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Sep 18, 2025 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Readie Righteous

Welcome Righteous Ones! Presented with love for your edification: positive themes for any season or any reason, incorporating Afrobeat, world music, roots, reggae, ska, queercore, pop, disco, post-punk, jazz, soul, R 'n' B, obit-core and more. Opportunistic singing-along with your DJ is de rigueur. Your lagniappe: historical perspective, social consciousness, irreverence. 💟

Sittin' Here in Princeton with The Memphis Blues Again

Moving to Memphis, TN | Living in Memphis, TN

12:00 PM		Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake Marriott, Lane, McLagan, Jones Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake Immediate Records 1968
12:04 PM		Koko Taylor Keep Your Mouth Shut and Your Eyes Open Royal Blue Alligator Records 2000
12:08 PM		Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra Memphis Blues W.C. Handy Duke Ellington Plays the Blues 1947
12:11 PM		Louis Armstrong Beale Street Blues W. C. Handy Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy 1954
12:16 PM		King Curtis & The Kingpins Memphis Soul Stew (Live) Curtis Ousley live in Montreux- Jazz Festival 1971 - June 12 1971
12:22 PM		Bobby "Blue" Bland Memphis Monday Morning Nelson/Jackson/Nelson Memphis Monday Morning 1998
12:31 PM		Tom T. Hall That's How I Got to Memphis Tom T. Hall Ballad of Forty Dollars 1969
12:33 PM		John Hiatt Memphis in the Meantime John Hiatt Bring the Family A&M 1987
12:37 PM		Elvis Presley Suspicious Minds Mark James single 1969
12:42 PM		The Box Tops Cry Like a Baby Dan Penn/Spooner Oldham Cry Like a Baby 1968
12:45 PM		Booker T & The MGs Green Onions Booker T. Jones Soul Comes Home - A Celebration of Stax Records & Memphis Soul (DVD) 2003
12:49 PM		Chuck Berry Back to Memphis Chuck Berry Chuck Berry In Memphis Island Mercury 1967
12:51 PM		Denise LaSalle Feet Don't Fail Me LaSalle/Wolfe Under the Influence 1978
12:56 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:08 PM		SPRINTS Rage SPRINTS N All That Is Over Sub Pop Records 2025
1:10 PM		La Dispute Environmental Catastrophe Film La Dispute N No One Was Driving the Car Epitaph 2025
1:19 PM		Abbie from Mars Metamorphoses (ft. Altimetry) Abbie from Mars N You Always Wanted To Be a Part of What Went On in Places Like This 2025
1:22 PM		Laurie Anderson Born, Never Asked Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (Remastered) Rhino/Warner Records 2000
1:28 PM		Joni Mitchell The Jungle Line Joni Mitchell The Hissing of Summer Lawns Rhino/Elektra 1975
1:31 PM		Sonya Belaya Future Living Sonya Belaya/Anna Akhmatova N Dacha 2025
1:42 PM		Jeff Jakobs Little Blue Jeff Jakobs N Lorem Ipsum 2025
1:46 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:55 PM		XTC Another Satellite Partridge Skylarking 1986
2:00 PM		Devo Space Junk Casale/B. Mothersbaugh Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! 1978
2:02 PM		The Cords When You Said Goodbye The Cords N The Cords 2025
2:06 PM		Alfa Mist All Time (feat. Tawiah) Alfa Mist N Roulette Sekito 2025
2:09 PM		Yusuf Mumin A Distant Land N Journey to the Ancient We Want Sounds 2025
2:17 PM		Dereck Higgins Aperture Dereck Higgins Future Still FPE Records 2021
2:21 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:27 PM		Dennis Emmanuel Brown Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head Bacharach/David No Man Is An Island 1970
2:30 PM		Interskalactic Sneaky G Interskalactic Interskalactic - EP Interskalactic 2017
2:35 PM		Desmond Dekker Archie Wah Wah Israelites: The Best of Desmond Dekker 1978
2:37 PM		Yellowman Zungguzungguguzungguzeng Music From The OTS: Breaking Bad V/A 1992
2:40 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:43 PM		Antibalas La Ceiba N Hourglass 2025
2:49 PM		Israel Vibration Lion In the Jungle Stamina Tafari Records 2007
2:54 PM		J-Roots The Good, The Bad and the Revolutionaries (feat. Paul Sax Carter) J-Roots Universal Hoodwink (Deluxe Edition) [Remastered] Loza Records 2020

Chat is archived.

