PURE with Howard Thompson

“New Releases” (broadcast 2/1/13) Danny Gatton: Funky Mama 4:37 Hundred Waters: Are/Or 4:02 Soft Hearted Scientists: Road to Rhayader5:23 Kathy Randels / ArtSpot Productions: Anthem/Psalm 23 4:58 The Lake Poets: Edinburgh 4:34 Brett Dennen: Hard Times Come Again No More 2:10 Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit: Tour Of Duty (live) 3:35 Mary Gauthier: Last of the Hobo Kings (live) 6:23 Kris Kristoffers...

“Recent Gems” (broadcast 3/3/17) Soundwalk Collective w/Jesse Paris Smith/Patti Smith: Evening of Light 4:50 Mikel Rouse: Inside the Waste of Time 10:13 Simon Fisher Turner: Stem Jars 1:34 The Necks: Blue Mountain 20:49 Kid Koala w/Emiliana Torrini: Nightfall Pale Blue 2:48 Mark Dagley: Uranus Hill Fantasy 3:48 Throttle Elevator Music: Playing The Alleyway 5:21 Bruce Wooley & Polly Scattergood...

"PURE Faves, 2025" (broadcast 12/19/25) Julee Cruise: Up In Flames Mark Bingham: I Know Nothing Robert Plant: I Never Will Marry Chrissie Hynde: Love Letters (feat. Shirley Manson) Waylon Jennings: Wrong Road Again Gene Casey: It’s True Hollie Cook: Take Me In Your Arms Lola Young: Spiders Lola Young: Messy Emma Swift: The Resurrection Game Tom Verlaine: Breakin’ In My Heart Mickey Newbury: San Fr...

“Big Jim Sullivan, guitarist” (broadcast 11/23/12) Danny Gatton: Funky Mama Marty Wilde: A Teenager In Love Eddie Cochran: 20 Flight Rock Peter Sellers, Sophia Loren: Goodness Gracious Me Billy Fury: Halfway To Paradise Mike Berry & The Outlaws: Tribute to Buddy Holly John Leyton: Johnny Remember Me Mike Sarne: Come Outside Jet Harris: Man With The Golden Arm Johnny Kidd & the Pirates: A S...

“Chuck Berry, 90 (w/Gene Casey)” (broadcast 10/21/16) Chuck Berry: Rockin’ Chuck Berry: Woodpecker Elvis Presley: Maybellene  Chuck Berry: The Way It Was Before The Kinks: Beautiful Delilah Chuck Berry: Bio MDQ/Waylon Jennings: Brown Eyed Handsome Man Chuck Berry: The Little Girl From Central  Bob Cort Skiffle: School Days Chuck Berry: Tulane Dave Edmunds: It's My Own Business Chuck Berry: My Must...

“In Memoriam, 2015” (broadcast 1/1/16) The Sherwoods: Try To Remember (Rob White) Gong: I've Bin Stone Before (Daevid Allen) Stranger & Gladdy: Conqueror (Gladstone Anderson) Lynn Anderson: I Never Promised You A Rose Garden Big Brother & The Holding Company: Summertime (Sam Andrew) Sam Cooke: Falling In Love (Harold Battiste) The Rubettes: Sugar Baby Love (Wayne Bickerton) Cilla Black: Al...

"Rockers" (fill-in for Rockers Arena, broadcast in May 2021) Sly & Robbie: Taxi Connection Zap Pow: This Is Reggae Music Eek A-Mouse: Wa-Do-Dem  Pluto Shervington: Dat  Toots & The Maytals: Louie Louie  George Faith: In The Midnight Hour / Ya Ya Yellowman: Body Move Glen Washington: Rockers (No Crackers) Culture: Love Shine Brighter Errol Dunkley: Please Stop Your Lying Barrington Levy: Lo...

"Apes & Roosters" (broadcast 11/1/19) Howlin' Wolf: The Red Rooster The Kinks: Apeman (Alt. version)  The Warlocks: Red Rooster  Frankie Tyler: I Go Ape Ohio Players: Rooster Poot The Three Johns: Two Minute Ape!  Almeda Riddle: My Little Rooster The Incredible Casuals: Ape  Ron Wood & Ronnie Lane: Rooster Funeral The Mighty Sparrow: Cokey Eyed Rooster Nervous Norvus: Ape Call  Todd Rundgr...

