The Vinyl Exile: Recent Episodes
Jemal Wilson
NO POLITICS!! JUST MUSIC FROM THE VINYL. THE WHOLE VINYL AND NOTHING BUT THE VINYL! “The Vinyl Exile” is a music podcast in which I only play music from out of print vinyl albums that are no longer available as domestic releases on compact discs and are unavailable as digital download tracks. The pops, skips and surface noises that you hear on the songs will not be edited out or cleaned up.
The show pays tribute to the Beatles from artists Eddie Hazel, Frank Zappa, Otis Redding, Aerosmith, Reggie Milner, Isaac Hayes, Earth, Wind & Fire, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, George Burns, Keith Moon, David Porter, Alice Cooper & The Bee Gees, Beyonce, Booker T. & The M.G.s, Ike & Tina Turner, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, The Temptations, Carla Thomas, George Benson, Wilson Pickett, Frankie Laine, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Peter Gabriel, The Bar Kays, Bettye LaVette, Frank Sinatra and Johnny Cash
Posting Date-7/12/2026 The vinyl podcast show is back with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Paris, Concrete Blonde, Pete Townshend, Amanda Lear, Jan & Dean, Donald Fagan, Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee Fager, Nina Simone, Martha & The Muffins, Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles, Jerry Murad's Harmonicats, Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle, Oscar Brown Jr., The Shoes and Earth, Wind & Fire.
In this pre-St. Patrick Day episode, I decide to do a short rock out show because my wife isn't home.
Music from Bobby Scott, Neil Diamond, Bruce Springsteen, Bobby Womack, The Jeff Healey Band, Traveling Wilburys, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, The Isley Brothers, Todd Rundgren, Stargard, The Family, Slade, Jack White, John Entwhistle, Tears For Fears, The Cars, Ike & Tina Turner and Cheap Trick
Music from KISS, Muddy Waters, Village People, E.U., Bruce Springsteen, Toto, Cheap Trick, Blondie, The Rascals, Roger Troutman, Jackie Nitro & The Soul Brothers, Tompall Glaser, Frank Zappa, Mother's Finest, Eddie Hazel and Sting.
This is an episode in which I decide to experiment with an online radio network with music by Peter Wolf, The Untouchables, Oscar Brown Jr., Jill Sobule, The Jeff Healey Band, Funkadelic, Peter Tosh With Mick Jagger, Utopia, The Beatles, Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Buck Pets, Faces, Janis Joplin, The Church, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, Connie Francis, Bruce Springsteen, The Fraternity Of Man, Tami Show, Curtis Mayfield and Electric Light Orchestra
This episode recorded on 30 MG of edibles contains music from E.U., Madonna, Doug Kershaw, Third World, Omar & The Howlers, David Byrne, The Doors, Madhouse, Deep Purple, Gamma, Oscar Brown Jr., Ten City, Kate Bush, The Soul Brothers, Jackson Five, Angel, Holly Johnson, Dire Straits, Santessa, Marvin Gaye, Jellyfish, Ethel Merman, Utopia, Garbage and Bettye LaVette
I do a podcast semi-sober with just a half an edible and some red wine as I play music from Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Eric Johnson, Billy Cobham, Oscar Brown Jr., Johnny Cash and others
Musical highlights include National Lampoon, Leon Russell, Prince And The Revolution, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, The Beatles, Joe Cocker, Cheap Trick, The Allman Brothers Band, Aerosmith, The Rance Allen Group, The Specials, Talking Heads, Isaac Hayes, Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets, Albert King, The Police, The Bodysnatchers, Peter Frampton, Pete Townshend's Deep End and Bruce Springsteen
I'm programming an episode stoned from a 50 mg edible. I end up playing Cheap Trick, Mandrill, Steely Dan, Frank Zappa, Todd Rundgren & Utopia, Queensryche, The Housemartins and a tribute to Jill Sobule.
