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American Songcatcher Presents: Bascom Lamar Lunsford
From: Nicholas Williams
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The following audio is a shortened segment featuring the story of preservationist, banjoist and fiddle player Bascom Lamar Lunsford, as told in the...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 08:23
EP168 Blues in the Mississippi Night by Alan Lomax
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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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
EP147 Butterfield, Bishop and Bloomfield
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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These three musicians changed the public's view of the Blues.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:49
EP3 The Great Migration
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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They tired and were weary of the depressed South and Migrated to the City of Promise, Chicago.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 56:50
EP6 Unsung Chicago Blues artists
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Fenton Robinson and Hound Dog Taylor

  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 55:55
EP32 A Smokin’ Duo
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A duo who left it's mark in Blues history.

Bought by KMUN and WTIP


  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 55:42
  • Purchases: 2
EP33 Jimmy Vaughan
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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His style his more basic and leans towards the "traditional" sound than his brother Stevie's, but just as moving and effective as far as "feeling" ...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 53:11
EP52 Little Walter “Blues with a feeling”
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Blues with a feeling; the Little Walter story

Bought by KMUW and WTIP


  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 53:17
  • Purchases: 2
EP100 Cruisin' the Blues in Review
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Mr Jack takes you on a musical Journey with a review of the past 100 shows.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 57:56
The Point Is Not The Points
From: Masaki Araya
Caption: Billy Tuggle, Credit: Masaki Araya
Billy Tuggle speaks about the art of spoken word, its history and poetry slam.

  • Added: May 19, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
The Navigators Part 8
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:47
The Navigators Part 5
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:56
An Airplane for Everyone
From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself
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Airplanes in department stores? There was a time in U.S. History when people experienced this reality. But are we any closer today to realizing the...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2015
  • Length: 13:22
JazzStories: Billy Taylor
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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Billy Taylor played with the best in the business. But his contributions to jazz went far beyond the bandstand.

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 09:46
  • Purchases: 8
The Great Textbook War
From: Trey Kay
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In 1974, Kanawha County was the first battleground in the American culture wars. Controversy erupted over newly-adopted school textbooks. School bu...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KUER and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 26
A Shortcut Back To Dallas (1963)
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas. This pro...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KVMR, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 10, 2008
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 3
The Greatest Funk Band in the World?
From: KUT
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Rediscovered disks by a '70's era high school stage band are creating a new cult following

  • Added: Jul 25, 2006
  • Length: 09:08
Passaic On Strike!
From: New Jersey Historical Commission and NJN Public Radio
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In 1926, 16,000 Wool Workers Strike for nearly a year in New Jersey

Bought by WVTF, KBRP Community Radio, Iowa Public Radio, KLCC, KZYX and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2006
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 10
RN Documentary: A Diary of War and Liberation
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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An 80- year-old Dutchman opens up the diary he kept as a teenager during the German occupation of Holland and the liberation by Canadian troops fo...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Apr 28, 2005
  • Length: 30:26
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Mother Warren
From: jessica lockhart
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A look into the labor history of one of the world's oldest paper mills.

Bought by WMPG, KVSC, WMPG, PRX Remix, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Nov 11, 2004
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 9