PURE with Howard Thompson

PURE: "Playing Records with Bridget St. John"Bridget St. John: Ask Me No QuestionsThe Mills Brothers: The Window Washer ManBuffy Sainte-Marie: LazarusBridget St. John: Lizard-Long-Tongue BoyDusty Springfield: You Don't Have To Say You Love Me Bridget  St. John: Song to Keep You Company (live, BBC 1969) The Beatles: A Day In The LifeDavid Bowie: Space OddityBridget St. John: A Day Away Bridget St. John: The Pebble and the ManBridget St. John: The Lady and the Gentle ManJohn Martyn: Couldn’t Love You MoreBridget St John: Fly High (single version)Bridget St. John: There’s A Place I KnowBridget St. John: Suzanne Traveling Wilburys: Handle With CareBridget St. John: Nice Stuff: Love of Mine Kevin Ayers: Something In BetweenBridget St. John: Song For JohnBridget St. John: Catch A Falling StarMichael Chapman: After All This Time (w/Bridget St. John)Bridget St. John: Jealous Jailor Annie Lennox: No More "I Love You’s"Corinne Bailey Rae: Put Your Records OnKevin Ayers: Baby Come Home (w/Bridget St. John)Joni Mitchell: ShineMavis Staples: You Are Not AloneSteve Gunn & Bridget St. John: Rabbit HillsBridget St. John: Flythe Kop Choir: Youll Never Walk AloneBridget St. John: Ask Me No Questions (Mike Oldfield Mix)

WPKN “Strictly Beans” (for Michael B)Joanna Newsom: Sprout and the BeanDori Freeman: Soup Beans Milk And BreadJohnny Cash: Look At Them Beans(The Who: Heinz Baked Beans)Stina Nordenstam: The Return Of Alan BeanChili Gonzalez: BeansJohn Cooper Clarke: Spilt Beans (John Peel Session 3 October 1978)Little Richard: Rice, Red Beans and Turnip GreensThe Legendary Doctor Generosity: Beans, Beans, Beans(excerpt from the film "RocknRolla": Sausage & Beans)Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Big Eyed Beans From Venus Stereolab: Neon Beanbag (Atlas Sound Mix)Mark Knopfler: After The BeanstalkCarolina Chocolate Drops: Cornbread And ButterbeansClifton Chenier: Zydeco (Les Haricots) Sont Pas Salés / Snap Beans Without Salt

Gone Fishing (w/The Batture Boys) (broadcast 8/19/16)The Spitfires: Catfish Cash Box Kings: Everybody's Fishin' Wynonie Harris: Fishtail Blues Sherman "Blues" Johnson: Hot Fish Bobby Charles: Goin' Fishin' 3:06 Loudon Wainwright III: Big Fish Louis Armstrong (feat: Bing Crosby): Gone Fishin Sarah Quintana: Fisherman In The Sky John Prine: Fish And Whistle Tennesee Ernie Ford w/Cliffie Stone's Band: Catfish Boogie The Blue Dots: Saturday Night Fish Fry Cliffie Stone & his Orchestra: Barracuda 2:14 Prentice Moreland: Holy Mack'rel Red Meat: Catfish Clarence Garlow: Crawfishin' Doug Kershaw: Fisherman's Luck  Travis Matte & the Kingpins: Crawfish Boogie The Batture Boys: Rabbit Hole BluesThe Batture Boys: Deep Water Horizon (live)The Batture Boys: Let’s Make a Better World (live)The Batture Boys: Jo Bird (live)The Batture Boys:Important To Me (live)The Batture Boys:Primitive Streak (live)The Batture Boys:The Mighty FloodVashti Bunyan: Jellyfish Chris Rea: Gone Fishing Leo Kottke: A Child Should Be A Fish Badfinger: Fisherman Kevin Ayers: The Oyster And The Flying Fish Slim Chance: Fishing Line Robyn Hitchcock: Bass Ivor Cutler: Fish David Knopfler: Going Fishing Lee 'Scratch' Perry: Roast Fish & Corn Bread Herman: El Fishy Max Romeo: Fish In A Pot Ivor Cutler: Jackfish Joe Brown: PURE ID Joe Brown: Fishin' Blues The Damned: Fish Public Image Ltd: FishingAngelfish: Suffocate MeThe Jim Jones Revue: Fish 2 Fry 

