s music available to a much wider audience for the first time.

Friday, August 29

CARNIVAL TIME

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 52

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’ to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans with great seasonal sides By Al Johnson, Trombone Shorty, The 6^th Ward Big Shots, James & Troy Andrews, Chuck Carbo, The Hawketts, Davell Crawford, A.J. Loria, Dr. John, Aaron & Art Nevile, Donald Harrison Jr:, and Snooks Eaglin.

Saturday, August 30

SORROW, TEARS & BLOOD

TOKE TIME 104

Following the course of the 27-disc box set of the Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti through the mid-1970s we come to this pair of classic gems with the Africa 70 band: Opposite People and Sorrow, Tears & Blood.

Saturday, August 30

LET'S GO GET 'EM

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 05

Jammin’ at the 420 Café on a Wednesday afternoon with John Sinclair and music from New Orleans by Eluard Burt & Co, Troy Andrews, the New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters, the Wild Magnolias with the Re-Birth Brass Band, June Victory & the Bayou, 9^th Ward Warriors with the Re-Birth Brass Band, Snooks Eaglin, Tommy Ridgley, Smiley Lewis, Rockie Charles, Eddie Bo, and the 6th Ward All Stars.

Sunday, August 31

FUCK YOU SOUND SAY FUCK (PART 5)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 111

One listen to this episode from Caleb Selah and you’ll know immediately why they call it The Fuck You Sound.

Sunday, August 31

JAMES BOOKER DAY

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 60

This episode of Vintage Radio Vaults was produced by David Kunian for the Overnight Jazz program and originally broadcast on WWOZ-FM in New Orleans on December 18, 1998 as a birthday tribute to the late great James Booker, the Bayou Maharajah and Piano Prince of New Orleans.

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Monday, September 1

DOPEFIEND CUP

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 564

Episode 564 is coming from an undisclosed location high atop a council block in southeast London at the 4^th annual Dopefiend Cup organized by the London-based website called www.dopefiend.co.uk where the best weed grown in the UK is submitted to the scrutiny of an expert panel of judges (of which i was proud to be one), checking in from this secret location where the UK dopefiends have gathered with a program of music & poetry by Yusef Lateef and His Men, The Drifters andFrankie Ford (in honor of my smooth passage from holland to English on the Stena Line),Sonny Rollins &Thelonious Monk, The Founder Effect (with whom I’ll be performing at the Speigletent at Canary Wharf on September 17), plus founders of the arijuana legalization movement Lenny Bruce, Allen Ginsberg, and Ed Sanders, followed by a set of viper music by John Sinclair & the New Orleans Jazz Vipers, Louis Armstrong, John Sinclair & Planet D Nonet, Mezz Mezzrow & His Orchestra, and John Sinclair with LangeFrans & Baas B. Yeah, that’s me!

Monday, September 1

SEPTEMBER SONG

FLY BY NIGHT 75

Steve The Fly is bringing in September with a lovely program of selections by the great modern jazz trumpet master Clifford Brown, who died at 26 in a car wreck while he was on the road with the Max Roach-Clifford Brown Quintet around this time in 1956.

Tuesday, September 2

ME AND MY CHAUFFEUR

THE BLUES SHOW 141

Bruce Pingree is playing the blues by Memphis Minnie and Jimmy Rogers in honor of their early June birthdays.

Tuesday, September 2

WATUSI JUMP

CROSSROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 64

Leslie Keros with an hour of bluesy jazz by Stevie Ray Vaughn, Lou Donaldson, David Bromberg, James Booker, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Jim Clayton, Teddy Edwards & Houston Person, Wynton Kelly, and Scott Hamilton & Bucky Pizzarelli.

Wednesday, September 3

THIS IS MADNESS

JAZZ ROOTS 57

Tom Morgan features music this week from vocalist Mildred Baiiey from 1938 and Omer Simeon with Helen Savage and the Dixie Rhythm Kings from the late 1920s, plus a pair of Professor Longhair anthems to salute the Carnival season and close the show.

Wednesday, September 3

COMING FROM THE OLD SCHOOL

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 18

Highway 61 offers a tribute to the late, great harmonica star Sam Myers a week following his demise in 2006 by playing Sam’s early recordings and sides with guitarists Elmore James, Tommy Lee Thompson, King Edward, Mel Brown, and Anson Funderburg & the Rockets.

Thursday, September 4

SHOTGUN HOUSE

CHICAGO BOUND 16

Leslie Keros is bringing the blues from Chicagao with great sides by Robert Jr. Lockwood, Otis Rush, Doctor Clayton, Snooky Pryor & His Mississippi Wrecking Crew, Howlin’ Wolf, Luther “Snake Boy” Johnson, Quintus McCormick Blues Band, Sunnyland Slim Blues Band, George “Wild Child” Butler, Earl Hooker, Chainsaw Dupont, Sam Lay, and Jimmy Dawkins.

Thursday, September 4

BLOW WIND BLOW

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 111

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by the Sam Lay Blues Band, Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers, Mark Hummel, Nick Gravenites & Jerry Garcia Band, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Lonnie Mack, Fo’ Reel, The Holmes Brothers, Travis Haddix, Daddy Mack Blues Band, J.J. Thame, Coco Montoya, and Bob Corritore.

Friday, September 5

LOVE IN OUTER SPACE

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 104

This episode and the next are taken from the Paris Live 1971 concert recorded at Le Castellet in Paris by Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra, featuring the Arkestra at full strength and on the loose in Europe with Sun Ra on organ, synthesizer, piano & vocals, Kwame Hadi and Ahk Tal Ebah, trumpets; Marshall Allen, Larry Northington, Istar Sundance, alto saxophones, reeds; John Gilmore, tenor saxophone, drums, vocals; Danny Thompson, Hakim Rhim, and Pat Patrick, baritone saxophone, flute; Al Batin Nur (Augustus Browning), English horn; Eloe Omoe: bass clarinet; James Jacson, flute, oboe, Infinity drums; Clifford Jarvis, Lex Humphries, Tommy Hunter; drums; Nimrod Hunt, percussion; Roger Aralamon Hazoumé, balafon; June Tyson, Malik Ramadan, Art Jenkins, vocals & percussion;Wisteria El Moondew (Judith Holton), Cheryl Banks, Kevin Massey, and Kenneth Alexander, dancers. Richard Wilkinson: Lightshow

Friday, September 5

CARNIVAL TIME

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 53

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’with The Bartender at WTJU-FM in Charlottesvile VA with great sides by Snooks Eaglin, Schatzie, Earl King, Eddie Bo, Smiley Ricks, Roger & The Gypsies, the Dixie Cups, Sugar Boy & The Cane Cutters, the Young Guardians of the Flame, Dixie Cups, Champion Jack Dupreem, the Golden Eagles, the Wild Magnolias, Big Chief Peppy, the Young Apaches, and the Rebirth Brass Band.

Saturday, September 6

YELLOW FEVER

TOKE TIME 105

Another hour of music from the 27 disc box set of the Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti spanning the years 1971 to 1976, Yellow Fever coming from 1976 and Na Poi from 1975, including the original recording of the title track from 1971.

Saturday, September 6

GO TO THE MARDI GRAS

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 06

An Ash Wednesday Mardi Gras 2008 party at the 420 Café in Amsterdam with John Sinclair and recordings by Eluard Burt & Co, Professor Longhair, Chuck Carbo, James Andrews & the 6th Ward All Stars, Earl King, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles, Big Chief Peppy & Big Chief Roddy with the Indians of the Nation, Big Chief Smiley Ricks of the West Bank Indians, Big Chief Kevin Goodman & the Flaming Arrows, Dr. John the Night Tripper, Kermit Ruffins & the Barbeque Swingers, and Big Chief Jolly with the Wild Tchoupitoulas.

Sunday, September 7

FUCK YOU SOUND SAY FUCK (PART 6)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 112

Another twisted episode of sonic weirdness and extreme mental patience from Caleb Selah at housedem.com in London.

Sunday, September 7

MASTERS OF MUSIC (PART 1)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 103

David Kunian s celebrating the completion of his Masters degree in musicology at Tulane University with this two-part program of music created by Harold Battiste and AFO (All For One) Records, including sides by the AFO Executives, Lee Dorsey, Ellis Marsalis, Harold Battiste & Ellis Marsalis, Melvin Lastie, and the Next Generation Big Band, plus recordings by Alvin Youngblood Hart, R.L. Burnside, the North Mississippi All Stars, Clifton Chenier, Li’l Buck & The Top Cats, Mary Redmond, Geri Allen, and Studebaker John.

Monday, September 8

WHO KNOWS

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 565

One thing we know is that this edition of The John Sinclair Radio Show will be produced at a location in London yet to be determined and posted on Monday at 4:20 am.

Monday, September 8

MELLOW BRUNO

FLY BY NIGHT 76

Steve The Fly is calling on the great alto saxophonist Julian “Cannonball” Adderley and his ensembles featuring his brother Nat Adderley on trumpet to provide the music for tonight’s episode of Fly By Night.

Tuesday, September 9

ROCK THIS HOUSE

THE BLUES SHOW 142

Bruce Pingree is playing blues this week by Jimmy Rogers in honor of his birthday, new recordings by Selwin Birchwood and Jerika Singleton, a birthday salute to Derek Trucks, and some closing music by Muddy Waters.

Tuesday, September 9

ALL AROUND THE WORLD

BLUES EDITION 64

Leslie Keros is playing the blues tonight with selections byCousin Joe, Kim Wilson, B.B. King, Robert Covington, David Egan, Big Joe Turner, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Bonnie Raitt, Duke Robillard, Doug Deming & the Jewel Tones, Mary Flower with Henry Butler, Jimi "Prime Time" Smith with Jack McDuff, Little Willie John, Roosevelt Sykes, and Jimmie Lee Robinson.

Wednesday, September 10

BLAZE AWAY

JAZZ ROOTS 58

Tom Morgan is following the early development of jazz this week with recordings by ragtime pianists Roy Spangler and Mike Bernard from 1912-1918, Alcide Nunez & the Louisiana 5 Jazz Orchestra from 1919, the Ford Dabney Band from 1919, and the Bennie Moten Orchestra from 1926-29, plus a par of cuts from vocalist and pianist Camille Howard from the late 1940s on Specialty Records.

Wednesday, September 10

BRING IT WHEN YOU COME

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 19

Highway 61 offers a program producer-host Scott Barretta calls “Good For What Ails You” featuring music by blues artists who performed as part of the traveling medicine shows of the first four decades of the 20^th century., including Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah, Frank Stokes, Cannon’s Jug Stompers, Henry Thomas, Coley Jones & the Dallas String Band, Banjo Joe (Gus Cannon), Pink Anderson & Semmie Dooley, Jim Jackson, Lil McClinnick, the Grant Brothers, Frank Hutchison, the Allen Brothers, Chris Beauchalon, Blind Willie McTell, Hezekiah Jenkins, Earl McDonald’s Original Louisville Jug Band, Papa Charlie Jackson, and the Three Tobacco Tags.

Thursday, September 11

LONE STAR BLUES PARTY

MESSIN’ WITH THE BLUES 17

Leslie Keros is honoring the late Johnny Winter with an hour of his recordings and contributions from colleagues like Neal & the Newcomers, the Progressive Blues Experiment, Muddy Waters, Dick Shurman, and fellow Texans Albert Collins, Johnny “Clyde” Copeland, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown.

Thursday, September 11

WADE IN THE WATER

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 112

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Frankie Lee Sims, Watermelon Slim & The Workers, The Nighthawks, Taj Mahal, The Harmonizing Four, Vernard Johnson, Eva Cassidy, Bobby Jones, George “Harmonica” Smith, Otis Rush, John Németh, Lee Fields, Otis Clay, and Canned Heat.

Friday, September 12

NUMBER UNKNOWN

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 105

Episode 105 presents a second hour of music from the Sun Ra concert called Paris Live 1971 with the Solar Arkestra at full strength for their first European tour.

Friday, September 12

THE YEAR 1950 IN RHYTHM & BLUES (PART 3)

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 54

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’with The Bartender at WTJU-FM in Charlottesvile VA with another hour of great sides from the year 1950 by Mr. Google Eyes, Larry Darnell, Paul Gayten & Annie Laurie, Smiley Lewis, Harry Coates, Earline Harris, Big Joe Turner, Mr. Google Eyes, Fats Domino, Percy Mayfield, Archibald, Lonnie Johnson, Cousin Joe, and Roy Brown.

Saturday, September 13

FEAR NOT FOR MAN

TOKE TIME 106

Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 continue smoking into 1977 with the albums Stalemate and Fear Not For Man, selected from the 27 disc box set of the Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti.

Saturday, September 13

OOOH-WEE BABY

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 07

New Orleans music from the 420 Café in Amsterdam on a Wednesday afternoon in 2008 with John Sinclair cranking out tunes from Eluard Burt & Co:, the New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters, Champion Jack Dupree, Professor Longhair, Big Boy Myles & the Sha-Weez, Art Neville, Roy Montrell, Bobby Mitchell, Charles "Hungry" Williams, Dave Bartholemew, the New Orleans Jazz Vipers, Dr. John, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Kermit Ruffins, Chuck Carbo, and Johnny Adams.

Sunday, September 14

FUCK YOU SOUND SAY FUCK (PART 7)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 113

Part 7 in Caleb Selah’s SAY FUCK series of sonic weirdness and extreme mental patience from housedem.com in London.

Sunday, September 14

MASTERS OF MUSIC (PART 2)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 104

David Kunian is celebrating the completion of his Masters degree in musicology at Tulane University with part two of a program of music created by Harold Battiste and AFO (All For One) Records, including sides by Barbara George, Prince La La, the Next Generation, the AFO Executives, Johnny Adams, Tami Lynn & the AFO Executives, James Booker, and the American Jazz Quintet, plus recordings by the South Memphis String Band and Alvin Youngblood Hart.

Monday, September 15

WHAT NEXT

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 566

Episode 566 will find us somewhere in London—or wherever else we might want to broadcast from—for our final program from across the Atlantic Ocean until the Cannabis Cup in November, playing whatever music we might want to listen to—as always.

Monday, September 15

ARRIVING SOON

FLY BY NIGHT 77

Steve The Fly is navigating by night through this stellar selection of classic cuts by Clifford Brown and Cannonball Adderley.

Tuesday, September 16

YOU NEVER MISS THE WATER

THE BLUES SHOW 143

Bruce Pingree is playing music by Jimmy Scott this week in commemoration of his recent demise, along with a salute to W.C. Handy and a tip of the hat to pianist Pinetop Smith.

