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EP108 Jontavious Willis
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Jontavious Willis is a young musician in his 20s who is a multi-instrumentalist on a mission to keep the blues alive by following in his mentors (T...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:22
EP110 Robert Nighthawk on Maxwell Street
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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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
EP130 Jimmy Rogers
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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The innovator of the postwar (WWII) Chicago Blue sound!

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:58
EP129 Jody Williams
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
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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
EP128 Casey Bill Weldon
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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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
EP126 Hoo Doo Man Blues
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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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
EP124 The Kinsey Report
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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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
EP122 Bernard Allison
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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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
Filming Rhythm, Stories and Soul in the Toronto Subway
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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The Toronto-made film RISE embodies the creative force of a local youth-led spoken word movement known as RISE Edutainment. A subway station serves...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 17:12
That's What We Do
From: Erin Allen
Caption: Ronda Morrison, Owner, House of Morrison Shoe Repair, Credit: Erin Allen
Detroit's Livernois Ave has historically been known as the Avenue of Fashion. But to the dismay of area residents and business owners, construction...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Empathy Tours (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
Caption: The Empathy Tours
New “empathy tours” are telling local histories of African Americans and helping heal racial wounds. In Danville, Virginia, which was briefly the ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WLIW, KRDP and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
New Beginnings
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I got shot two times, and i walked out of Shock Trauma three hours later. It was made clear to me that my work wasn't done.

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
Roses in December (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What did segregation look like in everyday life and culture? We tell the stories of an African American opera singer and a white woman who transf...

Bought by WCPN, WCNY, WTJU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 11
Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-On Sept. 27 and 28, the most notable poets of our time will gather in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower...

Bought by WJCT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KXCV, WCMU Michigan, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 12
WoodSongs 955E: Guy Davis and Fabrizio Poggi and The Affrilachian Poets
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Caption: Guy and Fabrizio pay homage to the legendary blues duo Sonny & Brownie.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes blues master Guy Davis and Italian harmonica virtuso Fabrizio P...

Bought by WLIW, RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, WEKU, WETS and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 11
UpFront Soul #2018.41-October 7-14
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Lucille Spann
Women are rising up...and getting down! Hear empowering tunes from Roberta Flack, Joan Armatrading, and Mavis Staples, and celebrate Women's Libera...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WLPR , WOUB, Royalton Community Radio, WOMR and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Beautiful Thing About Jazz
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Debbie Duncan, Credit: Debbie Duncan
Debbie Duncan performs in the moment, altering songs as she sings. The award-winning jazz artist reflects on "Full Circle," an album recorded live ...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:30
The BLCK Family of Miami on Collective Creativity
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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The BLCK Family, a Miami-based creative collective, fosters opportunities for individual artists to share their original music and poetry in intima...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 11:51
Making Obama: Part 1
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
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
UpFront Soul #2018.03-January 15-21
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We honor the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We'll hear excerpts of his sermons, speeches, and interviews, along with funk, soul, jazz...

Bought by WJAB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOMR, KSRQ, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 7
Bridge of Hope
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Our mindsets are not just similar, but almost like we’re reading from the same book… and actually we are.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
Fats Domino-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Fats Domino
A thirty minute tribute to one of the founders of rock & roll- Antoine "Fats" Domino, featuring some of his classic recordings, interviews and actu...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 28:52
Howard E Williams III
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Coming home from prison, it’s kind of hard to find a job. But I didn’t let that get to me. This is a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2017
  • Length: 04:20
WoodSongs 880: Ruthie Foster and Sally & George
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: The phenomenal Ruthie Foster.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcome vocal powerhouse from Austin, Texas Ruthie Foster plus East Nashville base...

Bought by KDLG, KJJF, WETS, WOUB, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 10
WoodSongs 878: Linkin' Bridge and Run Boy Run
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: The powerful voices of Linkin' Bridge.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes singing group from the west end of Louisville, Kentucky and finalists on ...

Bought by KDLG, WETS, High Plains Public Radio, WLPR , WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9