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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

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1054 – THE DELTA SOUND

Episode 1054 is coming from my hotel room at the Citadines Bastiile Gare de Lyon in Paris, where I’m appearing in a show dedicated to the art of the late Michael Kelley of suburban Detroit and Los Angeles at the Musee Bourse de Commerce. They’ve titled the show after my blues work in verse, Fattening Frogs for Snakes, so I’ve decided to make an hour of music from the Mississippi Delta highlighting the great artists who have arisen there, including Robert Johnson, Honey Boy Edwards, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Elmore James, Earl Hooker, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Koko Taylor, Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers, J.B. Lenoir, James Cotton, Jimmy Reed, the King Biscuit Boys, Little Walter, Magic Sam, and Magic Slim & the Teardrops.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
THE DELTA SOUND
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1054
Cass Corridor, Detroit, February 12, 2024 [24166]

Yusef Lateef: Happyology
Robert Johnson: Sweet Home Chicago
Honey Boy Edwards: Drop Down Mama
Muddy Waters: I Can’t Be Satisfied
Howlin’ Wolf: Smokestack Lightnin’
Elmore James: The Sky Is Crying
Earl Hooker: Ball Game on a Rainy Day
Buddy Guy: The First Time I Met the Blues
B.B. King: You Upsets Me Baby
Koko Taylor: Wang Dang Doodle
Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers: Walking the Ceiling
J.B. Lenoir: The Mojo
James Cotton: West Helena Blues
Jimmy Reed: You Got Me Dizzy
King Biscuit Boys: Mr. Downchild
Little Walter: Blues with a Feeling
Magic Sam: Easy Baby
Magic Slim & the Teardrops: I Want to See You in the Evening

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

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1053 – BIRD FLIES SOUTH & EAST

Episode 1053 is coming from our temporary Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in my daughter Sunny’s house in Eastpointe MI with an hour of music by Charlie Parker called Bird Flies South & East, featuring recordings with Latin jazz ensembles and string orchestras from right around the turn of the mid-20th century in honor of the passing of Bird on March 12, 1955. In 2022 we celebrated the centenary of Parker’s birth on August 26, 1922 and now we commemorate his passing at the age of 34, on the same day Jack Kerouac was born in 1926.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
BIRD FLIES SOUTH & EAST
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1053
Cass Corridor, Detroit, February 5, 2024 [24151]

Yusef Lateef: Happyology
Charlie Parker: No Noise (Parts 1 & 2)
Charlie Parker: Fiesta
Charlie Parker: My Little Suede Shoes
Charlie Parker: Mango Mangue
Charlie Parker: La Cucaracha
Charlie Parker: Tico Tico
Charlie Parker: East of the Sun
Charlie Parker: I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
Charlie Parker: April in Paris
Charlie Parker: Summertime
Charlie Parker: Autumn in New York
Charlie Parker: I’m in the Mood for Love
Charlie Parker: Easy to Love
Charlie Parker: If Ever I Would Leave You
Charlie Parker: Just Friends
Charlie Parker: Everything Happens to Me
Charlie Parker: They Can’t Take That Away from Me

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

John Sinclair Radio Show 1052 – SHE SHOWED IT ALL

Episode 1052 is coming from our temporary Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in my daughter Sunny’s house in Eastpointe MI with a variegated program of classic and modern music, including an entire set of risqué numbers drawn from the series of discs called Big Ten Inch Record. The program has sides by Dinah Washington, Guitar Shorty, Magic Sam, Sippie Wallace, Little Milton, Jimmy Witherspoon, Charlie Parker, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Walter Davis, Georgia Tom & Jane Lucas, Lucille Bogan, Bo Carter, Lillie Mae Kirkman, Napoleon Fletcher, the Mississippi Sheiks, and Louise Johnson.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
SHE SHOWED IT ALL
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1052
Cass Corridor, Detroit, February 4, 2024 [24136]

Yusef Lateef: Happyology
Dinah Washington: Cool Kind Papa
Guitar Shorty: Bonehead
Magic Sam: All Your Love
Sippie Wallace: A Man for Every Day in the Week
Little Milton: Blue Monday
Charlie Parker: Why Do I Love You
Jimmy Witherspoon: Big Fine Girl
Bobby “Blue” Bland: Farther Up the Road
Charlie Parker: Okiedoke
Walter Davis: Think You Need a Shot
Georgia Tom & Jane Lucas: Terrible Operation Blues
Lucille Bogan: Coffee Grindin’ Blues

Bo Carter: Ram Rod Daddy
Lillie Mae Kirkman: He’s Just My Size
Napoleon Fletcher: She Showed It All
The Mississippi Sheiks: Driving That Thing
Louise Johnson: On The Wall

