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The first electric Blues artist to use a Fender Stratocaster given to him by Leo Fender himself.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
Recorded at Decca Studios late one night into the early morning hours in 1947, three Chicago musicians reminisced their former times in early 20th ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 01:52:28
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, this show is devoted to “Fess” -- Henry Roeland Byrd, aka Professor Longhair - the pianist whose music fills the stree...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Feb 11, 2021
- Length: 51:58
- Purchases: 1
The series opens by traveling to the 1920s to hear how Black Americans fought for space on radio airwaves. Then, we hear about programs in the 1940...
Bought by Room Tone Selects, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, KRSC, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 51:59
- Purchases: 79
With Covid-19 shutdowns, people have been taking advantage of quiet highways to drive as fast as they can from New York City to Redondo Beach, Cali...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 32:22
One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 23:35
Early in his career, Errol Morris read about a shocking series of alleged insurance crimes in Florida. When he told an insurance investigator he wa...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 41:57
In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
Sugar Ray Norcia and the Bluetones featuring (the late) Little Charlie Baty
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
A classic rocker's take on some songs of Muddy Waters.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 59:58
- Purchases: 1
A great Blues band from Swanton, Vermont, The Nobby Reed Project is one all blues enthusiasts should hear!
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 01:00:09
Host Rick Brewer learns the details of a family secret. The story of how his parents met.
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 17:28
Fifty years ago, 30,000 people peacefully protested the disproportionate number of Latinos dying on the frontlines in Vietnam. The August 29th Chic...
Bought by WFHB, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, KVNF, KDNK and more
- Added: Aug 26, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
These three musicians changed the public's view of the Blues.
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 59:49
Listen to this story on how an act of benign neglect transformed Southwest Ohio based WYSO from a small public radio station into a community.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 16, 2020
- Length: 30:33
- Purchases: 1
A virtual trip back in time to November 21st, 1964 to Chicago's Regal Theater to hear B.B. King
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 59:49
- Added: Jul 13, 2020
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 3
This Ace harp player has got a traditional sound and has shared the stage with many other musicians, yet remains somewhat a secret in the Blues li...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 59:24
A career spanning 50 years, Robert Cray is a major mainstay in the world of Blues music.
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 59:58
Excello Records was Nashville's first Blues label
- Added: May 21, 2020
- Length: 59:38
One of the many types of Blues music is a regional style named "Bentonia Blues" as it was founded and based out of Bentonia, Mississippi.
- Added: May 12, 2020
- Length: 59:36
A great album from 1999. The album is "Double Shot" by Snooky Pryor and Mel Brown.
- Added: May 10, 2020
- Length: 59:06
The Year 2020 marks the 50th Anniversary of one of the best magazines on African-American Blues Tradition. This episode honors and congratulates th...
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 59:56
The First band to be recorded for the Alligator Records label.
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 57:40
They tired and were weary of the depressed South and Migrated to the City of Promise, Chicago.
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 56:50