“Mikki’s Room, Purely” (broadcast 5/4/25)Harvey Mandel: Christo Redentor Lorraine Ellison: Stay With MePrince: Sign O' The TimesAsha Puthli: Right Down HereBobby Charles: Small Town TalkBetty Harris: Cry To Me The Heptones: Hypocrite Joe South: Games People PlayPaul Kelly: Come Lay Some Lovin' On Me Andy Fairweather Low: Wide EyedAnd LeglessDobie Gray: Drift AwaySade: By Your Side (Reggae Mix) The Spinners: Ghetto Child Ann Peebles: Slipped, Tripped and Fell In LoveDonnie Elbert: Little Piece Of LeatherDr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band: Cherchez la Femme/Se Si BonAlvin Robinson: Something You GotAce: How LongAshford & Simpson: Gimme Something RealRevelation: With You Boy Percy Mayfield: Please Send Me Someone To LoveOtis Redding: My Girl Dusty Springfield: Your Love Still Brings Me To My KneesAnita Baker: You Bring Me JoyGeraint Watkins: MosquitoMillie Jackson: Slow TongueMayer Hawthorne: The Walk 

“PURE Prog” (broadcast 1/26/22 and 7/22/26)Aubrey Small: Country Road 4:19 Barclay James Harvest: Mocking Bird 6:35Traffic: Hole In My Shoe 3:01Roy Harper: When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease 7:11Procol Harum: A Salty Dog 4:36 Genesis: The Musical Box 10:23 Hawkwind: Hall of the Mountain Grill 2:23The Pretty Things: Trust 2:44 David Bowie: The Man Who Sold The World 4:04Love Sculpture: Why? (How-Now) 7:41 Gracious!: Heaven 8:08 Help Yourself: Alabama Lady 4:02 Family: In My Own Time 3:33Daevid Allen & Euterpe: Wise Man In Your Heart 8:33 Egg: They Laughed When I Sat Down At The Piano.. 1:17 Caravan: Golf Girl 4:58The Soft Machine: We Did It Again 3:46 The Deviants: Nothing Man 4:17Home: The Brass Band Played 1:23 Cream: White Room 4:57Trees: Glasgerion 5:13 Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Penguin Cafe Single 6:14 Van der Graaf Generator: Killer 8:20 Third Ear Band: Stone Circle 3:24 Fleetwood Mac: The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown) 4:41Roxy Music: The Pride And The Pain 4:12Nucleus: Song for the Bearded Lady 7:20The Idle Race: The Skeleton and the Roundabout 2:20Sandy Denny: Still Waters Run Deep 2:55Simon Dupree and the Big Sound: Kites 3:48Tyrannosaurus Rex: Debora 3:30 Brian Auger & the Trinity: This Wheel's On Fire 3:30Man: Life On The Road 7:12The Moles: We Are The Moles (Part 1) 4:29Edgar Broughton Band: Apache Drop Out 2:39 Pink Floyd: See Emily Play 2:51 Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera: Flames 3:07King Crimson: Cat Food 4:51Patto: I Need You 3:28The Mooche: Hot Smoke & Sassafras 3:10 The Misunderstood: Children Of The Sun 2:50Quiver: Gone In The Morning 9:02Bonzo Dog Band: I'm The Urban Spaceman 2:21Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come: Eternal Messenger 3:48 The Move: The Words Of AaronThe Move: Hello Susie 

