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10/24/2025

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Posted on April 14, 2024April 14, 2024JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1055 – TANGLED UP IN BLUE Episode 1055 is coming from my hotel room in Paris at the Citadines Bastiile Gare de Lyon following my appearance at the Mike Kelley show at the Musee Bourse de Commerce with a second hour of music and convers...

11/10/2024

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Information about Blues from the Red Rooster Lounge, airing Saturday, 9 to 10 p.m.

09/04/2024

The Delta Sound.

Episode 1054 is coming from my hotel room at the Citadines Bastiile Gare de Lyon in Paris, where I’m appearing in a show dedicated to the art of the late Michael Kelley of suburban Detroit and Los Angeles at the Musee Bourse de Commerce. They’ve titled the show after my blues work in verse, Fattening Frogs for Snakes, so I’ve decided to make an hour of music from the Mississippi Delta highlighting the great artists who have arisen there, including Robert Johnson, Honey Boy Edwards, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Elmore James, Earl Ho**er, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Koko Taylor, Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers, J.B. Lenoir, James Cotton, Jimmy Reed, the King Biscuit Boys, Little Walter, Magic Sam, and Magic Slim & the Teardrops.

Posted on April 14, 2024 by steveflyJOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1054 – THE DELTA SOUND Episode 1054 is coming from my hotel room at the Citadines Bastiile Gare de Lyon in Paris, where I’m appearing in a show dedicated to the art of the late Michael Kelley of suburban Detroit and Los Angeles at the ...

08/22/2024

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1054 – THE DELTA SOUND

"Episode 1054 is coming from my hotel room at the Citadines Bastiile Gare de Lyon in Paris, where I’m appearing in a show dedicated to the art of the late Michael Kelley of suburban Detroit and Los Angeles at the Musee Bourse de Commerce.
They’ve titled the show after my blues work in verse, Fattening Frogs for Snakes, so I’ve decided to make an hour of music from the Mississippi Delta highlighting the great artists who have arisen there, including Robert Johnson, Honey Boy Edwards, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Elmore James, Earl Ho**er, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Koko Taylor, Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers, J.B. Lenoir, James Cotton, Jimmy Reed, the King Biscuit Boys, Little Walter, Magic Sam, and Magic Slim & the Teardrops.

https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-1054-the-delta-sound/

08/08/2024

Happy to announce RFA is back in the air!
(Thanks for your patience)

Posted on April 14, 2024April 14, 2024JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1055 – TANGLED UP IN BLUE Episode 1055 is coming from my hotel room in Paris at the Citadines Bastiile Gare de Lyon following my appearance at the Mike Kelley show at the Musee Bourse de Commerce with a second hour of music and convers...

07/04/2024

It’s been seven years since KBCO decided to cancel Blues From the Red Rooster Lounge after 32 years. If you’ve been wondering where you can still hear it, fear not. It’s now available online at https://wdcb.org/program/blues-from-the-red-rooster-lounge from our longtime affiliate, WDCB in suburban Chicago. Join us for a new show every week. We are coming up on our 2000th!!! show and have three special programs in honor of that event. This week and next week ( #1998 and #1999) feature Women in Blues. #2000 brings you the top 14 songs in our Rooster Music: The First 2000 Years collection. You won’t want to miss any of them.

Information about Blues from the Red Rooster Lounge, airing Saturday, 9 to 10 p.m.

06/02/2024

Detroit Tonight Live Celebrates the Life & Times of John Sinclair
ML Liebler & The Magic Poetry Band, Bill Harris, Ed Sanders, Peter Werbe, Robin Eichele , Melba Joyce Boyd, Ra Rishikavi Raghudas, Mark James Andrews, Sunfrog aka Andrew Smith

06/02/2024

Please excuse us for the temporary issues with our website. It may be fully or partially inaccessible. We appreciate your patience during this time. Here is a "no frills" link to our 24/7 no-stop RFA broadcast stream.

04/09/2024

Episode 1052 is coming from our temporary Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in my daughter Sunny’s house in Eastpointe MI with a variegated program of classic and modern music, including an entire set of risqué numbers drawn from the series of discs called Big Ten Inch Record. The program has sides by Dinah Washington, Guitar Shorty, Magic Sam, Sippie Wallace, Little Milton, Jimmy Witherspoon, Charlie Parker, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Walter Davis, Georgia Tom & Jane Lucas, Lucille Bogan, Bo Carter, Lillie Mae Kirkman, Napoleon Fletcher, the Mississippi Sheiks, and Louise Johnson.

Posted on April 9, 2024 by steveflyJOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 1052 – SHE SHOWED IT ALL Episode 1052 is coming from our temporary Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in my daughter Sunny’s house in Eastpointe MI with a variegated program of classic and modern music, including an entire set of risqué...

04/09/2024

Memorial For John Sinclair

https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/memorial-for-john-sinclair/

04/07/2024

Episode 1042 is coming from RFA headquarters in Detroit’s Cass Corridor and is centered on an obscure recording project that Tom Worrell and I did in New Orleans a few years ago, sponsored by our pal Frenchy but never released, which involves a small set of poems composed by Worrell, recited by myself, and recorded with Tom on piano and assorted helpers in a little studio off of Oak Street. It’s called The Trump Chronicles and in my estimation it’s a brilliant set of satirical works in twisted rhyme schemes that skewer and roast the guy I call Resident Rump. Intermixed are some other pieces Tom and I have recorded together and some of his solo works from the album titled Fess Up, plus a new trio number.

https://radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-radio-show-1042-the-trump-chronicles/

04/02/2024

There’s a line in the Townes Van Zandt song, “White Freight Liner,” that goes, “There’s bad news from Houston/ Half my friends are dying.” Guess this is what happens as you get older but I’m starting to feel that way. In the last month four of my friends have passed away, including two long-timers just today: Bill Moran and the legendary John Sinclair.

I met Bill back in the ‘70s when he ran Trade-A-Tape & Records here in Boulder. Over the years we shared countless live recordings. Some weird disease wrecked his life starting a couple years ago.

I met Sinclair at another record store, the Louisiana Music Factory in New Orleans. We quickly became fast friends and blues brothers and he eventually became the managing editor of Blues Access magazine n its final few years. John was a countercultural icon who was perhaps the last embodiment of the beatnik lifestyle. I treasure the memory of just the two us at Common Ground on the Hill screening the film about him, “20 to Life.” His personalized running commentary was priceless.

John was in his 80s and his health was never the greatest but, like Dick Waterman, he was one of those guys on the blues scene you simply expected to be around forever. He leaves behind a great legacy and I’ll miss knowing he’s around.

To the rest of you: PLEASE take care of yourselves; I’ve had more than enough of this.