JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1055 – TANGLED UP IN BLUE

Episode 1055 is coming from my hotel room in Paris at the Citadines Bastiile Gare de Lyon following my appearance at the Mike Kelley show at the Musee Bourse de Commerce with a second hour of music and conversation with the great Bob Dylan from his first-ever in-depth radio interview, interspersed with excerpts from his brilliant recordings for Columbia Records in the 1960s and ‘70s.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
TANGLED UP IN BLUE
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1055
Citadines Bastille Gare de Lyon, Paris, February 17, 2024 [24181]

Yusef Lateef: Happyology
George Taylor Morris: Introduction
Bob Dylan Conversation Continues Throughout
Bob Dylan: It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding
Bob Dylan: Masters of War
Bob Dylan: Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine
Bob Dylan: All Along the Watchtower
Bob Dylan: Lay Lady Lay
Bob Dylan: Tangled Up in Blue
Bob Dylan: Gotta Serve Somebody
Bob Dylan: Jokerman
Bob Dylan: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced, edited & assembled by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Steve “Fly” Pratt

© 2024 The John Sinclair Foundation

Blow Baby Blow

by John Sinclair & Various Artists

Blow Baby Blow is a compilation album as evidence for John’s half century of investigative poetry, set to music. The provenance of the poems reaches back to the early 1960s and up to 2020. The music takes a different route starting in the mid 1980s and including dozens of recording sessions, live shows and musicians, loosely referred to as the Blues Scholars. John’s whole thing, historical verse set to music, is captured here.

This selection of poems set to music were first intended for release together with his last book ‘John Sinclair, The Collected Poems 1964-2024’ in 2020, the book “Uncollected Poems” was re-presented as Mobile Homeland and added to “The Collected Poems”, run off to print in February 2024 (Ridgeway Press). The album artwork is upscaled from a photograph taken by Leni Sinclair, kindly sent by Celia. Yes, that’s John Sinclair honking on the saxophone!

Proceeds from this album will go towards the John Sinclair Headstone Fund. Please spread the word and enjoy the music, lotsa love.

–Steve Fly
25/12/2025
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https://johnsinclair.bandcamp.com

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 580X – HEY SANTA CLAUS

Episode 580X is our annual Christmas program for 2014 coming from the 420 Café in Amsterdam with a selection of songs about Santa Claus that were gleaned from other programs by RFA deejays in the Christmas music series this year, including cuts by Shakora Syeeda, Jerry McCain, Albert King, B.B. King, Louis Jordan, Walter Davis, Bo Carter, Sonny Boy Williamson, The Moonglows, James Brown, Earl King, Al Basile, Shemekia Copeland, and Sir Mack Rice.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

HEY SANTA CLAUS

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 580X

420 Cafe, Amsterdam, December 16, 2014 [20719]

Yusef Lateef: Happyology
Shakora Syeeda: Be My Santa Claus
Jerry McCain: I Wanna Be Your Santa Claus
Albert King: Santa Claus Wants Some Loving
B.B. King: Back Door Santa
Louis Jordan: Santa Claus, Santa Claus
Walter Davis: Santa Claus
Bo Carter: Santa Claus
Sonny Boy Williamson: Santa Claus
The Moonglows: Hey Santa Claus
James Brown: Santa Claus, Santa Claus
Thornetta Davis: Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
Earl King: Santa Don’t Let Me Down
Al Basile: Don’t Sleep On Santa
Jerry McCain: Absent Minded Santa
Shemekia Copeland: Stay a Little Longer, Santa
Yusef Lateef: Happyology

A JOINT PRODUCTION

Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam

Produced, edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair

Executive Producer: Steve Pratt

Special thanks to Steve The Fly

© 2014, 2020 The John Sinclair Foundation

Everybody Loves My Baby

John Sinclair Is Free

A Celebration of Life, Poetry, Music and Film May 17, 2024
Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center 6621 St. Claude, Ave., Arabi, LA.
Thanks to James Reuter / Bearcat Cafe, Renee Broussard, Dennis Formento, Carlo Ditta, Bill Lynn, Jerry Brock and the family and friends including Penny, Celia, Sonny, Beyoncé and Leni Sinclair.
Photo Credits – Leni Sinclair, Pat Jolly, Lynn Abbott and others with all rights reserved by photographer.
https://johnsinclair.us/ The John Sinclair Foundation


Friday, May 17 @ 7:00 pm
“JOHN SINCLAIR IS FREE”
A tribute in poetry, music and film
Free admission

John Sinclair, poet, activist, concert & record producer, bandleader and scholar of the blues.  A celebration in words and music for the poet, bandleader, & performer, record and concert producer who passed away in Detroit on April 2, 2024.   

Poets:  Valentine Pierce, Megan Burns, Timeless***, Bill Lavender, Chuck Perkins, Dennis Formento, David Kunian of WWOZ, etc.

Music by Carlo Ditta and band; Second line with the Treme Brass Band

Video selections from John’s career in New Orleans curated by Rene Broussard

https://www.zeitgeistnola.org/

NEON SHRINES 59 – READING ON THE TOILET

In Neon Shrines 59 it’s Stella solo in the studio, indulging her long-standing loves of the moody lives of saints, and then turning to Henry Miller’s reading-on-the-toilet musings, with tunes by Joanna Newsome, Kate Bush, Fiona Apple, the Unicorns, Philippe Katerine, the New York Dolls, Nouvelle Vague, and Bob Marley, with some closing comments from JoJo by phone.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
READING ON THE TOILET
NEON SHRINES 59
JoJo & Stella, Valencia Radio, San Francisco, August 18, 2023 [24195]

Joanna Newsome: The Book of Right-On
Kate Bush: Hounds of Love
Fiona Apple: Hot Knife
The Unicorns: Child Star
Philippe Katerine: Louxor J’adore
New York Dolls: Personality Crisis
Nouvelle Vague: Eisbear
Bob Marley: Exodus

A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by JoJo & Stella for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced & recorded by Christian Greer at Valencia Radio, San Francisco
Post-production, editing & annotatation by John Sinclar
Executive Producer: Steve Pratt

© 2024 J. Christian Greer & Michelle Oing. Used with permission.