Hey! Righteous Ones! Let's chat! 💗

Greetings Readie, the most Righteous! 🌈 📚

Get that Barge all cleaned up.

The planned menu sounds exquisite!

Big greets to you, Christine! So great to see you on this beautiful Thursday! 🌈 🌞

sorry it took me so long to log in - excellent pronunciation, and also this song is amazing!! will be lurking again haha

I heard there's a skyscraper-sized meteor heading to earth at 24,000 miles per hour...so there's that...

Hi Alina! I enjoyed your show today.

Hey alina! 😘 thanks!! Lurk away!!! Lovin' the Lurkers!!!

Lovely show today!

Hello sista 🙏🏼

Yo Bruv, how goes it!!

Hey everyone!

Addie! welcome, my friend! 😘

What’s this about a meteor?

@Addie - soon to be in the city of brotherly love & sisterly affection!!

@readie I can NOT wait

A little less than two weeks left!

@Addie, I'm awaiting Alan P's entry to the chat to enlighten us- BUT we have to CONSIDER the SOURCE of this info - as I was logging in at the Barge today - the newsfeed came up with that tidbit of info from..... FOX news

@Addie - Philly awaits!!! with addie-cipation!!

Hi addie 🐍🐍plum, hi James 👋

Get the funk out!

gettin' down TO it

Hello from NYC, beautiful day here.☮️💟🙏🏼

some SOUL tambourine!

did i hear him say warren smith?

Howdy to you James, and all of NYC!🍎🍎🍎

Hi Michael, and indeed you heard warren smith on soul tambourine!

i have a friend warren smith lol!

sets been dope readie!

LOL, michael! is your friend a percussionist?

Thanks, michael, so good to see ya!!

update: apparently, it's an asteroid..."2025 FA22", and will cruise within just 523,000 miles of our planetary home

For context, the present distance between Earth and the moon is around 239,000 miles.

Bobby 💙 Bland

NASA's Asteroid Watch tracks asteroids projected to come within 4.6 million miles to Earth. Any object larger than 492 feet (150 meters) within this distance, is deemed a potentially hazardous object.

What the hell, asteroid?! ☄️ Earth needs its personal space.

@Christine - Bobby Blue was close to 70 years old when this was released! A true, ageless genius!

FYI, Bobby name-checked: WDIA - a radio station based in Memphis, Tennessee. Active since 1947, it soon became the first radio station in the United States that was programmed entirely for African Americans.

One o the great story tellers Tom T Hall!

I like that Bobby added that Memphis radio station reference. 📻 🎶

Hey Brian D- you are so right! I read he wrote short stories and novels as well as lyrics!

forget the mousse and the hairspray - lol

Gotta be Ryland P Cooder on that elec gtr here for John Hiatt

Oh dang, haven’t heard this one in ages!!

Digging todays groove 🎼

One and only sound of Ry

@Brian D- your amazing ear is correct- it is indeed Ryland!

Thanks James!! 💛💛

one of my fave songs of ALL time - the KING

I think John Hiatt also had Sonny Landreth appear on some albums (another great electric slide guitar player)

false fade-out!!!!!!

Love those Jordaneers (spelling?)

Alex Chilton at 17 years old....

Hi readie rainbow

James - Oh yes, the Jordanaires- originally formed as a gospel quartet in 1948...

Hey there Ossy!! how goes it?!

lol readie, nah he's a quarterback, or at least he was i think he just coaches in our hometown now

cool, michael 🏈🏈🏈

Green onions had to have influenced the Pink Floyd boys that outro to Money. You hear it even more in that live version awesome stuff.

