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On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we aim the spotlight on a key transitional period in the history of post-war Chicago Blues, by focusing on the ...
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us for two hours of down home Gospel favorites. From raw and gritty obscurities, to other worldly spirituals and a few classics along the way,...
- Added: Apr 27, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us for a look at some of the keyboard legends that recorded for the Prestige and Bluesville labels in the early to mid 1960s. Classics from Ro...
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Bluesville was a label that got its start in 1959, and issued a remarkable series of albums -- almost 90, altogether -- during the height of the Bl...
- Added: Apr 13, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
We aim the spotlight on one of the most famous independent record labels of all time — Chess Records. Officially founded in 1950, we take a concent...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KHNS, and KTRL
- Added: Apr 07, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we aim the spotlight on two fine LPs that came out on the Takoma label back in 1980, all recorded in Chicago in...
- Added: Mar 31, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Ron Carter is an icon of jazz. He has played his bass on more than 2000 albums. His name, however, is most vividly linked with Miles Davis. Carte...
- Added: Mar 16, 2012
- Length: 07:27
- Purchases: 2
We pay tribute to the great Nashville label, Excello, which issued some superb early '50s R&B, and also the legendary Louisiana Swamp Blues of Slim...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us for Part 2 of our extended tribute to blues guitarist Willie Johnson. Once called the linchpin of Howlin' Wolf's band, Willie and the Wolf ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Perhaps one of the most underrated blues guitarists of all time, Willie Johnson is best known for his incendiary, firebrand work with Howlin' Wolf....
- Added: Feb 17, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we examine the working life in story and song. From hard times trying to find work in the Great Depression, to prison work songs, the pe...
- Added: Feb 10, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
The Civil Rights Movement was the United States’ first major domestic news story to be televised. The author of a new book exploring television’s r...
Bought by WMTNradio, Troy Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 3
Join us for two great hours of piano blues from New Orleans. From classic R&B party favorites to keyboard legends like Professor Longhair, Fats Dom...
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
In this episode of Blues Unlimited, we've culled through all the great Blues and Gospel recordings from the legendary LP set issued on the Folkways...
Bought by KHNS, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, and KHNS
- Added: Jan 21, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we celebrate the independent spirit of Texas with two hours of prime country blues from the Lone Star State. From the masters of the gen...
Bought by KHNS, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, KHNS, and KTRL
- Added: Dec 23, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
A 97 year-old veteran of the Warsaw Uprising recounts parachuting into occupied Poland and fighting in a last-ditch attempt to re-take his home fro...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 18, 2011
- Length: 14:19
- Purchases: 2
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we've taken some of our favorite artists – some of them synonymous with the very concept of "Postwar Electric B...
- Added: Dec 11, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, it's some of our favorite Red Hot Rhythm Rockin' Blues and Sizzlin' R&B. From Memphis Slim, Roosevelt Sykes, an...
- Added: Dec 01, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we aim the spotlight on some of the great harp players that worked and recorded in the Windy City. From John Le...
- Added: Nov 27, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we're having the Blues for Christmas! Come and celebrate with us as we journey through eight decades worth of H...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WNMU-FM, KSRQ, KHNS, WNCU and more
- Added: Nov 23, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 8
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, a tribute to Sam Phillips of Sun Records. Although Sam cut a lot of great Blues in the early years of his opera...
Bought by KHNS
- Added: Nov 12, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
We pick up where we left off last time, with a look at some of the great Mississippi Blues Masters who worked and recorded during the 1930s and the...
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
In this episode of Blues Unlimited, we take a look at a Who's Who of early Blues masters that lived and worked in the great state of Mississippi. A...
Bought by KTRL
- Added: Sep 30, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
The Imperial Record label, founded in 1948 in Los Angeles, is well known as the home of Fats Domino and other great New Orleans artists, as well as...
Bought by KHNS
- Added: Sep 13, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, it's two whole hours of smokin' Blues and red hot R&B from the 1940s. We'll hear from Roy Milton, Jimmy Liggins...
- Added: Aug 28, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
