"The Old, The New & The Timeless"

"The Old, The New & The Timeless" (broadcast on 11/17/23)

Porcupine Tree: Hallogallo
Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle: Listen To The Radio
Mary Lee Kortes: The Music Got Me Here
Mary Lee Kortes: Born A Happy Girl
Mary Lee Kortes: Big Things
Johnny Ruiz & the Escapers: Sorry
American Beauties: The Rain
Gary Lucas & John Cale: Peter Lorre
Tulipomania: You Had To Be There
The Vacant Lots: Destruction
Heartworms: May I Comply
Omar & The Howlers: Crackin’ Up
The Mommyheads: Learning To Live
Sam Frazier: Cabbage Man
Kelly Hunt: You Make Me High
Verneri Pohjola: Avance!
Brinsley Schwarz: Ever Since You're Gone 
Smokey Robinson: I Wanna Know Your Body
Emma Swift: I Contain Multitudes
The Kinks: Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
Lindisfarne: We Can Swing Together
Family: My Friend the Sun
Van Morrison: Two Hound Dogs
Wreckless Eric: Standing Sunday Morning
Wizzard: See My Baby Jive
The Flamin' Groovies: You Tore Me Down
Raspberries: Play On 
Dwight Twilley Band: I’m On Fire
Martin Rev: Dreams
Suicide: Rocket USA 
Television: Friction
The Girls: Jeffrey I Hear You
MX-80: Some Day You'll Be King 
X: White Girl
The Courettes: Non Ti Lascero (Won't Let You Go)
Bilk: RNR
Brian Setzer: Girl On The Billboard
Joecephus & The George Jonestown Massacre: Sister Anne (ft. Jeff Clayton, Ruyter Suys)
Bilk: RNR

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