Episode 897 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in the Cass Corridor of Detroit with music frcholars at the detroit Jazz Festival in 2006om a couple of compilations called Power to the Motown People (Marvin Gaye, The Undisputed Truth, Martha & The Vadellas, and Stevie Wonder) and Rack of Blues (Sherman Robertson, the Chicago Blues Angels, Theresa & TC Blue, and Rich DelGrosso), plus a cut by me with Dr. Dorothy Goodman & the Blues Sscholars at the Detroit Jazz Festival in 2006.
Episode 896 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in the Cass Corridor of Detroit with a wide-ranging hour of music by Yusef Lateef, Little Wiilie John, Little Sonny, Jay McShann with Lamonte Hamilton, Larry McCray, Walter Noons, John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars, Robin Eichele, ML Liebler & the Magic Poetry Band, Martha & the Vandellas, Laith al-Saadi, Laura Rain & The Caesars, and Charlie Parker with strings with our closing theme.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
LIVE WIRE
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 896
Cass Corridor, Detroit, January 19, 2021 [21077]
Yusef Lateef: Happyology
Little Wiilie John: All Around The World
Little Sonny: Blues Medley
Jay McShann with Lamonte Hamilton: Hard Working Man’s Blues
Larry McCray: Strong Companion
Walter Noons: Funky Soulstice
John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: monk suite
Robin Eichele: Journal Entries—October 2020
M.L. Liebler & the Magic Poetry Band: I Ain’t Never Gonna See Bobby Rush No More
Martha & the Vandellas: Live Wire
Laith al-Saadi: No One Left To Blame
Laura Rain & The Caesars: Bus Stop
Charlie Parker: They Can’t Take That Away From Me
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Program produced, edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair
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Martino D’Lorenzo is playing the blues on 45s, 78s and LPs from behind the wheel of the Big City Blues Cruise bus, spinning his classic modern radio programs from the 1980s and 1990s originally aired on WEMU-FM in Ypsilanti MI and now heard every Saturday on Radio Free Amsterdam. Episode 108 features music by Red Prysock, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Robert Lockwood Jr., B.B. King, Freddie King, Lonnie Brooks, Professor Longhair, Roy Brown, Buster Brown, Sonny Boy Williamson, Ronnie Earl & Friends, and Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps.
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