RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 2018 - BLUES, JAZZ & REEFER-KEEPING THE MUSIC ALIVE

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

           RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM 2018
           BLUES, JAZZ & REEFER—KEEPING THE MUSIC ALIVE

                                 Mondays
                       The John Sinclair Radio Show
                   plus Fly By Night with Steve The Fly
                                 Tuesdays
                    The Blues Show with Bruce Pingree
       plus Blues From the Red Rooster Lounge with Cary Wolfson
                               Wednesdays
                   Highway 61 Blues with Scott Barretta
                   plus Blues & Roots with John Sinclair
                                Thursdays
                      Mood Indigo with Leslie Keros
             plus Beyond The Groove Yard with George Klein
                                  Fridays
                    Sounds of Blue with Bob Putignano
                plus The Soul Lucille Show with Lucille DJ
                                Saturdays
              Big City Blues Cruise with Martino D’Lorenzo
                     plus Party Train with Linda Lexy
                                 Sundays
                     Roots & Branches with Don Paul
                  plus Jazz Lunatique with David Kunian

                                    *

 Welcome to the July programming guide for RadioFreeAmsterdam.org,
 the internet radio station dedicated to Blues, Jazz & Reefer, continuing
 our lineup of classic blues radio shows by Bruce Pingree, Cary Wolfson,
 Scott Barretta, and John Sinclair; jazz shows by George Klein and Leslie
Keros; awesome soul and rhythm & blues from Bob Putignano, Lucille DJ,
Tino Gross, and Linda Lexy; and freeform radio programs from Steve The
         Fly, David Kunian, Don Paul, and our flagship program,
                       The John Sinclair Radio Show.

    Push the 24/7 button and listen to hour after hour of Radio Free
 Amsterdam programming—just like a real radio station. Or select any
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                      play for you at your demand.
JULY 2018 PROGRAM GUIDE
                            Sunday, July 1
                          FUNKIFY YOUR LIFE
                         ROOTS & BRANCHES 04

  Don Paul is talking at length with the great New Orleans guitarist and
   composer Leo Nocentelli and playing music by Grant Green, Barney
 Kessel, Kenny Burrell, The Meters, Leon Spencer, Idris Muhammad, The
 Meter Men, Leo Nocentelli with Zigaboo Modeliste, and Allen Toussaint.

                  EMANCIPATION PROCRASTINATION
                        JAZZ LUNATIQUE 182

   David Kunian is featuring the last volume of the 3-CD set by New
  Orleaans trumpeter/composer Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah called
             Centennial Trilogy, with the entire Volume 3:
                     Emancipation Procrastination.

                             Monday, July 2
                            TUMBLING OUT
                    JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 763

Episode 763 is coming from the Detroit studios of Radio Free Amsterdam
    up above the Carl Lundgren Art Studio in the Cass Corridor with a
  program of music by Coco Robicheaux, Dennis Coffey with the Lyman
Woodard Trio from the second recent release of recordings made in 1967
 Live At Morrie’s, plus Billy Davis, Bob Baldori & Arthur Magliazza, Harry
  Van Walls, three by Amos Milburn, a Charlie Parker single from Savoy
Records, The Clovers on Atlantic, Bobby Lewis, and a set by John Sinclair
 & His Blues Scholars from our concert last July at the Detroit Institute of
 Arts with Johnny Evans and David McMurray on saxophones, Jeff Grand
     on guitar, Phil Hale at the keyboards, James Simonson on bass
                       and Skeeto Valdez on drums.

                            SEPTEMBER SONG
                            FLY BY NIGHT 267

  Steve The Fly is checkng in with a lovely program of selections by the
great modern jazz trumpet master Clifford Brown, who died at age 26 in
a car wreck while he was on the road with the Max Roach-Clifford Brown
                     Quintet around this time in 1956.
Tuesday, July 3
                          ROCKIN’ WITH EDDIE
                          THE BLUES SHOW 341

     Bruce Pingree is paying tribute to the recently departed blues
 saxophonist and bandleader Eddie Shaw with cuts under his leadership
        and with Howling Wolf, Eddie Van Shaw Jr., Magic Sam,
                          and Jimmy Dawkins.

                            HEART ATTACK
                       RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 310

Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with fine blues sides
   by Tab Benoit, the Red Devils, Louis Myers, Magic Sam, Jesse Yawn,
   Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters, Yvonne Jackson, Sugarcane Harris,
Hollywood Blue Flames, Big Jon Atkinson & Bob Corritore, Little Boys Blue,
                     and the Hollywood Blue Flames.

