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Join us for some terrific Down Home Country Blues from Specialty Records. In addition to Frankie Lee Sims and Clifton Chenier — two of our all-time...
- Added: Jun 22, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us for part two of our new and ongoing series, "The Legends of Bluesville." This time around, we’ll aim the spotlight on Texas and the Gulf Co...
- Added: May 24, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us for the launch of a new and ongoing series, "The Legends of Bluesville." This time around, our focus will be on the Eastern Seaboard, with ...
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we finish up our tribute to the "The Blues," a series of five LPs issued by Chess Records in the mid 1960s. We’ll hear classics from Mud...
- Added: May 11, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we aim the spotlight on a classic series of LPs from Chess Records. Simply called "The Blues," they issued five volumes between 1963 and...
- Added: May 05, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we take another trip down to the land of the Hammond B3. We’ll hear some killer grooves and hot rockers from some of our old favorites l...
- Added: Apr 27, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. An early activist profiled.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
Join us as we journey to the Queen City of the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, to hear some of the rich blues and heavenly gospel that was record...
- Added: Apr 19, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
Join us as we pay tribute to one of the all time greatest harmonica players, Big Walter Horton. Making his first recordings with Sam Phillips in Me...
- Added: Apr 12, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
We’ve been digging through the archives to bring you this special "best of" encore presentation. This time around, it's a whole bunch of hot rocker...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us for a tribute to keyboard legend Big Maceo Merriweather. Although his recorded legacy is not all that large, he left an indelible mark in t...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Mar 22, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
Join us as we aim the spotlight on Bill Quinn’s legendary Gold Star record label. Founded in Houston in the late 1940s, he recorded some of the cre...
- Added: Mar 08, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Karen's latest book is “Reaching the Animal Mind.” Having started out as the world’s foremost dolphin trainer, Pryor is responsible for developing ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 06, 2014
- Length: 09:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we aim the spotlight on independent record producer, Bobby Robinson. Not only could he lay claim to a legendary series of labels — such ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
We've taken a whole great gob of our favorite down home country blues harmonica blowers, and lined them up for one incredible episode we're calling...
- Added: Feb 22, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we celebrate the good times, with songs about drinking and having fun. With music on tap from Ike Turner, J.B. Lenoir, John Lee Hooker, ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we take another look at some of our favorite artists — some of them synonymous with the very concept of "Postwar Electric Blues" — and f...
- Added: Feb 09, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Today 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France it’s more than ten percent; Israel is above seven percent; and...
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Join us for part two of our look at the blues in Saint Louis from the 1920s and '30s, this time focusing on the piano players. We’ll hear from popu...
- Added: Feb 01, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
The Wall Street meltdown in 2008 brought the country to its knees and spawned nationwide protests against the lack of regulation and oversight in t...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Join us for a look at Saint Louis, where the country blues meet the city. Over the years, some critics have claimed it was the place where prewar b...
- Added: Jan 25, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we pay tribute to one of the pioneers of postwar Chicago blues harmonica, Snooky Pryor. Making his recording debut in 1948, he cut some ...
- Added: Jan 18, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Arkady Renko, a senior investigator in the Moscow prosecutor's office, is back. Smith’s first book in this 8-book series was “Gorky Park” published...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jan 16, 2014
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 1
Join us as we head back down to Antone’s legendary nightclub in Austin, Texas, to hear music from Pinetop Perkins, James Cotton, Jimmy Rogers, Memp...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Jan 11, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
In July 1939, the engineers from Vocalion Records set up shop for two weeks in Memphis, cutting almost 170 sides by more than a dozen artists. The ...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Jan 06, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1