“Fire & Water” (broadcast 11/11/20 and 7/23/26)Free: Fire And Water (alt mix)Lydia Loveless: The Water Hank Williams: Settin The Woods On FireJeannie Seely: Peaceful WatersGarbage: On FireMoth Man: The WaterJulee Cruise: The Fire In MeAretha Franklin: Bridge Over Troubled Water Erma Franklin: Light My Fire The Regals: Got The Water Boiling Hollie Cook: Angel Fire Doug Powell: She Walks on Water James Hunter: No Smoke Without FireSara Hickman: Last Man In The WaterDirk Hamilton: How Do You Fight Fire?Pokey LaFarge: Something In The Water Alan Vega: Cry FireRoebuck "Pop" Staples, Albert King & Steve Cropper: Water Roky Erickson: Stand for the Fire DemonPJ Harvey: Down By The Water Zoe Mazah: Let The Fire BurnHoward Seratt: Troublesome WatersFountains of Wayne: Firelight Waltz Brian Eno & John Cale: You Don’t Miss Your WaterEtta James: Fire Kathryn Tickell: Water Of Martin Denny: Swamp FireLes Hommes: Water Waltz (feat Rumer)Tony Joe White: Right Back in the FireMichael Doucet: Water Water Mac Wiseman: Fireball Mail Dire Straits: Water Of Love Neville Brothers: Fire On The BayouBob Marley & The Wailers: No Water (Can Quench My Thirst) The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Fire The Screaming Blue Messiahs: Sweet Water PoolsThe Move: Fire BrigadeOtis Redding: You Left The Water Running [Unedited Demo Version] Public Service Broadcasting: SpitfireIan Hunter: Walk On Water Die Antwoord: Baby's On Fire L.H.D.: Boiling Water, Dreamy Girl David Bowie: (You Will) Set The World On FireSandy Denny BlackwatersideIan McNabb: Fire Inside My SoulBob Dylan: High Water (For Charley Patton) Dwight Twilley Band: I'm On FireThe Replacements: Cool Water Jerry Lee Lewis: Great Balls of FireFrank Zappa: Watermelon In Easter HayJD McPherson: Fire BugThe Standells: Dirty WaterJulie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity: This Wheel’s On Fire

“Strictly Vegetables”Ray Charles: Chitlins With Candied YamsThe Cadillac Three: Devil’s LettuceChas 'n' Dave: Boiled Beef And Carrots Dr. John: Cabbage Head James Brown: (Do The) Mashed Potatoes, Pt. 1Butthole Surfers: Pepper The Byrds: Chestnut Mare Drive-By Truckers: Daddy’s Little Pumpkin The Mothers Of Invention: Call Any VegetableTony Joe White: Polk Salad Annie The Cramps: Cornfed DamesThe Beatles: Glass Onion (Mono Mix)Teron Beal: Magic Mushroom(The Move: The Duke Of Edinburgh's Lettuce)

"Strictly Stupid"Paul Leary: Born Stupid Jim Keller: I’m So StupidThe Flys: Come On StupidChumbawamba: I’m With StupidAnne McCue: Stupid Ellen Foley: Stupid GirlSahara Hotnights: Stupid TricksThe Sniveling Shits: Terminal StupidMary Lee's Corvette: More StupiderBurning Spear: Not StupidGarbage: Stupid Girl (Tee's Radio Mix)XTC: Stupidly HappyChas 'n' Dave: What A Stupid Thing To DoRod Stewart: Stupid

