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Rita Dove and Tracy K. Smith share a few things in common beyond the fact that they are African-American female artists. They are also professors a...
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 28:16
This time, we profile Chris Strachwitz and Mance Lipscomb, whose paths crossed in Navasota, Texas, this week in August 1960.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This package features a short music bed before and after the piece. It looks at the rise of Black Lightning and why the time has arisen now, the re...
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 04:32
This time, we profile Magic Sam, who appeared this week in 1969 at the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festival.
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Skip James, whose re-emergence at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival marked the advent of a new chapter in his career.
- Added: Mar 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
We'll feature "Harmony Of Difference," the latest work from saxophonist Kamasi Washington.
Bought by KMUN, WMOT, GCR (Global Community Radio), WRGY, KKRN and more
- Added: Mar 28, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
This time, we take a look at the American Record Corporation's 1939 field trip to Memphis. For the Bluff City, it marked the end of an era.
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile guitarist Blue Smitty, who cut his only session for Chess Records, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Muddy Waters, who made an historic appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, this week in 1960.
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Saunders King and Elder Utah Smith — two early pioneers of the electric guitar.
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Wynonie Harris, who hit the top of the Billboard Rhythm & Blues charts with "Good Rockin' Tonight," this week in 1948.
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi blues legend Charley Patton, who made his debut for Paramount Records, this week in 1929.
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Eddie Boyd, who recorded the only national chart hit for Chicago's J.O.B. label, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Woodrow Adams, who made his recording debut in Memphis, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Wilbert Harrison, who landed at the top of the R&B charts in 1959 — but created a headache for producer Bobby Robinson.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile harmonica wizard Little Walter, who cut "the national anthem of blues harmonica," this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we take a look at one historic day of recording — May 5th, 1937 — that changed the course of blues history.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Sleepy John Estes, who ran into a little difficulty making his way to a recording session in New York City, this week in 1938.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Lightnin' Hopkins, who, in 1954, laid down some hard rocking sides for Herald Records.
- Added: Mar 07, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Etta James, who landed at the top of the Billboard R&B charts this week in 1955, with "The Wallflower."
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Elmore James, who was in a recording studio in Chicago, this week in 1953.
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Dion Diamond talks about the risks he took as a young civil rights activist in the 1950s and 60s.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jan 25, 2018
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 1
A discussion of the important the heritage of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 31:35
Wil talks with Jonathan Mason, International President, Phi Beta Sigma.
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 16:51
Music from the great blues singer and songwriter (from the 1920s through the 1960s) Ida Cox, and contemporary covers of her songs by Cécile McLorin...
Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WRGY, KKRN, WMHT and more
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 15
