Soul Station Feature: Simtec & Wylie
Do It Like Mama
The Chicago soul-funk duo Simtec (Walter Simmons) And Wylie (Wylie Dixon) had a bunch of 45s (and one album) from the late 1960s into the 1970s. They excelled at a hard edged, funky kind of soul that vocally relied on Sam And Dave. The band on several of their records was more or less led by guitarist Bobby Pointer, and he and a few others moved on from the duo to become the Southside Movement. Although the two singers had more success with their second 45 on Shama, this is the one that hits me, and when they keep singing mommy my eyes roll as much as my feet move!
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Soul Station π: Standells & Count Five
My new show at the Soul Station features the Standells and the Count Five. Their music makes a very interesting comparison and contrast. Some the hits are there, but so are many other records that are not as well known and deserve attention, like the Count Five doing You Must Believe Me (Impressions) as well as a Standells original, Poor Shell Of A Man and their version of Wicked Pickett's Ninety-Nine And A Half. I also feature the original of Soul Drippin’ by the Standells, which, when covered by Chicago's The Mauds, became the closest record that band had that was a national hit! So do tune in. a rockin' must tonight at 7pm!
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Soul Station Feature: Bohannon
Truck Stop
Hamilton Bohannon grew up in GA and went to college there all the while working as a drummer. He was recruited to join the touring band of Stevie Wonder and thus he moved to Detroit in 1967. Eventually he led a band that backed other artists as was billed as Bohannon & The Motown Sound. He did not move to California when Motown essentially fled Detroit. He started his own band and went after a unique guitar based, dance-funk style. Initially he had Ray Parker, Jr and Dennis Coffey playing on his records. In 1974 he had his first hit, but only in the UK. Into the early 1980s, his music was consistently in the r&b charts, though he had only one big hit, Let's Start The Dance, in 1978. I love his insistent beat and all those guitars, many of them very fly and wah-wah. Sometimes the dancers have other instrumentation, as on this 1974 number, which has harmonica. It was a B-side to a track from his first album released the previous year. Be prepared to move.
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Soul Station Feature: Don Byas
Don Byas went to Europe with Don Redman in the fall of 1946 and he and many members of that band stayed in Europe. By October Byas was recording with a largely African American band mostly drawn from the group he arrived with. During his first Paris session, he used Herbert Lee 'Peanuts' Holland (trumpet), Tyree Glenn (trombone) and Billy Taylor (piano). One of the best numbers they cut is Glenn's Working Eyes, which Duke Ellington turned into Sultry Serenade and claimed for himself, at least on the record label. Ellington's version was the B-side of Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me on Columbia. Perhaps this got straightened out later, perhaps after Glenn left the Duke's employ. I say this because later Herbie Mann recorded it and there the ascription goes to Glenn and NOT Ellington. It is a great tune and the original is great, with fine solos all around.
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Soul Station Feature: Miguelito Valdes
Mamita Cambia
Although he came to the US in 1940 and stayed, the great singer Miguelito Valdes continued to return to Cuba to perform and occasionally record, at least until the revolution. This particular recording seems to come from one of his last trips, and probably dates from 1957. He is backed by a very late version of Orquesta Hermanos Castro, a large band that was active and recording as early as 1931. This is a really great record, and by its arrangement, someone was quite influenced by the Perez Prado brass sound and how it makes a mambo or mambo like dance music really work!
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Soul Station Feature: Wild Bill & The Blue Denims
The Chase
Producer and label owner George Goldner is mostly known for the many vocal r&b records he cut in the 1950s, but he did not ignore tougher, raunchy rock'n'roll. He produced this rough gem for his Gone label at the end of 1959, and the Bill on it, guitarist Bill Emerson shows off hot ideas and a gritty tone. Some moments of this rocker even get as gnarly as Link Wray! A great way to rev up for what looks to be a foggy, and eventually wet (again) morning!
DJ Pi/Paul Yamada
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DJ LOBO: Radio LOBO Show! 11
FEATURING…
Fontaines D.C. • Arctic Monkeys • Jenny Lewis • Vampire Weekend • Baby Money & the Bad Investments • Rilo Kiley • Bleached • Kumbia Queers • Reyna Tropical • Las Cafeteras • Siderunners • Crudo Pimento • Ohmme • Elastica • Remember Sports • Billy Crudup
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Animation Meditation: Shecky Nusiance
Legfish Hybridization Prototype
SHECKY SAYS “Our sceintists are working in wayz that some consider to be unnatural!”