"Lou Reed, songwriter"Iggy Pop: We Are The People Mary Gauthier: Coney Island BabyNico: Little SisterLuna: Satellite of LoveAl Green: I Found A ReasonPeter Gabriel: The Power Of The HeartAnohni/Lou Reed: Candy Says [Live] Claudio Cataldi: Here She Comes NowThe Foxes: Soul CityElizabeth Cook: Sunday MorningYo La Tengo: I’m Set FreeSendelica: Venus in FursVarious: Perfect Day ‘97Todd Clouser's A Love ElectricBobby Rush: Sally Can't DanceLucinda Williams: Legendary HeartsMatt Berninger & Rosanne Cash: Who Loves The SunMoe Tucker: After HoursMarianne Faithfull: The Calm Before The StormAngel Corpus Christi: Rock and Roll HeartBob Seger: Busload Of FaithPeter C Johnson: Pale Blue EyesJune Tabor & Oyster Band: All Tomorrow's PartiesDavid Bowie: White Light/White HeatLang Lang, Lisa Fischer, Jeffrey Wright, Peter Illenyi, Thomas Dybdahl & Hungarian Studio Orchestra: Somewhere (Dirty Blvd) Bryan Ferry: What Goes OnKeith Richards: I’m Waiting for the ManAutomatic: New SensationsSpiritualized: Why Don't You Smile NowJohn Cale, Lou Reed & Nico: Femme Fatale (Live)The Primitives: I’ll Be Your MirrorRuben Blades: Hopes On Hold (alt. version) Jane Wiedlin: Foggy NotionFANALI & Giovanni Succi: Vanishing ActMott The Hoople: Sweet Jane (Lou Reed, vox)Maxim Ludwig & Angel Olsen: I Can't Stand ItRachel Sweet: New AgeDescartes A Kant: New York Telephone ConversationClint Mansell & Clint Walsh: Lady DaySwervedriver: JesusKing Princess: There She Goes AgainTrue Believers: Train Round the BendFontaines D.C.: The Black Angel’s Death SongDetroit (feat. Mitch Ryder): Rock & RollHollis Brown: Head Held HighThe Feelies: We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time TogetherKurt Vile & the Violators: Run Run RunSqueeze: Hangin’ ‘RoundThe Velvet Underground: Sister RayChris Washburne & The Syotos Band: Walk On the Wild SideLou Reed illustration: Duane Potosky

“Catch A Wave” fundraiser (broadcast 6/19/26) - MUSIC ONLYall the artists (in bold) played on this episode of PURE have shows in the area. We gave tickets away for donations. A handful (at face value) are still left - call 203) 331 9756 if interested. The Cars (Greg Hawkes w/Eddie Japan): Drive - 6/19 Fairfield CTThe Cars (Greg Hawkes w/Eddie Japan): Tonight She Comes - 6/19 Fairfield, CTThe Courettes: SHAKE (Japanese Version) - 10/17 Norwalk CTFlamin' Groovies: Feel A Whole Lot Better - 10/17 Norwalk CTThe Damned: New Rose - 10/17 Norwalk CTThe Courettes: Only Happy When You're Gone - 10/17 Norwalk CTFlamin' Groovies: Yeah My Baby - 10/17 Norwalk CTThe Damned: Neat Neat Neat - 10/17 Norwalk CTDion: Your Own Back Yard - 9/17 Portchester NYDion: Summertime Blues - 9/17 Portchester NYHayes Carll: Another Like You - 7/22 New Haven CTHayes Carll: Bad Liver And A Broken Heart - 7/22 New Haven CTLCD Soundsystem: North American Scum - 9/11 New Haven CTReverend Horton Heat: Ace of Spades - 9/4 Old Saybrook, CTJames Hunter: Carina - 8/9 Old Saybrook, CT James Hunter: No Smoke Without Fire - 8/9 Old Saybrook, CTSouthern Culture On The Skids: Daddy Was A Preacher But Mama Was A Go-Go Girl - 10/2 New HavenSouthern Culture On The Skids: Liquored Up And Lacquered Down - 10/2 New Haven CT Southern Culture On The Skids: Soul City - 10/2 New Haven CT Southern Culture On The Skids: Muswell Hillbilly - 10/2 New Haven CT Adam & The Ants: Antmusic - 8/25 New Haven CTAdam & the Ants: Dog Eat Dog - 8/25 New Haven CTSqueeze: Tempted - 8/25 New Haven CTSqueeze: Black Coffee In Bed - 8/25 New Haven CTTrombone Shorty: Nervis (ft. Cyril Neville) - Cyril Neville Plays the Dead 9/10/26 Fairfield CTTerrance Simien: Turn on Your Love Light - Falcon Ridge Folk Festival 7/24-26 Goshen CTJack White: I’m Shakin’ - 7/18 New Haven CTReverend Horton Heat: Twenty Flight Rock - 9/4 Old Saybrook, CTFlamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action - 10/17 Norwalk CT

