PURE with Howard Thompson

“PURE Presents Sara Hickman” (broadcast 1/17/25)

Stereo Total: I Am Naked  
Viagra Boys: Punk Rock Loser
William Shatner: Common People
Rah Rah: Art & Wife
Cassandra Wilson: Harvest Moon
Landon Pigg: Falling in Love At A Coffee Shop
The Roches We
Amy Rigby: Back From Amarillo
Flight of the Conchords: Ladies of the World
Billie Eilish: bury a friend
Davíd Garza: I Know
Janelle Monáe: Make Me Feel
Peggy Lee: Elmer’s Tune
Petty Booka: Fujiyama Mama
Rodney Crowell: Moving Work of Art
St. Even: Having Sex
Parthenon Huxley: Playing Her Guitar
Bebel Gilberto: Aganju
Next of Kin: Jekyll & Hyde
Flora & Fawna: Long Shot
Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie: Feel About You
Billy Harvey: Emptiness is Everything
Pale Honey: Lonesome
Peter Sellers & Spike Milligan: She Loves You
Crowded House: Weather With You
Barbara K: My Name is Truth
Alexi Murdoch: Orange Sky
Vance Gilbert: Goodbye Pluto
Sara Hickman: Mother’s Little Helper
Claire & The Reasons: Pluto
Austin Haggerty: Sara Hickman!!
Domestic Science Club: Calm of Your Heart
Jeff Goldblum & Sarah Silverman: Me & My Shadow
Jane Siberry: Everything Reminds Me of My Dog
Two Nice Girls: I Spent My Last $10 on Birth Control & Beer
Marvin Etzioni:  You Possess Me (w/Maria McKee)
Willie Nelson: Simply
David Mead: Landlocked
The Wallflowers: One Headlight 
Mike Doughty: Busting up a Starbucks
Shawn Hook: Sound of Your Heart
Lorrie Singer & Bradley Kopp:  Breakfast In Bed
Ssion: Blonde With You
Rain Perry: Thank You 
popMantra: The Heavy Wind
Sara Hickman: Salvador

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