PURE with Howard Thompson

“In Memoriam, 2015” (broadcast 1/1/16)

The Sherwoods: Try To Remember (Rob White)
Gong: I've Bin Stone Before (Daevid Allen)
Stranger & Gladdy: Conqueror (Gladstone Anderson)
Lynn Anderson: I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
Big Brother & The Holding Company: Summertime (Sam Andrew)
Sam Cooke: Falling In Love (Harold Battiste)
The Rubettes: Sugar Baby Love (Wayne Bickerton)
Cilla Black: Alfie
Graham Bowers & Nurse With Wound: Apes and Peacocks 
The Specials: A Message to You Rudy (John Bradbury)
Johnny Cymbal: Mr Bass Man (Ronnie Bright)
Hot Chocolate: Every 1's a Winner (Errol Brown)
Left Banke: Walk Away Renee (Michael Brown)
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama (Bob Burns)
Chantays: Pipeline (Brian Carman)
The Bar-Kays: Soul Finger (Ben Cauley)
Ornette Coleman: The Good Life 
Don Covay: It's Better To Have (And Don't Need) 
Andraé Crouch & the The Disciples: The Blood Will Never Lose It's Power
"Little" Jimmy Dickens: Out Behind the Barn 
The Kingsmen: Louie Louie (Jack Ely)
Ray Price: A Way To Survive (Buddy Emmons)
Frankie Ford: Sea Cruise
Kim Fowley: Animal Man 
Free: All Right Now (Andy Fraser)
Tangerine Dream: Ultima Thule, Pt. 1 (Edgar Froese) 
Eddie Cochran: Nervous Breakdown (Snuff Garrett)
Lesley Gore: Look Of Love 
Gladys Knight/the Pips: If You Ever Get Your Hands on Love (William Guest)
Leatherface: Games (Richard “Dickie” Hammond)
Paul Carrack: A Little Unkind (Bobby Irwin)
Michael Jackson: Billie Jean (Louis Johnson)
Bob Dylan: To Be Alone With You (Bob Johnston)
Big Hard Excellent Fish: And The Question Remains (Josie Jones)
Bo Diddley: Can You Shimmy? (Peggy Jones)
Negativland: Sycamore (Don Joyce, Ian Allen)
The Johnny Keating Orchestra: Theme from Z Cars 
Motorhead: Ace Of Spades (live) (Lemmy)
B.B. King: You Upset Me Baby
Ben E King: Supernatural Thing  
Tammy Wynette: 'Til I Get It Right (Red Lane, Billy Sherrill)
The Stooges: 1970 (I Feel Alright) (Steve MacKay)
The Rising Sons: Take A Giant Step (Gary Marker)
Buddy Holly: Well All Right (Joe Mauldin)
Bob McFadden & Dor: Noisy Village (Rod McKuen)
Harmonia: Dino (Dieter Moebius)
Leonard Nimoy: A Visit to a Sad Planet 
John Renbourn: Westeron Wynde 
Jean Ritchie: Nottamun Town 
Elvis Presley: There's Always Me (Don Robertson)
Sly & The Family Stone: Dance to the Music (Cynthia Robinson)
Rico Rodriguez: Rico Special 
Ronnie Ronalde: Happy Trails
Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance: How Come (Bruce Rowland)
P.F. Sloan: Sins Of A Family 
The Fugs: Kill for Peace (Bernard Stollman)
Motorhead: Overkill (Phil Taylor)
Twinkle: Terry
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich: Hold Tight (Trevor Ward-Davies)
Three Dog Night: Mama Told Me Not to Come (Cory Wells/Jimmy Greenspoon)
Billy Fury: Turn My Back On You (Andy White)

"Rockers" (fill-in for Rockers Arena, broadcast in May 2021)