Tuesday, September 16

LOW GRAVY

CROSSROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 65

Leslie Keros with an hour of great music by Stevie Ray Vaughn, the King William Jazz Collective, John Patton, Paul Gonsalves, Dave McKenna, Marquis Hill, Bobby Timmons, Ralphe Armstrong, Lee Morgan, Ray Bryant, and Herb Ellis.

Wednesday, September 17

BOUNCING AROUND

JAZZ ROOTS 59

Tom Morgan brings pianist-vocalist Camille Howard into the Jazz Roots spotlight with recordings for Specialty Recpords from 1950, followed by New Orleans pianist Armond Piron and his band recorded in 1923, and closing with several Fletcher Henderson Orchestra sides also from 1923.

Wednesday, September 17

MISTER WAL-MART

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 20

Scott Barretta features artists performing at the Sunflower Blues Festival in Clarksdale on this week’s episode of Highway 61, including Frank Frost,the Jelly Roll Kings, Paul ‘Wine’ Jones, T-Model Ford, Cadillac John & Bill Abel, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, Louis Youngblood, Big George Brock, Big T, Jimbo Mathus, the North Mississippi All Stars, Dwayne Burnside, and Latimore.

Thursday, September 18

KILLING FLOOR

CHICAGO BOUND 17

Leslie Keros is playing the blues fom Chicago with sides by Willie Cobbs, Steve Freund, Little Walter, Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, Morris Pejoe, Eddy Clearwater, Big Walter Horton & Jimmy DeBerry, and Lee “Shot” Williams, plus a salute to Howling Wolf with music from Wolf, James Cotton & Hubert Sumlin, Fenton Robinson, Johnny B. Moore & Willie Kent, John Primer, and Muddy Waters.

Thursday, September 18

IN THE OPEN

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 113

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Otis Grand & The Big Blues Band, Elvin Bishop, The 5 Royales, The Holmes Brothers, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Mary Flower, Walter “Wale” Liniger, Coco Montoya, Missy Andersen, Michael Burks, John Mayall & Buddy Guy, and Little Sonny.

Friday, September 19

ASTRO BLACK

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 106

Our celebration of the centennial of Sun Ra’s appearance on the planet Earth continues this week with music from the pivotal Impulse album from May 1972 called Astro Black featuring the Arkestra at full force: Sun Ra, keyboards, Mini-Moog synthesizer, e-vib; Akh Tal Ebah and Lamont McClamb (Kwame Hadi), trumpets; Charles Stephens, trombone; Marshall Allen and Danny Davis, alto sqxophones; John Gilmore, tenor sax and percussion; Danny Ray Thompson, baritone sax; Eloe Omoe, bass clarinet; Pat Patrick, mistro clarinet; Alzo Wright, violin and viola; Ronnie Boykins, bass; Tommy Hunter, drums; Atakatune (Stanley Morgan), Odun, and Chiea, congas; Ruth Wright and June Tyson, vocals. Also featured is music from the Blue Thumb album from Octover 1972, Space Is The Place, with Larry Northington joining the reed section on alto sax, Lex Humphries and Robert Underwood replacing Tommy Hunter on drums, and Cheryl Banks and Judith Holton adding to the Space Ethnic Voices of Ruth Wright and June Tyson.

Friday, September 19

THE YEAR 1950 IN RHYTHM & BLUES (PART 4)

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 55

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’with The Bartender at WTJU-FM in Charlottesvile VA with more great rhythm & blues sides from 1950 by Cousin Joe, Paul Gayten & Annie Laurie, Smiley Lewis, Big Joe Turner, The Johnson Brothers Combo, Dave Battholomew, Larry Darnell, Percy Mayfield, Archibald, Earline Harris, Blazer Boy, Percy Mayfield, and Lonnie Johnson.

Saturday, September 20

NO AGREEMENT

TOKE TIME 107

Fela Kuti continues his march through musical history with this set from 1977 and the albums Shuffering And Shmiling and No Agreement, taken from the 27 disc box set called The Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti.

Saturday, September 20

SWEET HOME NEW ORLEANS

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 08

John Sinclair concocts a heady musical brew at the 420 Café in Amsterdam with tunes from the Crescent City by Eluard Burt & Co, Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters, Dr. John & the Lower 911, Craig Klein, Eddie Bo, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band featuring Bettye LaVette, Earl King, Earl Turbinton, Ernie K-Doe, the New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Fats Domino, Guitar Slim Jr, and the New Birth Brass Band.

Sunday, September 21

FUCK YOU SOUND SAY FUCK (PART 8)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 114

Part 8 in Caleb Selah’s SAY FUCK series of sonic weirdness and extreme mental patience from housedem.com in London.

Sunday, September 21

SALUTE TO MARK BINGHAM (PART !)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 105

David Kunian devotes this program and the next to recordings made by producer Mark Bingham at his recently closed Piety Street Recording studio with commentary by Bingham and a program of music by Royal Fingerbowl, The Iguanas, Kalamu ya Salaam & Courtney Bryant, John Boutte, James Blood Ulmer, Monique Delatina, Peter Stamfel, and an unidentified Brass Band.

Monday, September 22

BACK IN THE USA

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 567

Episode 567 will be coming from somewhere in Detroit with music of the sort of quality and impact you have come to expect from this program.

Monday, September 22

CLIFF BALLERS

FLY BY NIGHT 78

Steve The Fly has another thrilling showcase for the music of Clifford Brown and Cannonball Adderley, including Ball’s great sextet with Yusef Lateef and Nay Adderley, and a closing cut from John Coltrane.

Tuesday, September 23

I’M THE WOLF

THE BLUES SHOW 144

Bruce Pingree is honoring the birthdays of Johnny Ace and Howling Wolfthis week and spinning new releases by Selwin Birchwood, Jerika Singleton, and the Soggy Po’Boys.

Tuesday, September 23

TEMPERATURE 110

BLUES EDITION 65

Leslie Keros is playing the blues tonight with selections by Jimmie Vaughan, Bob Kirkpatrick, Joe Filisko & Eric Noden, Floyd Dixon, Big Maybelle, Blind Blake, Bobby Jones featuring The Mannish Boys, Duke Robillard, Sonny Boy Williamson, Mary Bridget Davies, Johnnie Taylor, King Curtis & Champion Jack Dupree, David Honeyboy Edwards, and Roomful of Blues.

Wednesday, September 24

MAMA’S GONE GOODBYE

JAZZ ROOTS 60

Tom Morgan is spotlighting early jazz this week from Thelma Terry & Her Playboys in Chicago during 1928-29 with Gene Krupa on drums, plus the ensemble of Muggsy Spanier, the piano of Errol Garner, and the piano and vocals of the one and only Thomas “Fats” Waller.

Wednesday, September 24

BLOW TOP BLUES

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 21

Highway 61 with Scott Barretta features the music of blueswomen from across the spectrum of the blues this week—Ladies Who Sing The Blues—including Billie Holiday, Alberta Hunter, Trixie Smith, Rosetta Howard & the Harlem Hamfats, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Blue Lu Barker, Georgia White, Dinah Washington, Margie Day, Julia Lee, Miss LaVelle, Big Mama Thornton, Marie Adams, Little Esther, Big Maybelle, Ruth Brown, Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto, and Koko Taylor.

Thursday, September 25

ME AND MY GIN

MESSIN’ WITH THE BLUES 18

Leslie Keros is Messin’ With The Blues tonight with great recordings by Dinah Washington, Noble “Thin Man” Watts, Albert King, Kevin McKendree, Albert Collins, Eden Brent, Deep Blue Organ Trio, Ramsey Lewis Trio, Andy Poxon with Duke Robillard, B.B. King, and Henry Butler with Steven Bernstein and the Hot 9.

Thursday, September 25

DEVIL’S DEN

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 114

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Lady Bianca, Guitar Shorty, Frank Frost, John Németh with Elvin Bishop, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Shirley Brown, The Soul Of John Black, Mike Bloomfield & Nick Gravenites, Slo Leak, Doyle Bramhall, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, Guy Davis, and James Brown.

Friday, September 26

LIFE IS SPLENDID

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 107

Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra in its triumphant appearance at the 1972 Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival from the Art Yard Records double-CD called Wake Up Angels, plus a final selection from the Sun Ra concert called Paris Live 1971.

Friday, September 26

THE YEAR 1950 IN RHYTHM & BLUES (PART 5)

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 56

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’with The Bartender at WTJU-FM in Charlottesvile VA with another hour of great rhythm & blues sides from 1950 by Dave Bartholomew, Percy Mayfield, Paul Gatyten, Larry Darnell, Archibald, Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, and Big Joe Turner.

Saturday, September 27

ZOMBIE

TOKE TIME 108

Continuing our investigation to the 27 disc box set of the Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti, this week’s episode features music from 1977 from the collection titled Zombie.

Saturday, September 27

SPREAD YOUR LEGS

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 09

New Orleans music from the 420 Café in Amsterdam on a Wednesday afternoon in 2008 with John Sinclair playing music by Eluard Burt & Co:, Kermit Ruffins, Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters, James Booker, Fats Domino, Dr. John, Ernest Skipper & the Spirit of FiYiYi, Danny Barker, the New Birth Brass Band, Tuba Fats, Johnny Adams, Irma Thomas, the Lil' Rascals Brass Band, and Walter “Wolfman” Washington & The Roadmasters.

Sunday, September 28

FUCK YOU SOUND SAY FUCK (PART 9)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 115

Part 9 in Caleb Selah’s SAY FUCK series of sonic weirdness and extreme mental patience from housedem.com in London.

Sunday, September 28

SALUTE TO MARK BINGHAM (PART 2)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 106

David Kunian is hosting producer Mark Bingham in the second hour of his salute to Bingham’s recently shuttered Piety Street Recording studio with commentary by Bingham and a program of music by Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Ed Sanders, Dr. John & Raymond Weber, the Golden Eagles, Brother Tyrone & Irene Sage, Mark Bingham himself, Marianne Faithful, Michael Service, Taj Mahal,nd the Yockamo All Stars.

Monday, September 29

HEMPSTOCK USA

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 568

Coming from the Hempstock Festival in Portland, Oregon with a program of music & poetry to suit the occasion.

Monday, September 29

LAST CHANCE

FLY BY NIGHT 79

Steve The Fly is flying low in the dark and mixing up a potent musical brew yet to be revealed but sure to please.

Tuesday, September 30

GRIOT’S LAST DANCE

IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 14

The award-winning In The Soul Kitchen show with the legendary San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan is now celebrating its 27^th y, ear on the air at KUSF-FM even as KUSF has been taken off the air by the University of San Francisco and now broadcasts In Exile from the Light Rail Studios in San Francisco. This week’s episode of In The Soul Kitchen features great tunes from Jeff Parker, Douglas, the Hot 8 Brass Band, Billy Harper, Randy Weston, Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Strings, Charles Mingus, Bakaida Carroll, Geri Allen, and Captain Beefheart.

Tuesday, September 30

ROUND TRIPPER

CROSSROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 66

Leslie Keros with an hour of music by Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ray Bryant, Ben Webster & Joe Zawinol, Jimmy Witherspoon with Panama Francis & the Savoy Sultans, Cory Weeds, Ariel Pocock, Howard Alden/Andy Brown Quartet, Joe Krown, Art Lande, Harry “Sweets” Edison, and King Curtis.

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Sunday, October 19

MAJOR WORKS OF JOHN COLTRANE (PART 3)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 49

Producer David Kunian investigates the Major Works of John Coltrane with this three-part series featuring Ascension, Kulu Se Mama, Om, Offering,Interstellar Space and other major works from the mid-1960s.

Monday, October 20

SOUL SERENADE

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 571

Episode 571 will be coming from somewhere in New York City with Soul Lucille riding shotgun in this latest manifestation of the John & Soul Show.

Monday, October 20

NOT YET

FLY BY NIGHT 82

Steve The Fly is still not coming through for October so we’ll have to guess at what he will have for us when he finally flies in.

Tuesday, October 21

THAT’S ALRIGHT

THE BLUES SHOW 147

Bruce Pingree is paying tribute to blues giants Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup (born 1905) and Wynonie “Mr. Blues” Harris (born 1915) on the occasion of their respective birthdays during this week in August.

Tuesday, October 21

FROSTY

BLUES EDITION 67

Leslie Keros is playing the blus with selections this week by the Johnny I. Band, Johnny Heartsman, Albert Collins, Muddy Waters, Eddie Raspberry, Johnnie Bassett, Smoky Babe, Dave Specter, Nina Simone, and Golden Big Wheeler.

Wednesday, October 22

SWING BOY SWING

JAZZ ROOTS 64

Tom Morgan introduces the Wilbur deParis Band with Sidney deParis and Omer Simeon with a set from the 1952 album Marching And Swinging on the Collectables label and follows with recordings by trumpet man Jonah Jones with Dick Porter & His Orchestra from 1936 and 1937 on Vocalion Records and some cuts from the Jonah Jones Orchestra made in 1945. The show closes with cuts by vocalist Tempo King and His Kings of Tempo.

Wednesday, October 22

BABY PLEASE DON’T GO

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 25

Mark Coltrane fills in for Scott Barretta on this week’s edition of Highway 61 from Mississippi Public Broadcasting with a program dedicated to three late blues artists who passed away in 2006: Etta Baker, Henry Townsend, and Jessie Mae Hemphill.

Thursday, October 23

PRANCING

MESSIN’ WITH THE BLUES 19

Leslie Keros is messin’ with great tunes by Erwin Helfer, The Holmes Brothers, Jimmy McCracklin, Andy T-Nick Nixon Band, Tweed Funk, Lisa Mann, Roomful of Blues, Kim Wilson, Jimmy Witherspoon, Ike & Tina Turner’s Kings of Rhythm, Finis Tasby, Mary Flower, Johnnie Bassett, Phillip Walker, and Trudy Lynn.

Thursday, October 23

RUB ME DOWN

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 118

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Terry Evans, Rob Stone, Rip Lee Pryor, Dave Specter with Otis Clay, Electrofied, Richard Ray Farrell, Marcia Ball, Lloyd Jones,

Bobby Parker with Carlos Santana, Link Wray, Johnny Winter, Prof. Louie & The Crowmatix, and Shuggie Otis.

