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This time, we profile Stick McGhee’s 1949 anthem to good times and cheap booze — a big hit that saved a fledgling Atlantic Records from bankruptcy.
- Added: Aug 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
It all started with the red wolves who now live, for the most part, in eastern North Carolina at Alligator River. These wolves had once numbered in...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 24:33
This time, we profile B.B. King, who hit the number one spot on the Billboard R&B charts with “Three O’Clock Blues,” this week in 1952.
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Europe is in crisis. The continent we have known since the end of World War II is quickly changing.
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- Added: Aug 15, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Just as the red wolves were dispossessed of their homes so too were the people who had inhabited the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for many gene...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 25:06
She didn’t like being called a philosopher, but that is how she’s recognized. And, as far as philosophy professor Richard J. Bernstein is concerned...
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- Added: Aug 03, 2018
- Length: 29:00
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This time, we profile Guitar Slim, who — much to everyone’s surprise — hit the top of the R&B charts with “The Things That I Used To Do,” in 1954.
- Added: Jul 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with “Homesick” James Williamson and Johnny Shines.
- Added: Jul 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Twenty-five years before Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster occurred in the Soviet Union.
- Added: Jul 20, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Elmore James, Arthur Spires, and Johnny Williams.
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Red wolves used to roam free across most of the eastern United States, from Maine to Florida, from Missouri to Texas, one of the top dogs in the fo...
- Added: Jul 16, 2018
- Length: 24:08
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Little Walter, “Honeyboy” Edwards, Muddy Waters, and J....
- Added: Jul 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
There’s been a documentary, a Broadway musical, an HBO movie, and a memoir. The documentary, produced 40-years ago, is a cult classic, and has heav...
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- Added: Jun 27, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Greg Pierotti and members of New York City’s Tectonic Theater Project spent months in the small town of Laramie, Wyoming conducting interviews with...
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- Added: Jun 23, 2018
- Length: 26:08
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This time we profile “Open the Door, Richard” — a 1947 novelty record that quickly embedded itself into the American consciousness.
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Floyd Jones, a serious and thoughtful songwriter, who was in the studio for Chess Records in 1951.
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile guitarist Big Joe Williams and harmonica ace John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, who last recorded together, this week in 1947.
- Added: Apr 27, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Part 7 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...
- Added: Apr 24, 2018
- Length: 14:47
This time we profile Ruth Brown, one of the biggest R&B singers of the 1950s, who first hit the top of the Billboard charts, this week in 1950.
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
An eight part series, tracing the 25 year career of one of the UK's finest Jazz sax players. It covers initial promise, highs, lows and recovery, w...
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 28:13
Part 5 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 21:45
Part 4 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 24:52
An eight part series, tracing the 25 year career of one of the UK's finest Jazz sax players. It covers initial promise, highs, lows and recovery, w...
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 11:47
Part 2 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, some series-excl...
- Added: Apr 22, 2018
- Length: 15:18
Part 1 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...
- Added: Apr 22, 2018
- Length: 13:31
