John Sinclair Is Free
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Memorial For John Sinclair 1941-2024
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Big City Rhythm & Blues Magazine’s “The
Adventures of Sugar & Junior” on the radio!
as part of The John Sinclair Radio Show at RadioFreeAmsterdam.org
Thank-you Big Chief!
CROSSROADS 11044
Episode 1044 is coming from the Edo Ramen & Sushi Lounge, an art gallery and restaurant in Royal Oak MI where I’m performing some blues with jeff Grand on guitar to open up Robert Jr. Whitall’s historic art exhibit of his creative works depicting musicians and other countercultural figues. For my radio program tonight I’m going to present an hour of music taken from a couple of the early editions of Robert Jr.’s Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine’s blues sampler CDs, #s4 & 8, with selections by Robert Jr. Whitall, Kenny Brown With Little Freddie King, Mahajibee, Clarence Fountain, Mr. Tater, Preston Shannon, Diedra Hurdle, Steve Johnson, Liz Mandeville, John Sinclair & His Motor City Blues Scholars, Smokey Greenwell, Alexis P. Suter, Linsey Alexander, Reverend Robert Sexton, and Julia Magness & The Original Bells of Joy.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-1044-crossroads/
THE RAVEN SPEAK 1026
Episode 1026 with the latest blues sampler from Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine, titled The Raven Speaks and offering songs by Handsome Bob, Junior & Sugar, Samantha Fish & Jesse Drayton, Johnny Sansone, the Blackburn Brothers, the Chitlins, Sandy Haley, the Dave Edwards Band, Ed Jackson’s Time Out, the Burdickville Boys, the J. Monque’D Blues Band, Obatek & the Intergalactic, and John Sinclair & Tom Worrell.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-1026-the-raven-speaks/
FRESH Episode 1003 isCD Sampler #33 from Big City Rhythm & Blues Magazine featuring Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae, Jose Ramirez, Larry McCray, Henri Herbert, Dave Keyes, John Sinclair & Tom Worrell, Chris Canas, John Primer, Jimmy Johnson, Joseph Veloz, Mud Morganfield, Peter Veleska & the Blues Train, Little Freddie King, and Todd Sharpville.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-1003-fresh/
TAKE MY LOVE Episode 991 with music from blues singers Bobby Rush and his protégé, Mz. Lowe, with samples from their conversation with of Mz. Lowe’s forthcoming album and a plethora of cuts from Bobby’s two acoustic albums, Raw and Rawer Than Raw, interspersed with excerpts from their conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-991-take-my-love/
BONESHAKERS Episode 988 with an hour of music from the new release by Randy Jacobs’ group, the Boneshakers,with new vocalist Jenny Langer, and it’s called One Foot in the Groove. Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine introduce Randy Jacobs and
conduct a conversation with the Detroit guitarist.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-988-boneshakers/
Night Time Is The Right Time - Episode 970 with music from the brand new release in the Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine sampler series, No. 32, titled Nighttime Is The Right Time, with selections by Handsome Bob, Mizz Lowe Featuring Bobby Rush, Patty Tuite, Bob Angell, Breezy Rodio, Sandy Haley, Dave Weld & The Imperial Flames, Demetria Taylor, Johnny T-Bird & The MP’s, Norm Wheeler & Friends, Emma Wilson, Anthony Wild, Big Al & The Heavyweights, Lauren Glick, Jim McCarty, Brett Lucas, and f course the progenitors of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine, Sugar Mae Owens & Robert Junior Whitall.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-970-night-time-is-the-right-time/
Every Day Of Your Life Episode 913 is coming from the Cass Corridor headquarters of Radio Free Amsterdam in Detroit with another hour of killer blues and conversation compliments of Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine, this time featuring the venerable Chicago guitarist and singer Jimmy Johnson and his new Delmark album, Every Day of Your Life.