Friday, October 24

IN THE ORBIT OF RA

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 111

This week’s episode of our Sun Ra Centennial celebration has music from the second disc of a 2-CD set just issued by Art Yard Records called In The Orbit Of Ra, with performances selected and remixed from classic Sun Ra albums including Astro Black, Discipline 27-II, We Travel The Spaceways, Secrets Of The Sun, and Jazz In Silhouette, and featuring different editions of the Arkestra with a collective personnel of Sun Ra, piano, organ, synthesizer, and vocals; Phil Cohran, George Hudson, Hobart Dotson, Kwame Hadi, Akh Tal Ebah, trumpets; Charles Stevens, trombone; Marshall Allen, James Spaulding, Danny Davis, John Gilmore, Pat Patrick, Danny Ray Thompson, Eloe Omoe, Larry Northington, Charles Davis, reeds; William Brister, Robert Cummings, Akatune, Odun, Russell Branch, percussions; Ronnie Boykins, Ben Henderson, bass; Jon L. Hardy, Lex Humphries, Tommy Hunter, Robert Underwood, Larry Richards, William Cochran, drums; Alzo Wright, violin & cello; June Tyson, Ruth Wright, Cheryl Banks, Judith Holton, voice; and Ahrt Jenkins, space voice.

Friday, October 24

THE YEAR 1950 IN RHYTHM & BLUES (PART 9)

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 60

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’with The Bartender at WTJU-FM in Charlottesvile VA with anouther hour of great music from the year 1950 by Tiny Bradshaw, Ray Charles, T-Bone Walker, Camille Howard, Nat “King” Cole, Dinah Washington, Louis Jordan, Earline Harris, and Amos Milburn.

Saturday, October 25

ARMY ARRANGEMENT

TOKE TIME 112

Our hour of music by Fela Kuti from the 27-disc box set of his Complete Recordings features a pair of extended works from 1984: Army Arrangement and Government Chicken Boy..

Saturday, October 25

RULER OF MY HEART

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 13

Non-stop music from New Orleans by Eluard Burt & Co, Dave Bartholomew, the Hawketts, Fats Domino, Irma Thomas, Guitar Slim, Golden Eagles, Guardians of the Flame, Golden Comanches, Hard Head Hunters, Earl King & Roomful Of Blues, Guitar Slim Jr:, Eddie Bo, Glen Andrews & the Lazy Six, Dr. John, and Earl Turbinton.

Sunday, October 26

STILL SAYING FUCK (PART 3)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 119

A third scintillating hour in Caleb Selah’s current series of twisted programs titled Still Saying Fuck from the Blackheath Studios of The Fuck You Sound.

Sunday, October 26

JAMES BOOKER BIRTHDAY PARTY

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 81

This episode of Vintage Radio Vaults was produced by David Kunian for the Kitchen Sink program on WWOZ-FM in New Orleans as a radio birthday party for pianist James Booker.featuring studio and live recordings from the Maple Leaf Bar, European venues and elsewhere.

Monday, October 27

SOUL TIME

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 572

Coming from New York City with Part 2 of the new John & Soul show with Soul Lucille on board and a program of music & poetry to suit the occasion.

Monday, October 27

NO FLY ZONE

FLY BY NIGHT 83

Steve The Fly is still flying too low in the dark for our radar to catch him but when he gets here he’ll be jamming!

Tuesday, October 28

BLOODSHOT EYES

THE BLUES SHOW 148

Bruce Pingree is playing plenty blues with a program of music this week by Wynonie Harris, James Kinds, Elvin Bishop, Asina Earhart, Ruthie Foster, Jeremy Lyons, Dom Flemons, Corey Harris, Bob Halprin, the Delta Generators, Selwyn Birchwood, Albert King, and B.B. King.

Tuesday, October 28

HAPPY TIME

CROSSROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 68

Leslie Keros with an hour of music by Stevie Ray Vaughn, Junior Mance, Teddy Edwards, Kate McGarry & Keith Ganz, Benny Green, David Sills, Tina Brooks, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Jeff Presslaff, and Stanley Turrentine.

Wednesday, October 29

ECCENTRIC

JAZZ ROOTS 65

Tom Morgan has more of Tempo King & His Kings Of Tempo from 1936 and a great set of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings recorded in 1922, plus some Ellingtons to close out the hour.

Wednesday, October 29

HEY BARTENDER

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 26

Mark Coltrane is sitting in for Scott Barretta this week on the Highway 61 show with a program of great Texas Blues Piano by Floyd Dixon, Whistling Alex Moore, Mercy Dee Walton, and Amos Milburn.

Thursday, October 30

CRYIN’ THE BLUES

CHICAGO BOUND 20

Leslie Keros is Cryin’ The Blues tonight with tunes by Chicago artists including Robert Jr. Lockwood, Forrest Sykes, Luther Allison, Duke Jenkins’ Aristocrats, Little Walter, Laura Rucker with the Claude McLin Band, Buddy Guy, Chris James & Patrick Rynn, Alfred “Blues King” Harris, Little Johnny Jones, Lurrie Bell, John Littlejohn, Al Miller: Blues for John Littlejohn, Junior Wells, and Jimmy Yancey.

Thursday, October 30

SHOW ME GOOD

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 119

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Louann Barton, Howlin’ Wolf, Big Pete Pearson, Hound Dog Taylor, Sugarcane Harris, Ronnie Earl, Paul “Lil’ Buck” Sinegal, Etta Baker with Taj Mahal, Cootie Stark with Taj Mahal, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, Joe Krown-Walter “Wolfman” Washington-Russell Batiste Jr, Lurrie Bell, and Etta Baker.

Friday, October 31

LIGHTS ON A SATELLITE

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 112

Another hour of music from Sun Ra & His Arkestra in celebration of the Sun Ra Centennial, taken from the album Live at the Gibus from 1973 with a remaining track from In The Orbit of Ra to start the show and a cut from Cosmos to close it.

Friday, October 31

THE YEAR 1950 IN RHYTHM & BLUES (PART 10)

BACK TRACKIN’ WITH THE BARTENDER 61

Tom Morgan is Back Trackin’with The Bartender at WTJU-FM in Charlottesvile VA with a tenth hour of great recordings from the year 1950 by Tiny Bradshaw, Louis Jordan, Amos Milburn, Louis Jordan & Louis Armstrong, Nat “King” Cole, Lonnie Johnson, Ray Charles, T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington, Roy Brown, and Camille Howard.

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Saturday, November 1

FELA LIVE IN EUROPE

TOKE TIME 113

Our intensive investigation into the Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti, the 27-disc box set provided to Radio Free Amsterdam by Caleb Selah at The Fuck You Sound in London, continues with a pair of live albums from the late 1970s: Live In Berlin and Live In Amsterdam, which will be completed in our next episode.

Saturday, November 1

TAKE OFF THAT DRESS

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 14

Great music from New Orleans at the 420 Café in Amsterdam on this Wednesday afternoon in May 2008 with John Sinclair spinning sides by Eluard Burt & Co, Eddie Bo, Chuck Carbo, Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, the Barons, Danny Barker, Tommy Ridgley, Big Chief Peppy & Troy Andrews, Chief Smiley Ricks, the Flaming Arrows, Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns, Dr. John, Champion Jack Dupree, Craig Klein, Earl King, and Alvin “Red” Tyler.

Sunday, November 2

SPECIAL MIXTURE

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 120

An hour’s worth of well-considered weirdness by the Ace of Inner Space, Caleb Selah, beaming out from his bunker at the Blackheath Studios of housedem.com in London.

Sunday, November 2

HOMAGE TO ANDRE WILLIAMS (PART 1)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 50

David Kunian pays homage to the great Andre Williams with the first of a two-part salute on the Kitchen Sink Show on WWOZ in New Orleans, featuring great music by Mr. Rhythm drawn from historic and current recordings and from his new documentary film, Agile Mobile & Hostile.

Monday, November 3

MILESTONES

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 573

Episode 573 is coming from the Harbor House Bar in downtown Detroit, right across from the Police Station and my alma mater, the Wayne County Jail, and where my friends Phil Hale and his brother Milton host their weekly Monday night jam session in the old school stylee. Yesterday we began our celebration of the 50^th anniversary of the Detroit Artists Workshop with an event at the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead behind the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and we’ll have another one this coming Sunday at the Scarab Club of Detroit with original Workshop members Ron English, John Dana, Bill Harris, George Tysh, Robin Eichele, Ken Mikolowski and myself plus my band, the Motor City Blues Scholars, performing material from our album Detroit Life. Tonight’s episode and the next two are adapted from a series of recordings I put together for Cary Loren to be played at our events over the next two weeks to give an approximation of the musical and poetic environment we made and lived and worked in at the Artists Workshop, with selections by the Motor City Blues Scholars, Eric Dolphy, James Semark, John Coltrane, Allen Ginsberg, Miles Davis, George Tysh, Charles Mingus, and LeRoi Jones & the New York Art Quartet.

Monday, November 3

BOOSHY

FLY BY NIGHT 84

Steve The Fly is stirring things up tonight with classic recordings from the Illuminatus Audio Book, The Drifters, The Velours, Daddy Cleanhead & the  Chuck Higgins Band, The Silhouettes, The Flamingos, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, The Spaniels, Jerry Butler & The Impressions, Eddie Jefferson, Betty Harris, Cannonball Adderly, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

Tuesday, November 4

BLUES WITH B.B.

THE BLUES SHOW 149

Bruce Pingree is playing the blues with a program of music this week by B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Duke Robillard, Keb Mo, and Guitar Gabriel.

Tuesday, November 4

GROUND HOG BLUES

BLUES EDITION 68

Leslie Keros with a new Blues Edition featuring music by Big Daddy Kinsey, John Lee Hooker, Mervin “Lil' Son” Jackson, Washboard Sam, Saffire—The Uppity Blues Women, Ann Rabson, Bob Margolin, Big Maceo Merriweather, Otis Spann, Memphis Slim, Henry Gray, Sippie Wallace, Amos Milburn, James P. Johnson, and Muddy Waters.

Wednesday, November 5

JAZZ ME BLUES

JAZZ ROOTS 66

Produced by Tom Morgan at WWOZ-FM in New Orleans, this episode of Jazz Rootsfeatures music from Mezz Mezzrow with the Chicago Rhythm Kings and with Frank Teschemaker’s Chicagoans from 1928, plus a date with the Louisiana Rhythm Kings from 1933, followed by half an hour of pianist Meade Lux Lewis from 1961.

Wednesday, November 5

BABY PLEASE DON’T GO

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 27

Scott Barretta investigates the recordings of Big Joe Williams in this week’s episode of Highway 61, including sessions with John Lee Williamson and Robert Nighthawk, Lightning Hopkins, and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, and recordings for BlueBird Records, Trumpet, Delmark, Testament and other labels, plus Muddy Waters’ version of Big Joe’s classic “Baby Please Don’t Go.”

Thursday, November 6

SMOKEHOUSE

MESSIN’ WITH THE BLUES 20

Leslie Keros is Messin’ With The Blues utilizing selections by Erwin Helfer, Joe Louis Walker, the Duke Robillard Band, the Matt Schofield Trio, Larry Williams, Freddie King, Charles Brown, Robben Ford, Mighty Sam McClain, Anthony Paule Band, Don Covay, Johnny Adams, Pete Mayes, Jack McDuff, and Earl King.

Thursday, November 6

DOUBLE TROUBLE

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 120

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Jimmy Nolen, Mark Hummel, Rip Lee Pryor, Sammy Myers, Papa Lightfoot, Lloyd Jones, Vaneese Thomas, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Mary Ann Fisher, Missy Andersen, Clarence Spady, Professor Louie & The Crowmatix, and Lafayette Thomas.

Friday, November 7

THE ANTIQUE BLACKS

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 113

Our celebration of the Sun Ra Centennial continues this week with the Sun Ra & His Myth Science Solar Arkestra album called The Antique Blacks, a familiar number from a collection called Sub Underground, and the closing cut from the New Steps album.

Friday, November 7

LOOK OUT

BARTENDER’S BOP 01

This new offering from the Radio Free Amsterdam Vintage Radio Vaults is built on the Bartender’s Bop radio show produced & hosted by Tom Morgan at WTJU-FM in Charlottesville VA about 25 years ago. In preserving the music from the programs Tom eliminated the talking he’d done so I’m stepping in to re-program the selections for him and announce what’s been played in each set, including tunes by Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Roscoe Gordon, Amos Milburn, Wynonie Harris, Big Maybelle, Louis Jordan, Roy Brown, T-Bone Walker, Julia Lee, and three unidentified artists. You could call this a Joint Production and you’d be absolutely right.

Saturday, November 8

MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE

TOKE TIME 114

This episode of music taken from the 27-disc box set called the Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti provided to Radio Free Amsterdam by Caleb Selah at The Fuck You Sound in London continues with the remainder of the album Live In Amsterdam that we started last week.

Saturday, November 8

THE MAIN EVENT

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 15

This week’s edition of the New Orleans Music Show with John Sinclairfrom the 420 Café in Amsterdam features music from Eluard Burt & Company, James Andrews, the Naked Orchestra, Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters, and the marathon performance called “The Main Event” from the Re-Birth Brass Band in performance at the Maple Leaf Bar in uptown New Orleans, produced by the great Jerry Brock.

Sunday, November 9

MIXED BAG

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 121

Caleb Selah is back on the set with a mixed bag of weirdness from the underground Blackheath Studios of housedem.com in London.

Sunday, November 9

HOMAGE TO ANDRE WILLIAMS (PART 2)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 51

David Kunian pays homage to the great Andre Williams with the second half of his two-part salute on the Kitchen Sink Show on WWOZ in New Orleans, featuring great music by Mr. Rhythm drawn from historic and current recordings and from his new documentary film, Agile Mobile & Hostile.

Monday, November 10

STEP BY STEP

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 574

Episode 574 continues our celebration of the 50^th anniversary of the Detroit Artists Workshop with a second hour of ambient sound from the days of the Workshop with selections by Larry Nozero, Robert Creeley, the Detroit Artists Workshop Music Ensemble, David Sinclair, Detroit Contemporary 5, Jack Kerouac, Robin Eichele introducing Lyman Woodard & Charles Moore, Ed Sanders, and the MC-5.

Monday, November 10

CORNER MUSIC

FLY BY NIGHT 85

Another thrilling hour of music assembled by Steve The Fly from his extensive library of rare and popular recordings on vinyl, CD and .mp3.

Tuesday, November 11

EXPRESSING THE BLUES

THE BLUES SHOW 150

Bruce Pingree is playing the blues this weekwith a program of music from the Music Makers Relief Foundation by Guitar Gabriel, Cootie Stark, Neil Patman, John D. Holman, Eljah Mae Hinton, Etta Baker, Precious Bryant, Pura Fay, Leila McCallah, Slewfoot & The Angels, Essa Mae Brooks, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, and Ernie Williams with Cool John Ferguson.