                           Wednesday, July 4
                       LET THE DOORBELL RING
                         HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 45

Scott Barretta is featuring New Orleans piano blues in this week’s episode
  of Highway 61 with selections by Fats Domino, Jelly Roll Morton, Tuts
 Washington, Roosevelt Sykes, Archibald, James Booker, Champion Jack
  Dupree, Professor Longhair, Eddie Bo, Davell Crawford, Henry Butler &
                  Corey Harris, and Dr. John with B.B. King.

                         HIGH AND LONESOME
                           BLUES & ROOTS 26

 Episode 26 in our series of rebroadcasts of John Sinclair’s Blues & Roots
 program from WWOZ-FM in New Orleans around the turn of the century
 presents an hour of killer blues by Little Walter, Davell Crawford, Junior
Wells, Jimmy Reed, Magic Sam, Junior Kimbrough & The Soul Blues Boys,
Mississippi Fred McDowell, T-Model Ford, Olu Dara, R.L. Burnside, Elmore
     James, Howling Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Jimmy Rogers.

                            Thursday, July 5
                             SOUL BLUES
                            MOOD INDIGO 87

   Leslie Keros is playing soulful music this week by Shirley Scott &
  Stanley Turrentine, Steve Turre, Mose Allison, Willie Pooch & Tony
Monaco, Yusef Lateef, Big Joe Turner, Phineas Newborn Jr., Tiny
     Grimes & Coleman Hawkins, Doug Webb, and Chick Corea.

                             SIGNIFYIN’
                     BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 235

  George Klein presents Hammond B-3 organ recordings on Blue Note
Records made after the historic Jimmy Smith sessions appeared on that
label in the mid 1950s, featuring organists Freddie Roach, John Patton,
                           and Larry Young.

                              Friday, July 6
                             GRAFFITI BLUES
                           SOUNDS OF BLUE 147

   Bob Putignano is playing tunes this week by Freddy Robinson, Blue
      Mitchell, the Night Blooming Jazzmen, and Charles Kynard.

                          AIN'T IT SOMETHING
                       THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 151

 Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul &
  super heavy funk and a guest spot by John Sinclair with tunes by The
  Sweet Inspirations, Sherri Taylor, Young-Holt Unlimited, Odetta, Billy
   Hawks, Bo Diddley, Toots Thielemans featuring Valerie Simpson, Gil
 Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, The New Birth, Wee Willie & The Winners,
Aretha Franklin, J.J. Jackson, Roger Damawuzan, Valerie Simpson, Donald
                           Byrd, and The Mar-Keys.

                              Saturday, July 7
                          REELING AND ROCKIN
                         BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 57

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 57 features music by Red Prysock, Dr. John, Rockin’ Dopsie,
  Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Earl King, Percy Mayfield, Albert King, Clifton
     Chenier, Peter “Madcat” Ruth, The Blues Brothers, Elmore James,
                      Chuck Berry, and Buddy Guy.
SHAKE YOUR HIPS
                            PARTY TRAIN 42

 Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in
     Detroit, where she’s playing music by Tino Gross, Martha & The
Vandellas, Pookie Hudson, Timmy Willis, James Brown, Honey & The Bees,
   The Cobras, The Universals, Timmy Thomas, Shirlean Williams & The
    Tempos Band, Slim Harpo, Sly & The Family Stone, Johnny “Guitar”
  Watson, Melvin Davis, Nina Simone, Joe Simon, Smokey Robinson, and
                        Tino G’s Dumpster Machine.

                           Sunday, July 8
                      PREMONITION IN RHYTHM
                        ROOTS & BRANCHES 05

    Don Paul is conversing with musicians/composers Sarah Elizabeth
    Charles and Christian Scott aTundé Adjuah at the Port-au-Prince
  International Jazz Festival on March 4, 2017, playing their music plus
     performances by the Willerm Delisfort Group and Danilo Pérez.

                             ATOMIC DOG
                          JAZZ LUNATIQUE 183

  David Kunian is playing music for his father’s birthday this week with
   selections by Egg Yolk Jubilee, Public Enemy, The Bingo Show, Tom
    Lehrer, Flanders & Swann, Louis Jordan, The Radiators, Professor
   Longhair, Bobby Lounge, Noah Preminger, Dave McMurray, Mulatu
              Astatke, Tony Allen, and the Either Orchestra.