"1994" (broadcast 10/18/19) Massive Attack (feat. Tracey Thorn): Protection Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Red Right Hand American Music Club: Cape Canaveral Laurie Anderson: In Our Sleep (w/Lou Reed) Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Train Of Love Marianne Faithfull: She Joey Ramone + General Johnson: Rockaway Beach Morphine: Sharks Patrol These Waters Stina Nordenstam: Little Star Little Richard &am...

“Got Soul?” (broadcast 9/20/19) Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: If You Don't Know Me By Now  Dorothy Moore: Misty Blue  Little Beaver: Party Down Pt. 1 The Chi-Lites: Have You Seen Her                   Al Green: Have You Been Making Out O.K  Latimore: Let's Straighten It Out  Ray Charles & Aretha Franklin: Coke Commercial  Aretha Franklin: How I Got Over  Yvonne Fair: It Should Have Been...

"Drones 'n' Other Things" (broadcast 6/24/19) Angus MacLise, Hetty MacLise: November 1965 Max Eastley: Hydrophone Craig Leon: The Gates Made Plain Michael Rother: Fernwaerme Datashock: Marodierende Sachbearbeiter Aus Teilzeit Bruce Anderson: The Inherent Beauty Of Hopelessness Crys Cole & Oren Ambarchi: Burrata David Rosenboom: Chilean Drought Tashi Wada w/Yoshi Wada & Friends: Double Body...

"Birdy Num-Num" (broadcast 12/5/25) The Valli Boys: Night Hawk Madness: Pam The Hawk Danny Rivers: Hawk Peter Hammill: The Birds Elvis Costello: The Birds Will Still Be Singing Kate Nash: Birds The Unthanks: Cuckoo Madame The Charlatans: Bird Alex McMurray: Just A Bird Bert Jansch & Martin Jenkins: Osprey The Haden Triplets: Cuckoo Bird Horace Andy & Jah Wobble: Three Little Birds  Barclay...

“PURE Presents Mark Bingham” (broadcast 3/3/23) Caroline Peyton: Bill Monroe Screaming Gypsy Bandits: From The Ledge MX-80 Sound: Afterbirth/Aftermath Mark Bingham: Hell Bound Train Social Climbers: Chicken 80 Mark Bingham: Out Of Time (feat Honi Coles) Yma Sumac: I Wonder Mark Bingham: Things I'd Like Mark Bingham: Sam The Banana Man Mark Bingham: Enemy Uniform Peter Stampfel: Haunted Heart Mark...

“Rocket Fuel” (broadcast 8/16/19) Albert Castiglia: Get Your Ass in the Van Great American Taxi: Gonna Make a Record  Bill Kirchen: Little Bitty Record Big Al Anderson & The Balls: Pawn Shop Guitars Rodney Crowell: The Obscenity Prayer (Give It To Me)  The Resentments: I Do My Drinking On The Weekends Whitey Morgan & the 78s: Ain't Gonna Take It Anymore  Johnnie Johnson: Tanqueray  Mike St...

"Friday Night in Rayne, Louisiana" (broadcast 5/8/20) Leroy Broussard: Lemonade Song  Ganey Arsement: Bayou Anglais  Tommy McLain: Before I Grow Too Old  Johnnie Allan: Promised Land  Moon Mullican: Jambalaya  Rod Bernard And Clifton Chenier: Shake Rattle & Roll   Goldman Thibodeaux & the Lawtell Playboys: Two-step de St-Ann’s  Jimmy Donley: Loving Cajun Style   James Bergeron & The Ki...

"PURE Scratch (overnighter)" (broadcast 1/12/22) Lee "Scratch" Perry: I Am The Upsetter 3:06 The Wailers: Dreamland: 2:45 U-Roy: Rhythm Land (Dreamland version) 2:25 The Mellotones: Facts Of Life 2:22 The Inspirations: Down In The Park 2:31 Shaumark & Robinson: Peace and Love 3:20 Watty Burnett: I Man Free 3:02 The Upsetters: Return Of DJango 2:31 The Ethiopians: It's Impossible 3:07 Ralph Hau...