We’re going to dedicate this show to the recently departed Bob Koester, founder and proprietor of Delmark Records for 70 years and a truly great American.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-913-every-day-of-your-life/
Episode 886 is coming again from the Center for the Study
of World Religions at the Harvard University Divinity School in Cambridge,
Massachusetts where I’ve been in residence for the month of October,
and tonight I’m featuring a program of music from the brand new
album by Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite called 100 Years of Blues,
interspersed with segments of a long conversation between Elvin Bishop
and Robert Jr. Whiitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm &
Blues magazine.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-886-100-years-of-blues/
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.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-883-rawer-than-raw-2/
Episode 875 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.
https://deepscratch.net/2020/09/19/john-sinclair-radio-show-875-blackbirds/
Episode 871 featuring an hour of new music from guitarist
Lurrie Bell's album Let's Talk About Love
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-871-lets-talk-about-love
Episode 862 featuring an hour of music from the new album
by the Back Track Blues Band
interspersed with conversations betweeen the Band and Robert Jr. Whitall
&
Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-862-joy-joy-joy/
Episode 861 featuring an hour of music from the new album
by Sugaray Rayford called
Somebody Save Me, interspersed with conversational tidbitsbetweeen Sugaray
and
Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big CityRhythm & Blues
magazine.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-861-somebody-save-me/
Episode 860 featuring an hour of music from the Big City
Rhythm & Blues magazine sampler #27 (2020), including Robert Jr &
Sugar Mae, the Back Track Blues Band, Nikki Armstrong, Donald Kinsey,
Dave Fields, The Jimmys, Jimmy Johnson, Peter V & Blues Train, Brad
Vickers & His Vestapolitans,
Dave Spector, Funky Mojo Daddy, Chris Canas, Johnny Blue Jay, Jake Curtis
Blues Band,
Third Degree, Little Freddie King, and Bobby Rush.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-860-i-like-it-like-that/
Episode 857 featuring the new album by Tinsley Ellis interspersed
with conversational segments with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens
of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-857-ice-cream-in-hell/
Episode 855 features an hour of music by drummer Kenny
“Beady Eyes” Smith interspersed with segments of a conversation
between Kenny and Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City
Rhythm & Blues magazine, plus three live cuts by Muddy Waters to close
the show.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-855-beady-eyes-2/
Episode 850 is a program of music by bluesman Larry McCray
of my home town of Davison, Michigan interspersed with a series of conversations
between Larry and Robert Jr & Sugar Mae of Big City Rhythm & Blues
magazine recorded on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise liner in
the Caribbean Sea last year.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-850-believe-it
Episode 849 is a program of music by the great Detroit
blueswoman Thornetta Davis interspersed with a conversation between Thornetta
and Robert Jr & Sugar Mae of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine
recorded on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise liner in the Caribbean
Sea last year.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-849-honest-woman/
Episode 830 featuring Toronzo Cannon and his several recordings
and a conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall of Big City Rhythm & Blues
magazine backstage at the Token Lounge and Joy Manor in Detroit. Thanks
to RFA deejays Bruce Pingree, Cary Wolfson and Leslie Keros for providing
the Toronzo Cannon sides for this episode.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-830-sweet-sweet-sweet/
Episode 824 is a spotlight on Chicago bluesman Willie
Buck featuring several of his recordings and a conversation with Robert
Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine
conducted backstage at the 2019 Chicago Blues Festival.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-824-talk-to-my-baby/
Episode 823 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters
in Detroit’s Cass Corridor with an hour of music taken from the
new CD from Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine (Number 26) titled What
Would Junior Do? and produced by Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-823-what-would-junior-do/
Episode 822 an hour of music by second-generation Baton
Rouge
bluesman Kenny Neal alone and in the company of Tab Benoit, Billy Branch,
and
Mitch Woods, plus several installments of a conversation with Robert Jr.