I'm programming an episode stoned from a 50 mg edible. I end up playing Cheap Trick, Mandrill, Steely Dan, Frank Zappa, Todd Rundgren & Utopia, Queensryche, The Housemartins and a tribute to Jill Sobule.
Episode 74 covers songs on vinyl from artists that mentally get me through life. Those artists include Jellyfish, Prince, Golden Earring, Talking Heads, The Rascals, The Beatles and Pink Floyd
This episode celebrates Women's History Month with Patti Smith, Mae West, Kate Bush, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Bette Midler, Aretha Franklin & Annie Lennox, Millie Jackson, Stevie Nicks & Sheryl Crow, Olivia Newton-John, Shawn Colvin, Barbara Streisand & Barry Gibb, Margo Price, Labelle, The Pointer Sisters, The Selecter, Claudine Longet, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Marlena Shaw, Madonna, Fredia Payne, Vanity & Morris Day, Eurogliders, Dionne Warwick, Vicki Sue Robinson and Millie Jackson with The Pointer Sisters
Episode 72 takes a lighter content approach after the previous Black History Month episode with The Beatles, Beyonce & Miley Cyrus, Isley Jasper Isley, Kate Bush, David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Frank Sinatra, The Four Tops, The Cranberries, Dolly Parton, Dionne Warwick, The Rascals, Johnny Clegg & Savuka, Todd Rundgren with Bobby Womack, Billy Tipton, Mother's Finest, The Pagans, Greg Kihn Band, Barry White, Bill Cosby, Jesse Johnson & Sly Stone, Genesis, Udo Dirkschneider, Sammy B, Seauphine & Black Oak Arkansas, The Yeastie Girls with Consolidated, Prince & The New Power Generation and The Housemartins
We will not be erased as I celebrate Black History Month with the artists Richard Pryor, Watts Prophets, Prince, Betty Davis, Mandrill, Marlena Shaw, Willie Peacock, Roy Harper, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Kain, Gil Scott-Heron, Lumpen, The Family Stand, Shahid Quintet, Stokely Carmichael, Dick Gregory, Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder
(Original Broadcast Date-January 31, 2025) The show now has a new format and outlook as we play tracks by Angelo Badalmenti, Roy Orbison, Roger Waters, Paris, Millie Jackson, Booker T. & The M.G.'s, The Main Ingredient, The Philadelphia International All-Stars, The Bar Kays, The Isley Brothers, The Kind, Weezer, Randy Newman and Rebekah Del Rio
Original Broadcast Date-December 14, 2024 The final episode of 2024 pays tribute to The Beatles with cover versions from Frank Sinatra, Ike & Tina Turner, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, k.d. lang, Lou Rawls, The Crusaders, The Brothers Johnson, Peter Gabriel, National Lampoon, The Four Seasons, Keith Moon, Bryan Ferry, Wes Montgomery, Earth, Wind & Fire, Eddie Hazel, Ray Charles, The Carpenters and Frank Zappa
Original Broadcast Date: December 7, 2024 Music from Lou Rawls, Paul McCVartney & Foo Fighters, George Harrison, Jellyfish, Patti Smith, Stevie Wonder, Toto, Hall & Oates, Whitesnake, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Roger Waters, The Isley Brothers, The Untouchables and Utopia
(Original Broadcast Date-November 23, 2024) An episode that pays tribute to the music of Mickey Avalon, Stevie Wonder, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jellyfish, Utopia, Patti Smith, The Beatles, The Church, Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Long John Baldry, Cheap Trick, Hawkwind, Rick Springfield with Foo Fighters, Kate Bush, Hall & Oates and The Jeff Healey Band
Another podcast episode that highlights my weird personality matched with great music. Oh well......
(Original Broadcast Date: May 4, 2024) This episode focuses on my 2024 Record Store Day experience at Dumb Records in Springfield, Illinois and I also have my first request and dedication performed on the show.
(Original Broadcast Date: March 16, 2024) I continue on with the legacy of out of print 12 vinyl remixes.