WPKN May 24th 2026 “Bob Dylan 85th Birthday Fundraiser” - music onlyBridget St. John: Just Like A Woman (Piblokto Version) Tom Jones: One More Cup Of CoffeeDiana Krall: This Dream of You Solomon Burke: The Mighty QuinnBob Dylan: Cold Irons BoundEmma Swift: I Contain MultitudesMick Ronson: Like A Rolling Stone (feat. David Bowie)Dave Alvin: Highway 61 Revisited Dr. John: End Of The Line (feat. Aaron Neville & Katie Pruitt) Chrissie Hynde: Love Minus Zero No Limit (feat. James Walbourne)Ian Hunter: Knockin’ On Heaven's DoorWillie Nile: Abandoned LoveChristine Ohlman & Rebel Montez: Crash on the Levee (Down In The Flood) Marianne Faithfull: It’s All Over Now, Baby BlueLinda Ronstadt: I’ll Be Your Baby TonightDean & Britta: I’ll Keep It With Mine (Scott Hardkiss Electric Remix)Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band: Ballad of a Thin ManEmma Swift: Going Going GoneWillie Nile: You Ain't Goin' NowhereBryan Ferry: Simple Twist Of FateMichael Chapman: Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Mary Lee's Corvette: You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (live) Carl Perkins: Champaign, IllinoisBruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: Chimes of Freedom [Manchester, 5/14/25]Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead: All Along The Watchtower (live)

"7" (broadcast 5/15/26)Kamasi Washington: Seven PrayersWarren Storm: Seven LettersBlackberry Smoke: Lucky SevenDavid Bowie: Seven (Marius de Vries mix)Roseanne Cash: Seven Year AcheLuna: Seven Steps To SatanEgg: Seven Is A Jolly Good TimeJune Tabor & the Oyster Band: Seven CursesCharlie Haden Family (ft. The Haden Triplets): Seven Year BluesDavid Greenberger/the Huckleberries: All Together 7Iain Matthews: Seven Bridges Road Rory Gallagher: Seven DaysGenesis: Seven StonesPrince Fatty: Seven Nation Army Dub (ft. Alice Russell & Dennis Alcapone)J.J. Cale: Seven Day WomanLove Spit Love: 7 YearsCulture: Two Sevens ClashBilly Hands & George Cork Maul: Documenting Number Five And SevenGary Lucas: The Seven Faces Of Dr. LaoPolyrock: #7Tito Rodríguez: The Magnificant SevenMose Allison: The Seventh SonThe MRCYFKS: Seven Point Eight Three HurtsBilly Strings: Seven Weeks In CountyThe Quireboys: Seven O' Clock Spielgusher: Seven Seas Of LoveRonnie Wood: Seven DaysHank Williams III: 7 Months, 39 DaysElvis Costello: Seven Day Weekend Ramones: 7-11The Heroes: Seven Day Week-EndAudience: Seven Sore BruisesTraveling Wilburys: 7 Deadly SinsLove: Seven & Seven IsMX-80 Sound: Summer 77Hamell On Trial: 7 Seas Nick Lowe: 7 Nights To RockDr. Feelgood: Lucky Seven Wah! Heat: Seven Minutes To MidnightThe Clash: The Magnificent SevenToots & the Maytals: Six And Seven Books Of Moses Desmond Dekker: 0.0.7 (Shanty Town)Baba Brooks Band w/Lynn Taitt: Skalarama (The Magnificent Seven Theme)

