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Episode #686 - 4th of July: Summer, Food, Travel and Baseball
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The Juke In The Back jumps into summer by spotlighting THE summertime holiday, the 4th of July. We're diggin' the 4th in song, ranging from songs a...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, KJZX-Austin, North Country Public Radio, WHRV and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode #685 - Rhythm & Booze: Looped!
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
We continue our unsober series of vintage Rhythm & Blues drinking songs this week with Rhythm & Booze: Looped! This week, we'll delve into your dru...

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC, Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Rhythm Atlas 290 2023-06-12 Juneteenth & Black Music Month Special
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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On this week’s special edition of The Rhythm Atlas, host Denis McGilvray celebrates Juneteenth and Black Music Month. The playlist shines a light o...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KAMU


  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #683 - Rhythm & Booze: Bad, Bad Whiskey!
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" once again raises a glass in our Rhythm & Booze series. This time, the entire program is dedicated to that Bad, Bad Whiskey....

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
UpFront Soul #2023.23 June 6-11, 2023 Pride Spectacular
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Sylvester
We'll throw a Pride parade for your ears with fabulous music from Sylvester, Billie Holiday, Billy Porter, Big Freedia, The Village People, and more!

Bought by WSLR, WOMR, RADIOLEX, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KZUM and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 12
Episode #682 - Rhythm & Booze: Wine! Wine! Wine!
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Raise you glasses as we toast Rhythm & Booze: Wine, Wine, Wine on this week's "Juke In The Back." The entire program features the greatest wine R&B...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WUTC and more


  • Added: May 28, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
UpFront Soul #2023.16-April 18-24, 2023- Poetry Month Special
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Jessica Care Moore
We'll hear poets- many from the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movements- reading their work, along with poetry set to music, and hip-hop. We'll...

Bought by KMUN, WOMR, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KZUM, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 14
Black History Month
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish celebrates Black History Month with hot Jewish music performed by African-American singers and instrumentalists

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Black Composers in Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
2023-01-20 Activism, Art and Environmental Justice
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Art can inspire community and conversation, provide fresh insights into understanding history, and cultivate connection. It can challenge your worl...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
20231020: Activism, Art and Environmental Justice, 1/20/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Art can inspire community and conversation, provide fresh insights into understanding history, and cultivate connection. It can challenge your worl...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Episode #663 - 1953 Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the jukebox is in the spotlight as Matt The Cat takes you back 70 years and highlights the top jukebox hits of the second half of 1953. ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WUTC, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
UpFront Soul #2023.03-January 17-23, 2023- Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This week, we honor the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We'll hear excerpts of his sermons, speeches, and interviews, along with funk,...

Bought by KZUM, WOUB, KAAD-LP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KSTK and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 13
Episode #662 - 1953 Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the jukebox is in the spotlight as Matt The Cat takes you back 70 years and highlights the top jukebox hits of the first half of 1953. Y...

Bought by KSRQ, Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WUTC and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
NL 23-03: Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes To Martin Luther King Jr., 1/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Episode #659 - Rhythm & Blues Christmas, Pt. 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Matt The Cat has dug up some more R&B Christmas treasures and added a few tunes about New Years for this week’s continuation of the “Juke In The Ba...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WUTC and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode #658 - Rhythm & Blues Christmas Pt. 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
It's the Holiday Season, so why not grab a glass of 'nog, sit back and relax and dig on some great vintage Rhythm & Blues Christmas tunes. It’s the...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, WHRV, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode #655 - Pookie Hudson (The Spaniels)
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Pookie Hudson spent his entire life close to the music he loved. In high school, he began to develop his own style using his falsetto with just a t...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KTRT RADIO INC, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
UpFront Soul #2022.47 November 22-28
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Redbone
We'll celebrate Native American Heritage Month with music from Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, A Tribe Called Red, Khu.eex, Jim Pepper, Redbone, Geo Neptu...

Bought by WOMR, RADIOLEX, KAAD-LP, WOUB, KMUN and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 14
Episode #651 - Halloween Rhythm & Blues
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the ol' Rockola Jukebox is haunted by a strange spirit of rhythm & ghouls. Dig on some of your old favorites by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, L...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, WHRV, KJZX-Austin, WUTC and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
UpFront Soul #2022.43 October 25-31
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Rockwell
It's a soulful spooktacular edition of UpFront Soul! We'll scare the funk out of you with creepy classics from Rockwell, Stevie Wonder, Stanley Tur...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUN, RADIOLEX, KAAD-LP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 14
Black, Brown and Beige - Duke Ellington’s Historic Jazz Symphony
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In 1943, Duke Ellington debuted a landmark 43-minute musical portrayal of the African-American experience at Carnegie Hall. We'll hear music from i...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
NL 22-36: Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, 8/29/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In January 1943, bandleader and composer Duke Ellington took his orchestra into Carnegie Hall for the first time and chose to make his debut with a...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
For-Profit Business of Training Guns-for-hire is Literally Booming In Rural America
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...

Bought by WJCT, KRCU Public Radio, WVTF, KLCC, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6