(Original Broadcast Date: January 1, 2024) This episode rings in the new year by paying tribute to the 12 inch remix genre with tracks from David Naughton, Madonna, Roger, Joeski Love, Naked Eyes, Robert Palmer, Toni Basil, Talking Heads, Morris Day, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Bobby Jimmy & The Critters, The Police, Tim Curry plus Queen & Wyclef Jean Featuring Pras, Free & Canibus
(Original Broadcast Date-September 2, 2023) Music from Big Twist & The Mellow Fellows, Manchild, Cher, The Pointer Sisters, Hazel O'Connor, Larry Santos, Cannonball Adderly & Sergio Mendes, Frankie Crocker's Heart And Soul Orchestra, Talking Heads, Aerosmith, Cleo Laine, China Crisis, Wilson Pickett, Golden Earring. Mother's Finest, El Chicano, Robert Palmer and The Stylistics
Original Broadcast Date: August 26, 2023 Songs from Alicia Myers, Big Big Sun, Larry Santos, Cannonball Adderly With Sergio Mendes, Frankie Crocker's Heart And Soul Orchestra, Roberta Kelly, Dan Hartman, Mark-Almond, Michael Masser, Jon Ashley, Roger Daltrey, Chaka Khan, The Group With No Name, Lawrence Welk, China Crisis, Mother's Finest, Kirsty Macoll, Trouble Funk, Afrika Bambaataa & James Brown, El Chicano, The Call, Robbie Robertson, Tom Jones, Connie Francis, The Stylistics and Jonathan Butler
Original Broadcast Date: August 11, 2023 Artists include Andy Taylor, Phil Collins, Mink DeVille, Baxter Robertson, Chuck Mangione, The Mills Brothers, Patrick Simmons, Steve Martin, George Burns, The Knack, Floyd Dakar Combo, The Four Flares, Face To Face, Chuck Jackson, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Manchild, Tami Show, Ruby Starr, Bill Withers, The Christians, Black Sabbath, Martha And The Muffins, Jimmy Barnes, The Specials, The Temptations, Circle Jerks, Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta, Osibisa & Smokie
(Original Broadcast Date: July 15, 2023) Vinyl tracks from The Mills Brothers & Count Basie, Baxter Robertson, Grandpa Jones, Andy Summers, Cartoone, Connie Boswell & The Paulette Sisters, Eddy Grant, Egg Cream Featuring Andy Adams, Full Swing, Ike & Tina Turner, The Joneses, Lou Rawls, Madura, Oxo, The Producers, Pussy, Eddie Money, Slim Gaillard, The Biddu Orchestra and Olympic Runners
(Original Broadcast Date-July 1, 2023) I pay tribute to the Queen Of Rock N Roll by playing the out of print releases "Tina Turns The Country On" and "Rough"
Original Broadcast Date: May 13, 2023 Music from Lisa Stansfield & Barry White, The Call, Robert Palmer, Willie Dixon, Diana Ross & Lionel Richie, The Pointer Sisters, Gary U.S. Bonds, Connie Francis, Johnnie Taylor, The Housemartins, The Stylistics, The 5th Dimension and Arlo Guthrie
Original Broadcast Date-5/1/23 Music from Tom Robinson, Village People, The Ritchie Family, Motorhead, Udo Dirkschneider, Eddy Grant, Nick Lowe, Ruby Starr & Grey Ghost, Mick Warren & The Deviants, Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias, The Adverts, Wreckless Eric, The Damned, Mitch Ryder, Ian Dury, Bad Manners, The Family, Pink Floyd, Blondie and Queen
Original Broadcast Date-April 7, 2023 A special Easter episode with the out of print albums "Live At St. Douglas Convent" and "Breakfast In Heaven" With Father Guido Sarducci aka Don Novello