Tuesday, November 11

STRIKE UP THE BAND

CROSS ROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 69

Leslie Keros with an hour of music by Stevie Ray Vaughn, Dave Stryker, Ariel Pocock, Frank Wess, Vincent Herring, Mike Longo, Blue Lunch, Ike Quebec, Harold Mabern, and Erwin Helfer.

Wednesday, November 12

RIGHT OR WRONG

JAZZ ROOTS 67

Produced by Tom Morgan at WWOZ-FM in New Orleans, this episode of Jazz Rootsfeatures music from minstrel man Emmett Miller from the teens and 1920s and from Clarence Williams from 1927-28, with a pair of cuts from Louis Armstrong to close the show.

Wednesday, November 12

ROLLING STONE

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 28

This week’s episode of Highway 61 with Scott Barretta visits the Hunter’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Como, Mississippi for preaching and singing by the Rev. John Wilkins; Rev. Wilkins singing on the Thacker Mt. Revue radio show in Oxford MS; and recordings by Rev. Wilkins’ father, Robert Wilkins; and versions of Robert Wilkins’ songs recorded by the Rolling Stones and Mississippi Fred McDowell.

Thursday, November 13

SHARP HARP

CHICAGO BOUND 21

Leslie Keros is playing the blues from Chicago with cuts from Willie Kent, Mighty Joe Young, Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, Pinetop Perkins, Jimmy Rogers, Johnny B. Moore, the Fred Below Blues Combo, George “Wild Child” Butler, Artie White, Lovie Lee, John Brim, Johnny “Yard Dog” Jones, and Barrelhouse Chuck.

Thursday, November 13

BIG FAT MAMA

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 121

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Pinetop Perkins, Muddy Waters, Clifton Chenier, Tab Benoit, Irma Thomas, Bobby Rush, Marcia Ball, Gregg Allman, Lucinda Williams, Mikey Junior, Magic Sam, John Mayall, and Bob Corritore.

Friday, November 14

JAZZ FROM AN UNKNOWN PLANET

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 114

Episode 114 continues our investigation of the music of Sun Ra & His Arkestra and our celebration of the Sun Ra Centennial with selections from the albums Cosmos, Out Beyond the Kingdom Of, and Somewhere Over The Rainbow.

Friday, November 14

HEY MR. LANDLORD

BARTENDER’S BOP 02

Tom Morgan’s Bartender’s Bop program from 1987 is reconstructed and hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam, featuring classic tunes by Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Big Joe Turner, Li’l Esther, PeeWee Crayton, Little Richard, James Booker, Shirley Ellis, Ike & Tina Turner, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Barbara George, Aretha Franklin, the Isley Brothers, the Four Tops, the Clovers, the Stylistics, and a small handful of unidentified artists.

Saturday, November 15

DON’T TEACH ME NONSENSE

TOKE TIME 115

Digging deeper into the 27-disc box set called the Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti, today’s program comes from an album recorded in the 1980s called Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense.

Saturday, November 15

STONED, DRUNK & NAKED

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 16

John Sinclair is spinning sides from the Crescent City at the 420 Café in Amsterdam, with selections from Eluard Burt & Co., Huey “Piano” Smith & The Clowns, Eddie Bo, Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers, Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters, Charmaine Neville, Anders Osborne, Lloyd Price, Little Mr Midnight, Little Richard, Mem Shannon & the Membership, the Naked Orchestra, James Andrews, and Craig Klein.

Sunday, November 16

LORD BEEFINGTON DUB SESSION LIVE AT THE BBC

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 122

Lord Beefington Mason is at the controls with Caleb Selah for this monstrous episode of The Fuck You Sound from the Blackheath Studios of housedem.com in London.

Sunday, November 16

SONG OF THE VIPERS

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 66

This episode of Vintage Radio Vaults was produced by David Kunian for the Overnight Jazz program and originally broadcast on WWOZ-FM in New Orleans during the Louis Armstrong Festival in August 2001 in commemoration of Pops’ life-long devotion to marijuana smoking and featuring reefer music from Louis, Kermit Ruffins, Fats Waller, Ray Charles, the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, John Sinclair with Ed Moss’ Hot 5, Sidney Bechet, the New Orleans Nightcrawlers, and Ms. Billie Holiday.

Monday, November 17

DON’T STOP THE GROOVE

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 575

Episode 575 offers a third hour of ambient sound from the days of the Detroit Artists Workshop, continuing our celebration of the 50^th anniversary of the Workshop with selections by Henry Normile & the Lyman Woodard Organization, James Semark, the Contemporary Jazz Quintet, Ron Allen, Wayne Kramer, Archie Shepp, William S. Burroughs, The Up, and John Sinclair & Luis Resto.

Monday, November 17

DON’T KNOW YET

FLY BY NIGHT 86

Steve The Fly is navigating tardily through the November nights and we have no idea of what he will be offering when he gets here, but you can bet it will be well worth listening to.

Tuesday, November 18

SNATCH THAT THING

THE BLUES SHOW 151

Bruce Pingree is playing the blues this week with more music from the Music Makers Relief Foundation by Captain Luke with Cool John Ferguson, Macilvine Haynes, James Davis, Dom Flemons, Boo Hanks, Eddie Tignor, Lightnin’ Wells, Senkofa Strings, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Frank Edwards, David Butler, and a pair of closing selections by Otha Turner & the Afrossippi All Stars.

Tuesday, November 18

COOKIN’ IN STYLE

BLUES EDITION 69

Leslie Keros is cookin’ in style with Big Daddy Kinsey, Lurrie Bell, Percy Mayfield, Alice Stuart, David Egan, Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Smith, Duke Robillard, Pee Wee Crayton, T-Bone Walker, Erwin Helfer, Little Johnny Taylor, Dr. John, and Helen Humes.

Wednesday, November 19

PRETTY TRICKS

JAZZ ROOTS 68

Produced by Tom Morgan at WWOZ-FM in New Orleans, this episode of Jazz Rootsfeatures music from guitarist Eddie Lang & violinist Joe Venuti with Red McKenzie & The Music Box in 1928, Joe Venuti & His New Yorkers, and with Victoria Spivey, plus Fats Waller from 1936-38 and a closing number by Dinah Washington from 1950.

Wednesday, November 19

YOU GOT ME DIZZY

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 29

Highway 61 with Scott Barrettainvestigates the work of Mississippi blues artists recording in Chicago for VeeJay Records between 1953-59, including sides by Jimmy Reed, Eddie Taylor, Big Joe Williams, John Lee Hooker, J.B. Lenoir, Snooky Pryor, Floyd Jones, Billy Boy Arnold, and Elmore James.

Thursday, November 20

DANCING IN THE STREET

MESSIN’ WITH THE BLUS 21

Leslie Keros messes with the blues again tonight, blending selections by Erwin Helfer, Dinah Washington, Noble “Thin Man” Watts, Albert King, Kevin McKendree, Albert Collins, Eden Brent, Deep Blue Organ Trio, Ramsey Lewis Trio, Andy Poxon & Duke Robillard, B.B. King, and Henry Butler with Steven Bernstein & the Hot 9.

Thursday, November 20

SMELL THE FUNK

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 122

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Rick Holmstrom, Dr. John, Buddy Guy, John Németh, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Toni Price, Michael Burks, Dion Payton & The 43^rd St. Band, Sherman Robertson, Johnny Adams, Roy Buchanan, and Paul “Lil’ Buck” Sinegal.

Friday, November 21

BLACK MAGIC

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 115

Episode 115 continues our exposition of the music of Sun Ra with music from the albums Some Blues but Not the Kind…. and Taking a Chance on Chances.

Friday, November 21

FARE THEE WELL

BARTENDER’S BOP 03

Tom Morgan’s Bartender’s Bop program series, produced for WTJU-FM in Charlottesville VA in the mid-1980s, features music selected by Tom Morgan from the glory days when Rhythm & Blues ruled America. The series has been reconstructed, reprogrammed and hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam, and this week’s episode features classic tunes by Louis Jordan with Hoagy Carmichael, Aaron Neville, the Five Blind Boys, Arthur Alexander, The Exciters, Young Hearts, The Flamingos, Eddie Bo, Champion Jack Dupree, Roy Brown, Charles Brown, and a bunch of artists we haven’t been able to identify yet.

Saturday, November 22

JUST LIKE THAT

TOKE TIME 116

This week’s episode of music from the 27-disc box set called the Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti features music from three Fela albums recorded in the 1980s: Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense, Beasts Of No Nation, and Music Is The Weapon Of Future, Volume 2.

Saturday, November 22

I HEAR YOU KNOCKING

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 17

John Sinclair is back at the 420 Café in Amsterdam on a Wednesday afternoon in 2008 playing music from New Orleans by Eluard Burt & Co., Theryl “Houseman” deClouet with Galactic, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, James Andrews, Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters, Jelly Roll Morton & His New Orleans Jazzmen, Henry Butler, Ellis Marsalis, New Orleans Jazz Vipers, Smiley Lewis, the Wild Magnolias, the New Birth Brass Band, the Meters, J. Monque’D, and Shirley & Lee.

Sunday, November 23

SAY FUCK SOME MORE (PART 1)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 123

The first hour of another long disquisition in music & word from Caleb Selah at housedem.com in London that will continue for the next several weeks in this slot.

Sunday, November 23

DENVER CANNABIS CUP (PART 1)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 107

David Kunian is saluting his late comrade from WWOZ, Mark Hawkins, and entertaining his colleague Deep Cough and his tales of the first Denver Cannabis Cup last April heralding the new age of marijuana legalization, accompanied by music from Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, The Ramones, Don Drummond, Monty Alexander, Desmond Dekker, and Burning Spear.

Monday, November 24

OUT TO LUNCH

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 576

Episode 576 continues our celebration of the 50^th anniversary of the Detroit Artists Workshop with another hour of what it used to sound like where we were, featuring selections from the Lyman Woodard Organization, Jack Kerouac, Tribe, Robin Eichele, Eric Dolphy, George Tysh, Detroit Contemporary 5, the MC-5, and the Blues Scholars.

Monday, November 24

NOT YET

FLY BY NIGHT 87

Steve The Fly is still not in with his packages for November so we’ll have to guess at what he will have for us when he finally does fly in.

Tuesday, November 25

ST. LOUIS BLUES

THE BLUES SHOW 152

Bruce Pingree is playing the blues this week with a program of music by Louis Armstrong, James Reese Europe & The Hellfighters Band, Bessie Smith, Little Milton, Sunnyland Slim, and John Cephas & Phil Wiggins.

Tuesday, November 25

ROLL ’EM

CROSSROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 70

Jazz meets blues with Leslie Keros and an hour of music by Stevie Ray Vaughn, Dizzy Gillespie, Alfredo Rodriguez, David “Fathead” Newman, Ben Sidran, 3 Cohens, Mary Lou Williams, Roger Kellaway & Eddie Daniels, Tom Dempsey, Teddy Edwards, and T-Bone Walker.

Wednesday, November 26

FINE, FINE DADDY

JAZZ ROOTS 69

Produced by Tom Morgan at WWOZ-FM in New Orleans, this episode of Jazz Rootsfeatures music from Dinah Washington from the collection Complete 1943-1951 Mercury Master Takes plus Father Al Lewis with Lars Edegran’s New Orleans Jazz Band from 1988.

Wednesday, November 26

JELLY ROLL KINGS

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 32

This week’s episode of Highway 61 with Scott Barretta investigates the music and career of the Jelly Roll Kings, the modern Delta blues trio comprising Frank Frost on harmonica, guitar & vocals, Sam Carr on drums, and Jack Johnson on guitar and vocals.

Thursday, November 27

CHICAGO STYLE

CHICAGO BOUND 22

Leslie Keros is playing the blues from Chicago with cuts by Robert Jr. Lockwood, Dave Specter, John Primer, Steve Freund & Gloria Hardiman, Earl Hooker, Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis, Big John Wrencher, Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter, Elmore James, Johnny Drummer, Easy Baby & His Houserockers, Mojo Buford, Little Smokey Smothers, and Lafayette Leake.

Thursday, November 27

WAKE UP CALL

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 123

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Bo Diddley, Sugar Pie De Santo, Tracy Nelson, Ray Charles with Mary Ann Fisher, Sam Cooke, B.B. King, Sean Costello, Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers, The Cate Brothers, Steve Freund, Elvin Bishop, Jimmy Thackery, Clifton Chenier, and Roomful Of Blues.

Friday, November 28

SUN STEPS

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 116

Episode 116 continues our celebration of the Sun Ra Centennial with music from the Sun Ra albums Taking a Chance on Chances and New Steps.

Friday, November 28

BARK BATTLE & BALL

BARTENDER’S BOP 04

Tom Morgan’s Bartender’s Bop program series features music from the glory days when Rhythm & Blues ruled America by Big Joe Turner, The Platters, Billy Ward & the Dominos, Nervous Norvus, Gene McDaniels, Wynonie Harris, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Louis Prima and a whole bunch of artists we haven’t been able to identify yet.

Saturday, November 29

O.D.O.O.

TOKE TIME 117

Episode 117 continues our investigation into the 27-disc box set called the Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti with selections from the 1980s albums O.D.O.O. and Underground System.

Saturday, November 29

TRA-LA-LA

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 18

Music from New Orleans by Eluard & Co, Roy "Baldhead" Byrd, Shirley & Lee, Roy Montrell, the Sha-Weez, the Royal Kings, Big Boy Myles, Bobby Charles, Bobby Mitchell, Tommy Ridgley with Dave Bartholemew, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Bernie Williams & the Barons, Champion Jack Dupree, Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters, James Andrews, Wee Willie Wayne, T-Bone Walker with the Cosimo Studio Orchestra, Bobby Marchan, Lucien Barbarin, and Marva Wright.

Sunday, November 30

SAY FUCK SOME MORE (PART 2)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 124

The second hour of another long disquisition in music & word from Caleb Selah at housedem.com in London that continues for the next several weeks in this slot.

Sunday, November 30

DENVER CANNBIS CUP (PART 2)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 108

David Kunian is entertaining his colleague Deep Cough and his tales of the first Denver Cannabis Cup last April heralding the new age of marijuana legalization, with music contributed by the Albert Ayler Trio, Sugar Minnott, Zion Trinity, Otha Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Junior Kimbrough and other music from the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, and the Liberation Music Orchestra.