'Weekender” (broadcast 2/17/23) 1.    Fatboy Slim: The Weekend Starts Here 2.   Dean & Britta: Friday I'm In Love 3.   Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band: Saturday Jump 4.   Eddie Cochran: Weekend 5.   Fun Lovin’ Criminals: Friday Night 6.   Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3: Saturday Groovers 7.   Dave Edmunds: Here Comes The Weekend 8.   Steely Dan: Black Friday 9.   David Bowie: Drive-In Sat...

"Rockabilly w/ special guest Gene Casey" (broadcast 10/21/14) Arthur Smith & His Cracker-Jacks: Guitar Boogie  Rex Griffin: Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby  Hank Williams: Move It On Over  Bill Haley: Rocket 88  Stick McGhee: Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee  Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup: Worried About You Baby  Arthur Gunter: Baby Let's Play House Junior Parker: Love My Baby  Brother Claude Ely: There...

"The Writer's Version" (broadcast 5/4/18) The Ray Noble Orchestra: Harlem Nocturne  Don & Dewey: Leavin' It All Up To You  Tom Waits: Ol' 55  Bill Monroe/his Blue Grass Boys: Blue Moon of Kentucky  Kris Kristofferson: Me & Bobby McGee Dan Penn: Do Right Woman Do Right Man Emmett Miller: Lovesick Blues  Jimmy Webb: MacArthur Park  Fred Neil: Everybody's Talkin' Bobby Charles: But I Do  The...

"PURE Presents Dean & Britta” (broadcast 2/21/25) James Last: Ballad Of The Easy Rider Dean Wareham: That’s The Price of Loving Me  Kramer: America Holy Matter: Eve’s Hollywood En Attendant Ana: I’m A Man You Don’t Meet Everyday Norma Tanega: Jubilation The Tyde: Let Me Hear the Music Simon & Garfunkel: The Only Living Boy In New York (a cappella) Dean & Britta: The Singer Not The Song...

"Happy Birthday, Hoto" (broadcast 6/3/22) The Call: Oklahoma  The Sugarcubes: Birthday (Icelandic)  Björk: The Anchor Song  Dana Pomfret: Happy Birthday song  Herb Alpert: I Want You  Spiritualized: Broken Heart  Angel Corpus Christi: Love Me Tender  Angel Corpus Christi / Pull Girl Dean Wareham: untitled instrumental Luna: Tiger Lily  The Psychedelic Furs: Pulse  Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3...

“Guitar” (broadcast 8/20/21) Bill Frisell: Lift Off  Hank Garland: Sugarfoot Rag  Eddie Hill: The Hot Guitar  Les Paul & Mary Ford: Bye Bye Blues  Elvis Presley: Mystery Train Joe Maphis with Larry Collins: Flying Fingers  Eddie Cochran: Twenty Flight Rock  Link Wray: Rawhide The Shadows: The Wonderful Land Jet Harris: Man With The Golden Arm  The John Barry Orchestra: The James Bond Theme Boo...

"In Space" (broadcast 9/2/22) Public Service Broadcasting: The Race For Space  New Age Doom & Lee "Scratch" Perry: Step in Space Hawkwind: Space Dust  Mike Edison, the Rocket Train Delta Science Arkestra: Space Bop  Harry Nilsson: Spaceman  Brett Smiley: Space Ace  Spiritualized: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space  Luna: Lost In Space  Hen Ogledd: Space Golf  Stereolab: Space Moth ...

“Secrets & Lies” (broadcast 9/17/21) John Barry Orchestra: On Her Majesty's Secret Service Julie London: Little White Lies The Beatles: Do You Want To Know A Secret   George Jones: Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong  Sara Hickman: Secrets of Love II  Manfred Mann: Tired Trying, Bored Lying, Scared Dying Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Love Lies  Willie Nile: Secret Weapon The Mavericks: L...

"North South East West" (broadcast 10/7/22) Nick Drake: Northern Sky  Allen Toussaint: A Dear Old Southland  Don Drummond & The Skatalites: Eastern Standard Time Geraint Watkins: Go West  Willis Alan Ramsey: Northeast Texas Women Neil Young: Southern Man Peter Stampfel: East Of the Sun Rolling Stones: Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man  Johnny Horton: North To Alaska Johnnie Allan: South...