(Original Broadcast Date: February 27, 2023) Artists include Frank Zappa, Vanity 6, Bebe Buell, Buckingham Nicks, Connie Boswell & The Paulette Sisters, The Counts. Cristina, Crow, Eddy Grant, Frank Sinatra, The Andrea True Connection, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, The Everly Brothers, Samantha Sang, The Stylistics and Robert Palmer
(Original Broadcast Date February 26, 2023) Artists include Frank Zappa, Vanity 6, Bebe Buell, Buckingham Nicks, Connie Boswell & The Paulette Sisters, The Counts, Eddy Grant, The Andrea True Connection, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, The Everly Brothers, Samantha Sang, The Stylistics & Robert Palmer
(Original Broadcast Date: February 25, 2023) Jimi Hendrix aka Gypsy Sun And Rainbows on Monday 8/18/69 9 AM to 11:10 AM
Original Broadcast Date: February 8, 2023 The performance of She Na Na on Monday, 8/18/1969 from 7:30 AM to 8 AM
(Original Broadcast Date: February 4, 2023) Artists included are Andy Taylor, Sue Saad & The Next, Rickie Lee Jones, Suzi Quatro, Syd Straw, The Temptations, The Three Degrees, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, The Supremes, Willy DeVille, Martha & The Muffins, The Coconuts, Grace Jones, Ruby Starr, Gene Chandler, Slade, Udo Dirkschneider, Laura Strangis & Danzig
Original Broadcast Date: January 9, 2023 The Butterfield Blues Band on Monday 8/18/1969 6 AM-7:10AM
(Original Broadcast Date:December 12, 2022) The 1969 Woodstock Festival performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on Monday, 8/18/1969 from 3 AM to 4 AM
(Original Broadcast Date: December 11, 2022) The 1969 Woodstock Festival Performance of Blood, Sweat & Tears on Monday, 8/18/1969 from 1:30 AM to 2:30AM
(Original Broadcast Date 12/3/22) Johnny & Edgar Winter Monday 8/18/1969 12 AM to 1:05 AM
(Original Broadcast Date:11/19/22) Performance from The Band on Sunday 8/17/1969 from 10 PM to 10:50 PM
(Original Broadcast Date: 11/19/22) Music from The Housemartins, Eddie Hazel, Osibisa, Prince, Grandpa Jones, Nina Simone, Cartoone, The Family, Cook County, Ike Turner Presents The Family Vibes, Kim Wilde, Tanya Tucker, Ike & Tina Turner and electric era Miles Davis
(Original Broadcast Date: November 8, 2022) This episode pays tribute to the artists that have been left off the "Yacht Rock Radio" format such as The Fifth Avenue Band, Full Swing, Chunky, Novi & Ernie, Burt Bacharach, Marvin Gaye, Wendy Waldman, Isaac Hayes, Willie Nelson, Nazz, Steely Dan, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Tami Show, Mutiny, Marlena Shaw, Smokey Robinson, Robert Palmer, Commodores, View From The Hill and Kuru Sakamoto
(Original Broadcast Date-October 1, 2022) Ten Years After Sunday 8/17/1969 8:15 PM to 9:15 PM
(Original Broadcast Date-October 1, 2022) Classic music from Golden Age Adult Film Soundtracks from Alvis Wayne, Alex Puddu & Massimo Fiorentino, Sandi Hewitt & Bernard Purdie, Del Casher, The Rimshots,Charlie Feathers, Chuck Jackson, Bill Loose, Johnny Legend, The Moments, The Jack & Balls, Jerry Sikorski and Retta Young
Original Broadcast Date September 17, 2022 Sunday, 8/17/1969 6:30 PM- 7:50 PM Country Joe & The Fish
(Original Broadcast Date September 1, 2022) This episode pays tribute to The Replacement "Record Store Day" releases of "Unsuitable For Airplay-The Lost KFAI Concert" and "The Complete Inconcerated Live" from 1981 and 1989.