Oh same old, as usual! Liked your full reggae sotc show few days ago

Few Thursdays ago*

Hiya G-Jax -- interesting perspective - I will need to listen to Money again to hear it - and yeah, that live version is a banger for sure

Thanks, Ossy, that was a lot of fun..!

Great Readie shout out on the recent Selecta Jerry Sounds of the Caribbean podcast

Really, Brian D? Cool, I haven't had a chance to listen to the recent one!!! Jerry is the best, man!

Hi Readie. Good to catch you now. I'm not usually in the car this time of the day. To say my Friday drive is not the same is putting way nicer than I'd really like to put it. Ha ha.

@G-Jax - glad to hear you can tune in - don't forget you can catch the uploads at the mixxy cloud whenever...

Yeah, I know, but there's something way cooler about catching things on terrestrial radio as it happens.

...and btw - agent emi is awesome too!

Guess I'm old fashioned that way

old-fashioned is good

Readie - the final gone but not forgotten(last sundayhttps://www.instagram.com/reel/DOgMK_LDulr/?igsh=MXZsdjV2ZmpzZGp4Ng==

And yeah Selecta is the best, since staring from RCBC's Z88.9 to Wprb!!

Thanks for your tribute to Memphis, given what the criminal president is doing there at the moment. My wife grew up in Memphis. I grew up in South Jersey and somehow we found each other 34 years ago. Her father was a fairy prominent lawyer in Memphis and was hired to tamp down various rumors of relationships and offspring after the King passed. I went to Memphis once, toured Sun Studios and the Stax/Volt museum. Both highly recommended. Best always to you, Readie! (Ron from Lambertville)

@Ossy - Aretha! that will be a great tribute!

ayyyy la dispute a brother bob special!

Hey Ron S - from beautiful Lambertville! Thanks for your greets! So beautiful you found each other!!! Shout out to your wife! STAY STRONG MEMPHIS!

@michael - tell more

times makin' us scream

oh just one of my bros fav bands when we were teens ! don't have all that many bands i got from him so they are special to me!

@michael, so nice to hear of sibling inspo!!

abbie from mars!!!!!!!!!!!

this song is amazing hell yeah i popped back on to screen shot and saw it was abbie so sick

YES! WPRB alum and all around cool human

that abbie album IS sick...in the best way

i used to call in to her show all the time and chop it up with her so cool

oh yes it's archived for me now!

oh yeah!

abbie= the only WPRB DJ to tap dance on the air (to date, anyway)...😀

readie - yeah last Sunday was cute, just like aretha

Happy Thursday, Readie! Thanks for keeping us company on our meal delivery route today. The new hips are healed enough to start getting back into the groove of things.

Hey Jeff, glad to hear you're doing well.

Hi Readie and all you fine peoples in the chat!! Happy Thursday..

...and yes, I just read about the close approach of Asteroid 2025 FA22, definitely something we have to keep an eye on in the future..

we live in a shooting gallery!!

🎼 in the year twenty twenty five...

Hey Jeff! So glad to hear you're healing well! A new hipster in our midst!!!!

Hey Alan P! Glad to see you!!

🎼 if that rock hits us, will we survive

Jimbotzu: actually 2073..

@Jimbotzu, good one!!! "in the year...."

Jimbotzu: yes

@Alan - what happens in 2073?

2073 = Unpredictable orbit

whose? OURS? or the asteroid's???

you see all that stuff flying around, hard to predict too far in the future..

Asteroid orbit becomes more unpredictable

all the brightest minds at NASA - are they fired yet????

Ignore the consequences of Science, and pay the price..

Hey, Jimbotzu! Hope all is well.

well said, Alan!

That station ID was such a tease. Is there any chance you remember the name of the vocal sound artist they started the ID with?

It would be slightly larger crater than meteor crater AZ here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater

Hi John C! It may very well be Ken Nordine....

THE CORDS!!!!! WOW!!! <33333333

JANGLE JANGLE 🥰🥰

fills my heart with joy every time!

everyone grab their 12-string Ricks!!!

it's a Cords kinda day!!

give me a "D" chord all day (with added "G"?)

