http://xray.fm/shows/buked-scorned-the-gospel-radio-hour 'Buked & Scorned: The Gospel Radio Hour Hosted by: DJ Yeti Recorded in Hazel Park, Michigan Played on the air in Portland, Oregon Sundays, 11:00am–12:00pm In the one-hour weekly radio program "'Buked & Scorned: The Gospel Radio Hour," DJ YETI AKA Mike McGonigal plays a selection of killer rare, raw gospel music. McGonigal has overseen reissues of gospel for Tompkins Square, Mississippi, Penniman, City Hall, Honest Jons and his own Social Music label. I don't know what else to say and I was told to write a longer blurb. So I'll make myself seem Important by quoting from a few reviews: "Mike McGonigal, whose literary magazine Yeti mixes indie rock and literature, has been collecting gospel 45s on vanity and tiny independent labels for years, and in his spare time he's put out Fire in My Bones and This May Be My Last Time Singing, two triple-disc sets of amazing stuff from his collection. Some of it, like the Mississippi Nightingales' "Don't Let Him Ride," is fairly conventional, but some of it isn't. Elder Roma Wilson and Family were a man and his three sons, all four of them playing harmonicas, recorded in 1948 at a Detroit record store on the track "Better Get Ready." They weren't even informed that their record had been released until McGonigal contacted them." -- Ed Ward, NPR Music "Finding And Curating The Roots Of Soul Music," April 6 2012 "In 2009, YETI publisher (and Pitchfork contributor) Mike McGonigal assembled a compilation of "raw, rare, and otherworldly African-American gospel" that showcased his penchant for wild, devil-fearing church songs. As far as gospel collections go, Fire in My Bones felt revelatory, crucial: those three discs of evangelical missives reconfigured religious music as unpredictable, sonically challenging material. McGongial's next project, This May Be My Last Time Singing, focuses specifically on gospel songs recorded and released between 1957 and 1982. Like its predecessor, it's a deeply compelling document of the various ways human beings talk to God." -- Amanda Petrusich, Pitchfork, September 29, 2011 "Mike McGonigal curates gospel music anthologies for Tompkins Square, and they’re rather difficult to write about or even fully take in, simply because it’s hard to move past the initial shock that these things exist at all. I wrote about his revelatory Fire in My Bones anthology at the tail end of 2009, and was, like most listeners, gobsmacked by the found treasures that appeared on its three discs, appropriately termed by McGonigal as “otherworldly.” And glory be: He’s done it again. Not only did he cull enough material to make a follow-up set, another three-discer called This May Be My Last Time Singing, but he has both narrowed its chronological span by some years, focusing here largely on the 1960s and 1970s, but he has produced a set of music that’s even stronger, more compelling, and more shockingly good than the collection that came before." -- Jon Hurst, Hurst Review, October 1, 2011 http://m.metrotimes.com/Blogs/archives/2015/01/06/hear-some-rare-detroit-gospel-including-previously-unreissued-otis-johnson Metro Times Music Blog Hear some rare Detroit gospel, including previously unreissued Otis Johnson Posted by Mike McGonigal on Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:43 PM Since they started about a year ago, I've had a weekly radio show on a small community radio station in Portland, OR called X-Ray FM. It's a cool station, mixing liberal talk radio in the day (notably Thom Hartmann) with a slew of genre-specific music shows in the evenings and weekends. You might be interested in my own show. It's called 'Buked & Scorned: The Gospel Radio Hour, and as you might have guessed, it's all gospel music. For legal reasons, the station only hosts archives going back two weeks. My show from last Sunday is still live (and listenable to right here). That particular show was entirely culled from vinyl records I picked up in town over the holiday break — old, scratched-up records, fur sure, but all new to me. I continued to do the show despite my move to the Detroit area last September. And naturally the show is going to to just get better now that I'm so much closer to the source for this music. A handful of Detroit artists are in the hour-long set, but three are especially notable: the eerie, drum machine-driven "Get to Heaven" by Otis Johnson; an exciting excerpt from a sermon with the choir and backing band kicking in, "When I Could I Wouldn't; Now I Want to But I Can't" by Rev. Jodie Holmes on the Natural label; and the mournful a capella take on "See How They Done My Lord" by the Stripes of Glory. That last group formed in London in the early 1960s while stationed there in the armed services. They recorded one 45 for Peacock, and were otherwise unrecorded until three decades later. I'm super interested in finding out more about each of these extraordinary gospel artists, so if you know even the littlest thing about them, please contact me here or just leave a comment, OK!