PURE with Howard Thompson

“Painters & Paintings” (broadcast 7/19/19)

Michael Marra: Frida Kahlo's Visit to the Taybridge Bar 
Status Quo: Pictures Of Matchstick Men 
The Velvet Underground: Andy's Chest
Phil Manzanera: After Magritte 
The Mighty Wah!: Hey! Mona Lisa 
Don McLean: Vincent 
Joni Mitchell: The Jungle Line 
Conway Twitty: Mona Lisa 
Ian Dury & The Music Students: Peter The Painter 
Sara Hickman: Salvador 
Terry Allen: Truckload of Art
Lou Reed & John Cale: Hello It's Me 
Anna Calvi: Swimming Pool 
Angel Corpus Christi: Dim the Lights
10,000 Maniacs: Pour De Chirico
Michael Franks: Mr. Blue
Neil Young: The Painter
The Courettes: I Wanna be Your Yoko Ono
The Modern Lovers: Pablo Picasso 
Tony Adamo & The New York Crew: Picasso At Midnite 
Adam & The Ants: Picasso Visita El Planeta de los Simios
Guy Clark: Picasso's Mandolin
Robyn Hitchcock: DeChirico Street
Steely Dan: The Caves Of Altamira 
The Hidden City Orchestra: Chagall's Window 
Carl Mann: Mona Lisa 
KRS-One: Out for Fame 
Adrian Belew: Guernica
Television Personalities: I Remember Bridget Riley 
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Run Paint Run Run 
Fast 'N' Bulbous: Dali's Car 
Philip Glass: An Artist Comes to Paint You 
Dire Straits: In The Gallery 
Bob Dylan: When I Paint My Masterpiece (demo)
Nits: Soap Bubble Box 
Felt: Primituve Painters 
Dana Gillespie: Andy Warhol 
Jay-Z: Picasso Baby (partial)

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

Airing twice a month on WPKN 89.5FM Bridgeport!

howard loves all kinds of music and has collected records ever since his uncle gave him Rock Around The Clock as a 6th birthday present

howard worked in the music biz so he could get more free records and meet wondrous people

howard made records with Adam & the Ants, Alan Vega, Angel Corpus Christi, Aswad, Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg, Danny Gatton, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Georgia Satellites, Hamell On Trial, Herb Alpert, Ian Hunter, John Campbell, Judy Tenuta, ManBreak, Motörhead, Peter C Johnson, the Prissteens, the Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, Rubén Blades, Sally Oldfield, Sara Hickman, Scatterbrain, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, the Slits, the Star Spangles, the Sugarcubes, Susan Fassbender, Tulipomania, Victor DeLorenzo, Yellowman and 10,000 Maniacs to name a few. He was the first to release records by MX-80 Sound, the Real Kids and Suicide in Europe and th’ Faith Healers, the Gipsy Kings, Happy Mondays, Paul Young, the Sisters Of Mercy, and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and is grateful to Steve di Costanzo and Peter Bochan for letting him in. Terry Hopper too, for giving up an hour of The Quest to see if it could work

howard thinks Bob Dylan should be President, and ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach should be Vice-President