Sly & Robbie: Taxi Connection
Zap Pow: This Is Reggae Music
Eek A-Mouse: Wa-Do-Dem 
Pluto Shervington: Dat 
Toots & The Maytals: Louie Louie 
George Faith: In The Midnight Hour / Ya Ya
Yellowman: Body Move
Glen Washington: Rockers (No Crackers)
Culture: Love Shine Brighter
Errol Dunkley: Please Stop Your Lying
Barrington Levy: Love the Life You Live
The Heptones: Hypocrite
Gregory Isaacs: Mr Cop
Worl-A-Girl: No Gunshot
Worl-A-Girl: No Gunshot PSA 
Sister Nancy: Bam Bam 
Maxine & Jahnet: One Light, Four Wheels 
The Slits: Cry Baby
Hollie Cook WPKN ID 
Hollie Cook: Ari Up
Lady Ann: Informer (Murderer)
Revelation: With You Boy 
J.C. Lodge: Someone Loves You Honey
Sade: By Your Side (reggae mix) 
Aswad: Finger Gun Style
Tappa Zukie: M P L A
Bob Marley & The Wailers: Exodus
Bunny Wailer: Dream Land
Fred Locks: Black Star Liner 
Burning Spear: Slavery Days
Dr. Alimantado: Born For A Purpose / Reason For Living 
Junior Murvin: Cool Out Son
Ijahman Levi: Africa 
Ijahman Levi: Afrodub
Joe Gibbs & The Professionals: Dub Three
The Upsetters: Corn Fish Dub
Augustus Pablo: King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown
African Head Charge: Take Heed & Smoke up Your Collyweed (ft King Cry Cry)
U-Roy: Chalice In The Palace
Jah Lion: Columbia Colly 
Mungo's Hi Fi: I Need Weed (feat Soom T)
Reggae Roast: Sensi Skank Reloaded (feat. Ruben Da Silva) 
Sugar Minott: Riddim
Sugar Minott: Rub-A-Dub Sound

"Apes & Roosters" (broadcast 11/1/19)

Howlin' Wolf: The Red Rooster
The Kinks: Apeman (Alt. version) 
The Warlocks: Red Rooster 
Frankie Tyler: I Go Ape
Ohio Players: Rooster Poot
The Three Johns: Two Minute Ape! 
Almeda Riddle: My Little Rooster
The Incredible Casuals: Ape 
Ron Wood & Ronnie Lane: Rooster Funeral
The Mighty Sparrow: Cokey Eyed Rooster
Nervous Norvus: Ape Call 
Todd Rundgren: Drunken Blue Rooster 
Mouse On Mars: Ape
Dr. John: Hen Layin' Rooster
Lew Williams: Gone Ape Man 
Little Milton: Like a Rooster On a Hen
Jimmy Smith: The Ape Woman 
The Creatures: A Strutting Rooster 
Quasi: Ape Self Prevails In Me Still 
Waka Flocka Flame: Rooster In My Rari 
Richie & The PS 54 School Yard: Ape (feat. 2 Chainz)
The Lacs: Make the Rooster Crow 
Little Roy: Very Ape 
Cliff Carlisle: Shanghai Rooster Yodel
Duke Ellington, Orchestra: the Queen's Suite/Apes & Peacocks 
Dave Dudley: Rooster Hill 
Ape: Departure from Ape Mountain 
Supergrass: Mansize Rooster 
Men & Volts: Picnic Ape 
Ray Wylie Hubbard: Rooster 
They Might Be Giants: My Brother the Ape 
Kentucky Headhunters w/Johnnie Johnson: King Rooster 
Nurse With Wound, Graham Bowers: Apes and Peacocks 
Ike & Tina Turner: Rooster 
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Flash Gordon's Ape 
Bear Creek: The Rooster 
Adam & The Ants: Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios 
Johnny Mac: 47lb Rooster 
Lee Perry & Subatomic Sound System: Super Ape 
Bo Diddley: Sneakers On a Rooster 
Wee Willie Harris: I Go Ape 
The Kills: Black Rooster 
The New Piccadillys: You Drive Me 
Sam Cooke: Little Red Rooster

"1994" (broadcast 10/18/19)