Agreed. It's Ken Nordine. Thanks.

@John C - my pleasure! thanks for stoppin' by!

Readie: I saw a Monarch butterfly flying south the other day, on a trip to Mexico!!

NEW Alfa Mist!!!!

@Alan - so sweeeeet! 🦋🦋🦋 Bon voyage little butterfly!

Amazing little critters. According to Google: Monarch butterflies navigate their migration using a combination of a time-compensated sun compass, polarized light detection, and a magnetic compass. Their antennae contain circadian clocks and magnetosensors, while their brains integrate these signals with information from their eyes to process the sun's position, including polarized light even on cloudy days.

Wow! How much can you put into that little Monarch brain!!!

@Alan - that is so amazing - thanks for that !

the glories of the natural world!

🎼 in the year twenty seventy three,

...if man can really see...."🎼

2173

People of Earth! You had better keep an eye on those asteroids, and come up with a solution..or Else!!

🎼What will life be

Planet of the Dolphins??

🎼will we still have democracy?

They decide life on land was not such a great idea, and went back into the ocean.

Dolphin Democracy LOL

Fun fact: Dolphins have names for each other..

🙂‍↕️

🙏🏼🦋🐬

Jimbotzu - good question....

Readie: yes, raindrops, Tribute to Robert Redford!

Hi Readie and chatters!

Jeremiah Johnson, actually based on Jedidiah Strong Smith

Robert Redford - environmentalist - great actor/director - RIP

Didn't realize the rain here in SoCal was in honor of Robert Redford's passing

Hey Danosaur! Asteroid just missed ya!!

Hey Dano!! welcome!

I'm beginning to think getting hit by an asteroid is the least of my worries, Alan

Danosaur: I have known that feeling well unfortunately..

Love the title: Inter SKA lactic LOLOL!!

I thought you might like it, Alan!

music to dodge asteroids by..

reminds me of that old PC game Asteroids...

gonna dust off my 286 !!

Skarmy of Darkness 🤘

MS DOS pre-windows...

Hey Demented, yes yes! 😃

best part, NO POP-UPS !!!!

I loved asteroids!

Just had a full weekend of ska and reggae..and I'll take some more 😎🇯🇲

Got to meet The Cables

another old-school game online- Dyno-MITE! where you could learn the different eras - cretaceous, etc.

@Demented - so sweet!!! always can use more and more...

8 Kalacas blew me away as well. Check them out

Thanks for the Rec, Demented!

👍

Reggae and afrobeats 💚💛🖤❤🤎💚💛❤🖤🤎🌸💚💛❤🤎

And especially yellowman on sotc like zungunzungu and "party" 💛💛💛💛💛💛

YES, Ossy! so good!

Readie: Re: Eras: I just read that there is mounting evidence that the Earth once had rings (caused by wayward asteriod) during the Ordovician Period, causing the "Ordovician Biodiversity Event" source: Astronomy magazine August 2025 issue

@Alan- very cool! do you know how long ago we maybe had rings?

Link is broken, Alan!

467 million years ago

Wow- hard to fathom it Alan!

https://www.sci.news/paleontology/science-pentecopterus-decorahensis-sea-scorpion-03190.html#google_vignette

a real "Jungle" !!

!!!!

back then, my advice, "STAY OUTTA THE WATER!!!!"

WOW that percussion reminded me of that great Santana drum solo from Woodstock

Thanks everybody for droppin' by! ❤️❤️❤️ See you next time - have a great week!!

@Jimbotzu - you said it!

Many Thanks Readie! Peace! Enjoy the day & bcnu!

thx all!

Til we all meet again☮️💟🙏🏼

Hey Readie sitting at my desk - unfortunately can't listen - but just for the he'll of it did a quick google search. What I referenced earlier with Green Onions/Pink Floyd.https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/booker-t-inspired-pink-floyd/

Never even really put the two together til I really listened to the version you played earlier