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Monday, 31 October 2005 21:19 |
 The John Sinclair Radio Show is a series of one-hour programs produced "live" on location in the coffeeshops and cultural hotspots of Amsterdam and at a wild variety of sites in the United States. Hosted and programmed by the legendary John Sinclair, the Radio Show features the poet's signature mixture of roots music, cultural commentary and entertaining interviews with musicians, artists and social and cultural activists of all sorts.
The John Sinclair Radio Show is podcast weekly by RadioFreeAmsterdam.com and archived at johnsinclair.us. The show is produced, engineered, recorded and podcasted by Henk Botwinik for CreativeResources and co-produced by John Sinclair for Big Chief Productions. Larry Hayden is executive producer, and the webmaster for RadioFreeAmsterdam.com is Ferre van Beveren. Recently added to our production krewe are engineer/producer Will Dawson and production associate Octavio Carrasco.
The John Sinclair Radio Show has emanated from Coffeeshop Amnesia, 420 CafΘ, Homegrown Fantasy, Sensi Museum Coffeeshop, the Cannabis College, PRE CafΘ, CafΘ Aroma, Schipol Airport, Winston International Hotel, CS Post Building, Ruigoord, Paradiso, Galeria Tongue & Groove, What Is Happening Here Artspace, Rock-It, Barney's Brasserie and on the Pigeon Poetry Boat canal cruise, all in Amsterdam, and from locations in the United States from Detroit, Ann Arbor, New Orleans and Oxford Mississippi to Los Angeles, Berkeley, Memphis and Pumpkin Hollow, Tennessee.
Even with the tremendous explosion in personal broadcasting since the beginning of the podcast era, there is no other program in the world like The John Sinclair Radio Show. The show combines the hippest music to be heard anywhere, the distinctive delivery and well-developed point of view of the host, an ever-changing cast of crazy characters and special guests, impromptu live music and poetry performances, arts and cultural news and information and the excitement of setting up in the middle of a scene and bringing its listeners a vivid audio portrait of just what's happening at that moment. .
John Sinclair started out spinning R&B singles for teen-age dances and parties around Flint, Michigan in the second half of the 1950s, working under the moniker "Frantic John -- Flint's Youngest Deejay." His first radio shows were broadcast by carrier current at Albion College in the fall of 1959. He was a frequent guest host on WABX, Detroit's underground FM station, in 1968-69 and produced his first regular program series, "Toke Time: The Blues & Jazz Festival of the Air," at WNRZ-FM in Ann Arbor in 1972-73.
Sinclair produced and hosted the program series "Ancestor Worship," "Re:Visions," and "The Sounds of Detroit" for WCBN-FM at the University of Michigan between 1975-81 and returned to the airwaves in 1989-91 with the "Blue Sensations" show on WDET-FM in Detroit.
Sinclair moved to New Orleans in 1991 and went on the air at WWOZ-FM the next year with his Saturday night "Blues & Roots" show. He added his popular Wednesday afternoon "New Orleans Music Show" in 1993, designed and produced the station's live broadcast of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, produced the first three of WWOZ's "Sounds of New Orleans" bi-annual CD series, and produced nationally-sydicated programs for the station including "Mardi Gras in New Orleans with Dr. John."
John Sinclair won a Silver Reel Award from the National Association of Community Broadcasters for his "Mardi Gras Indian Music Special" in 1994, and for his last five years in New Orleans (1999-2003) Sinclair was voted the city's favorite radio personality by the readers of OffBeat magazine. He has also produced programming for WGBH-FM in Boston and WVAS-FM at Alabama State University.
John Sinclair is also active as a poet, performer and bandleader who has issued more than a dozen CDs and performas all over America and western Europe with his ensemble, the Blues Scholars. He is a renowned music journalist who has contributed features, interviews, reviews and columns to magazines from downbeat to Living Blues, the Detroit Metro Times to OffBeat and the New Orleans Times-Picayune. He has published several books of potry and journalism including Guitar Army, Music & Politics, and his blues work in verse, Fattening Frogs For Snakes: Delta Sound Suite. Steve Gebhardt's feature film 20 To Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair will be released in 2006. Sinclair's papers and personal archives are housed at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
THE JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW
Hosted by John Sinclair for Big Chief Productions
Produced, engineered & podcast by Henk Botwinik
Executive Producer: Larry Hayden
Associate Producers: Will Dawson, Octavio Carrasco
Webmaster: Ferre van Beveren
Hosting: Cannabis Hosting, Amsterdam
Originating from Radio Free Amsterdam
www.RadioFreeAmsterdam.com
A Communicating Arts Project of Stichting EPISODES
THE JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW ARCHIVES
This site is the home of the archives of the John Sinclair Radio Show since its inception in November 2004. A program description and playlist for each archived show is available when you go to the individual page to listen to each show. Go to the archives »3.1.617 |
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