“America” (broadcast 7/4/14)Steve Miller Band: Livin' in the USACharlie Haden: Is This America (Katrina 2005) (w/Pat Metheny) Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings: American By Birth Mark Knopfler: Do America Don McLean: American Pie Earl Scruggs: American-Made. World-Played Scott McClatchy: American Land Mickey Newbury: An American Trilogy Odetta & Dr. John (w/John Campbell): America The Beautiful Cisco Houston: The Great American Bum Penguin Café Orchestra: Discover America Merle Haggard: America First Hamell On Trial: American Truckstops Mary Chapin Carpenter: Goodnight America David Essex: America Rubén Blades y Seis Del Solar: Buscando AmericaJim Morrison/The Doors: An American Prayer Jay-Z & Kanye West: Made in America (ft. Frank Ocean) Dr. John & The Lower 911: Only In AmerikaCarrie Underwood: All-American Girl Tanya Tucker: Bidding America Goodbye Miley Cyrus: Wake Up AmericaI.R.T: Made In The USA (American XTC Radio Edit) David Byrne: American Troglodyte Kim Wilde: Kids in America  The Nice: America (2nd Amendment) New Math: American Survival Juliette & the Licks: American Boy Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: American Dream Plan B (Radio Edit) X-Tal: Happy Americans The Fleshtones: American Beat The Baseball Project: ¡Hola America! Ian Hunter: Soul of America The HeadCat: American Beat The MC5: The American Ruse Alice Cooper: Lost in America Billy Bragg: Help Save the Youth of America Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes: Back In the USASuicide: Rocket USAThe Mothers Of Invention: America Drinks & Goes Home 

"Here’s Johnny” (broadcast 9/1/17)Jimmy Reed: Oh JohnShelby Lynne: Johnny Met June Johnny Cash: John's Kris Kristofferson: Good Morning John Vince Gill: Buttermilk John (feat. The Time Jumpers) The Band: Knockin' Lost John Willie Nelson: Johnny One Time Blind Willie Johnson: John The Revelator The Waterboys: A Girl Called Johnny John Leyton: Johnny Remember Me Mikel Rouse: Johnny Dollar Van Morrison w/Lonnie Donegan: Lost John (live) Danbert Nobacon & the Bad Things: Johnny Woebegone David Bowie: John, I'm Only Dancing Jilted John: Jilted John Prince Far I: Johnny Get Worse Rudy Mills: John Jones Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3: John in the Air Tony Joe White: Gumbo John Warren Zevon: Johnny Strikes Up The Band Angel Corpus Christi: John Cassavetes Stereolab: John Cage Bubblegum Richard Thompson: Long John SilverLoudon Wainwright III: Not John Hamell On Trial: John Lennon Gene Vincent: Who Slapped John Stan Freberg: John And Marsha Dale Watson & The Texas Two: Jonny At The DoorBuffy Sainte-Marie: Johnny Be Fair Jane Morgan: A Girl Named Johnny Cash Ruth Wallis: Johnny Had A Yo Yo Glenna Bell: Frankie And Johnny American Music Club: Johnny Mathis' FeetBruce Woolley & The Camera Club: Johnny The Piglets: Johnny Reggae Dave Alvin: Johnny Ace Is Dead Varetta Dillard: Johnny Has Gone Shovels & Rope: Johnny 99Imelda May: Johnny Got A Boom BoomTakotsubo Men: Jon E Demotivator Suicide: JohnnyPat Boone: Johnny Will Robert Palmer: Johnny & Mary Andy Fairweather Low: Bye Bye JohnnyDottie West: My Big John Darlene Love: Johnny (Baby Please Come Home) Grateful Dead: Uncle John's Band Big John Greer: Come Back Uncle JohnJerry Lee Lewis: Johnny B. GoodePSAsDion: Abraham, Martin And John The Beatles: The Ballad Of John And YokoWillie Tee: Thank You John