                            Monday, July 9
                          COMING RIGHT UP
                    JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 764

   Episode 760 will be coming from the Detroit studios of Radio Free
 Amsterdam up above the Carl Lundgren Art Studio in the Cass Corridor
             with a program of music yet to be selected.

                           MELLOW BRUNO
                           FLY BY NIGHT 268

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, July 10
                            HONEY BABE
                         THE BLUES SHOW 342

 Bruce Pingree is playing music in honor of the recent departure of the
88-year-old Pietmont-style guitarist, singer and buck jumper, Ms. Elga
Mae Henton, including sides with Taj Mahal and Lightning Wells, and of
   the birthday of the great guitarist, vocalist and composer, Lonnie
           Johnson, including his recordings with Eddie Lang,
            Louis Armstrong & His Hot 5, and Victoria Spivey.

                             POMADE
                      RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 311

  Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues
  sides by John Mooney, Johnny Winter, Howlin’ Wolf, Downchild Blues
  Band, John Nemeth, Taj Mahal, Barbara Morrison, Roomful of Blues,
     Johnny Otis with Charles Williams, Etta James, Brian Templeton,
                           and Eddie Turner.

                          Wednesday, July 11
                             I‘M TORE UP
                         HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 46

    Scott Barretta is featuring blues from the Macon area of eastern
Mississippi on this week’s edition of Highway 61, including selections by
Eddie Clearwater, Carey Bell, Big Joe Williams, Austin Peete, John “Short
             Stuff” Macon, Amelia Johnson, and Willie King.

                             WATCH OUT
                           BLUES & ROOTS 27

  Episode 27 presents an hour of pure-D blues originally broadcast on
WWOZ-FM in New Orleans on March 29, 1998 with tunes by Little Walter,
  Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Albert King, Bo Diddley,
 Howling Wolf, Lowell Fulson, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Hound Dog
Taylor & The Houserockers, Morris Pejoe, Buddy Guy, J.B. Lenoir, Robert
    Nighthawk, Albert Collins, Lee Dorsey, the Magnificent Sevenths,
                            and Ray Charles.
Thurssday, July 12
                              IMPRESSIONS
                            MOOD INDIGO 88

   Leslie Keros is playing music this week from the venerable Hermosa
    Beach, California nightclub called The Lighthouse and a variety of
   musicians recording as the Lighthouse All-Stars, Howard Rumsey’s
Lighthouse All-Stars, Chet Baker & the Lighthouse All-Stars, Miles Davis &
     the Lighthouse All-Stars, The Jazz Crusaders, The Three Sounds,
    Cannonball Adderley Quintet, and Charles Earland, all recorded in
                  performance at the legendary jazz club.

                          STRETCHIN’ OUT
                     BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 236

George Klein continues a focus on Hammond B-3 organists recorded on
Blue Note Records after the historic Jimmy Smith sessions appeared on
that label in the mid 1950s. Organists in this episode are Lonnie Smith,
   Baby Face Willette, Earl Van Dyke, Jack McDuff, and Shirley Scott.

                             Friday, July 13
                            GIMME SHELTER
                          SOUNDS OF BLUE 148

Bob Putignano is playing music in Episode 148 by Larry Carlton, Charles
     Kynard, Blue Mitchell, Detroit with Mitch Ryder, and Lou Reed.

                             FUNKY WAY
                      THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 152

Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul &
super heavy funk and a guest spot by John Sinclair with tunes by William
   Bell, Dave Pike, Darrow Fletcher, Rufus Thomas, Ralfi Pagan, The
               Beginning Of The End, and a host of others.

                            Saturday, July 14
                           OUT ON THE ROAD
                        BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 58

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 and now heard every Saturday on Radio Free Amsterdam.
Episode 54 features guests Emmanuel Garza & Kenny Lang of the Detroit
Blues Band with selections from their new album plus music by Red
 Prysock, Mighty Joe Young, Z.Z. Top, Lightning Hopkins, The Urbations,
                       and the Traveling Wilburys.

                      FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED
                           PARTY TRAIN 43

 Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in
Detroit, where she’s playing music by Tino Gross, Shorty Long, Profonix,
Tyrone Ashley, Sandra Philips, Stevie Wonder, Pearl Dowdell, Roy Roberts,
Sly & The Family Stone, The Meters, Undisputed Truth, Sugar Billy Garner,
    Little Hank, Parliament, Lovehorn, Betty Bibbs, Johnny Daye, Jimmie
                       Bones, and the Howling Diablos.

