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Otis Hicks was a somewhat unsung Louisiana blues man who was an inspiration to another Louisianan who would one day become world famous!
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WLPR
- Added: Apr 11, 2023
- Length: 01:00:08
- Purchases: 2
An Historic early recording of Janis Joplin and Jorma Kaukonen
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Mar 20, 2023
- Length: 59:05
- Purchases: 1
In the late 1880s, a young journalist named Eva Valesh went undercover in Minneapolis to report on the lives of working women for the St. Paul Glo...
- Added: Feb 16, 2023
- Length: 18:19
Charlie Musselwhite has been playing the blues for over 60 years. His latest project takes him back to his roots in Mississippi.
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 2
Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Sep 24, 2022
- Length: 59:49
- Purchases: 1
In the year 2000 Telarc Blues label released a 3-album salute to three Chicago Blues Masters.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Apr 30, 2022
- Length: 57:29
- Purchases: 1
Fathers And Sons was a classic recording from 1969 from the Chess Records label
- Added: Apr 19, 2022
- Length: 01:00:00
KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hear...
- Added: Dec 17, 2021
- Length: 04:23
An historical recording with an amazing lineup of musicians from Chicago.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Nov 18, 2021
- Length: 57:39
- Purchases: 1
KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hear...
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: Nov 05, 2021
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 1
Tribute to one of Blues music's great contributors, Memphis Minnie.
- Added: Sep 15, 2021
- Length: 58:54
“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 26:16
Hip Linkchain/Lankchan was a first rate Chicago Blues musician whom is due recognition for his part in the American Blue scene.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Aug 02, 2021
- Length: 56:58
- Purchases: 1
Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker Jason Berry joins Gwen with fascinating stories and characters populating New Orleans’ cultural and mu...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 52:00
Lowell Fulson was a blues icon with a great history and is still an influence today to many blues musicians.
- Added: Mar 17, 2021
- Length: 59:47
The first electric Blues artist to use a Fender Stratocaster given to him by Leo Fender himself.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
Recorded at Decca Studios late one night into the early morning hours in 1947, three Chicago musicians reminisced their former times in early 20th ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 01:52:28
In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
A classic rocker's take on some songs of Muddy Waters.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 59:58
- Purchases: 1
A great Blues band from Swanton, Vermont, The Nobby Reed Project is one all blues enthusiasts should hear!
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 01:00:09
These three musicians changed the public's view of the Blues.
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 59:49
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
This Ace harp player has got a traditional sound and has shared the stage with many other musicians, yet remains somewhat a secret in the Blues li...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 59:24
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