(Original Broadcast Date: August 13, 2022) Sunday 8/17/1969 8 AM to 9:40 AM Jefferson Airplane
(Original Broadcast Date August 7, 2022) Performance by The Who on Sunday, August 17, 1969 from 5 AM to 6:05 AM
(Original Broadcast Date-August 1, 2022) Sunday, 8/17/1969, 3:30 a.m.-4:20 a.m. Sly & The Family Stone
(Original Broadcast Date July 7, 2022) I finally tell the story about the one time that I survived a GG Allin concert at the Exit Nightclub during the nineties.
(Original Broadcast Date: July 2, 2022) Performance of Janis Joplin on Sunday 8/17/1969 at 2 AM to 3AM
Original Broadcast Date: July 2, 2022) In tribute to his upcoming "This Is Not A Drill" tour, Roger Waters And The Bleeding Heart Band are highlighted from the "When The Wind Blows" soundtrack
(Original Broadcast Date: July 2, 2022) Performance of Creedence Clearwater Revival on Sunday, 8/17/1969 12:30 AM to 1:20 AM
(Original Broadcast Date: July 2, 2022) Artists include Andre Williams & The Sadies, The Christians, Circle Jerks, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Danzig, Chuck Jackson, The Clash, Pete Townshend's Deep End, The Reducers, Dick Shawn, Tool, M People and Wendy Waldman
Original Broadcast Date: June 11, 2022 Saturday 8/16/1969 10:30PM to 11:50PM with Grateful Dead
Original Broadcast Date: June 11, 2022 The artists include The Death Wheelers, Lucius, The Cranberries, Phones Newborn Jr., Boogaloo Joe Jones, Stevie Nicks, Patti Smith, 3V, Marianne Faithful, Stormtrooper, Erasure, Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention, The Replacements and Ambrosia
Original Broadcast Date: June 11, 2022 The artists included are Accept, Frank Zappa, Pete Townshend's Deep End, The Knack, Del Casher, Danzig, Dale Hawkins, The Rimshots, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Windy City Orchestra, KISS, The ChiLites Featuring Eugene Record, Willie Nelson, Udo Dirkschneider and the worst ever version of "Please Please Please" recorded by James Brown
Original Broadcast Date June 11, 2022 Day 2 Saturday 8/16/1969, 9 PM to 10 PM with Mountain
Original Broadcast Date-May 22, 2022 Day 2 Saturday August 16, 1969-The Incredible String Band 6:00 pm-6:30 pm and Canned Heat 7:30 pm-8:45 pm
Original Broadcast Date-May 21, 2022 Day 2 Saturday August 16, 1969 with John B. Sebastian 3:30pm-3:55 pm and Keep Hartley Band 4:45 pm-5:30 pm
Original Broadcast Date April 15, 2022 This special Good Friday/Easter episode pays tribute to extremely out of print vinyl album set "Charlton Heston Reads The Five Books of Moses From The Holy Bible With The Robert DeCormier Chorale"
Original Broadcast Date April 14, 2022 Day 2 Saturday August 16,1969-Country Joe McDonald 1 PM to 1:30 PM & Santana 2 PM to 2:45PM
(Original Broadcast Date April 4, 2022) This episode pays tribute to Funk Music Icon/Pioneer Betty Mabry Davis who passed away on February 9, 2022.
(New Release Date: February 5, 2022-Previously Released Material) More footage from the 1969 Woodstock Festival
(New Release Date: February 5, 2022-Previously Released Material) More music from the 1969 Woodstock Festival
(New Broadcast Date: January 9, 2022) Dedicated in loving memory to Woodstock Festival co-founder Michael Lang (12/11/1944-1/8/2022) More complete footage of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival
(Previously released footage) More complete footage from the 1969 Woodstock Festival while the Vinyl Exile podcast is on hiatus.
(Original Broadcast Date: September 12, 2021) This episode pays tribute to the influential and award winning musical education series "Schoolhouse Rock".