                            Sunday, July 15
                           WONGOLO WALÉ
                         ROOTS & BRANCHES 06

Don Paul is continuing his conversation with musicians/composers Sarah
  Elizabeth Charles and Christian Scott aTundé Adjuah at the Port-au-
 Prince International Jazz Festival on March 4, 2017, playing their music
and performances by the Willerm Delisfort Group, Danilo Pérez, Gonzalo
              Rubalcabal, Donald Harrison Jr. and Dr. John.

                           MIXED EMOTIONS
                          JAZZ LUNATIQUE 184

 David Kunian is playing music this week in honor of his father’s birthday
by Egg Yolk Jubilee, the Either Orchestra, The Replacements, The Butthole
Surfers, The Minutemen:, Howling Wolf, Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper, Boozoo
Chavis, Jack Teagarden, Willie Nelson, Billie Holiday, Uncle Floyd & Ookie,
                        and Sun Ra & His Arkestra.

                           Monday, July 16
                  COMING SOON TO THIS LOCATION
                   JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 765

 Episode 765 will be coming from Detroit with music yet to be selected.

                             BLACK & BLUES
                            FLY BY NIGHT 269

  Steve The Fly is winging his way through the blues with selections by
  Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Snooks Eaglin, Otis Spann, Jay
McShann. Willie Dixon, Big Joe Turner with Elmore James, Arthur “Big Boy”
            Spires. Bukka White. Jimmy Cotton, Magic Sam,
                    and John Sinclair with Afrissippi.

                           Tuesday, July 17
                             RISING SUN
                         THE BLUES SHOW 343

  Bruce Pingree is playing tunes this week by Big Bill Morganfield, Taj
  Mahal, Monster Mike Welch & Mike Ledbetter, Jason Richie, the Racky
Thomas Band, and Muddy Waters:live at the Club 47 in Boston years ago.

                         BORN IN CHICAGO
                      RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 312

 Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues
  sides by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Elvin Bishop, the Big Fun
      Trio, the Sam Lay Blues Band, Mike Bloomfield & Friends,
                  and Paul Butterfield’s Better Days.

                         Wednesday, July 18
                       HARD HEARTED WOMAN
                        HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 47

Scott Barretta spotlights the great harmonica master Big Walter Horton in
    this week’s episode of Highway 61 featuring a series of his classic
  recordings with Joe Hill Louis, Calvin & Phineas Newborn, Little Buddy
   Doyle, Jimmy Rogers, Tampa Red, Johnny Shines, Robert Nighthawk,
                      Johnny Young, and Carey Bell.

                      A SHOOT FROM THE ROOT
                          BLUES & ROOTS 28

 Episode 28 is a rebroadcast of John Sinclair’s Blues & Roots program for
WWOZ-FM in New Orleans on March 29, 1998 with blues music from New
    Orleans by Kenny Holliday, Jeremy Lyons, Cookie Gabriel with Lars
Edegran, Kermit Ruffins & The Barbeque Swingers, Clarence “Gatemouth”
   Brown, Eddie Bo, Wallace Johnson, Chuck Carbo, Earl King, Professor
Longhair, the Indians of The Nation, the Wild Magnolias, Walter “Wolman”
              Washington, and the Guardians of the Flame.
Thursday, July 19
                              RECORDA-ME
                             MOOD INDIGO 89

 Leslie Keros is playing music in Episode 89 by Curtis Amy, Grant Green,
   Joe Henderson, Lee Morgan, and the Dave Pell Octet, all recorded in
performance at the legendary Lighthouse jazz club in Hermosa Beach CA.

                             BLUE BOSSA
                     BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 237

 George Klein presents adaptations of the Brazilian Bossa Nova by Blue
 Mitchell, Paul Desmond & Jim Hall, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Stan
 Getz & Charlie Byrd, Willis Jackson, Herbie Mann, and Dexter Gordon.

                            Friday, July 20
                       SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL
                         SOUNDS OF BLUE 149

Bob Putignano is playing music in Episode 149 by Mike Post, Gabor Szabo
with Bob James, Bill Frisell, Chuck Mangione, Harvey Mandel, Herb Alpert,
                 and The Lyman Woodard Organization.

