I’m happy to announce I’m releasing Deep Scratch on Monday. Available in digital formats, followed by a hard copy edition in 2021.
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Steve The Fly is flying once again with this program of selections from Bob James, Shorty Long, the Ramsey Lewis Trio, Thelonious Monk, Stevie Wonder, Pat Metheny, Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, The Dells, and Eddie Jefferson.
Hi, due to technical difficulties beyond my control at RFA, I’ve hosted this show at my site, love, steve. (Radio Free Amsterdam)
“John Sinclair Radio Show 883 – Rawer Than Raw”
Episode 883 is coming once more from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters in the Cass Corridor where I’m featuring the music and wisdom of the great bluesman Bobby Rush, playing sides from his new album Rawer Than Raw interspersed with segments of his substantial conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents:
RAWER THAN RAW
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 883
Cass Corridor, Detroit, October 6, 2020 [20621]
Yusef Lateef: Happyology
Bobby Rush: Hard Times
Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bobby Rush: Don’t Start Me To Talking
Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bobby Rush: Down In Mississippi
Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bobby Rush: Sometimes I Wonder
Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bobby Rush: Smokestack Lightning
Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bobby Rush: Let Me In Your House
Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bobby Rush: Honey Bee
Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bobby Rush: Shake It For Me
Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bobby Rush: Garbage Man
Bobby Rush Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bobby Rush: Dust My Broom
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Program produced, edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Steve Pratt
Special thanks to Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine
Hi, sending warmest regards and sweetest wishes to you, wherever you are…out there in the rapidly transforming world. I’ve stepped up production and output in my gesture of unique entertainment during this next sheltering in place phase, lockdown-two or whatever you call it. Meditation two, the second challenge?
I’m moved by considerate people who choose extra caution, thinking of others because it makes sense, not waiting to be instructed to act under threat of fine or mandatory laws. I see care and sincere concern bursting out from most people, coming together, contrary to the narrative from the 24/7 media bombardment, division, mistrust, confusion. There’s beautiful, heartwarming humility everywhere, if we can cut through the digital fog of culture wars and break the spell of despair.
I’m still editing that damned novel, amassing appendices and multimedia footnotes, struggling to lift it all and make it cohere when heading into second lockdown challenge. I trust the light hearted side of prose can overshadow the murky side, it feels like a tightrope walk wearing tights on my head. I want to be sure, really sure, that I write what I mean and mean what I write. I’m a little perplexed about how to proceed (print and produce the book as a physical artefact) recently I’ve considered a USB stick to also hold video, audio and images. The plot thickens.
I wrote a small blog entry last week about Artists and their relationship to National Security, HERE. Earlier this month I wrote about coronavirus challenges and possible solutions.
Douglas Rushkoff and Grant Morrison on Team Human, take very merry trip together I recommend listening to. Prop Anon interviewed Grant for Mondo 2000 e-zine, waxing lyrical on Robert Anton Wilson, Brave New World…HERE.
John Higgs recently published his Newsletter #23 that bulges with delights and insights, with links to his latest work and gems about RAW and the current conspiracy climate emergency.
Nic Aldeton of Complexity media recently uploaded a new version of the panel discussion between Adam Curtis and Alan Moore (2017) moderated by Michelle Olley, I was present at the event and was lucky to hang with Adam and Alan.
They Came To Starburg is my Halloween horror/comedy (Audio Book) released in 2014. You can stream the Spooken Word here. Happy Halloween.
Here’s some words I excreted last week:
hiber-nation huddle close avoid spikes like hedgehogs
solidaritea and toast with common coffee grounds for peace treaty
autumn is slowing up heart and mind torn by brexit sad separation
covid autumn moon and stars mask uncertain cloud
take a long walk awake to the simple things you’re never alone
we love the long night isolation strengthens us in heads we thrive
leaves and rain falling magpie and raven ascend find the others
is a rose a rose in cruel summer lockdown water your garden
sycamore fig-mulberry poem hides under maple leaf
Thanks to you for helping keep the wheels turning. I sincerely wish you are staying productive and keeping safe from harm.