Massive Attack (feat. Tracey Thorn): Protection
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Red Right Hand
American Music Club: Cape Canaveral
Laurie Anderson: In Our Sleep (w/Lou Reed)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Train Of Love
Marianne Faithfull: She
Joey Ramone + General Johnson: Rockaway Beach
Morphine: Sharks Patrol These Waters
Stina Nordenstam: Little Star
Little Richard & Tanya Tucker: Somethin' Else
Mickey Jupp: Modern Music
Nick Lowe: True Love Travels On A Gravel Road
Johnny Cash: The Beast In Me
George Jones & Keith Richards: Say It's Not You
Chuck Berry: You Never Can Tell
Sheila Chandra: Speaking In Tongues III
Danny Gatton & Joey DeFrancesco: Gearheads
The Notorious B.I.G: Juicy
Mikel Rouse: Left In My Life
Prince: Space
Snoop Doggy Dogg: Gin And Juice
Mickey Newbury: Nights When I Am Sane
Mary Chapin Carpenter: Shut Up and Kiss Me
Luna: Tiger Lily
Angel Corpus Christi: Surrender
O-Type: Beast
Oasis: Shakermaker
Blur: Parklife
Love Spit Love: Half A Life
Corduroy: Motorhead
Ian McNabb: Go Into The Light
The Cramps: Inside Out And Upside Down (With You)
Bob Dylan: Highway 61
The Mavericks: What A Crying Shame
22 Pistepirkko: Gimme Some Water
Beastie Boys: Sabotage
Stereolab: Wow And Flutter (Remix) 
Shampoo: Trouble
Sleeper: Delicious

“Got Soul?” (broadcast 9/20/19)

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: If You Don't Know Me By Now 
Dorothy Moore: Misty Blue 
Little Beaver: Party Down Pt. 1
The Chi-Lites: Have You Seen Her                  
Al Green: Have You Been Making Out O.K 
Latimore: Let's Straighten It Out 
Ray Charles & Aretha Franklin: Coke Commercial 
Aretha Franklin: How I Got Over 
Yvonne Fair: It Should Have Been Me 
William deVaughan: Be Thankful for What You Got 
Lulu: Take Your Mama For A Ride 
Tower of Power: Don't Change Horses (In the Middle of a Stream) 
Jean Knight: Mr. Big Stuff 
Millie Jackson: Not On Your Life 
Ben E King: Supernatural Thing, Pt. 1 
The Stylistics: I'm Stone In Love With You 
Paul Kelly: Come Lay Some Lovin' On Me 
Betty Davis: This Is It                                  
The Spinners: The Rubberband Man 
David Ruffin: Walk Away From Love
Bobby Blue Bland: I Wouldn't Treat a Dog (The Way You Treated Me)
Ike & Tina Turner: Ooh Poo Pah Doo 
Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star
Barbara Lewis: Hello Stranger 
Timmy Thomas: Why Can't We Live Together
James Brown: Funky President (People It's Bad)
Marvin Gaye: After The Dance 
Curtis Mayfield: Pusherman
The Four Tops: Walk Away Renee
Bobby Rush: I Wanna Do the Do
Swamp Dogg: The Mind Does The Dancing While the Body Pulls the Strings 
Jackie Moore: Sweet Charlie Babe
Gladys Knight & the Pips: Just Walk In My Shoes 
The Isley Brothers: Twist & Shout 
The O'Jays: Back Stabbers 
The Marvelettes: I'll Keep Holding On
Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground
The Miracles: Whole Lot Of Shakin' In My Heart (Since I Met You) 
Norma Jean Wright: Saturday

"Drones 'n' Other Things" (broadcast 6/24/19)