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DJ LOBO: Radio LOBO Show! 10
FEATURING…
Twin Peaks • Jenny and Johnny • Tristen • The High Water Marks • The Apples In Stereo • Bhi Bhiman • Elliott Smith • Who Is She? • Ida Maria • Jenny Lewis • Zoe Lister-Jones, Adam Pally & Fred Armisen (a.k.a The Dirty Dishes) • Mitski • Dávila 666 • Hinds • The Parrots • Amyl and The Sniffers
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DJ LOBO: Radio LOBO Show! 9
FEATURING…
The Stooges • Dave "Gruber" Allen • Amyl and The Sniffers • Gary Clark Jr. • Gossip • Fea • Juan Wauters • Jenny Lewis • Pixies • Sumohair (feat. Banana Leaf Boy) • Tropa Magica • Kumbia Queers • Rebel Diaz • Mala Rodríguez • Niña Dioz • Noname • Heems • Lizzo • Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers
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DJ LOBO: Radio LOBO Show! 8
FEATURING…
Queen • The Bolivian • Courtney Love • Tacocat • Woody Guthrie • Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers • Wilco • Smashing Pumpkins • The Kinks • Allison Crutchfield • Local H • St. Vincent • Connie Converse • Cat Power • Ronnie Spector • Nice As Fuck • Tweens • Ida Maria
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DJ LOBO: Radio LOBO Show! 7
FEATURING…
Bruce Springsteen • Chavela Vargas • Natalie Merchant • FIDLAR • The Hong Kong Blood Opera • Childbirth • Tristen • Colleen Green • The Coup (feat. Lakeith Stanfield) • Die Antwoord • SadGirl • Joan Jett & The Blackhearts • Amyl and the Sniffers • Lucy Dacus • My Dick • Peaches • The Devil Makes Three
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DJ LOBO: Radio LOBO Show! 6
FEATURING…
Nice As Fuck • The Clash • Thunderbitch • Walter Martin • Tacocat • Ida Maria • Los Romanticos de Zacatecas • The Parrots • Juan Wauters • FIDLAR • Bettye LaVette • Wild Flag • Courtney Barnett • Big Joanie • Bleached • Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam
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DJ LOBO: Radio LOBO Show! 5
FEATURING…
The Hives • Regina Spektor • Screaming Females • Jeff Tweedy • Lily Allen (feat. Mick Jones) • Grapetooth • Ceci Bastida • Mexrrissey • Generation X • Tropa Magica • Kumbia Queers • Reyna Tropical • Los Gold Fires • The Symposium • FONTAINES D.C. • Ezra Furman
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DJ LOBO: Radio LOBO Show! 4
FEATURING…
King Tuff • Superorganism • The Decemberists • EMA • Nine Inch Nails (Ladytron Remix) • Grimes (feat. HANA) • Operators • The Voidz • Shopping • Sylvan Esso • Animanz and Juanita Euka • St. Vincent • Chiquita y Chatarra • Bat Fangs • Jeff Tweedy • Rostam
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Soul Station π: Chicago Soul 2
FEATURING…
Ramsey Lewis Trio & Jean DuShon • The Vibrations • Jerry Butler • Sugar Pie DeSanto • The Fascinations • The Five Stairsteps & Cubie • Marshall & The Chi-Lites • Junior Wells • Tyrone Davis • Magic Sam • J.B. & The Vikings
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DJ LOBO: Radio LOBO Show! 3
FEATURING…
The Uncluded • Willie Nelson • Slowkiss • Kate Nash. • Remember Sports • Hurray For The Riff Raff • Downtown Boys • IDLES • Ana Tijoux • Making Movies • Ceci Bastida • Julieta Venegas (feat. Ana Tijoux & Rubén Albarrán) • Chiquita y Chatarra • Dromedarios Mágicos • Círculo Polar • AJ Davila
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DJ LOBO: Radio LOBO Show! 2
FEATURING…
Rick And Morty • Johnny Cash • Mikey Mike • Death From Above 1979 • The Dollyrots • Childish Gambino • Angel Olsen • Anthony Gonzalez & Gael García Bernal • La Santa Cecilia • Titus Andronicus • Twin Peaks • Ani DiFranco • King Princess • Macy Gray • Sports Boyfriend • Amyl and the Sniffers
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DJ LOBO: Radio LOBO Show! 1
FEATURING…
FIDLAR • Ida Maria • Superorganism • Tony Gallardo II • Lily Allen (feat. Giggs) • Bleached • Barbara Dane • Woody Guthrie • Ida Maria • Graham Coxon • Spring Onion • Julieta Venegas • Making Movies Las Cafeteras (feat. Philthy Dronez) • A Tribe Called Red (feat. Kool A.D. and Chippewa Travelers) • Thee Arthur Layne (a.k.a INF0_TAPES)
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