PURE with Howard Thompson

"Girlfriends"

MC5: Sister Anne
Sara Hickman: Aurora 
Victor DeLorenzo: Audrey
Paul Simon: Bernadette
Drive-By Truckers: Little Bonnie
Ashley McBryde: Blackout Betty
Suicide: Cheree
Mike Golub: Christinas World
Brian Eno: Cindy Tells Me
George Faith: Diana
Eddie Noack: Dolores
Randy & The Rainbows: Denise
Hot Chocolate: Emma
Huw Gower: Elizabeth’s Blues
Barry Ryan: Eloise
Roy Harper: Francesca
Novak: Oh Farrah!
ZZ Top: Francene
Mickey Newbury: Genevieve
The Nips: Gabrielle
Them: Gloria
Jimmy Dee & The Offbeats: Henrietta
Clay Eager: Helen Jo
Helen Love: Yeah Yeah We're Helen Love
Jake Thackray: Isabel Makes Love Upon The National Monuments
The Psychedelic Furs: India
Bob Dylan: Isis
Lou Reed & Kris Kristofferson: Sweet Jane
Donovan: Jennifer Juniper
The Mothers of Invention: Electric Aunt Jemima
Mary Gauthier: Karla Faye
Joe Purdy: Kristine
Patti Smith: Kimberley
The Kinks: Lola
Howard Werth: Lucinda
Howard Leshaw: Siempre Lulu
Randy Newman: Marie
Robert Wyatt: Maryan
The Doors: Maggie M’Gill
Tony Joe White: Polk Salad Annie
Peter C Johnson: Anna Kornikova

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