"Texas, y'all"

"Texas, y’all" (broadcast 5/19/17)

Janis Joplin: Me And Bobby McGee 
Jimmie Dale Gilmore: Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown
Guy Clark: Rain In Durango
Nanci Griffith: It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go 
Townes Van Zandt: Tecumseh Valley
Roy Orbison: In Dreams
Johnny Winter: I'll Drown In My Tears
Little Esther Phillips: Mo Jo Hannah (mono)
Kacey Musgraves: Dime Store Cowgirl
Buddy Holly: True Love Ways 
Dixie Chicks: You Send Me
Johnny "Guitar" Watson: Too Tired
Tanya Tucker: Texas (When I Die)
Roger Miller: King Of The Road
The Fabulous Thunderbirds: Wrap It Up 
Sara Hickman: Simply
Mickey Newbury: Baby`s Not Home
Roky Erickson: Starry Eyes
Lee Ann Womack: Out on the Weekend
Waylon Jennings w/Mark Knopfler: Learning The Game
Robert Earl Keen: That Buckin' Song 
The Vaughan Brothers: Good Texan 
Edgar Winter's White Trash: Keep Playin' That Rock 'n' Roll 
Doug Sahm & Band: Beautiful Texas Sunshine
Glenna Bell: Shiner Bock & ZZ Top (Houston Avenue)
Kris Kristofferson: Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends 
Dale Watson & The Texas Two: Elbow Grease, Spackle And Pine Sol 
Stephen Bruton: Bigger Wheel 
Willie Nelson: Crazy 
Barbara Lynn: Oh! Baby (We Got A Good Thing Goin') 
Ronnie Dawson: Rockin' Bones
Al Staehely: Mr X-terminator 
The Texas Tornados: She Never Spoke Spanish To Me
The Resentments: Thirteen 
Bobby Fuller: I Fought the Law 
Butthole Surfers: Pepper 
Joe Tex: Show Me 
Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men: Neva 
Michael Nesmith: Rio 
Dennis Linde: Burning Love
Brave Combo: Trippy Town (Denton Life)
ZZ Top: Gimme All Your Lovin' 3:58 

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