Whitall
& Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine conducted
backstage
at the 50 th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-822-neal-and-prey/
Episode 821 an hour of music and conversation centered
on recordings by North Mississippi drummer, vocalist & bandleader
Cedric Burnside as a featured artist and playing drums with his grandfather
R.L. Burnside, guitarists Junior Kimbrough and Lightning Malcolm, and
the Hill Country ensemble called Afrissippi plus a conversation with Robert
Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine
backstage at the 50th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-821-please-tell-it-baby/
Episode 820 an hour of music and conversation centered on the Kansas City/New Orleans guitarist and singer Samantha Fish and her album Chills & Fever plus a conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine and a pair of cuts from her performance in Ann Arbor at my 75th birthday party in 2016.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-820-chills-fever/
Episode 819 featuring the great singer Shemekia Copeland with songs from several of her albums and a conversation with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine. I didn’t have any Shemekia Copeland recordings in my archives so I dug into several RFA programmers’ files and got some really great selections tthanks to Bruce Pingree, Cary Wolfson, Dave Kunian, and Leslie Keros.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-819-aint-got-time-for-hate/
Episode 818: Louisiana Two Step- Zydeco great C.J. Chenier
interviewed by Robert Jr. Whitall &
Sugar Mae Owens of Big CIty Rhythm & Blues magazine, playing tunes
of his own and some selections
by his father, the King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-818-louisiana-two-step/
Episode 810 a new episode of On The Road with Robert Jr.
Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine
featuring their special guest, singer & guitarist jonathan Long at
JazzFest in New Orleans and playing tunes from his new album produced
by Samantha Fish.
https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-810-shine-your-love/
Episode 808 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters
in Detroit’s Cass Corridor with music and conversation centered
comprising a full-length “On The Road” contribution from Robert
Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine
reporting on the Crawfish Festival in New Jersey at the end of the month
with concert producer Michael Arnone and music from festival headliners
the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Aaron Neville, Walter “Wolfman”
Washington, and the Rebirth Brass Band.
http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-808-crawfish-gumbo-2/
Episode 807 is an eclectic program of music centered on
a tasty “On The Road” contribution from
Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues
magazine reporting from
Clarksdale, Misissippi with their guest Charlie Musselwhite.
http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-807-clarksdale-boogie/
Episode 792 is coming from the John Sinclair Café
in the Psychedelic Healing Shack in the north end of Detroit, where I’ve
been beaming out on Mondays since the new year started and where I’m
featuring this week the brand new Big Ciity Rhythm & Blues Magazine
CD Sampler #25, titled On The Road To Nowhere and offering selections
by Little Freddie King, John Boutte, Paul Oscher, Ed Jackson’s Time
Out, Willie Buck, the great Detroit guitarist Jim McCarty, Jim Allchin,
Tiaxica & Pope, Dawn Tyler Watson, the Blues Disciples, the L&M
Rhythm KIngs, Mortal Soul, Harpdog Brown, Duca Belintani:, WildCat O’Halloran,
and Blair Miller, wih Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens starting
& ending things tonight.
http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-792-on-the-road-to-nowhere/
Episode 790 is coming to you “live” from the
John Sinclair Café in Dr. Bob’s Psychedelic Healing Shack
at Woodward & Goldengate in the north end of Detroit, where I’ve
got my beloved granddaughter Beyonce riding shortgun. It’s colder
than cold today and we’ll start appropriately with the Sonny Boy
Williamson classic “Nine Below Zero ,” add a couple more Sionny
Boys on Checker and a pair of cuts from the brand new Buddy Guy album
called The Blues Is Alive And Well, then we’ll turn things over
to Robert Jr. Whitall and Sugar Mae Owns from Big City Rhythm & Blues
magazine and their guest, the eminent new Orleans bluesman Benny Turner,
with cuts from his new album deicated to his late brother Freddie King,
and we’ll finish up with 3 sides by T-Bone Walker from the late
940so,”
http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-790-me-and-my-guitar/
Episode 788 is coming for the last time from my Detroit
head quarters for the past two years at 55 Peterboro in the Cass Corridor,
where Joel Landy has kept me warm and comfortable out of the goodness
of his heart, but starting next week we’ll be coming to you “live”
from the new John Sinclair Café in Dr. Bob’s Psychedelic
Healing Shack on Woodward & Goldengate in the north end of Detroit,
every Monday evening at 9:00 pm EST and aired again the following Monday
at 4:20 pm EST. This first episode for 2019 is centered on the Big City
Rhythm & Blues magazine’s interview with bluesmen Chris James
& Patrick Rynn by Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens in San
Diego last month, intercut with selections from their albums Barrelhouse
Stomp, Gonna Boogie Anyway, Stop and Think About It, and Trouble Don't
Last.
