The Sweet Spot Radio Show
The Sweet Spot is your sweetest, funkiest musical biography show that airs the third and fourth Thursday of the month on WBAI 99.5 FM and wbai.org. Check out our blog at http://www.thesweetspotnyc.com
Episodes
We were honored to welcome filmmaker Victorious De Costa into the studio for an extended chat on his heartfelt documentary on one of our overlooked musical geniuses, Weldon Irvine.
Digging For Weldon Irvine explores the enduring legacy of a man deeply vital to the culture of black freedom expression, yet is somehow overlooked within that very lexicon. Learn more about the authorized do...
East New York's own Mr. Reed joins us to discuss his philosophy of soul, music and life and brings along plenty of sounds that illustrate why this hard working musician is a jewel in the crown of new R&B and soul music.
One of the most accomplished and distinctive voices that transcends genre, Dionne Warwick is a true legend.
The Sweet Spot was beyond thrilled to speak to her about her decades of hits, her partnership with Burt Bacharach and Hal David and her new release "I'm Back".
Every bit as warm and lovely as her music, tune in for a warm and wonderful conversation followed by a Dionne Warwick power hour of music!
January is a perfect time to heat it up in the studio! So we had our fave Brazilian Musical Auntie come by with a dose of modern Brazilian tunes.
Jen Nascimento (Tia Jenny) is a percussionist focusing on African and Brazilian drums, and a trained singer as well. For 20 years she has sung and played in jazz, afrobeat, blues, and Latin bands, often reinterpreting the diverse Brazilian classics she grew up hearing at home. Her love of...
2019 marks an incredible 50 years of the seminal jazz/funk/r&b band Kool & the Gang and we were beyond thrilled to have Robert "Kool" Bell in the studio to play some of the deeper cuts from the bands vast catalog of hits and b-sides before they hit stages worldwide this year to "Celebrate".
Prince Hakim Bell joined his father in the studio and debuted his new single and proved indeed that talent runs deep in the Bell DNA.
This was...
Special guest DJ Funmi Ononaiye brought friends Frank Lacy, Justin Robinson and Evan Sherman to the show to pay tribute to a great musician and dear friend.
The music community suffered a devastating loss with the transition of Roy Hargrove.
The relationship Roy had with music was so vibrant and crackled with so much energy and feeling that it is hard to believe he is not with us anymore.
Roy did leave us ...
There's an old saying that you can tell a man by the company he keeps and if this is indeed true Cassio Ware is a real gem! The House Music legend rolled up in our Brooklyn studios with some of Jersey's most talented (and nicest!) and we proceeded to have a blast! Cassio laid out a lot of the history of the Jersey House scene and shared new music that the talented Vickie Ryan, Cynthia Tucker and Kyle "The ...
Fonda Rae's most iconic record may be "Over Like A Fat Rat" but that is just scratching the surface of this illustrious vocalist's and multi-instrumentalist's career.
We were thrilled to have her in the studio to discuss her many collaborations (Patrick Adams, Kid Creole to name a few) and got a chance to premiere some fresh new music from new collaborators like DJ Polo. Fonda is an amazing artist with an infectious personality and...
Enjoy this short but action packed piece taken from our first day in Detroit - this was at the Queen of Soul's memorial at The Charles H Wright museum. Aretha was BELOVED by Detroit and Detroit was beloved by Aretha.
The pic you see of the gold coffin was taken at the actual funeral - we didn't get too much coverage there as we wanted to be respectful and it was quite honestly so overwhelming to see some of the greatest artists and...
Aretha's talent transcended the written word and defied description. This is part one of a two part series focused mostly on the Atlantic years as there is no way to pack over six decades of music into two hours.
Recorded live in the studio on the night she passed, Aug 16th, 2018.
New Orleans Queen of the rare groove DJ Soul Sister is also a funky professor!
Host of the long running WWOZ rare groove staple "Soul Power" this powerhouse vinyl queen is also moonlighting earning her degree at Tulane in musicology!
We go deep with some of Soul Sisters favorite tunes as she drops serious knowledge on all that is funky!
The D is in the house (and Jersey too for that matter) as we celebrate the newest offering from P-Funk family "Detroit Rising"!
Greg Fitz(Van McKoy, Quazar, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Musical Director for Bernie Worell) and Stozo the Clown (illustrator and art director for P-Funk, Fred Wesley, James Brown) join us for the funk, the whole funk and nothing but the funk!
Also joining from the Motor City - Gabe Gonzalez (P-Funk drummer) an...
We were honored to have the fabulous, effervescent Ruth Pointer of The Pointer Sisters on the show to share some of the highlights of her long lived and well deserved show biz career. The Sisters catalog contains a truly diverse mix of music from jazz, soul, r&b, rock, pop and even country! What is evident is anything they lent their voice to was imbued with a passion and soulfulness grounded by their gospel upbringing.
The Pointe...
For our November show, we got a chance to link with prolific much loved disco singer Christine Wiltshire - all the way from Amsterdam! Check out Hans R. de Vries bio below for all the facts on the much accomplished songbird and take a listen to our two hour interview as Christine shares some of the memories from Disco's Golden Age!
Singer Christine Wiltshire , originally a native of Brooklyn, New York started her professional caree...
Joshie "Jo" Armstead is truly a soul music renaissance woman with a career that includes being one of the original touring Ikettes on the road with the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, writing hit songs for Ray Charles with Ashford and Simpson, appearing on Broadway in a Melvin Van Peebles production, owning her own successful record label in Chicago and landing a deal with the legendary STAX Records. A true pioneer who's name should be ...
We were fortunate enough to catch Carmen Lundy live at Birdland earlier in this year where she celebrated the release of her latest recording "Code Noir". Lundy, w...