Angus MacLise, Hetty MacLise: November 1965
Max Eastley: Hydrophone
Craig Leon: The Gates Made Plain
Michael Rother: Fernwaerme
Datashock: Marodierende Sachbearbeiter Aus Teilzeit
Bruce Anderson: The Inherent Beauty Of Hopelessness
Crys Cole & Oren Ambarchi: Burrata
David Rosenboom: Chilean Drought
Tashi Wada w/Yoshi Wada & Friends: Double Body
Alvin Lucier: Hanover
Sheila Chandra: ABoneCroneDrone 3
Tables: Tamarind Wind Take 2
The Lost Bayou Ramblers: Prière de L'Ouragan
Robert Poss: Ribbon Candy Colors
Neu!: Elanoizan
Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic
Infinite Music - Sonic Boom/Etienne Jaumet/Celine Wadier: Magenta
Martin Rev: Now
Tim Wheater: Heartsteps
L.E.S. Douze: The Stoned Vol 1

"Birdy Num-Num" (broadcast 12/5/25)

The Valli Boys: Night Hawk
Madness: Pam The Hawk
Danny Rivers: Hawk
Peter Hammill: The Birds
Elvis Costello: The Birds Will Still Be Singing
Kate Nash: Birds
The Unthanks: Cuckoo Madame
The Charlatans: Bird
Alex McMurray: Just A Bird
Bert Jansch & Martin Jenkins: Osprey
The Haden Triplets: Cuckoo Bird
Horace Andy & Jah Wobble: Three Little Birds 
Barclay James Harvest: Mocking Bird
Conway Twitty: Is a Bluebird Blue?
Roy Sludge: Gooseball Brown
Huw Gower: Free as a Bird
Guadalcanal Diary: Little Birds
The Dutones: The Bird
Howlin’ Wolf: Little Red Rooster
The Beatles: Free As A Bird
Canned Heat: An Owl Song 
Dolly Parton: Eagle When She Flies
Fleetwood Mac: Albatross
Stackridge: Percy the Penguin 
Lizzy Mercier Descloux: Birdy Num-num
Carlos Niño & Nate Mercereau: Wild Birds in an Imagined Canoga Park with Lakes and Trees in Place of Streets and Buildings (feat. Kamasi Washington)
Neil Young: Birds
Kathryn Tickell & Friends: Penguin Notes
Jerry Jeff Walker: Little Bird 
Genya Ravan: Night Owl
David Greenberger & Prime Lens: Bird Moved In
Luna: The Owl And The Pussycat 
Parly B: Talking Parrot (ft. Interrupt)
The A-Bones: Bird Doggin’
Butthole Surfers: Birds
Chuck Berry: Woodpecker
Baby Ray & the Ferns: How’s Your Bird?
Champion Jack Dupree: Woodpecker
Jerry Lee Lewis: Goosebumps
The Cramps: Nest Of The Cuckoo Bird
The Trashmen: Surfin’ Bird
Van Der Graaf Generator: Earlybird

“PURE Presents Mark Bingham” (broadcast 3/3/23)

Caroline Peyton: Bill Monroe
Screaming Gypsy Bandits: From The Ledge
MX-80 Sound: Afterbirth/Aftermath
Mark Bingham: Hell Bound Train
Social Climbers: Chicken 80
Mark Bingham: Out Of Time (feat Honi Coles)
Yma Sumac: I Wonder
Mark Bingham: Things I'd Like
Mark Bingham: Sam The Banana Man
Mark Bingham: Enemy Uniform
Peter Stampfel: Haunted Heart
Mark Bingham: Heian Enneagram 3
Leigh Harris: Devil Jumped a Rabbit remix
Mark Bingham: The shoes of the chicken head
John Sinclair, Blues Scholars Pea Vine Blues
Dr. John: World I Never Made
Morning 40 Federation: Toodle My Hukill
Illusion Fields: Coney Island Evacuation
Mark Bingham: Leonville Breakdown
Ed Sanders: Marie LeBage And Huey Long
Alex McMurray: The Woman I Love
Mark Bingham: To And From The Afterlife
Mark Bingham: The Earth Cracks
Marianne Faithfull: Love Song
Mark Bingham: I Know Nothing
Mark Bingham: Brahms All Nite
Mark Bingham: For Nothing
Mark Bingham: VAS
Mark Bingham, Marianne Faithfull, Gregory Corso & Hal Wilner: Take Me Gambling !! (4HW)