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DECEMBER 2014 PROGRAM GUIDE

Monday, December 1

TEN YEARS ON THE AIR IN CYBERSPACE

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 577

Episode 577 is coming from the 420 Café in Amsterdam on Thanksgiving weekend in the States and the conclusion of Cannabis Cup week over here, and I’m celebrating the 10^th anniversary of The John Sinclair Radio Show since our debut on November 22, 2004. Now it’s 577 episodes later and we’re still kicking with both feet, as this program will attest, with music from Charles Mingus & Max Roach, CJQ, Ron Allen, the Lyman Woodard Organization, the John Coltrane orchestra, Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen, John Sinclair & Carlo Ditta, and Thelonious Monk & Gerry Mulligan.

Monday, December 1

CHANT OF THE WEED

FLY BY NIGHT 07

Steve The Fly is smoking this week with selections from Robert Anton Wilson, John Sinclair & Planet D Nonet, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Quasimoto, Stooges Brass Band, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Rebirth Brass Band, Thelonious Monk, Eddie Jefferson, William Burroughs, Roland Kirk, John Sinclair & Beatnik Youth, Jack Kerouac, Fly Agaric 23, Barrington Levy, and Duke Ellington-Charles Mingus-Max Roach.

Tuesday, December 2

BE WHAT YOU WANNA BE

THE BLUES SHOW 153

Bruce Pingree is playing versions of “St. Louis Blues” this week by Fats Waller, Sidney Bechet, Lucille Hegamin, John Fahey, Howard Armstrong, and Tuba Fats in honor of the 100^th anniversary of the publication of the W.C. Handy anthem, plus birthday salutes to the late Koko Taylor and to guitarist Houston Stackhouse with the Blues Rhythm Boys.

Tuesday, December 2

WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS

BLUES EDITION 70

Leslie Keros has blues for you this week by Ronnie Earl, Lavelle White, Sugaray Rayford, Benjie Porecki, John Brim, Rosetta Howard, the Paul DeLay Band, Lou Pride, Jimmy Rogers, Eddie Bo, Melvin Taylor, Charles Brown, Nina Simone, Jimmy Johnson, Johnny Shines & Big Walter Horton, and Washboard Sam.

Wednesday, December 3

FIDGETY FEET

JAZZ ROOTS 70

Produced by Tom Morgan at WWOZ-FM in New Orleans, this episode of Jazz Rootsfeatures music from the Original Crescent City Jazzers recorded in New Orleans in the early 1920s and its successor, the Arcadian Serenaders, recorded in St. Louis in 1924-25, plus Paul Barbarin & His New Orleans Band recorded at the New Orleans Municipal Auditorium in 1951-52 and in 1959.

Wednesday, December 3

U.S. BOOGIE

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 33

This week’s episode of Highway 61 with Scott Barretta features the music of Robert Nighthawk, his influences Tampa Red and Tommy Johnson, his contemporaries Big Joe Williams and John Lee Williamson, and his disciples B.B. King and Muddy Waters

Thursday, December 4

FUNKY RAY

MESSIN’ WITH THE BLUES 22

Leslie Keros brings a mess of blues from Chicago this week by Bob Corritore, Harrison Kennedy, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Brian Carpy, Sean Sullivan, Robben Ford, Guy Davis, Chuck Leavell, Lucky Peterson, Martijn Schok, Terry Hanck, and Duke Robillard.

Thursday, December 4

IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 124

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Carolos Zialcita, The Johnny Otis Band, Shuggie Otis, Charles Brown, Jack Bruce, James Brown, Ruthie Foster, Irma Thomas, J.W, Jones, and Ronnie Earl.

Friday, December 5

WHEN THERE IS NO SUN

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 117

Our celebration of the Sun Ra Centennial continues this week with Arkestra music from the early 1980s originally issued on the albums titled New Steps and Other Voices, Other Blues.

Friday, December 5

PEOPLE SAY

IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 15

The award-winning In The Soul Kitchen show with the legendary San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan has found a new home at KCSM-FM after 27 years at KUSF in San Francisco. This week’s episode features great tunes from The Meters, Doug Carn, The “5” Royales, McCoy Tyner, Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack, Thelma Jones, Irma Thomas, Howard Tate, James Carr, Laura Lee, Al Green, George McCrae, and Bill Coday.

Saturday, December 6

AFRICAN MESSAGE

TOKE TIME 118

Episode 118 completes our investigation into the albums incorporated into the 27-disc box set called Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti with selections from the 1980s originally issued on the albums Fear Not For Man, Underground System, and The Underground Spiritual Game. Special thanks to Caleb Selah at The Fuck You Sound in London for making the box set available to us.

Saturday, December 6

STEPPING HIGH

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 19

From our opening theme by Eluard Burt & Co. to the final strains of the Treme Brass Band, we’ve got a program of first-class New Orleans music by James Andrews, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Eddie Bo: Shirley & Lee, the Royal Kings, Li’l Millett, Fats Domino, Jimmy Beasley, Ernie Kador (K-Doe), Edgar Blanchard, the Dukes, Smiley Lewis, the Spiders, Dave Bartholomew, Jewel King, Huey “Piano” Smith & the Clowns, and the Treme Brass Band.

Sunday, December 7\

SAY FUCK SOME MORE (PART 3)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 125

The third hour of another long disquisition in music & word from Caleb Selah at housedem.com in London that continues for the next several weeks in this slot.

Sunday, December 7

HOMAGE TO JIM DICKINSON (PART 1)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 74

This episode of Vintage Radio Vaults was produced by David Kunian for the Kitchen Sink program on WWOZ-FM in New Orleans as part one of a homage to the great pianist, composer, producer and bandleader Jim Dickinson, including his own recordings and his productions on the North Mississippi All Stars (which includes his sons Luther & Cody), T-Model Ford, The Replacements, Big Star, Mudboy & The Neutrons, and the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band.

Monday, December 8

HOLLAND DAYS

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 578

Episode 578 will be coming from somewhere in the center of Amsterdam with a program of scintillating sides of the sort you’ve come to expect from this show, now celebrating 10 years on the air here at Radio Free Amsterdam

Monday, December 8

RAW POLIS

FLY BY NIGHT 08

Steve The Fly is plumbing the works of Robert Anton Wilson, with music from Donald Byrd, James Brown, The Spinners, Jerry Van Rooyen, Kai Winding, the Easy Star All Stars, John Hold, Doctor Marshmallow Cubicle, W.S Burroughs, Gil Scott Heron, Dr. John & The Lower 911, Jamo Thomas and His Party Brothers, Sonny Boy Williamson, Jimmy Reed, Stevie Wonder, and Archie Shepp.

Tuesday, December 9

EXPRESSING THE BLUES

THE BLUES SHOW 154

Bruce Pingree is playing the blues with music this week by The Blues Rhythm Boys with Houston Stackhouse, Robert Nightawk & Peck Curtis, plus a birthday salute to Snooky Pryor with Floyd Jones & Moody Jones from 1947 and from 40 years later in 1987, several unidentified artists and cuts from new albums by Elvin Bishop, Marcia Ball, and the Pat Sheridan Band.

Tuesday, December 9

THE STINGER

CROSS ROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 71

Leslie Keros with an hour of music by Stevie Ray Vaughn, Dave McKenna, Jimmy Bruno, 3 Cohens, Dave Specter, Harold Mabern, Melissa Aldana, Sean Jones, the Manhattan School of Music Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra, Lenore Raphael, and Steve Kaldestad & The Mike LeDonne Trio.

Wednesday, December 10

LORD, LORD, LORD

JAZZ ROOTS 71

Produced by Tom Morgan at WWOZ-FM in New Orleans, this episode of Jazz Rootsfeatures music from Louis Armstrong with the Dukes of Dixieland from the album Satchmo & The Dukes from 1958-1960 plus the Algiers Brass Band from 1992.

Wednesday, December 10

THEY’RE RED HOT

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 34

Scott Barretta spotlights the Robert Johnson Blues Trail Marker in MississippI for this week’s episode of Highway 61 with music by Robert Johnson, Son House, Cousin Leroy, Peetie Wheatstraw, Leroy Carr, Robert Lockwood Jr, Johnny Shines, Lonnie Pitchford, and Cassandra Wilson.

Thursday, December 11

LIQUIFIED BOOGIE

CHICAGO BOUND 23

Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Son Seals, Rob Stone & The C-Notes, Byther Smith, Jimmy Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, Tom Archia, Lacy Gibson, Shakey Jake Harris, Dave Specter, Magic Slim, Billy Boy Arnold, Ricky Allen, Jimmy Walker, and Clarence Samuels.

Thursday, December 11

THE KING SHOW

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 125

Cary Wolfson is spinning songs by Kings at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by King Curtis, B.B. King, Freddie King, King Ernest, Little Freddie King, Albert King, Little Jimmy King, King Biscuit Boy, Earl King, Eddie King, Chris Thomas King, and Willie King & The Liberators.

Friday, December 12

DISCO 3000

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 118

Episode 118 continues our long celebration of the Sun Ra Centennial with selections from the 1980s originally issued on the albums Other Voices, Other Blues, Media Dream, Disco 3000, and Lanquidity.

Friday, December 12

A HUNK OF FUNK

IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 16

The award-winning In The Soul Kitchen show with the legendary San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan has found a new home at KCSM-FM after 27 years at KUSF in San Francisco. This week’s episode features great tunes from The Scott Bros, the Detroit Emeralds, Syl Johnson, Tyrone Davis, Hortense Ellis, Candi Staton, O.V. Wright, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Bill Heid, Rachelle Ferrell, Warren Wolf, Bennie Maupin, Thelonious Monk, Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Strings, and Sonny Sharrock.

Saturday, December 13

THE BLACK PRESIDENT (PART 1)

TOKE TIME 119

Episode 119 sums up our investigation into the 27-disc box set called the Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti with an hour of his greatest hits that have been edited, remastered, and issued on the two-disc collection called The Black President. Special thanks to Caleb Selah at The Fuck You Sound in London for making the box set available to us.

Saturday, December 13

RIP IT UP

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 20

John Sinclair’s New Orleans Music Show from the 420 Café in Amsterdam was podcast by Radio Free Amsterdam in the first half of 2008. This episode features music by Eluard Burt & Co, Lee Allen, Little Bo, Shirley & Lee, Little Leo, Little Richard, Lowell Fulson, James Wayne, the Hawketts, Lloyd Price, Fats Domino, the Barons, Bobby Charles, Smiley Lewis, Fats & Dave, Big Boy Myles & the Sha-Weez, Art Neville, Bobby Mitchell & the Toppers, Earl King, and the Treme Brass Band.

Sunday, December 14

SAY FUCK SOME MORE (PART 4)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 126

The fourth hour of another long disquisition in music & word from Caleb Selah at housedem.com in London that continues for the next several weeks in this slot.

Sunday, December 14

HOMAGE TO JIM DICKINSON (PART 2)

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 75

This episode of Vintage Radio Vaults was produced by David Kunian for the Kitchen Sink program on WWOZ-FM in New Orleans as part two of a homage to the great pianist, composer, producer and bandleader Jim Dickinson, including his own recordings and his productions on the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, the Rolling Stones, the Replacements, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, and the North Mississippi All Stars, which includes Dickinson’s sons Luther & Cody.

Monday, December 15

FREEDOM JAZZ DANCE

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 579

Episode 579 will be our annual celebration of my release from prison on December 13, 1971 with the kind of music & verse we like to play from a site somewhere in the heart of Amsterdam.

Monday, December 15

SCHROEDINGER'S CAT

FLY BY NIGHT 09

Steve The Fly is serving up more of the wit & wisdom of Robert Anton Wilson with a program featuring audio samples from RAW and music by James Knight, James Andrews, Ronnie Foster, Little Freddy King, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Sinclair & his Amsterdam Blues Scholars, Charles Mingus, Jimi Hendrix, Fly Agaric & Senior Modulator, and Andre Williams.

Tuesday, December 16

REALLY THE BLUES

JAZZ ROOTS 72

Produced by Tom Morgan at WWOZ-FM in New Orleans, this episode of Jazz Rootsfeatures music from New Orleans clarinetist Jimmy Noone recorded in  July 1929; Sidney Bechet recording as Pops King with Tommy Ladnier & Mezz Mezzrow in the 1930s, with the Port of Harlem 7 in 1939, and with the Sidney Bechet Orchestra from a collection from 1939 called Haitian Moods; wih Mildred Bailey & Red Norvo coming in at the end to close the show for ths week.

Tuesday, December 16

LET YOUR HAIR DOWN

CHICAGO BOUND 24

Leslie Keros is beaming out of the Windy City with blues by Floyd McDaniel & the Blues Swingers, Toronzo Cannon, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Sam Lay, Chuck Berry, Will Ezell, Jazz Gillum, Magic Sam, John Primer, William Clarke, and Dave Specter.

Wednesday, December 17

SAY FUCK SOME MORE (PART 5)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 127

The fifth hour of a long disquisition in music & word from Caleb Selah at housedem.com in London that continues for the next several weeks.

Wednesday, December 17

THE GREAT DEBATE

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 35

Scott Barretta features music fromThe Great Debate soundtrack in this week’s episode of Highway 61, including numbers by Alvin Youngblood Hart, Sharon Jones, and the Carolina Chocolate Drops, plus original versions by Booker White, Clara Smith, the Mississippi Sheiks, Bessie Smith, Rev. Utah Smith, Blind Willie Johnson, and Blind Boy Fuller.

Thursday, December 18

THE HOKUM BLUES

JAZZ ROOTS 73

Produced by Tom Morgan at WWOZ-FM in New Orleans, this episode of Jazz Rootsfeatures recordings featuring guitarist Lawrence Lucie, who celebrated his 100^th birthday the day before this show, here playing with Spike Hughes & His Negro Orchestra in New York City in 1933, followed by a series of sides from The Hokum Boys in 1927-29 and songs sung by Junaita Hall with Doc Cheatham and his band from the early 1950s.

Thursday, December 18

A SINNER’S PRAYER

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 126

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Guitar Shorty, Derek Trucks Band, John Németh, James Brown, Ruthie Foster, Ray Charles, Ted Taylor, Otis Redding, Garnett Mimms & The Enchanters, Doyle Bramhall, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Mr. Frank Edwards & Taj Mahal, Scott Ainslie, and Billy Perry.

Friday, December 19

THAT'S HOW I FEEL

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 119

Episode 119 will be our penultimate entry in the long Sun Ra Centennial Celebration that started in this slot seven months ago and ends next week. This week’s episode presents most of the great Lanquidity album and selections from the album called Sound Mirror.

