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Caption: After making his recording debut for Paramount in 1927, Gus Cannon teamed up with some old friends and formed “Cannon’s Jug Stompers,” who made their first sides as a group for Victor, in early 1928.
Join us as we continue our look at the blues in Memphis, this time from early 1928. We’ll hear recordings made for Victor by Cannon’s Jug Stompers,...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: The first group to record in Memphis, on February 24th, 1927, the Memphis Jug Band were hugely popular and became widely influential. Illustration by R. Crumb.
Join us as we get into our time machine, and go back to the year 1927, to take a look at the very beginnings of the blues in Memphis. We’ll hear cl...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
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Kristopher Ohlendorf is a Media Studies grad student and ponderer of big questions. Like, why is that bicycle horn honking in the Beach Boys “You ...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:08
Caption: Another rare offering from the Bluesville catalog, this LP, by Brooks Berry and Scrapper Blackwell, never made it to the digital age.
Join us for another installment of "The Legends of Bluesville," as we aim the spotlight on the city of Indianapolis. Home to a once-thriving musica...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: Students at Live Art., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Live Art, sponsored by the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC), is the only program of its kind in the country. It’s th...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 25:38
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Live Art,sponsored the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community, is the only program of its kind in the country, or the world for t...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2015
  • Length: 24:21
Caption: Wee Bea Booze, one of the sweethearts of Decca, who had a huge number one hit in 1942 with "See See Rider."
Join us as we celebrate "The Sweethearts of Decca," with a program dedicated to just the ladies. Our inspiration comes from the "The Decca Blues Bo...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: Soul Sound, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Live Art is the only program of its kind in the country, if not the world. It’s the brainchild of Erin Thomas Foley and what it manages to do is as...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 25:59
Caption: Recording the prisoners at Parchman Farm. Photo by Alan Lomax.
Join us for an extra special program of stories and songs collected from Parchman Farm, one of the most notorious prisons in the United States. Asi...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: Laila & Aleks at a house show in May, 2013
This is a story of a white immigrant troublemaker from Eastern Europe, a black revolutionary musician from New York and how one of them saves the o...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 13:56
Caption: This tribute album, issued by Bluesway in 1973, was compiled from recordings Hooker made in 1966 and 1967 in Sauk City, Wisconsin.
Join us for a special tribute to slide guitar master Earl Hooker. During the spring and summer of 1969, he recorded extensively for Bluesway, behin...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: Due to its iconic cover photo, this 5-star slab of vinyl from Howlin' Wolf is affectionately known as "The Rockin' Chair Album."
Join us we continue with our ongoing series, Desert Island Classics. This time, we put two giants of the harmonica, Little Walter and Sonny Boy Wil...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: Bill Kirchen
Bill Kirchen is a showman and a storyteller. Mainly though he’s a singer and a songwriter and a player of the world’s most versatile Telecaster. Th...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 27:32
Caption: Bill Kirchen
He’s been called the Titan of the Telecaster, the King of Diesel Billy. Bill Kirchen is all that and a lot more. He’s a master in a league of his o...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 27:45
Caption: One of the six installments in Atlantic’s "Blues Originals" series, compiled by Pete Lowry in 1972.
Join us as we continue with our ongoing series, Desert Island Classics. This time around, we’ve got a handful of five-star vinyl, all from Atlantic...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: CY Dieyi performs a cover of Rihanna’s “FourFiveSeconds” on stage at an event in Inglewood, CA., Credit: Myah Williams
In her native Nigeria, Cynthia Dieyi is a pop singer who celebrates her culture through her music. But here in America, she's still unknown, and h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: B.B. King's very first LP, which contained all four of his number one R&B hit records.
Join us as we celebrate the life and music of B.B. King, by counting down the biggest hits of his career. Spanning the course of four decades, we’v...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
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Join us as we take a look at the recordings that Memphis Slim, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Otis Spann made in New York City for the Candid label in 1960...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: Another classic from Bluesville: Henry Townsend's LP for the label is a super-rarity today.
Join us for another installment of our ongoing series, "The Legends of Bluesville." This time around, we’re going to St. Louis, to hear from Henry ...

  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: James Cotton and Pat Hare (with guitar), in better times. Photo by Jacques Demêtre, 1959, Chicago.
Join us as we pay tribute to a firebrand guitarist, Pat Hare. Joining up with Howlin’ Wolf when he was just a teenager, he went on to record with J...

  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
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Join as we get into our time machine, and journey back to Dallas, December 1927. That was when Columbia Records became the first major label to mak...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: Original poster advertising the 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival. Image courtesy of Mike Vernon/Blue Horizon Records.
Join us as we aim the spotlight on the Memphis Country Blues Festivals of 1968 and 1969. We’ll hear from Bukka White, Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Este...

Bought by WJSU


  • Added: Apr 03, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D audio.

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:30
  • Purchases: 1
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D audio.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:13
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Join us for part two of our special on the legendary interviews of Studs Terkel and Big Bill Broonzy. We’ll hear stories, conversation and song, al...

Bought by WJSU


  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 1