Blues Jazz Reefer
Episode 905 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in Detroit’s Cass Corridor with music from the 420 All Stars with Chris Codish, Wendell Harrison & Tribe, Bob Seger, Martha & The Vandellas, Melba Joyce Boyd, the Lyman Woodard Organization, The Stooges, Luther “Bad Man” Keith, M.L. Liebler & the Magic Poetry Band, and Mitch Ryder.
Continue reading “JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 905 – HEAVY MUSIC”Episode 902 is coming from the Funky Butt Club on Rampart Street in New Orleans, the site of a memorial concert for the great writer and musical expert named Robert Palmer, who passed away from liver failure while a resident of Barracks Street in the Crescent City. Palmer was a close friend and mentor to me and well loved by everyone on the scene, so we came together at the Funky Butt to honor Bob’s memory with performances by an unidentified artist, Manny Lander, Charlie Miller & Jonathan Frelich, Mark Bingham, Tav Falco, JoBeth Britton with James Grauerholz & Daniel, and The Grand Finale with Michael Ray, with titles approximated and an unrelated added number by John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars with Dr. Dorothy Moore recorded at the Detroit Jazz Festival in 2006.
Continue reading “JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 902 – A JOYFUL NOISE”Episode 899 is coming from WWOZ-FM, New Orleans, as the second hour of the station’s Mardi Gras Special 1994 with Dr. John, written & produced by John Sinclair. with live music from Jazz Fest and around New Orleans by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Danny Barker, Robert Lowery & Virgil Thrasher, Beau Jocques & the Zydeco Hi Rollers, Dr. John, John Mooney & Bluesiana, Germaine Bazzle & the Red Tyler Band, Charles Neville & Diversity, the Algiers Stompers Brass Band with the Perfect Gentlemen Social Aid & Pleasure Club, Dr. John & Tommy Ridgley, the Rebirth Brass Band, the Fred Kemp Quintet with Smokey Johnson, and the Guardians of the Flame.
Continue reading “JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 900 – IT AIN’T MY FAULT”Episode 899 is coming from WWOZ-FM, New Orleans, as the station’s Mardi Gras Special 1994 with Dr. John, written & produced by John Sinclair. with live music from Jazz Fest and around New Orleans by the Rebirth Brass Band, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, Earl King, Little Queenie, Dr. John, Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr. & Guardians of the Flame, Medicine Man Byrd, Big Chief Rollo & the Ninth Ward Hunters, Big Chief Smiley Ricks & the Wild Renegade Hunters, Spy Boy Nat and Big Chief Jake of the White Eagles, Big Chief Bo Dollis & the Wid Magnolias with Dr. John, Donald Harrison Sr. & t he Guardians of the Flame with Donald Harrison Jr., Eddie Bo, Pin Stripe Brass Band, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the First Revolution Singers, Rockin’ Jake Band, and Tommy Ridgley & the Untouchables.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
TAKE IT TO THE STREETS
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 899
WWOZ-FM, New Orleans, Mardi Gras 1994 [21119]
Yusef Lateef: Happyology
Rebirth Brass Band: Take It To The Streets
Al “Carnival Time” Johnson: Carnival Time
Earl King: Mardi Gras Mambo
Little Queenie: My Darlin’ New Orleans
Dr. John Commentary & Intro to Wild Indians @ the Zulu Parade
Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr. & Guardians of the Flame: My Indian Red
Medicine Man Byrd: Comments
Big Chief Rollo & Ninth Ward Hunters: Comments
Big Chief Smiley Ricks & the Wild Renegade Hunters: Comments
Spy Boy Nat and Big Chief Jake of the White Eagles: Comments
Big Chief Bo Dollis & the Wid Magnolias with Dr. John: Big Chief
Big Chief Jake of the White Eagles: Comments
Big Chief Bo Dollis & the Wid Magnolias with Dr. John: Big Chief
Donald Harrison Sr. & the Guardians of the Flame with Donald Harrison Jr.: Shallow Water O Mama
Dr. John Commentary
Big Chief Bo Dollis & the Wid Magnolias: Big Chief Got A Golden Crown
Big Chief Jake of the White Eagles: Comments & Indians, Here They Come
Spy Boy Nat & Big Chief Jake of the White Eagles: Comments
Wild Indians: Iko Iko
Eddie Bo: Iko Iko
Dr. John Commentary
Pin Stripe Brass Band: Background Music
Dr. John with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band: A Closer Walk With Thee
Dr. John: All On A Mardi Gras Day >
Dr. John with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band: I Shall Not Be Moved
First Revolution Singers: He Really Cares
Rockin’ Jake Band: When The Saints Go Marching In
Tomyy Ridgley & the Untouchables: Second Line
Dr. John Closing Commentary for Part One
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Program produced, edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Steve Pratt
© 1994, 2021 The John Sinclair Foundation
Episode 898 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in the Cass Corridor of Detroit with another hour of reefer tunes from the 5000-song stash contributed to RFA in 2020 by our listener named Paul Paul, with tunes by Bob Dylan, Country Joe & The Fish, The Fugs, Sly & the Family Stone, Minister Roddy Charlton, Champion Jack Dupree, Ray Charles, John Lennon, Arlo Guthrie, Lenny Bruce, La Playa Sextet, Clive Watson & The Satellites, Fraternity of Man, Janis Joplin & the Dick Oxtot Jazz Band, Count Owen & His Calypsonians, Los 5 Del Norte, Sam Gopal, and Peter LaFarge.
Continue reading “JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 898 – FLYING HIGH”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.
Continue reading “JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 897 – WHAT’S GOING ON”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
Executive Producer: Steve Pratt
© 2021 The John Sinclair Foundation