Yesterday, I just had to get a lifetime license for ChatGPT. BoingBoing store was doing a sweet deal, $59 for a lifetime license from Mind2Matter. So I bit the bullet. However, I didn’t do all my homework and it turns out that my current WORDPRESS account is not capable of hosting third party PLUGINS, I need to upgrade to a business account, and that’s a whopping $286 and way out my current price range.
And then I had a moment of clarity. Sheeet, I can install it over at Radio Free Amsterdam. So I did, and it works. And I think it’s another reason to spread the word about Radio Free Amsterdam: Grass roots music, blues, jazz, funk, soul, all produced by John Sinclair! And now featuring ChatGPT for further entertainment.
Art and music can heal and unify people, we can feel this intuitively. Good music makes us well. RFA brings together a potent mixture of good music selectors who mix up the musical medicine to be administered by our medicine man: Big Chief (John Sinclair)
Music for peace. Music for therapy, for all, criss-crossing boundaries and borders, arriving on-time at the ears and headspace of the people. Tune in, soak up the culture. Relax, take a load off.
Steve The Fly is holding forth from Amsterdam with an hour of music by B.B King, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Elmore James, Snooks Eaglin, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, Shuggie Otis, and Michael McClure.
Steve The Fly is playing music this week by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the Ebony Rhythm Band, Society, The Meters, Black Ivory, Earl King, Sly & The Family Stone, Chris Jones, James Brown, Julius Jones, Chet Ivy, Salon Butler & The New Breed, and Herbie Hancock.
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
Episode 875 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters in the Cass Corridor with a program centered on the great Detroit singer Bettye LaVette and her brand new album for Verve Records called Blackbirds, a tribute to great singers of yore like Billie Holiday, Ruth Brown, Della Reece, Nancy Wilson, Dinah Washington and others, interspersed with pieces of conversation between Bettye and the editors of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine, Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens. The musical program concludes with a number from her previous album, I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
BLACKBIRDS
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 875
Cass Corridor, Detroit, August 8, 2020 [20509]
Yusef Lateef: Happyology
Bettye LaVette: Blackbird
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: Romance In The Dark
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: Strange Fruit
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: I Hold No Grudge
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: Romance In The Dark
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: Blues For The Weepers
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: Drinking Again
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: Save Your Love For Me
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: Book Of Lies
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: One More Song
Bettye LaVette Closing Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: On The Surface
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
Steve The Fly is tapping his own phone to come up with this week’s episode of Fly By Night, with mind-boggling selections by Charles Olson, David Amram, Alan Moore, Amiri Baraka, James Blood Ulmer, Robert Anton Wilson, Thelonious Monk, John Sinclair & Beatnik Youth, Dizzy Gillespie, Ezra Pound, and Lalo Schifrin.
Steve The Fly, Fly Agaric 23 Studio, Amsterdam, August 28, 2013 [20440]
Lalo Schifrin: Dawn Discovery/The Stadium Grounds > Charles Olson: Mayan Letter No. 5 David Amram: Tapping My Own Phone Alan Moore: Disapearing
Amiri Baraka: Nightmare Bush’it Whirl James Blood Ulmer: Raw Groove Robert Anton Wilson: Science Fiction Thelonious Monk: Off Minor John Sinclair & Beatnik Youth: Testify featuring Steve The Fly Dizzy Gillespie:Things To Come Ezra Pound: Canto 1 > Steve Fly: Instrumental
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Produced by Steve “Fly” Pratt for Radio Free Amsterdam (#24)
HI, this is Steve Fly. Due to technical challenges at Radio Free Amsterdam and JohnSinclair.us I’ve decided to host these special shows crafted by John Sinclair. This one in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Charlie Parker. Please stay tuned, we’ll return with usual programming asap. Love, Steve. –Radio Free Amsterdam.
Episode 878 is coming as usual this year from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters in the Cass Corridor where I’m featuring another hour of music from Charlie Parker in honor of the 100th aniversary of his birth on August 29, 1920 in Kansas City. Our third hour of Bird features music recorded for Norman Granz’s releases on the Norgran, Mercury & Verve labels in the early 1950s.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
LEAP FROG
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 878
Cass Corridor, Detroit, August 21, 2020 [20551]
Yusef Lateef: Happyology
Charlie Parker: I Didn’t know What Time It Was (November 30, 1949)
Charlie Parker: Star Eyes (March 1950)
Charlie Parker: I’m In The Mood For Love (March or July 8, 1950)
Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie-Thelonious Monk: Leap Frog (June 6, 1950)
Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie-Thelonious Monk: An Oscar For Treadwell
Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie-Thelonious Monk: My Melancholy Baby
Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie-Thelonious Monk: Bloomdido
Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie-Thelonious Monk: Mohawk
Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie-Thelonious Monk: Relaxin’ With Lee
Charlie Parker: Dancing In The Dark (July 5, 1950)
Charlie Parker: Out of Nowhere (July 5, 1950)
Charlie Parker: East of the Sun (July 5, 1950)
Charlie Parker: Easy To Love (July 5, 1950)
Charlie Parker & Coleman Hawkins: Ballade (October 1950)
Charlie Parker: Autumn In New York (January 22, 1952)
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
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