Real classic rock that you don't hear anywhere else on the radio.
Live every Friday on WREK 91.1 FM Atlanta, GA, or streaming live and archived throughout the week at www.wrek.org
A super-short show this week due to a baseball game starting at 7pm, but we made up for it: get your earholes / eyeholes around Moby Grape, with the beat that drives them wild!:
Artist - Album -- Song
East of Eden - SNAFU -- Nymphenburger
Blossom Toes - If Only for a Moment -- Wait a Minute
Blue Cheer - New! Improved! -- Peace of Mind
Colosseum - Valentyne Suite -- The Machine Demands a Sacrifice
Fuzzy Duck - Fuzzy Duck -- Time Will Be Your Doctor
Alex Harvey - The Joker Is Wild -- The Joker Is Wild
Moby Grape - Vintage The Very Best of Moby Grape -- Sweet Ride
The Electric Flag - The Trip -- Peter's Trip
Streetwalkers - Red Card -- Daddy Rolling Stone
Horslips - Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part -- Happy to Meet
Horslips - Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part -- Hall of Mirrors
Sensations' Fix - Fragments of Light -- Fragments of Light
Mighty Baby - Jug of Love -- The Happiest Man in the Carnival
Gravy Train - Gravy Train -- Coast Road
Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies - The American Metaphysical Circus --
You Can't Ever Come Down
Frantic - Conception -- Hey Joe
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Just for Love -- Fresh Air
We're in the midst of baseball season right now, which means that we're frequently interrupted by sports broadcasts. If you happen to tune in and we're not there, please come back later as we'll likely be on the air by 10pm at the latest. Or, come back and find us on the archive stream to listen to us at any point over the week.
Here's my jam of the show, hot from Peru!
Artist - Album -- Song
Bobby Whitlock - Raw Velvet -- Tell the Truth
Badfinger - Magic Christian Music -- Crimson Ship
Lou Reed - Rock N Roll Animal -- Heroin
Golden Earring - Moontan -- Vanilla Queen
May Blitz - The 2nd of May -- Snakes and Ladders
Assagai - Assagai -- Telephone Girl
Lightyears Away - Astral Navigations -- The Astral Navigator
Lightyears Away - Astral Navigations -- Yesterday
Eddy Hazel - Rest in P -- Until It Rains
Stack Waddy - Stack Waddy -- Love Story
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed -- Evening: The Sunset/Twilight Time
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed -- The Night: Nights in White Satin
The Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the
Onion -- China White
Joy of Cooking - Joy of Cooking -- Did You Go Downtown
Johnny Lunchbreak - Johnny Lunchbreak -- Never Found
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Straight Ahead -- Change
Nektar - Thru the Ears -- That's Life
Beaver & Krause - In a Wild Sanctuary -- Another Part of Time
Genesis - Foxtrot -- Time Table
Todd Rundgren - Todd -- How About A Little Fanfare
Todd Rundgren - Todd -- I Think You Know
Todd Rundgren - Todd -- The Spark of Life
Keith West - Groups and Sessions 65-74 -- Blow Up
The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) ? -- Are
You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less)
Traffic Sound - Virgin -- Meshkalina
Utopia - Utopia -- I Just Want to Make Love to You
Twentieth Century Zoo - Twentieth Century Zoo -- Rainbow
The Great Society - Collector's Item -- White Rabbit
The Classic Rock Album this week, played from beginning to end, was the debut album from the somewhat 'super-group' Widowmaker' (1976) which featured Luther Grosvenor (aka 'Ariel Bender') of Mott the Hoople and Spooky Tooth (guitar), Huw Lloyd Langton of Hawkwind (guitar), Steve Ellis of Love Affair (vocals), Bob Daisley of Chicken Shack (bass) and Paul Nicolls who had played with Lindisfarne (drums). It's a tight little hard rocker, and here's one of our favorites from the LP:
Here's the rest of the show, in glorious technicolour!
Artist - Album -- Song
Eloy - Inside -- Inside
Clear Blue Sky - Clear Blue Sky -- Birdcatcher
Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends - Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends -- Would You Believe
Peter Green - The End of the Game -- Bottoms Up
The Ground Hogs - Split -- Junkman
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw -- One More Heartache
Nick Gravenites - My Labors -- Killing My Love
Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kosmic Blues Again Mama! -- One Good Man
Bloomfield Kooper Stills - Super Session -- His Holy Modal Majesty
Alvin Lee & Mylon LeFevre - On the Road to Freedom -- Riffin'
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 -- Symphony for the Devil
The Millenium - Begin -- It's You
Morgen - Morgen - Of Dreams
Sagittarius - Present Tense -- The Truth Is Not Real
The Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Learn: The Definitive Collection -- Time Will Show the Wiser
The Left Banke - There's Gonna Be a Storm -- Evening Gown
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Part One -- Shifting Sands
Nazz - Nazz Nazz -- Forget All About It
Kaleidoscope - Side Trips -- Egyptian Gardens
Earth Opera - Earth Opera -- Time and Again
Seatrain - Marblehead Messenger -- Gramercy
Goose Creek Symphony - Established 1970 -- Beautiful Bertha
Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys - The Street Giveth... and the Street Taketh Away -- Favors
Steppenwolf - Monster -- Monster/Suicide/America
Status Quo - Piledriver -- Big Fat Mama
Bob Seger System - Mongrel -- Highway Child
Steamhammer - Reflection -- Down the Highway
Uriah Heep - Sweet Freedom -- Stealin'
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams -- Motor City is Burnin'
Agitation Free - 2nd -- First Communication
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Radio One -- Burning of the Midnight Lamp
Electric Light Orchestra - The Electric Light Orchestra -- Whisper in the Night
West, Bruce & Laing - Whatever Turns You On -- Scotch Crotch
Deep Purple - Fireball -- The Mule
Ambrosia - Ambrosia -- Make Us All Aware
Ken Hensley - Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf -- Fortune