                             DOING THE DO
                       THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 153

 Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul &
super heavy funk and a guest spot by John Sinclair with tunes by Ernie K-
 Doe, The Isley Brothers, Billy Preston, Ronnie Laws, Archie Shepp, Bobby
                          Byrd, and a host of others.
                             Saturday, July 21
                             WHO IS THIS GUY
                         BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 59

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 59 features a long segment with the Detroit poet and writer Jim
Gustafson and tunes by Red Prysock, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Smith, Sonny
       Stitt, The Coasters, Dr. John, Jimi Hendrix, The Moonglows,
                    Lester Williams, and Lonnie Brooks.
ANY DAY NOW
                             PARTY TRAIN 44

 Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in
  Detroit, where she’s playing music by Tino Gross, Dave "Baby" Cortez,
 Candi Staton, Roy Milton & His Orchestra, Little Ann, Willie Johnson, Soul
Explosion, The Notations, The Relatives, United 8, Sly & The Family Stone,
Gip Roberts, Millie Jackson, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Ann Peebles, James
         Brown, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, and John Sinclair.

                            Sunday, July 22
                            JUMP FOR JOY
                         ROOTS & BRANCHES 07

   Don Paul is celebrating the life and times of New Orleans civil rights
 leader Lolis Edward Elie with conversation by Elie and his son, Lolis Eric
Elie, and Judge Calvin Johnson, plus musical selections by the American
  Jazz Quintet, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven,
Oscar “Papa” Celestin & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra, Louis Jordan
& His Tympani Five, Ella Fitzgerald & the Ink Spots, Duke Ellington & His
  Orchestra, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra, and Clifford
                          Brown and Max Roach.

                       A CALL FOR ALL DEMONS
                         JAZZ LUNATIQUE 185

    David Kunian is celebrating the Summer Solstice with his annual
 presentation of music by Sun Ra & His Arkestra, this time dedicated to
      the contemporaneous celebration in Boston of the birthday
                          of Kunian’s mother.

                            Monday, July 23
                         HOTTER THAN JULY
                    JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 766

 Episode 766 will be coming from the Radio Free Amsterdam studios in
 Detroit’s Cass Corridor with a program of music yet to be determined.

                             ARRIVING SOON
                            FLY BY NIGHT 270

   Steve The Fly is navigating by night through this stellar selection of
         classic cuts by Clifford Brown and Cannonball Adderley.
Tuesday, July 24
                         RULER OF MY HEART
                         THE BLUES SHOW 344

Bruce Pingree is playing an hour of music by the great Soul Queen of New
     Orleans, Ms. Irma Thomas, in honor of her recent 77th birthday.

                          TERRAPLANE BLUES
                       RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 313

  Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues
 sides by Sam Lay Blues Band, Catfish Keith, Guy Davis, Robert Johnson,
John-Alex Mason, the Ragpicker String Band, Billy Price, Mike Bloomfield
   & Friends, B.B. King, Bob Corritore & Friends, and Rick Holmstrom.

                         Wednesday, July 25
                       HOW BLUE CAN YOU GET
                        HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 48

   Episode 48 of Hghway 61 with Scott Barretta features a series of live
recordings by B.B. King in honor of the opening of the B.B. King Museum
   in Indianola, Mississippi, including cuts from the Regal Theatre, the
 International Club and the Cook County Jail in Chicago, Live in Japan, at
                      Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi
               and with Bobby “Blue” Bland in Los Angeles.

                              WOLF FUNK
                           BLUES & ROOTS 29

 Episode 29 is a rebroadcast of John Sinclair’s Blues & Roots program for
 WWOZ-FM in New Orleans on March 29, 1998 featuring cuts from Walter
“Wolfman” Washington & The Roadmasters, Earl King & Snooks Eaglin and
a commemoration of Super Sunday 1998 featuring Big Chief Roddy Lewis
           & Big Chief Peppy with the Indians Of The Nation.

                            Thursday, July 26
                             MINOR YOURS
                            MOOD INDIGO 90

  Leslie Keros is playing music in Episode 90 by Shirley Scott & Stanley
  Turrentine, Chet Baker, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Dakota Staton, Pinetop
   Perkins, Billy Martin, Eric Kloss, Red Garland Trio, Herbie Mann, and
                             Anthony E. Nelson Jr.
JAZZ-A-SAMBA
                    BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 238

 George Klein continues to examine variations on the Bossa Nova with
Duke Ellington, Vince Guaraldi, Cal Tjader, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Dizzy
Gillespie, Gabor Szabo, Bob Brookmeyer, Charlie Rouse, Ike Quebec, and
                             Jackie McLean.