http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-788-STOP-AND-THINK-ABOUT-IT/
Episode 769 is coming from the Detroit studios of Radio
Free Amsterdam in the Cass Corridor with another edition of On The Road
with Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm &
Bues magazine, this time featuring an interview with James Partridge,
producer of the revived Ann Arbor Blues Festival which takes place this
month. The music for this week’s program is taken from the recordings
of the 1972 Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival made by Atlantic Records
on Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Sippie Wallace,
Jr. Walker & The All Stars, Freddie King, and Luther Allison, plus
an opening cut by Little Sonny from 1972 and a number from Full Circle
by John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars with Wayne Kramer.
http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-769-wang-dang-doodle/
Episode 766 is coming from the Detroit studios of Radio
Free Amsterdam up above the Carl Lundgren
Art Studio in the Cass Corridor, where I’m playing music tonight
from Little Freddie King’s new album Chasing Tha Blues and
listening to the conversation between LFK and Robert Jr. Whitall &
Sugar Mae Owensfrom Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine, recorded backstage
at the New Orleans
Jazz & Heritage Festival this past May.
http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-766-chasing-the-blues/
Episode 761 is coming from the Detroit studios of Radio
Free Amsterdam up above the Carl Lundgren Art Studio in the Cass Corridor,
and we’ve got a new installment of the On The Road feature by Robert
Jr. Whitall and Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine
in Detroit all the way from the recent New Orleans Jazz & Heritage
Festival, where they had a nice talk backstage with the greatest bass
player in the world, George Porter Jr., surrounded by music from The Meters.
the Funky Meters, and the incomparable Snooks Eaglin with George on bass.
http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-761-meterman/
Episode 755 is coming once again from the Radio Free Amsterdam studios in Detroit’s Cass Corridor, where I’m featuring the return this week of Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine for the third installment in their series of artist interviews on location, this time with bluesman John Nemeth at the Tampa Bay Blues Festival earler in April, plus songs by John Nemeth, Thornetta Davis, Bob & April Monteleone, the great pianist and composer Cecil Taylor who passed away this month at the age of 89, a band called Blue & The Worn Out Soles singing “The Ballad of Sugar & Junior,” Charlie Wooten’s Zabadodat featuring Laura Reed, Bob Baldori & Arthur Magliazza, Billy Davis, Robert Bradley, the Planet D Nonet, and Charlie Parker & strings with our closing theme.
http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-755-feeling-freaky/
Episode 753 is coming from the Radio Free Amsterdam studios
in Detroit’s Cass Corridor, where I’m featuring music this
week from the new blues compilation called We Jukin’ Here, Volume
23 from Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine in Detroit produced by my
dear friends & colleagues Robert Jr. Whitall and his wife & companion
Sugar Mae, with selections by Scott Morgan, Kathy & The Kilowatts,
Kelly’s Lot, Alastair Greene, Little G Weevil, Mike Skill, Jesse
Cotton Stone, Little Red Rooster, Peter V & Blues Train, Laurie Morvan,
and the Backtrack Blues Band.
http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-753-we-jukin-here/
Episode 752 is coming from the Radio Free Amsterdam studios
in Detroit’s Cass Corridor, with the second installment featuring
music and conversation from the Blues Queen of Detroit, Ms. Thornetta
Davis, and her album Honest Woman, a couple of cuts from her
early Live At The Music Menu album, and her guest appearance
on my album Detroit Life in 2008.
http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-752-i-gotta-sang-the-blues/
Show 748 at RadioFreeAmsterdam.org featuring Bettye Lavette
who we recently interviewed in Detroit, Michigan (3/3/18) talking about
her new CD “Things Have Changed.”
http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-748-things-have-changed/
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