"TWANG!"

“TWANG!” (broadcast 1/19/24)

Angelo Badalamenti: Twin Peaks Theme
The Tornados: Earthy
The Mavericks: Back In Your Arms Again
Chris Isaak: Wicked Game (instr. version)
Duane Eddy: Bleaklow Air
Bud Ashton: 40 Miles of Bad Road
Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban: Los Twangueros
Queen Esther: The Black Cowgirl Song
Buddy Cagle: The Guitar Player (The Ballad Of James Burton)
Dire Straits: Six Blade Knife
Whitey Morgan And The 78’s: Me and the Whiskey
Del Reeves: Girl On The Billboard
Tremelo Beer Gut: Hot! Hot! Heatwave! (w/Sune Rose Wagner & The Courettes)
Bill Kirchen: Hammer of the Honky-tonk Gods
George Jones: The Race Is On
Eddie Cochran: Eddie’s Blues
Los Straitjackets: Cruel To Be Kind
Gene Casey & the Lone Sharks: Girl on the Cutting Room Floor 
Gene Casey ID
Nick Lowe: Awesome
Raybeats: Guitar Beat
The New Piccadillys: Voodoo Chile
The John Barry Seven & Orchestra: The James Bond Theme (From Dr. No)
The Shadows: The Wonderful Land
Steve Earle: Guitar Town
Dwight Yoakam: Act Naturally
Billie Jo Spears: Get Behind Me Satan And Push
Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler: Yakety Axe
Lonnie Mack: Wham!
 Sandy Nelson: Let There Be Drums
Jet Harris: Besame Mucho
Brian Setzer: Far Noir East
Dick Dale & The Del-Tones: Misirlou
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Elvis Presley: He’ll Have To Go
The Spotnicks: Johnny Guitar
Rich Stim ID
Bar Stool Walker: On the Street Where You Live
Danny Gatton: In My Room
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives: Vegas
JD McPherson: Dream Baby Dream
Eric Weissberg & Deliverance: Concrete Canyon Boogie
The Cramps: Shortnin’ Bread
Jorgen Ingrain & his Guitar: Apache
The Invaders: Disk Jockey
Duane Eddy: Rebel Rouser
Red Simpson: Six Days On The Road
The Courettes: You Woo Me
The Courettes: Shake!
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Over And Over (fade out)

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

Apart from the occasional overnighter, fill-in or fundraiser, howard now creates shows for our Podcasts page. You’ll find over 140 archived PUREs there, and new shows will be added - check the PURE and “Strictly” pages - at least once a month.

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.

Disc Jockeys like Brian Matthew (BBC Light Program), Emperor Rosko (Radio Caroline), John Peel (Radio London/BBC Radio 1), Hugh Nolan (Radio Geronimo), Charlie Gillett (BBC Radio London) and Andy Dunkley (the Marquee/Lyceum) made howard’s life worth living and he now just wants to return the favor.

howard worked in the music biz so he could get free records and meet astonishing 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, Sir Tim Smit, 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 and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and thanks 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