Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Series produced by Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
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Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat
Matt The Cat presents the soul that came before rock n' roll: 1950s rhythm and blues. Each week, this underrated and rollicking music plays on that old Rockola Jukebox in the back.
If you wanted to hear rhythm & blues during the 1950s, you couldn't get it from the juke box in the front. No, no! In order to hear that glorious, down and dirty R&B, you had to go to the low-lit, spit-shined "Juke In The Back." These songs are the building blocks of rock n' roll. These are the records that inspired Elvis and single-handedly led to the rock n' roll explosion of the mid-1950s. Big Joe Turner, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Wynonie Harris, LaVern Baker, Roy Brown, Joe Liggins, Professor Longhair and many more take center stage on The Juke In The Back. Matt The Cat hosted a similar program on XM Satellite Radio called "Harlem" and now he brings this great music and information to PRX.
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The "Juke In The Back" is overflowin' with records by one of R&B's greatest blues shouters and entertainers: Wynonie "Mr. Blues" Harris. Part 1 of ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 6
The "Juke In The Back" highlights the often ignored early career of Big Maybelle, one of the great female blues shouters. Matt The Cat highlights h...
- Added: Feb 08, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 7
If you're "hep to the jive" and can "dig the scene," then you're in for a treat on this week's "Juke In The Back." Matt The Cat presents Cab Callow...
- Added: Feb 01, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 6
The ol' Rockola Jukebox is back in the spotlight as we present part 2 of a 2 part feature on the biggest R&B jukebox records of 1955. It was a year...
- Added: Jan 25, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 7
The ol' Rockola Jukebox is back in the spotlight as we present part 1 of a 2 part feature on the biggest R&B jukebox records of 1955. It was a year...
- Added: Jan 18, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
The "Juke In The Back" honors one of the greatest, yet more underrated originators of electric blues guitar: Pee Wee Crayton. Matt The Cat presents...
- Added: Jan 11, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 5
Charles Brown was the "King of Smoky Blues" for over 50 years. A move to Los Angeles in 1943, hooked him up with Johnny Moore, who hired him to sin...
- Added: Jan 04, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 7
This week's "Juke In The Back" is dedicated to one of the true unsung heroes of 1940s and '50s rhythm & blues, Johnny Moore's Three Blazers. The gr...
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 5
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...
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 6
The entire "Juke In The Back" is loaded with the greatest R&B Christmas records from the late 1940s and 1950s. It's the yuletide soul that came bef...
- Added: Dec 14, 2014
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 11
This week, the "Juke In The Back" brings the jukebox into the spotlight as we journey back 70 years and dig on the top requested jukebox records fr...
- Added: Dec 07, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Today Harry "Little" Caesar is best remembered as an actor from movies and TV and the voice behind 1952's "Goodbye Baby," one of the strangest R&B ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
This week we salute Solomon Burke, the "King of Rock n' Soul and the "Juke In The Back" is loaded with his very first recordings from 1955 to 1960....
- Added: Nov 23, 2014
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 4
The "Juke In The Back" spotlights two extremely underrated R&B pioneers this week: Titus Turner and saxophonist Buddy Lucas. Matt The Cat tells the...
- Added: Nov 16, 2014
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 3
Many 1960s soul legends had their start in 1950s R&B and this week, the "Juke In The Back" takes a listen to Billy Stewart's early records. We'll a...
- Added: Nov 09, 2014
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 7
The Cadillacs were one of the most versatile R&B vocal groups of the 1950s, handling uptempo gems like "Speedo" and classic doo wop ballads like "G...
- Added: Nov 02, 2014
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 6
Richard Berry is truly one of the unsung heroes of early rhythm & blues and rock n' roll. That he wrote and recorded the original version of "Louie...
- Added: Oct 26, 2014
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 6
Matt The Cat celebrates Halloween with the scariest, spookiest and most sinister vintage rhythm & blues records ever made! It's the disembodied "so...
- Added: Oct 19, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
This week, the "Juke In The Back" presents the final part of a 4 part feature on the early musical career of the great, Ray Charles, which will cov...
- Added: Oct 12, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
This week, the "Juke In The Back" presents part 3 of a 4 part feature on the early musical career of the great, Ray Charles, which will cover 1948-...
- Added: Oct 05, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