(Original Broadcast Date-September 5, 2021) This episode pays tribute to the overlooked rock and punk artists from the Illinois music scene such as M&R Rush, Verboten, The Rage, Matteson All Stars, The Buzzards, The Shades, Desmond, Da, Scraps, Mentally Ill, Painterband, Amy Hart, Champion, Take Me, Strike Under, Bohemia, EYZ, Spit Balls., The Pawnz, The Roadside Band, Tutu & The Pirates, Dreamer, The Way Outs, Subverts, The Odd, Toothpaste, End Result, Trial By Fire, Clox, Articles Of Faith, Negative Element, Rights Of The Accused, Savage Beliefs, Nadsat Rebel, Lois Lane and Naked Raygun
(Original Broadcast Date: August 24, 2021) Music from Van McCoy, Prelude, Rick Wakeman, The Mothers, Don Felder, War, Mandrill, Pussy, Latimore, David Naughton, Richard Harris, Focus, Walter Carlos and Stevie Nicks
(Original Broadcast Date August 10, 2021) Soundtrack music from Bernard Purdie & Sandi Hewitt, Dusty Springfield & Pet Shop Boys, Sylvester Stallone, Red 7, Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora, Kristy McNichol, Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), Frank Stallone & Cynthia Rhodes, Marlene Dietrich, Fire Inc. and Mutiny
This episode pays tribute to the 1969 Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York. (Previously released footage)
(Original Broadcast Date: August 16, 2020) This episode presents the rare 1985 release of "Mud Will Be Flung Tonight" and Millie Jackson's 1982 release "Live And Outrageous"
(Original Broadcast Date: August 16, 2020) Songs from Camp North Star Kids Chorus, The Counts, Full Swing, Suzi Quatro, Marlene Dietrich, Stevie Nicks, Carol Chase, Andy Taylor, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Circle Jerks, Lou Rawls, Cartoone, Vicki Sue Robinson, Rick Wakeman, John Eddie, The Insiders, Eddy Grant and Which One's Pink?
(Original Broadcast Date-May 6, 2020) Artists included are Peter Wolf, Black Oak Arkansas, The Coup, Cat Stevens, The Biddu Orchestra, Olympic Runners, The Floaters, Nancy Shanks, Missing Persons, Van Stephenson, Leon & Mary Russell, Joe Cocker, It's A Beautiful Day, The Stylistics and Pink Floyd
(Original Broadcast Date: May 10, 2019) This episode presents the out of print erotic recordings in their entirety of "The Sensuous Woman" by "J (Joan Garrity)", "The Sensuous Black Man" by Rudy Ray Moore and "The Sensuous Black Woman" by The Madam
This episode plays the out of print comedy albums "Looking Good (1975)" by Freddie Prinze and "Richard Nixon Superstar" by David Frye
(Original Broadcast Date: May 8, 2019) Songs from Mandrill, The Jacksons, Rebbie Jackson, Angel, Frank Zappa, Giuffria, Eric Clapton, Gene Wilder, Barbara Streisand, Georhe Burns, Peter Gabriel and Bette Midler
Music from Crow, Eddie Money, Merle Haggard, The Producers, Ike Turner Presents The Family Vibes, The Joneses, Latimore, Sylvester Stallone, Pussy, El Chicano, Sue Saad & The Next, Baxter Robertson, Osibisa, The Temptations and Donna Summer
(Original Broadcast Date: September 30, 2018) Music from Buckingham/Nicks, Ike & Tina Turner, Leroy Gomez, Pussy, The Mills Brothers With Count Basie, Black Rose, Merle Haggard, John Eddie, Deborah Washington, Marilyn Scott, Franke & The Knockouts, The Young Rascals and The Statler Brothers.
(Original Broadcast Date: September 29, 2018) I pay musical tribute to the passing of actor/director Burt Reynolds by playing all of his musical recordings in their entirety. The 1973 release, "Ask Me What I Am". The 1975 Cole Porter movie musical, "At Long Last Love" and his only chart hit from the 1980 "Smokey And The Bandit 2" soundtrack, "Let's Do Something Cheap And Superficial.
(Original Broadcast Date: July 10, 2018) I'm finally back after being away for a year and a half with a new show format, new attitude and not so new music.