PRX - Pieces for Tone: Inspiring

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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
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An Historic early recording of Janis Joplin and Jorma Kaukonen

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Muddy Waters went back to his bare roots on this 1964 album "Folk Singer".

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 57:14
  • Purchases: 1
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Charlie Musselwhite has been playing the blues for over 60 years. His latest project takes him back to his roots in Mississippi.

Bought by WLPR and WLPR


  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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Fathers And Sons was a classic recording from 1969 from the Chess Records label

  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:00
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An historical recording with an amazing lineup of musicians from Chicago.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 57:39
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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Newest release from a Blues veteran, Nora Jean Wallace, who has been missing in action for the past 16 years.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:59
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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
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The JSP Records label recently released a new album of unreleased material of Chicago's Bluesman Fenton Robinson which was recorded in England and ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:56
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Dion has been in the music business for over 60 years. For the past decade he's turned his attention to the Blues and recently came out with a new ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:57
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From the Basque region in the north, to Barcelona on the Mediterranean, Flanders speaks with contemporary co-op worker-owners who explain how the h...

Bought by KDNK, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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An experience nof hearing a blue musician in a real blues club in Chicago.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:42
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We visit a city in Northern Italy where everyone decided to stay quiet to save something beautiful.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 22:26
Caption: Monster Mike Welch
Starting out as a child prodigy, Mike Welch has maintained his musical gifts through the years and is still producing quality music as an adult.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:05
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"I Hear Some Blues Downstairs" Mr Jack takes you on a musical Journey with Blues musician Fenton Robinson

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:02
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Mr Jack takes you on a musical Journey with Blues musician (the Late) William Clarke.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:30
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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
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The innovator of the postwar (WWII) Chicago Blue sound!

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:58
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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
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 33
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At the turn of the century, Carry Nation was “America’s foremost lady hellraiser” and “the apostle of reform violence.” In her own words, she was “...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 23:24
  • Purchases: 1
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In the summer of 2013, I traveled a six hundred miles, and 200 years into the past to spend nine days living and working aboard the U.S. Brig Niaga...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 10:04