“Rocket Fuel” (broadcast 8/16/19)

Albert Castiglia: Get Your Ass in the Van
Great American Taxi: Gonna Make a Record 
Bill Kirchen: Little Bitty Record
Big Al Anderson & The Balls: Pawn Shop Guitars
Rodney Crowell: The Obscenity Prayer (Give It To Me) 
The Resentments: I Do My Drinking On The Weekends
Whitey Morgan & the 78s: Ain't Gonna Take It Anymore 
Johnnie Johnson: Tanqueray 
Mike Stinson: Late for My Funeral
Jesse Dayton: I'm at Home Gettin' Hammered
Dale Watson & His Lone Stars: I Lie When I Drink 
Ray Wylie Hubbard: Live and Die Rock and Roll
Gretchen Wilson: Redneck Woman 
The Redneck Boys: The Sheets 
Hayes Carll: Kmag Yoyo
Danny Gatton: Truck Driving Romance 
Billy Edd Wheeler: The Coon Hunters 
Shovels & Rope: Bullet Belt (feat. Butch Walker) – partial due to alarm/evacuation

(on continuous play, while evacuated)
Bobby Bare Jr.: One Bed, Two Girls, Three Bottles of Wine 
Boo Ray: Redneck Rock & Roll
Conway Twitty: Red Neckin' Love Makin' Night 

Mike Henderson & The Bluebloods: When I Get Drunk
Jason D. Williams: This Is Rock & Roll 
Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks: Please Don't Dance 
Elizabeth Cook: El Camino 
Jason Isbell: Super 8 
Dan Baird: PURE ID 
The Georgia Satellites: Keep Your Hands To Yourself 
The Yayhoos: Monkey With A Gun
Dan Baird & Homemade Sin: Shake It Til It’s Sore 
Jackson Taylor & the Sinners: Cocaine 
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: The Nail 
Little Feat: Teenage Nervous Breakdown
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Honky Tonk Night Time Man 
Kevin Gordon: Deuce and a Quarter 
Todd Snider: Rocket Fuel 
Drive-By Truckers: George Jones Talkin' Cell Phone Blues 
Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes: That Is Rock and Roll 
Hank Williams III: Held Up
Hank Williams Jr: Born to Boogie 
David Allan Coe: Son Of The South
Wanda Jackson: Tore Down 
Lydia Loveless: Mile High 
Supersuckers: Let's Bounce
PSAs 
Delbert McClinton: I Had a Real Good Time 
Willie Nelson: My Window Faces The South
Shovels & Rope: Invisible Man

"Friday Night in Rayne, Louisiana" (broadcast 5/8/20)

Leroy Broussard: Lemonade Song 
Ganey Arsement: Bayou Anglais 
Tommy McLain: Before I Grow Too Old 
Johnnie Allan: Promised Land 
Moon Mullican: Jambalaya 
Rod Bernard And Clifton Chenier: Shake Rattle & Roll  
Goldman Thibodeaux & the Lawtell Playboys: Two-step de St-Ann’s 
Jimmy Donley: Loving Cajun Style  
James Bergeron & The Kickin' Cajuns: Whole Lotta Woman 
D.L. Menard: The Back Door (La porte en arriere) 
Nathan Abshire & the Pine Grove Boys w/Robert Bertrand: That's All Right Mama 
Michael Doucet & BeauSoleil: Les Veuves De La Coulee 
Clifton Chenier: Shake It, Don't Break It 
Rufus Jagneaux: Opelousas Sostan
Lost Bayou Ramblers: Sabine Turnaround  
Eddie Shuler's All Star Reveliers: Jambalaya Boogie  
Rockin' Sidney: My Toot Toot 
Gene Rodrigue: Little Cajun Girl 
Bobby Charles: See You Later, Alligator