Friday, December 19

ROLL, ROLL, ROLL

IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 17

The award-winning In The Soul Kitchen show with the legendary San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan has found a new home at KCSM-FM after 27 years at KUSF in San Francisco. This week’s episode features great tunes from Hilton Ruiz, Otis Redding, Amos Milburn, James Cotton, Guitar Slim, Bobby “Blue Bland, Li’l Buck, Guitar Junior, Junior Gordon, Otis Spann, The Violinaires, Otis Clay, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, and Jimmy “Bo” Horne.

Saturday, December 20

THE BLACK PRESIDENT (PART 2)

TOKE TIME 120

Episode 120 completes our investigation into the 27-disc box set called the Complete Recordings of Fela Kuti with a second helping of his greatest hits that have been edited, remastered, and issued on the two-disc collection called The Black President. This has been a terrific listening experience for me, reviewing all of Fela’s massive output from beginning to end on the Toke Time show. Thanks for listening with me, and special thanks to Caleb Selah at The Fuck You Sound in London for making the box set available to us for our listening pleasure. Please note that this will be the final episode in the current Toke Time series.

Saturday, December 20

MAN OF MY WORD

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 21

John Sinclair has music from the 420 Café this week from Eluard & Co, Davell Crawford, James Andrews, Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton, Johnny Adams, Kermit Ruffins, John Boutté, Earl Turbinton, Fats Domino, Little Booker, Kirk Joseph's Backyard Groove, Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, and Alvin “Red” Tyler.

HAVE YOU A REAL COOL YULE

Sunday, December 21

CHRISTMAS 911

THE BLUES SHOW 155

Bruce Pingree is playing the blues for Christmas with a program of music this week by Louis Armstrong, Kermit Ruffins, Dukes of Dixiland, Irma Thomas & the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Dr. John, Lynn August, Sonny Rhodes, Little Jimmy King, Texas Pete Mayes & His Houserockers, Roomful of Blues, B.B. King, Eddie C. Campbell, Koko Taylor, Albert King, and Earl King.

Sunday, December 21

JAZZ LUNATIQUE XMAS SHOW

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 85

This episode of Vintage Radio Vaults celebrates Xmas with David Kunian on his Jazz Lunatique program at WWOZ-FM in New Orleans on Christmas Day 2003, with music from Michael Ray & The Cosmic Krewe, Frank Zappa, the Ken Vandemark Five, Nina Simone, Sam Rivers, Santa Claus, Spike Jones, Sugar Boy Crawford, Jack Teagarden, Babs Gonzales, Johnny Guaraneri, Kermit Ruffins, The Drifters, and Charlie Parker.

Monday, December 22

MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 580

Episode 580 will be our annual Christmas music celebration with location and musical selections yet to be determined.

Monday, December 22

STEVE THE FLY’S SATURNALIA

FLY BY NIGHT 85

Fly in 2012 sez: The last few weeks I’ve witnessed John Sinclair programming spontaneous radio shows across the table from me. John made a number of shows that knocked me off my stool so I figured it was my duty as DJ Fly Agaric to respond with a festive selection of tunes. The tracks were selected from my LP collection, recorded Wednesday 22nd December 2009 on a H4 Zoom Recorder.

Tuesday, December 23

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

THE BLUES SHOW 156

Bruce Pingree is playing Christmas blues this week by Earl King, Canned Heat, Jimmy Dawkins, Sandra Hall, Roscoe Gordon, Etta James, Rev. Edward W Claiborne, Bo Carter, Leadbelly, John Lee Williamson, Walter Davis, Harmon Ray, Rev. A.W. Nicks, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Staple Singers, and Clarence “Gateouth” Brown.

Tuesday, December 23

SLEIGH RIDE

CROSSROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 72

Leslie Keros with an hour of Christmas blues & jazz by Stevie Ray Vaughn, Pete Jolly Trio & Friends, Randy Greer & the Ignasi Terraza Trio, Oliver Jones, Charles Brown, Butch Thompson, Willie Pickens, Ella Fitzgerald, Marcus Roberts, Cedar Walton, Eddie Higgins, Hilton Ruiz, and B.B. King.

Wednesday, December 24

YULETIDE BLUES

BLUES EDITION 71

Leslie Keros helps usher in the holiday season with this program of blues from Smokey Wilson, Butch Thompson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band, Riff Ruffin, Robert Nighthawk, Shemekia Copeland, Ray Charles, B.B. King, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Tampa Red, The Soul of John Black, and Take 6.

Wednesday, December 24

BLUES FOR CHRISTMAS

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 30

Scott Barretta features a power-packed program of blues Christmas music on this week’s episode of Highway 61 with classic selections by Charles Brown, Mabel Scott, Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Llggins, Li’l Esther & Mel Walker, Lightning Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Jimmy Reed, Big Joe Williams, Lowell Fulson, Jimmy McCracklin, Papa Hop (Wilson), Detroit Junior, Jerry McCain, Sam Myers, and Big Jack Johnson.

Thursday, December 25

JINGLE BELLS

CROSSROADS—WHERE JAZZ MEETS BLUES 73

Leslie Keros with an second hour of Christmas music by B.B. King, Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Smith, the Kaz Jazz Quartet, Roy Hargrove, Shirley Horn, Dave McKenna, Harry Allen, John Hicks, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Dave Brubeck, Etta James, Art Hodes, Bill Evans, and the Mighty Blue Kings.

Thursday, December 25

BLUE CHRISTMAS

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 127

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Billy Gibson, Finis Tasby, Little Jimmy King, Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King, Gary “U.S.: Bonds, Fathead, Dimar & Gil, Shakora Syeeda, Al Basile, Eartha Kitt, The Blind Boys & Tom Waits, Irma Thomas, the Campbell Brothers, and Charles Brown.

Friday, December 26

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 31

This week’s episode of Highway 61 features Scott Barretta’s second hour of Christmas music with soul blues selections by B.B King, Albert King, Sir Mack Rice, Jerry McCain, Sam Myers, Robert Ward, Earl King, Vernon Garrett, Pete Mayes, Hot Rock Hayes, James Brown, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Charles Brown, Dr. John, Little Johnnie Taylor, and Huey “Piano” Smith & the Clowns. Please note that the Highway 61 Blues series ends with this episode.

Friday, December 26

SANTA CLAUS, SANTA CLAUS

THE BLUES SHOW 157

Bruce Pingree is playing a final round of the holiday blues this week with seasonal music by by Lightnin’ Hopkins, William Clarke, Jerry McCain, Sonny Boy Williamson, Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets, Charlie Musselwhite, The Insight, Billy Ward & The Dominoes, Louis Jordan, Charles Bronwn, Louis Armstrong, and the 5 Keys.

Saturday, December 27

BLUE XMAS

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 80

Cary Wolfson is spinning for Christmas at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Huey “Piano” Smith & The Clowns, Angel Rissoff, Chick Willis, Dave Keyes, B.B. Coleman & Blues Boy Willie, Honey Davis, Lord Buckley, Fruteland Jackson, Ingrid Lucia, Irma Thomas, Paul Oscher, Little Esther & Mel Walker, Elvin Bishop, and Charles Brown.

Saturday, December 27

BACK DOOR SANTA

THE SOUL LUCILLE CHRISTMAS SHOW

Ah! A holiday postcard from Florence, Italy and a quick taste of our newest program for 2015,The Soul Lucille Show, with Lucille DJ from controradio serving up the soul and super heavy funk sides every Saturday night on Radio Free Amsterdam from now on.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Sunday, December 28

ROYAL FLUSH

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 22

John Sinclair is emanating from the 420 Café in Amsterdam with music by Eluard & Co, Kermit Ruffins, Davell Crawford, Charles "Hungry" Williams, Los Hombres Calientes, the New Orleans Jazz Vipers, Irma Thomas, New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Louis Prima, Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton, Matt Perrine, Johnny Adams, and Astral Project. Please note that this is the final episode in the New Orleans Music Show series.

Sunday, December 28

HOMAGE TO HUNTER S. THOMPSON

VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 52

David Kunian pays tribute to the late Hunter S. Thompson on the Kitchen Sink Show on WWOZ in New Orleans with a program of readings from Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail, the Richard Nixon Obituary and other texts, with music from Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Porgy Jones, Jimmy Reed, Santana, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

Monday, December 29

HAPPY NEW YEARS!

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 581

Episode 581 completes our weekly programming for 2014 and looks ahead to yet another new year filled with blues, jazz & reefer for all.

Monday, December 29

FLY’S KITCHEN

FLY BY NIGHT 10

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, December 30

OMNIVERSE

ANCESTOR WORSHIP 120

This episode completes our long investigation into the music of Sun Ra & His Arkestra from the 1950s into the 1980s in celebration of the centennial of his birth on May 22, 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama. Our final installment draws from the albums Cosmos, The Other Side of the Sun, and Omniverse. This will be the final episode of Ancestort Worship for the time being as well. Thanks for listening!

Tuesday, December 30

ROCKER

IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 18

The award-winning In The Soul Kitchen show with the legendary San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan has found a new home at KCSM-FM after 27 years at KUSF in San Francisco. This week’s episode features great tunes from Denise LaSalle, The Mar-Keys, The Chi-Lites, Little Beaver, The O’Jays. Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Bobby Patterson, Curtis Mayfield, The Patterson Twins, Big John Patton, Cool Sticky, Tom Farrell & Claudia Acuna, Babatunde Lea, and Little Walter.

Wednesday, December 31

HELL’S BELLS

JAZZ ROOTS 74

Produced by Tom Morgan at WWOZ-FM in New Orleans, this episode of Jazz Rootsfeatures music from a series of Jimmy Blythe piano rolls from the 1920s recently issued by Delmark Records, some great recordings by the Jimmy Lunceford Orcestra from 1937, and a pair of vocal selections by Steve Gibson & The 5 Red Caps from the 1940s to close the show. Please note that the Jazz Roots series ends with this episode.

Wednesday, December 31

JUKE BOX BOOGIE

MESSIN’ WITH THE BLUES 23

Leslie Keros with a program of music specially selected for New Year’s Eve with tunes by Dennis Gruenling featuring Doug Deming & The Jewel Tones, Sean Costello, Ronnie Earl, the Mannish Boys, Kirk Fletcher, Finis Tasby, Marcia Ball, Doctor Ross, B.B. King, The Bruce Katz Band, Eric Bibb, and Big Joe Williams.

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Thursday, January 1

ROCK THIS HOUSE

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 128

Cary Wolfson opens the New Year at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Mollie O'Brien, Linsey Alexander, the Bruce Katz Band, Sean Costello, J.D. McPherson, Gary Clark Jr., John Mayall, Steve Freund & Gloria Hardiman, Travis Haddix, and Bobby Rush.

Friday, January 2

BACK TO THE TRACKS

BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 01

George Klein is gracing Radio Free Amsterdam with his fine jazz program called Beyond The Groove Yard coming out of Ypsilanti, Michigan on taintradio.org with an hour of music celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Blue Note Records by playing great cuts by Tina Brooks, Freddie Redd, Jackie McLean, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, Sonny Red, and Donald Byrd.

Friday, January 2

TONIGHT’S THE VIPER

FLY BY NIGHT 86

Steve The Fly with a program of super tokes from Kermit Ruffins, John Sinclair & the Planet D Nonet, Louis Armstrong, New Birth Brass Band, Howlin' Diablos, Jimmy Witherspoon, John Sinclair & his Blues Scholars, the Wild Magnolias, Mezz Mezzrow, Rozetta Howard, John Sinclair & Steve The Fly,and Johnnie Bassett & the Blues Insurgents.

Saturday, January 3

LOOKING BACK

DIGGIN’ THE ROOTS 01

Tom Morgan starts the new year with a brand-new program developed expressly for Radio Free Amsterdam—a great honor for us—and it’s called Diggin’ The Roots, featuring tunes from the glorious past and present of African American popular music by Paul Gayten, Johnny Adams, Irma Thomas, Willie Tee, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, Eddie Bo, Tony Joe White, Snooks Eaglin, and Coco Robicheaux.

Saturday, January 3

A MELLOW GOOD TIME

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 23

Emanating from the 420 Café in Amsterdam every Wednesday afternoon at 4:20 for the first six months of 2008, John Sinclair’s New Orleans Music Show features the music that got him voted New Orleans’ favorite radio personality for the last five years he spent in the Crescent City (1999-2003)—a heady mixture of tunes past and present from Eluard & Co, Lee Dorsey, Dave Bartholomew, Lloyd Price, Bobby Marchan & The Clowns, Chuck Carbo, Eddie Bo, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Davell Crawford, Li'l Queenie & the Percolators, Deacon John, Nicholas Payton, Kermit Ruffins, Irma Thomas, and Fats Domino.

Sunday, January 4

SAY FUCK SOME MORE (PART 6)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 128

The sixth hour of a long disquisition in music & word from Caleb Selah at housedem.com in London that continues into next year.

Sunday, January 4

TIM GREEN MEMORIAL (PART 1)

JAZZ LUNATIQUE 01

David Kunian is paying homage to the recently departed tenor saxophonist Tim Green with a selection of numbers that feature his nion-pareil playing under the leadership of Michael Ray & the Cosmic Krewe, Jonathan Freilich’s The Naked Orchestra, Mem Shannon, Helen Gillett, Sarah Jarose, and James Singleton’s Three Now Four-cestra, plus sides by Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & Anders Osborne, Elmore James, X, and the Egg Yolk Jubilee.

Monday, January 5

BOY, WHAT A NIGHT

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 582

Episode 578 will be coming from somewhere in the center of Amsterdam with a program of scintillating sides of the sort you’ve come to expect from this show, now celebrating 10 years on the air here at Radio Free Amsterdam.

Monday, January 5

GET UP & DRIVE YOUR FUNKY SOUL

THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 01

Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk with tunes by James Brown, Nina Simone, Barbara Dane, Gwen McRae, Bobby Womack, Mandrill, Ella Fitzgerald, Chuck Jackson, Darrow Fletcher, The Organization, and Lyn Collins.

Tuesday, January 6

TROUBLE IN MIND

THE BLUES SHOW 161

Bruce Pingree is playing the blues with a program of music this week by the Pat Sheridan Band, Harmonica Hines, Big Walter Horton & Johnny Nicholas, John Nemeth, Ruthie Foster, Leyla McCallum, Corey Harris, Dom Flemings, Babe Stovall, and a set by Big Walter Horton with Johnny Nicholas & the Boogie Brothers at the 1973 Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival.

