"Rocket Fuel"

“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 Stinson: Late for My Funeral
Jesse Dayton: I'm at Home Gettin' Hammered
Dale Watson & His Lone Stars: I Lie When I Drink 
Ray Wylie Hubbard: Live and Die Rock and Roll
Gretchen Wilson: Redneck Woman 
The Redneck Boys: The Sheets 
Hayes Carll: Kmag Yoyo
Danny Gatton: Truck Driving Romance 
Billy Edd Wheeler: The Coon Hunters 
Shovels & Rope: Bullet Belt (feat. Butch Walker) – partial due to alarm/evacuation

(on continuous play, while evacuated)
Bobby Bare Jr.: One Bed, Two Girls, Three Bottles of Wine 
Boo Ray: Redneck Rock & Roll
Conway Twitty: Red Neckin' Love Makin' Night 

Mike Henderson & The Bluebloods: When I Get Drunk
Jason D. Williams: This Is Rock & Roll 
Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks: Please Don't Dance 
Elizabeth Cook: El Camino 
Jason Isbell: Super 8 
Dan Baird: PURE ID 
The Georgia Satellites: Keep Your Hands To Yourself 
The Yayhoos: Monkey With A Gun
Dan Baird & Homemade Sin: Shake It Til It’s Sore 
Jackson Taylor & the Sinners: Cocaine 
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: The Nail 
Little Feat: Teenage Nervous Breakdown
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Honky Tonk Night Time Man 
Kevin Gordon: Deuce and a Quarter 
Todd Snider: Rocket Fuel 
Drive-By Truckers: George Jones Talkin' Cell Phone Blues 
Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes: That Is Rock and Roll 
Hank Williams III: Held Up
Hank Williams Jr: Born to Boogie 
David Allan Coe: Son Of The South
Wanda Jackson: Tore Down 
Lydia Loveless: Mile High 
Supersuckers: Let's Bounce
PSAs 
Delbert McClinton: I Had a Real Good Time 
Willie Nelson: My Window Faces The South
Shovels & Rope: Invisible Man

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