                             Friday, July 27
                            SPILL THE WINE
                          SOUNDS OF BLUE 150

    Bob Putignano is playing music this week by The Lyman Woodard
 Organization, Melvin Sparks, Eric Burdon & War, Luther Kent, War, the
Blind Boys of Alabama with the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Charles Earland,
                  and Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters.

                            LAY IT ON ME
                      THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 154

Lucille DJ is on the air from the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul &
super heavy funk and a guest spot by John Sinclair with tunes by Chuck
Simmons, Johnnie Taylor, Syl Johnson, Marlena Shaw, Jimmy Smith, the
                Blue Rhythm Combo, and a host of others.

                            Saturday, July 28
                               TIPPING IN
                        BIG CITY BLUES CRUISE 60

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 60 features music by Red Prysock, Professor Longhair, Elmore
   James, Slim Harpo, John Brim & His Gary Stompers, Johnny “Guitar”
          Watson, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and A.C. Reed.

                              ALL ABOARD
                             PARTY TRAIN 45

Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in
  Detroit, where she’s playing music by Tino Gross, Chuck Berry, Willie
Kendrick, The Profonix, Jeanne & The Darlings, The Sisters Love, Charlie
Whitehead, Pee Wee Ellis, Aaron Neville, Lavell Kamma, James Carpenter,
Lee Dorsey, Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band, The
      Staples Singers, Peaches & Herb, The Bell Brothers, Al Green,
                           and Jimmie Bones.

                            Sunday, July 29
                           FREEDOM SUITE
                         ROOTS & BRANCHES 08

Don Paul is celebrating the life & times of New Orleans ciivil rights leader
   Lolis Edward Elie with music by Clifford Brown and Max Roach, the
  Thelonious Monk Quartet, The Neville Brothers, Paul Robeson, Sonny
 Rollins, Charles Mingus, Nina Simone, Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln, the
 Golden Gospel Singers, Mardi Gras Indians, and Mahalia Jackson, plus
comments by Lolis Edward Elie, his son Lolis Eric Elie, Eric Ferrulliet, and
                          Judge Calvin Johnson.

                      CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE
                         JAZZ LUNATIQUE 186

 David Kunian is continuing his celebration of the summer solstice with
      more music from the Sun Ra camp dedicated to the birthday
                           of Kunian’s mom.

                            Monday, July 30
                          DOWN THE ROAD
                    JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 767

 Episode 767 will be coming from the Radio Free Amsterdam studios in
  Detroit’s Cass Corridor with a program of music still to be selected.

                           TALE OF THE TRIBE
                            FLY BY NIGHT 271

  Steve The Fly is spinning the Talwe of the Tribe, the Detroit-based
musical collective featuring Wendell Harrison on reeds, Marcus Belgrave
on trumet & flugelhorn, Phil Ranelin on trombone and a modern rhythm
     section. Offered in honor of the birth day of Wendell Harrison
                           on October 1, 1942.

                            Tuesday, July 31
                           DIDN’T HE RAMBLE
                          THE BLUES SHOW 345

Bruce Pingree is playing music this week in honor of the Okra Man of New
   Orleans, who just passed away, and in commemoration of the great
pioneering blues deejay “Sunshine” Sonny Payne of KFFA Radio in Helena,
 Arknasas, who just passed on in January 2018, with selections from Olu
 Dara: Okra, Percy Randolph, Alvin “Red” Tyler, the Olympia Brass Band,
 Robert Lockwood Jr., Sonny Boy Williamson & The King Biscuit Boys, Joe
   Willie Wilkins & His King Biscuit Boys, Robert Nighthawk & The Blues
Rhythm Boys, James “Peck” Curtis, and The Welch-Ledbetter Connection.

                            MOJO HAND
                      RED ROOSTER LOUNGE 314

   Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues
sides by Clifton Chenier, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Omar Coleman, Nina Simone,
    Dr. John, Percy Sledge, Irma Thomas-Tracy Nelson-Marcia Ball, the
 Heritage Blues Orchestra, Eddie C. Campbell, Big Brother & The Holding
    Co, Tracy Nelson, Shane Dwight, and Otis Spann & David Maxwell.

                                   *

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