Wednesday, January 7

EVERYBODY ALREADY KNOWS

CHICAGO BOUND 25

Leslie Keros dedicates Episode 25 to blues recordings from 2014 that may or may not come from Chicago per se, featuring Bob Corritore, Davina & The Vagabonds, Gary Clark, Jr., Eddie Cotton, Henry Butler with Steven Bernstein & the Hot 9, The Planet D Nonet, Robben Ford, Eden Brent, Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin, Catherine Russell, Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, and Terry Hanck.

Wednesday, January 7

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS

MESSIN’ WITH THE BLUES 24

Leslie Keros is messin’ with the blues in Episode 24 with new year’s cuts by Blind Lemon Jefferson, Jimmy “T99” Nelson, Jimmy & Mama Yancey, Dinah Washington, Johnny Copeland, Joe Krown, Howard Tate, Lil’ Ed & Dave Weld, Roosevelt Sykes, Big Mojo Elem, Eric Bibb, Ernestine Anderson, and Cannonball Adderley.

Thursday, January 8

BREAKING NEWS

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 129

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Bo Diddley, Benny Turner, Freddie King, Luther Allison, Gary Clark,  Jr., B.B. King, Otis Grand & Joe Louis Walker, the Charles Ford Band, Blind Mississippi Morris, and the Grateful Dead.

Friday, January 9

BLUE NOTES

BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 02

George Klein’s second episode of Beyond The Groove Yard continues his celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Blue Note Records with sides by Lee Morgan, Grant Green, Bennie Green, John Patton, Larry Young, Lonnie Smith, Horace Silver, Lou Donaldson, and Hank Mobley.

Friday, January 9

PLANET SUN RA

FLY BY NIGHT 87

Steve The Fly takes a trip to space with Sun Ra & his Arkestra, rocketing for an hour through time & the planets in Ra’s centennial year.

Saturday, January 10

THE TWITCH

DIGGIN’ THE ROOTS 02

Tom Morgan’s brand-new program for Radio Free Amsterdam, Diggin’ The Roots, features tunes from the glorious past and present of African American popular music by Alvin “Shine” Robinson, Barbara George, Wardell Quezerque, Benny Spellman, Blazer Boy, Bobby Marchan, Chuck Carbo, Danny White, Arthur Alexander, Brook Benton, Bobo Mr. Soul, Booker T. & The MG's, Don Bryant, Solomon Burke, James Carr, and Lucky Carter.

Saturday, January 10

SPECIAL LESSON NO. 1

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 24

We’re rockin’ the 420 Café on a Wednesday afternoon in 2008 with a power-packed program of New Orleans Music classics by Eluard Burt & Co., the Meters, Dr. John, Ironing Board Sam, Smiley Lewis, Paul Gayten, Blue Lu Barker, Professor Longhair, Tommy Ridgley, Champion Jack Dupree, Chubby Newsome, Roy Brown, Ernie K-Doe, Irma Thomas, Earl King, George Miller & His Mid-Driffs, and Fats Domino.

Sunday, January 11

SAY FUCK SOME MORE (PART 7)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 129

The seventh hour of a long disquisition in music & word from Caleb Selah at housedem.com in London that continues into the new year.

Sunday, January 11

TIM GREEN MEMORIAL (PART 2)

JAZZ LUNATIQUE 02

David Kunian is paying homage to the recently departed tenor saxophonist Tim Green with a second hour of selections featuring his nion-pareil playing under the leadership of Jonathan Freilich & The Naked Orchestra, Marshall Allen & the Cosmic Krewe, Stanton Moore & Robert Walter, Plunge, Naked On The Floor, and the Yockamo All Stars.

Monday, January 12

WHAT IT IS

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 583

Episode 583 will be coming from a site somewhere in the heart of Amsterdam with the sort of music you’ve come to expect from our flagship program, now in its 11^th consecutive year in cyberspace.

Monday, January 12

HEAD ON COLLISION WITH HEARTBREAK

THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 02

Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk from the Mar-Keys, Johnny Nash, Tommy Hunt, Bobby Byrd, Rare Earth, The Fatback Band, The Spinners, Gil Scott Heron, Terry Callier, The Modulations, Funkadelic, Eddie Long, and Syl Johnson.

Tuesday, January 13

UNDER PRESSURE

THE BLUES SHOW 162

Bruce Pingree is paying his respects to the recently departed Memphis guitarist & singer, Little Jimmy King, with a program of selections from his albums and added cuts by Selwyn Birchwood, Jeriku Singleton, and Damon Flower.

Wednesday, January 14

BLUES FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING

CHICAGO BOUND 26

Leslie Keros pays tribute to Rev. Martin Luther King in this special program of music by Big Bill Broonzy, Jim Brewer, Billy Boy Arnold, Otis Spann, Big Joe Williams, Otis Spann, J.B. Lenoir, the Staple Singers, Mavis Staples, Sam Cooke & the Soul Stirrers, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Muddy Waters, Joe Filisko & Eric Noden, and the Rev. Dwayne Mason.

Wednesday, January 14

SECOND COMING

MESSIN’ WITH THE BLUES 25

Leslie Keros listens to another hour of the top blues releases of 2014 by Dave Specter, Otis Clay & Johnny Rawls, Billy Branch & the Sons of Blues, Sean Sullivan, Sean Costello, The Bruce Katz Band, Kate McGarry, Arthur Migliazza, Elias Haslanger, Ruthie Foster, Eric Bibb, and David Vest.

Thursday, January 15

RATS & ROACHESIN MY KITCHEN

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 130

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Lady Bianca, Bobby Keyes, Brewer Phillips, The Red Devils, Denise Lasalle, Roy Buchanan, Calvin Russell, the Generation Blues Experience, and Mel Brown.

Friday, January 16

BASS BLUES

BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 03

George Klein is focused on the bass in the third episode of Beyond The Groove Yard, playing selections by John Coltrane with Paul Chambers, Charlie Haden & Hank Jones, Ray Brown, John Coltrane with Reginald Workman and Art Davis, Doug Watkins on cello, Ange Smith & Don Mayberry, and Ray Brown & Milt Jackson.

Friday, January 16

AMERICAN PORN

FLY BY NIGHT 88

Steve The Fly is featuring a recent album acquisition (thanks to Ben Schot of Sea-Urchin Press) of the work of the great British poet Heathcote Williams caled American Porn which he has accompanied with his own drum tracks (thanks to Tim Eggmond at EI Studios in Amsterdam) and some Youth soundscapes from the files for the play Cosmic Trigger.

Saturday, January 17

MAMBO JAMBO

DIGGIN’ THE ROOTS 03

Tom Morgan is Diggin’ The Roots for Radio Free Amsterdam featuring tunes from the glorious past and present of African American popular music by Paul Gayten, Alberta Adams, Ball, Barton & Strehli, Johnnie Bassett, Charles Brown, Marcia Ball, Guitar Shorty, Terry Evans, Roy Book Binder, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Etta Baker, John Cephas & Phil Wiggins, Guy Davis, and Robert Ealey         .

Saturday, January 17

FISHTAILS

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 25

Great music continues from Mardi Gras to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, sustaining the critical populace and making life worthwhile for all citizens. Here we’re still rockin’ on Ash Wednesday with recorded music by Eluard Burt & Co., Los Hombres Calientes, Louis Prima, Earl King & Roomful of Blues, Johnny Adams, Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton, Kermit Ruffins, the New Orleans Jazz Vipers, Eddie Bo, Irma Thomas, Paul Gayten, Davell Crawford, Ironing Board Sam, Louis Armstrong, and Dr. John.

Sunday, January 18

SAY FUCK SOME MORE (PART 8)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 130

The eighth hour of a long disquisition in music & word from Caleb Selah at housedem.com in London that continues through January.

Sunday, January 18

STREET FOOD

JAZZ LUNATIQUE 03

David Kunian is playing all sorts of music tonight while waiting for Deep Cough to show up with a Cannabis Cup report from the state of Washington, including sides by Soul Asylum, Gun Club, Benjamin Booker, the Pixies, Fitz & The Tantrums, Charlie Dennard, Conrad Herwig, Los Otros, Bachir Atad, and Mr. Quintron.

Monday, January 19

WHO KNOWS

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 584

Episode 584 will be another Amsterdam show from one of our favorite locations with music yet to be selected.

Monday, January 19

GOTTA STAND FOR SOMETHING

THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 03

Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with another killer hour of soul & super heavy funk with tunes by Mary Ann Fischer, Varetta Dillard, Allen Toussaint, Freddy King, Bill Withers, Little Sister, Cymande, Junie, Dyke & the Blazers, the Temptations, Roy Ayers, the Pointer Sisters, Apple & The Three Oranges, and Brother Jack McDuff.

Tuesday, January 20

GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY

THE BLUES SHOW 163

Bruce Pingree is playing the blues this week by Evelyn Rubio & the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra, Leela McCalla, Mud Morganfield, John Nemeth, Mark Hummel, Harmonica Hines, Rip Lee Pryor, and a long boirth day salute to Rice Miller, better known as Sonny Boy Williamson.

Wednesday, January 21

ONE SUNNY DAY

CHICAGO BOUND 27

Leslie Keros is playing the blues from Chicago with sides by Robert Jr. Lockwood, Willie Cobbs, Lonnie Brooks, Carey & Lurrie Bell, Little Walter, Steve Behr, Artie “Blues Boy” White, Elmore James, Big Walter Horton, Koko Taylor, Lafayette “Thing” Thomas, Meade Lux Lewis, Andrew “Big Voice” Odom, Luther “Snake Boy” Johnson, Barkin’ Bill, and Barrelhouse Chuck.

Wednesday, January 21

SHINE ON

MESSIN WITH THE BLUES 26

Leslie Keros is messin’ with a lot of blues in Episode 26 with cuts by Reverend Raven & the Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys, Angela Strehli, Solomon Burke, Ruth Brown, Victoria Spivey, Ben Webster, Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm, Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Rory Block, Fred Kaplan, the Joe Stanley Sextet, Memphis Slim, Tony Z, and Barrelhouse Chuck.

Thursday, January 22

NIGHT TRAIN

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 131

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Billy Flynn, Chuck Berry, Ford Blues Band, Jim Suhler & Monkey Beat with Elvin Bishop, Charles Brown, Terry Hanck, James Brown, Lee McBee & The Passions, Hip Linkchain, the Derek Trucks Band, and Roy Buchanan.

Friday, January 23

AWFUL MEAN

BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 04

George Klein continues his focus on the bass in Episode 4 with selections featuring Paul Chambers, Stanton Moore with James Singleton, Ron Carter, Abdullah Ibrahim, Don Pullen's African-Brazilian Connection, and Johnny Dyani.

Friday, January 23

ILLUMINATUS AUDIO BOOK

FLY BY NIGHT 89

Steve The Fly sets a sound track to readings from Robert Anton Wilson and other contributors to this hour of pure dementia focused on the Illuminati.

Saturday, January 24

SKIN & BONES

DIGGIN’ THE ROOTS 04

Tom Morgan is Diggin’ The Roots for Radio Free Amsterdam featuring tunes from the glorious past and present of African American popular music by Paul Gayten, John Jackson, Archie Edwards, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Algia Mae Hinton, Ann Rabson, Super Chikan, Keb' Mo', the Holmes Brothers, Charles Brown, Freddie Roulette & Willie Kent, James Cotton, and Michael Hill.

Saturday, January 24

IN THE NIGHT

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 26

Ah! A holiday postcard from Florence, Italy and a quick taste of our newest program for 2015,The Soul Lucille Show, with Lucille DJ from controradio serving up the soul and super heavy funk sides every Saturday night on Radio Free Amsterdam from now on.

Sunday, January 25

SAY FUCK SOME MORE (PART 9)

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 131

The ninth hour of a long disquisition in music & word from Caleb Selah at housedem.com in London that continues through January.

Sunday, January 25

DEEP COUGH GOES TO WASHINGTON

JAZZ LUNATIQUE 04

David Kunian is talking with his cannabis correspondent Deep Cough tonight abut his trip to the High Times Cannabis Cup outside of Seattle, Washington, where weed was recently made legal through a voters’ initiative, and playing music by Mr. Quintron, The Naked Orchestra, Grand Fatilla, Fela Kuti, and Joshua Redman around and between the of their conversation.

Monday, January 26

SEVERAL DESCRIPTIONS INDEED

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 585

Episode 585 will be coming from somewhere in Amsterdam, most likely the 420 Cafe, with another thrilling hour of music & verse of several possible descriptions.

Monday, January 26

BEGGAR FOR THE BLUES

THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 04

Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk with tunes by Vernon Harrel, Slim Harpo, the Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Millie Jackson, Black Heat, Graham Central Station, Dennis Coffey, Patti Drew, Reuben Wilson, The Soul Searchers, The Kay-Gees, and New Birth.

Tuesday, January 27

BRING IT ON HOME

THE BLUES SHOW 164

Bruce Pingree is playing music this week by Sonny Boy Williamson, Josh White, Slewfoot & The Angels, Essa Mae Brooks, Mavis Staples, and Dorothy Lee, Norma Jean & Marie Johnson.

Wednesday, January 28

ROUTE 66

CHICAGO BOUND 28

Leslie Keros is playing blues from the Windy City in Episode 28 with tunes by Billy Branch, Buddy Guy, Howlin’ Wolf, Jimmy Burns, Johnny Shines, Little Arthur Duncan, Luther Allison, Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson, Michael Bloomfield, Muddy Waters, Studebaker John, and Willie Kent.

Wednesday, January 28

JAM UP

MESSIN’ WITH THE BLUES 27

Leslie Keros is messin’ with the blues in Episode 27 with sides by Mark Hummel, Cephas & Wiggins, Dinah Washington, Terry Hanck, Albert King, B.B. King, Lisa Biales, Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne, Lou Pride, Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters, Wynonie Harris, Ben Sidran, Little Milton, and Ernie Andrews.

Thursday, January 29

KNOCKIN' MYSELF OUT

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 132

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Deacon John, Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Howell Devine, Michael Bloomfield, Big Mama Thornton, Little Milton, Dave Thompson, Buddy Guy, Benny Turner, Olabelle, Mavis Staples, and Kenny "Blue" Ray.

Friday, January 30

IN THE TOWNSHIPS

BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 05

George Klein is out Beyond The Groove Yard in Episode 5 with an hour of South African township jazz and jive by Abdullah Ibrahim, Morris Goldberg, Hugh Masekela, Ojoyo, and Dudu Pukwana.