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

Episode 1042 is coming from RFA headquarters in Detroit’s Cass Corridor and is centered on an obscure recording project that Tom Worrell and I did in New Orleans a few years ago, sponsored by our pal Frenchy but never released, which involves a small set of poems composed by Worrell, recited by myself, and recorded with Tom on piano and assorted helpers in a little studio off of Oak Street. It’s called The Trump Chronicles and in my estimation it’s a brilliant set of satirical works in twisted rhyme schemes that skewer and roast the guy I call Resident Rump. Intermixed are some other pieces Tom and I have recorded together and some of his solo works from the album titled Fess Up, plus a new trio number.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
THE TRUMP CHRONICLES
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1042
Cass Corridor, Detroit, November 9, 2023 [24031]

Yusef Lateef: Happyology
John Sinclair & Tom Worrell: The Lost Rodeo
Tom Worrell: Magic Gringo
John Sinclair & Tom Worrell: Coup Coup de Choo Choo
Tom Worrell: Blues Rhumba Boogie
John Sinclair & Tom Worrell: Nero’s Fiddle
Tom Worrell: Her Mind Is Gone
John Sinclair & Tom Worrell: fly right
Tom Worrell: Willie Fugal’s Blues
John Sinclair & Tom Worrell: round about midnight
Tom Worrell: New Orleans State of Mind
John Sinclair & Tom Worrell: bye-ya

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

RADIO FREE AMSTERDAM

Radio Free Amsterdam was conceived as a tribute to the classic American radio stations of the 1950s and ‘60s, when the greatest recordings being issued could be heard on the radio airwaves hour after hour at no cost to the listener, and the music was selected by the program hosts guided by their intelligence and knowledge of the music.

Accordingly, Radio Free Amsterdam has assembled a working team of independent broadcast producers who provide an hour of original programming each week. Each day two one-hour episodes are posted at RadioFreeAmsterdam.org, and all programs are archived at the John Sinclair Foundation site for listening on demand.

Additionally, the station provides a continuous music stream called “24/7” that plays back all posted programs in reverse order and is updated regularly with new broadcast episodes. This stream enables Radio Free Amsterdam to be heard around the clock much like a traditional radio station.

The Radio Free Amsterdam program hosts are radio veterans who produce weekly blues, jazz or free-form programs for college or community stations or expressly for Radio Free Amsterdam:

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

John Sinclair
Maryse Dejean
Tom Morgan
David Kunian
Bruce Pingree
Roger White
The Blues Hound
Steve “The Fly” Pratt
Bob Putignano
Don Was
Christian Greer & Michelle Oingo
Leslie Keros
Lucille Mancini
arwulf arwulf
George Klein

EMERITUS
Tino Gross
Linda Lexy
Scott Barretta
Harry Duncan
Cary Wolfson
Don Paul
William Levy
• John Sinclair produces our flagship program, The John Sinclair Radio Show, and has contributed Ancestor Worship and other series exclusively for Radio Free Amsterdam, which he continues to serve as Program Director. He is a veteran of WNRZ-FM and WCBN-FM in Ann Arbor, WDET-FM in Detroit and WWOZ-FM, where he was voted most popular deejay in in New Orleans for the last five years of his residency there.

• Maryse Dejean broadcasts her Jazz from the French Market program on WWOZ-FM in New Orleans every Monday afternoon. An emigrant from Haiti, Maryse is a long-time member of the WWOZ administrative staff and a valued contributor to the Sound of New Orleans.

• The late Tom Morgan, a veteran of WTJU-FM (Bartender’s Bop) in Charlottesville, Virginia and WWOZ-FM (Jazz Roots, New Orleans Music Show, Diggin’ The Roots) in New Orleans, contributed several program series to RFA prior to relocating in Pensacola in the 2000s. Since his passing in 2021 we have determined that Tom Morgan will always have a slot at Radio Free Amsterdam and continue to feature his Jazz Roots program every Tuesday morning.

• David Kunian is Jazz Lunatique in residence at WWOZ-FM in New Orleans and an award-winning broadcast program producer, a music journalist, and director of the Jazz Archive at the Louisiana State Museum.

• Bruce Pingree has hosted and produced The Blues Show on WUNH-FM in Durham, NH since the early 1970s and now has more than 500 episodes archived at the Radio Free Amsterdam site.

• Roger White is a major contributor to Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine and hosts his blues radio program every week on CJAM-FM in Windsor, Ontario, now heard on Wednesdays on Radio Free Amsterdam.

• The Blues Hound is the Pennsylvania-based independent broadcast producer and program host of Nothing But the Blues, now heard every Thursday morning on Radio Free Amsterdam.

