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A collection of Blues songs that have relevance to current issues in 2020
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 59:13
A diverse artist, Kevin Moore (Keb' Mo') is a true star in the world of music.
- Added: Jul 17, 2020
- Length: 59:57
A virtual trip back in time to November 21st, 1964 to Chicago's Regal Theater to hear B.B. King
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 59:49
A career spanning 50 years, Robert Cray is a major mainstay in the world of Blues music.
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 59:58
Excello Records was Nashville's first Blues label
- Added: May 21, 2020
- Length: 59:38
One of the many types of Blues music is a regional style named "Bentonia Blues" as it was founded and based out of Bentonia, Mississippi.
- Added: May 12, 2020
- Length: 59:36
A great album from 1999. The album is "Double Shot" by Snooky Pryor and Mel Brown.
- Added: May 10, 2020
- Length: 59:06
The Year 2020 marks the 50th Anniversary of one of the best magazines on African-American Blues Tradition. This episode honors and congratulates th...
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 59:56
The First band to be recorded for the Alligator Records label.
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 57:40
Rice Miller is probably the more known "Sonny Boy Williamson" although there was previously to his time an actual Blues harmonica player who's went...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:19
"The Blues is Alive and Well"- Buddy Guy
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:52
Mr. Jack shares his personal favorite BB King albums.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 54:46
On September 29 of 2018 the Blues world lost one of it’s Iconic artists of the West-side Chicago Blues sound Otis Rush. Although he had not perform...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:32
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has made it to the “big Leagues” of the music industry with his talents. He just released his first major label album o...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 57:51
Time travel today back to a time when a person could experience the raw sound and feel of early Chicago Blues on a Sunday afternoon in 1964 at the ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:10
The innovator of the postwar (WWII) Chicago Blue sound!
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:58
A great guitarist of the early electric blues sounds coming out of Chicago, Jody Williams tired of the corruption in the early music business being...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:01
Only the "true" Blues aficionados have probably heard of this slide guitar player from the 1930s. May I introduce to you, Casey Bill Weldon.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 01:00:29
Junior Wells was a large contributor to the "new" sound of the Chicago Blues after WWII. He was a highly sought after harmonica player in the early...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:38
From Blues beginnings to Rock, to Reggae, the Kinsey brothers have been in the music business since their youth inspired by their father Big Daddy ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:57
An active musician in the world of Blues since he was a youth under his father's wings, Bernard Allison is still going strong after some 37 years o...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:52
Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...
Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Maria W. Stewart, as characterized by professor and scholar Sandra Kamusakiri, was a free black woman who lived in Boston, MA, from the 1820s to th...
- Added: Mar 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Dr. Dorothy Cotton, one of Martin Luther King's top colleagues in the civil rights movement, passed away at her home in Ithica, New York, Sunday, J...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jun 11, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