Friday, January 30

CORNER MUSIC

FLY BY NIGHT 90

Splendid music from the Fly record collection centered on the Miles Davis sessions for On The Corner and associated creations.

Saturday, January 31

BREAD & GRAVY

DIGGIN’ THE ROOTS 05

Tom Morgan is Diggin’ The Roots for Radio Free Amsterdam featuring tunes from the glorious past and present of African American popular music in Episode 5 by Paul Gayten, Sam Manning, Gerald Clark, The Executor, Atilla The Hun, Lord Invader, Wilmoth Houdini, Growler, Lion, Lord Fly, Harold Richardson & the Ticklers, Andy Narell, and George Moxey & His Calypso Quintet.

Saturday, January 31

I WANNA GO BACK TO NEW ORLEANS

NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SHOW 27

John Sinclair Is cooking at the Fly Agaric 23 Studio in Amsterdam with a special New Orleans Music Show featuring music by the Original Pin Stripe Brass Band, the New Orleans Jazz Vipers, the New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Joe Krown, Aaron Neville, Henry Gray, 101 Runners, the Wild Magnolias featuring Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, David Torkanowsky & George Porter, Jr., and John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars.

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RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM

IS A PROJECT OF

THE JOHN SINCLAIR FOUNDATION

FREE THE WEED 47

A Column by John Sinclair

As my readers will remember, last November marked the 50^th anniversary of the founding of the Detroit Artists Workshop, a seminal collective of cultural workers I’m proud to have been a part of.

This coming June will mark the 50^th anniversary of the Artists Workshop Press, which published my first books of poetry. And to celebrate my half a century as a poet and writer I have collected 25 poems & 25 writings for Its All Good: A John Sinclair Reader, which I hope to see published in an American edition this year, and hopefully by the publisher of this magazine for which I’ve written a column each month for the past four years.

Now I’m in the process of presenting excerpts from It’s All Good in this column, and this week’s episode is a look at the Detroit Artists Workshop by two of the founding members several months after its creation. This article has been edited from its original appearance in a magazine called New University Thought.

In the context of this column, it’s worth while to note that the Detroit Artists Workshop was a hotbed of weed smoking. We were breathing together to forge a creative conspiracy in the decrepit city of Detroit.

As we’ve seen in a previous installment of this column, the Detroit Narcotics Squad pinpointed the Artists Workshop and this writer as dangerous factors opposed to their utter control of the life of the city, and they caused us a world of pain. It's this Workshop in which we continued to make our art and organize ourselves for effective cultural action.

Finally, I gave the two joints in my famous marijuana case to an undercover policewoman—at the Artists Workshop.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 2015

BLUES, JAZZ & REEFER—KEEPING THE MUSIC ALIVE

Mondays

The John Sinclair Radio Show

plus The Soul Lucille Show

Tuesdays

The Blues Show with Bruce Pingree

Wednesdays

Chicago Bound plus Messin’ With The Blues with Leslie Keros

Thursdays

Blues From the Red Rooster Lounge with Cary Wolfson

Fridays

Beyond The Groove Yard with George Klein

plus Fly By Night with Steve The Fly

Saturdays

Diggin’ The Roots with Tom Morgan

plus In The Soul Kitchen with Harry Duncan

Sundays

Caleb Selah Presents The Fuck You Sound

plus Jazz Lunatique with David Kunian

MARDI GRAS SPECIAL ALL DAY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17

Our February program schedule features the return of In The Soul Kitchen with Harry Duncan from KCSM-FM in San Francisco, heard here every Saturday evening following Tom Morgan and Diggin’ The Roots. Soul Lucille continues every Monday following The John Sinclair Radio Show and George Klein’s jazz show, Beyond The Groove Yard, every Friday preceding Fly By Nightwith Steve The Fly. David Kunian plays the Jazz Lunatique every Sunday evening and Leslie Keros continues to rule Wednesdays with Chicago Bound and Messin’ With The Blues.

All RFA programs are archived at our site; once a program has been posted you can hear it any time.

Or punch LISTEN NOW& hear our continuous stream of great programming by our radio makers.

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FEBRUARY 2015 PROGRAM GUIDE

Sunday, February 1

LORD BEEFINGTON’S REVENGE

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 132

A stimulating disquisition in music & word from Caleb Selah & Beefy Mason from the Blackheath studios of housedem.com in London.

Sunday, February 1

BACKLASH BLUES

JAZZ LUNATIQUE 05

David Kunian is venting his feelings about the racist police attacks on Americans all over the country with this program of music by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Public Enemy, James Brown, Charles Mingus, Roger Manning, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, The Clash, Fishbone, Rage Against The Machine, Stetsasonic, Archie Shepp, and Superbass.

Monday, February 2

RADIO FUNERAL FOR BO DOLLIS

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 586

Episode 586 is coming from ground zero at the Fly Agaric 23 Studio in Amsterdam where I’m conducting a radio funeral service for Bo Dollis, Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias, who passed away in New Orleans on January 20 at the age of 71. I’ve followed Big Chief Bo Dollis faithfully since 1976 and in the streets at every Mardi Gras since 1982. This memorial program has spiritual music from the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the 6th Ward All Stars, and Bo’s long-time partner, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux with the Forgotten Souls Brass Band, to open and close the show, and a suite of classic Wild Magnolias recordings from their albums Wild Magnolias, They Call Us Wild, and Super Sunday Showdown.

Monday, February 2

PSYCHEDELIC SALLY

THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 05

Lucille DJ is back on the air from the heart of Italy without a microphone, still recovering from a terrible fall but spinning like a champ with another killer hour of soul & super heavy funk with tunes by Deidre Wilson Tabac, Marlena Shaw, Baby Huey & the Babysitters, Albert King, Eddie Jefferson, Johnny Pate & Adam Wade, The Isley Brothers, King Hannibal, Sly & The Family Stone, Hearts Of Stone, Lee Fields, The Dramatics, Yusef Lateef, Lonnie Smith, and Willis Jackson.

Tuesday, February 3

BLUES IN MY SOUL

THE BLUES SHOW 165

Bruce Pingree is playing music in celebration of lthe birthday of Lurrie Bell with selections from his own albums and collaborations with the Sons of the Blues, Joe Louis Walker, his brothers and his father, the great harmonica star Carey Bell.

Wednesday, February 4

WALKING PAPERS

CHICAGO BOUND 29

Leslie Keros is blowing in from Chicago with great blues from the Windy City by Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Dave Specter, Jimmy Johnson, Luther Allison, Carey & Lurrie Bell, Big Jack Johnson, and Aron Burton.

Wednesday, February 4

GO AHEAD ON

MESSIN’ WITH THE BLUES 28

Leslie Keros is Messin’ with the Blues in Episode 28 with tunes by the Ruff Kutt Blues Band, Finis Tasby, Zachary Harmon, Jason Lee Bruns, Helen Humes & The Buck Clayton Sextet, Dayna Kurtz, Andy T-Nick Nixon Band, David Egan, Anthony Paule Band with Frank Bey, The Claudettes, Jimmy Witherspoon, and the Nightcrawlers.

Thursday, February 5

TRAVELING SOUTH

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 133

Cary Wolfson is spinning Episode 133 at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Johnny Otis Orchestra, Linsey Alexander, Gary Clark Jr., Phillip Walker & Otis Grand, Johnny Winter with Eric Clapton, Jimmy Nolen, Jimmy Dawkins, 13 Featuring Lester Butler, the Paul Delay Band, Howell Devine, Mikey Jr.:, and Ronnie Earl.

Friday, February 6

TOWNSHIP JAZZ & JIVE

BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 06

George Klein is venturing Beyond The Groove Yard with a program of South African township jazz and jive featuring Chris McGregor, Johnny Dyani, Louis Moholo, Jazz Epistles, Miriam Makeba, Gideon Nxumalo, African Jazz Pioneers, West Nkosi, Spokes Mashiyane, and the Sun Sounds Orchestra.

Friday, February 6

BARBERTOONS

FLY BY NIGHT 91

Steve The Fly is shavin’ ‘em dry in Episode 91 with tunes by Lou Millet, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Sinclair, Dr. John, Magic Sam, Louis Armstrong, Bill 'Jazz' Gillum, Buddy Guy, Max Roach, MC5, Little Walter, The Impressions, Kenny Burrell, Idris Muhammad, and Yusef Lateef.

Saturday, February 7

FRANKIE AND JOHNNY

DIGGIN’ THE ROOTS 06

Episode 6 of Diggin’ The Roots with Tom Morgan for Radio Free Amsterdam features a plethora of versions of the American folk music classic “Frankie & Johnny” as performed by Fate Marable, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lena Horne, Brook Benton, Sam Cooke, Furry Lewis, Clarence 'Gatemouth’ Brown, Mississippi John Hurt, Jimmie Rodgers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Hank Snow, Gene Autry, and the Golden Gate Quartet.

Saturday, February 7

FUNKY CAT

IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 19

The award-winning In The Soul Kitchen show with the legendary San Francisco DJ Harry Duncan has found a new home at KCSM-FM after 27 years at KUSF in San Francisco. Episode 19 features great tunes from Al Green, Ann Peebles, Incognito, Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds, James Knight & The Butlers, Gwen MacRae, Jimmy Bohorn, All The People, Wilson Pickett, Ruby Johnson, Clarence Carter, Laura Lee, The Temptations, Bootsy’s New Rubber Band, P- All Stars, The Chi-Lites, and Otis Redding.

Sunday, February 8

ZIPLESS FUCKING

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 133

Another hour of audio weirdness from Caleb Selah and his demented crew at housedem.com in London.

Sunday, February 8

BLUES & THE ABSTRACT TRUTH

JAZZ LUNATIQUE 06

David Kunian is continuing his commentary on the sad state of civic affairs in America today with an hour of music by Oliver Nelson, Hendrik Merkins & Mischa Segano, Fela Kuti, Antiballas Afro-Beat Orchestra, Marvin Gaye, Scott Joplin with a salute to the late Robin Williams, Yusef Lateef, and James Booker with the closing theme, “Gonzo.”

Monday, February 9

MIGHTY MIGHTY BIG CHIEF

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 587

Episode 587 is the second hour of our extended homage to the recently departed Big Chief Bo Dollis of the Wild Magnolias, coming out of Amsterdam on the day before I fly to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras.

Monday, February 9

GETTING FUNKY ROUND HERE

THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 06

Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk with tunes by Edwin Starr, The O'Jays, Esther Phillips, Madhouse, Fela Kuti, Merry Clayton, Cross Bronx Expressway, Eugene McDaniels, Lou Johnson, Black Nasty, Melvin Sparks, Rusty Bryant, The Chi-Lites, and Margie Joseph.

Tuesday, February 10

LUCKY STRIKES

THE BLUES SHOW 166

Bruce Pingree is playing blues tonight in honor of the birthday of Lucky Peterson and the 50^th anniversary of the tragic death of Sam Cooke in the office of a seedy motel in Los Angeles, including a tribute to Sam Cooke by the great Otis Redding.

Wednesday, February 11

LOUISIANA BOUND

CHICAGO BOUND 30

Leslie Keros is exploring the Chicago-New Orleans connection in observance of the mardi Gras season with tunes by Roosevelt Sykes, Big Joe Williams, the Sunnyland Slim Blues Band, Eric Noden, Bumble Bee Slim, Mississippi Heat, The Claudettes, Lonnie Brooks, Willie Mabon, King Oliver, Erwin Helfer, Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson, Memphis Minnie, Lonnie Johnson with Jim McHarg’s Metro Stompers, and Little Brother Montgomery.

Wednesday, February 11

NO CITY LIKE NEW ORLEANS

MESSIN’ WITH THE BLUES 29

Leslie Keros takes us down to New Orleans in Episode 29 to get ready for the Mardi Gras with tunes by Earl King, David & Roselyn, Geno Delafose, Professor Longhair, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Clifton Chenier, Marcia Ball, Tab Benoit, James Booker, Henry Butler, Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas, Dr. John, and Allen Toussaint.

Thursday, February 12

I STAND ACCUSED

RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 134

Cary Wolfson is spinning Episode 134 at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Baby Calloway, the Red Devils, Eddie Taylor, Neal Black & The Healers, T-Bone Walker, Mike Bloomfield, Benny Turner, Johnny “Clyde” Copeland, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Sam Cooke, Mikey Jr., Jimmy Dawkns, and Jimmie Vaughan.

Friday, February 13

BAGS OF BAGS

BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 07

George Klein demonstrates the versatility of vibraharpist Milt “Bags” Jackson in performance with John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Cannonball Adderley, and Ray Charles.

Friday, February 13

BLUEMOON & BOP

FLY BY NIGHT 92

Steve The Fly is s with cuts by pinning an all-vinyl show for Episode 92  with cuts by Lester Young, Ella & The Ink Spots, Bud Powell, Jimmy Smith, Kai Winding, Wes Montgomery, John Coltrane & Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Yusef Lateef, and The Moonglows.

Saturday, February 14

MARDI GRAS MAMBO

DIGGIN’ THE ROOTS 07

Episode 7 of Diggin’ The Roots with Tom Morgan for Radio Free Amsterdam features a full hour of Mardi Gras music classics, the entire gamut of what we hear all over New Orleans during Carnival Time, inlcuidng cuts by Dave Bartholomew, The Hawketts, Al Johnson, Chuck Carbo, Trombone Shorty, 6th Ward Big Shots, Troy & james Andrews, Jelly Roll Morton, The Dixie Cups, Champion Jack Dupree, Dr. John, the Golden Eagles, Los Hombres Caliente & Big Chief Bo Dollis, Professor Longhair, Roger & the Gypsies, and Big Chief Smiley Ricks.

Saturday, February 14

MAN OH MAN

IN THE SOUL KITCHEN 20

Episode 19 features great tunes from Betty Wright, Womack & Womack, Dorothy Moore, James Carr, June Conquest, Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions, The Persuasions, The Emotions, The Spinners, Dotty Pierson, O.V. Wright, Anne Sexton, Otis Clay, Etta James, Bobby Womack, Esther Phillips, and Timmie Thomas.

Sunday, February 15

TURN THE CORNER

THE FUCK YOU SOUND 134

Music & word mashed up and served by Caleb Selah and his twisted gang at housedem.com in London.

Sunday, February 15

CLASSIFIED

JAZZ LUNATIQUE 07

David Kunian is celebrating the birthday of his idol James Booker with an hour of the pianist’s classics abd rarities provided by Booker film documentarian Lily Keeber, including the rare album by the Lloyd Price Orchestra featuring Booker on organ and a single by Gerri Hall written for her by James Booker.