PURE with Howard Thompson

“Cadillac” (broadcast 6/19/20)

Roseanne Cash: Black Cadillac 
Bo Diddley: Cadillac
Jerry McCain & His Upstarts: Courtin' In A Cadillac
Drive-By Truckers: Carl Perkins' Cadillac
Rickie Lee Jones: Elvis Cadillac
The Jesters: Cadillac Man
Aggie Dukes: Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Part 1)
Joe Brown: No Cadillac
Gene Casey And The Lone Sharks: Cadillac for Sale
Tom Waits: Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson)
Robert Gordon w/Danny Gatton: Red Cadillac & a Black Moustache
Sammy Masters: Pink Cadillac
Beausoliel: Bayou Cadillac/Not Fade Away/Bo Diddley/Iko Iko (Medley) 
Genevieve Waite: White Cadillac
Hal Willis: My Pink Cadillac
The Vacant Lots: Cadillac
War: Whose Cadillac Is That?
Andre Williams: Cadillac Jack
Albert Castiglia: Cadillac Assembly Line
Southern Culture On The Skids: Voodoo Cadillac
Mott The Hoople: I'm a Cadillac
Mink DeVille: Cadillac Walk
Little Feat: Cadillac Hotel
Dick Gaughan: Geronimo's Cadillac
The Nite Riders: Women And Cadillacs
Joyce Green: Black Cadillac
Mike Badger & The Shady Trio: Heading For Tibet (In My Cadillac)
The Stray Cats: Look At That Cadillac 
Charlie Musselwhite: Cadillac Women
T. Rex: Cadillac
Pascal: Cadillac
Eric Heatherly: Someone Else's Cadillac
Dwight Yoakam: Guitars & Cadillacs
The Clash: Brand New Cadillac
Vince Taylor & His Playboys: Brand New Cadillac
Alan Vega: Cop Cadillac
Bruce Springsteen: Cadillac Ranch
The Screaming Blue Messiahs: Twin Cadillac Valentine 3:55
Jerry Lee Lewis: Pink Cadillac (w/Bruce Springsteen)
Guitar Shorty: Fine Cadillac
Nino Rota: Cadillac
Baker Knight: Bring My Cadillac Back
The Cadillacs: Speedoo
Red Simpson: Jeannie With the Light Brown Cadillac
Danko Jones: Cadillac
Howlin Wolf: Mr. Highway Man (Cadillac Daddy)
The Villains: Cadillac 
Mondo Cozmo: Black Cadillac

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