Detroit Life

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 22 The Dolphins, Amsterdam, January 1, 2008 [DL8-0101] Detroit Life Radio 22 This episode is the first in a series of rebroadcasts of the Blue Dolphins blues show originally aired from The Dolphins coffeeshop in Amsterdam every Tuesday night in early 2008 and featuring music like this [...]

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no cover radio hour 4 This is the fourth No Cover Radio Hour and this one features 15 songs from 15 more the fifth sampler from the Detroit Blues Label No Cover Productions. The show is hosted by label President Mike Boulan to get your own No Cover CD’s go to www.nocover.net 1. Human Space Heater [...]

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no cover radio hour 3 This is the third show in the No Cover Radio Hour series – each features 14 songs from the Detroit blues label No Cover Productions and is hosted by label owner Mike Boulan to get your own No Cover CD’s go to www.nocover.net 1. Baby Don’t You Worry (Lucas) 3:51 [...]

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 21 John Sinclair Radio Show 286 Bohemian National Home, Detroit, October 25, 2009 [DL9-1025] Detroit Life Radio 21 I’m celebrating my father’s birthday today—Jack Sinclair, born in Kinde, Michigan, October 25, 1910—he would’ve made 99 years old today! Juan Carlos Hearn, Artist in Residence at the Bohemian [...]

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 20 John Sinclair Radio Show 197 Straight Ahead Studio, Oak Park, MI, May 1, 2008 [DL8-0501] Detroit Life Radio 20 Mike Boulan’s No Cover Records was founded in 1993 and in 15 years has documented a vast array of Detroit blues artists and issued their recordings in [...]

Among the few white Americans who made actual physical and social contact with the black inhabitants of its city center, the bohemian sector in Detroit quickly learned that racism was pretty much a one-way street and soon found its denizens forming fast friendships and strong working relationships with the people around them. In the bohemian art world people were judged and deemed worthy on the basis of the quality of their work and the nature of their personalities, the exact criteria almost universally applied throughout African America, so it was easy to begin to see eye to eye as fellow humans and coexist in unaccustomed peace and harmony.

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 19 John Sinclair Radio Show 203 Jazz Loft, Detroit, April 20, 2008 [DL8-0420] Detroit Life Radio 19 This episode comes beaming out of the Jazz Loft in downtown Detroit from the 4th Annual John Sinclair 420 Party, Music & Art Fair produced by Holice P. Wood every [...]

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 18 Salto Radio, Amsterdam: Wereld-99.4 FM, Cable 104.6 Bohemian National Home, Detroit, October 24, 2009 [SW-0002] Detroit Life Radio 18 This program is the second episode of the Sinclair On The Air show heard on the radio airwaves in Holland at midnight on Saturday nights via the [...]

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 17 Salto Radio, Amsterdam: Wereld-99.4 FM, Cable 104.6 Bohemian National Home, Detroit, October 17, 2009 [DL9-0117] Detroit Life Radio 17 The masterminds at Radio Free Amsterdam have finally succeeded in securing a weekly slot for our programming at Wereld-99.4 FM in Holland, an on-air service of Salto [...]

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 16 John Sinclair Radio Show 279 Bohemian National Home, Detroit, September 7, 2009 [DL9-0707] Detroit Life Radio 16 We begin our regular weekly schedule for the John Sinclair Radio Show with this episode and I’m broadcasting from my residence at the Bohemian National Home in Detroit as [...]