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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
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A career spanning 50 years, Robert Cray is a major mainstay in the world of Blues music.

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:58
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A great album from 1999. The album is "Double Shot" by Snooky Pryor and Mel Brown.

  • Added: May 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:06
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They tired and were weary of the depressed South and Migrated to the City of Promise, Chicago.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 56:50
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Blues from the West Coast has a different sound and approach than other regions.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 50:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Chess Records was one of the early flourishing record labels that had Blues artists on it roster.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 54:31
Caption: Sonny Boy II
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
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Mr Jack takes you on a musical Journey with a review of the past 100 shows.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 57:56
Caption: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel interviews a female advertising executive in the 1970's for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and KZYX


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 3
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In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘e...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2017
  • Length: 26:14
  • Purchases: 1
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It's FM91's 40th birthday! WGTE FM in Toledo began broadcasting May 2, 1976 and for four decades has continued to deliver the highest quality arts,...

  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 06:20
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Likely the most historic decade in launching the Musical Comedy as an American art form; Showboat; The Gershwins & Cole Porter

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUPR low power FM, and WRR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Dr. Halle Tanner Dillion Johnson  was the first woman and the first black woman to practice medicine in Alabama.  She was licensed in 1891.
Here's an account of healthcare in the rural Alabama. This account was written in 1894. Listen.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 06:39
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Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein share 100 percent of their DNA. Separated at birth, the twins were both adopted and raised by loving families. The...

Bought by WDBM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, American Voices, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 15:05
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Johnny Dodds
As jazz emerged as the popular music of the 1920s, it was common to have the trumpet as the lead instrument, however, a few pioneering musicians wa...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:47
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:11
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:56
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 06:52
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Airplanes in department stores? There was a time in U.S. History when people experienced this reality. But are we any closer today to realizing the...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2015
  • Length: 13:22
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When we hear the phrase "Under The Influence," there are bad connotations that follow. But what about when influence is good, because it sets our c...

Bought by KUPR low power FM


  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1