• Steve Pratt (Steve The Fly), deejay, drummer, record producer, writer and scholar extraordinaire spins his Fly By Night shows exclusively for Radio Free Amsterdam and, as Executive Producer of our station, handles all the technical details of posting all programs and disseminating them worldwide.

• Bob Putignano was heard for years on WFDU-FM in New York City and created Sounds of Blue for taintradio.org. Bob mixes blues, soul, jazz, funk, blues-rock and more with occasional musician interviews and conversations with industry insiders. He is now heard every Friday morning on Radio Free Amsterdam.

• Don Was & Anne DeLisi created and co-host The Don Was Motor City Playlist for WDET-FM in Detroit, now heard every Friday afternoon on Radio Free Amsterdam. Don Was, a native of Oak Park, Michigan, is an accomplished bassist, record producer (Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, the Rolling Stones), and the president of Blue Note Records. Anne DeLisi is a leading program host and broadcast producer at WDET and a popular emcee for all sorts of musical presentations in the city.

• Christian Greer & Michelle Oing are based in San Francisco, where they teach at Stanford University and host their innovative Neon Shrines show for Valencia Radio, combining long talk sessions centered on “pilgrimages and power spots,” entertain guests of many descriptions, and mix in music at will. Neon Shrines is broadcast on Radio Free Amsterdam every Friday night following The Don Was Motor City Playlist.

• Leslie Keros hosts and produces Mood Indigo for WDCB-FM in Chicago, and her earlier program series Messin’ With The Blues, Jazz at Daybreak, Chicago Bound, Blues Edition, and Crossroads: Where Jazz Meets Blues are all archived at the Radio Free Amsterdam site.

• Lucille Mancini, a popular club figure in Italy known as Lucille DJ, produces The Soul Lucille Show for controradio-fm in Florence, Italy and features a guest spot from John Sinclair each week. She’s a fixture on Radio Free Amsterdam every Saturday night.

• arwulf arwulf held forth at WEMU-FM in Ypsilanti for many years and is currently heard weekly on WCBN-FM in Ann Arbor. He is a life-long music lover and has been programing his vintage jazz radio show for about 40 years.

• George Klein created The Groove Yard on WEMU-FM in Ypsilanti MI, in the 1990s, from which an hour of his fiercely intelligent jazz programming is broadcast on Radio Free Amsterdam each Thursday evening. His modern-day show, Beyond The Groove Yard, is archived here in its entirety.

This cast of musical characters who contribute their programming to Radio Free Amsterdam can be heard every week in regular rotation and in reverse sequence in the continuous “24/7” stream on our website.

EMERITUS
• Tino Gross, under his nom de radio Martino D’Lorenzo, produced and hosted the Big City Blues Cruise for WEMU-FM in Ypsilanti MI from 1982 through 1998, playing 78s, 45s, and LPs from his amazingly extensive record collection. Tino is a recording artist in his own right, lead singer of the Howling Diablos and Dumpster Funk, as well as president and lead producer for Funky D Records.
• Linda Lexy, producer of the Party Train show, is a veteran Detroit deejay on the radio and in the clubs who is also a principal in Funky D Records. She recently received her 7^th Best Deejay in Detroit citation from the Detroit Music Awards.
• Scott Barretta is a world-renowned blues expert, a deejay for Mississippi Public Radio, former editor of Living Blues magazine, and (with Jim O’Neal) the genius behind the Blues Highway Marker program in the state of Mississippi.
• Harry Duncan is an exceptional music expert, writer and deejay in San Francisco for many years whose In the Soul Kitchen combines blues, jazz and other world musics to form the perfect example of what we used to call free-form radio.
• Cary Wolfson created his award-winning syndicated radio program Blues from the Red Rooster Lounge 40 years ago and published Blues Access magazine until its demise at the end of the 20^th century. His program is syndicated on several radio stations in the U.S. and appeared weekly on Radio Free Amsterdam for almost 500 programs.
• Don Paul is a New Orleans resident and cultural activist, formerly based in San Francisco, who created a special series of roots music programs for Radio Free Amsterdam that is now housed in our archive.
• The late William Levy is the legendary author, journalist, editor and literary figure who produced and hosted The Dr. Doo Wop Show for Radio 100 in Amsterdam around the turn of the 21^st century. Almost four dozen of his programs from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s were digitally transferred from mini-disks and cassettes and were broadcast on Radio Free Amsterdam during 2016-2017.
Radio Free Amsterdam issues a monthly Program Guide listing programs for the coming month with short descriptions of each offering, published on our website on the first of each month.
John Sinclair, 2023.