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Aina - A Hawaiian Youth's Love for the Land
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Caption: Nainoa Kaiama, Credit: Richard Jensen
A teen combines new farming techniques with traditional foodways at one of Hawaii's remaining agricultural high schools to help his family's farm.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 06, 2012
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #109 - Paul Gayten
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Pianist Paul Gayten is one of the true unsung heroes of R&B and rock n' roll, but he is often overlooked in the history of the genre. Matt The Cat...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, KPVL, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Jun 03, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 4
Episode #108 - Sam Cooke
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Few African Americans accomplished so much (songwriter, revered singer, entrepreneur) during the 1950s as the legendary Sam Cooke. This week, Matt...

Bought by KCSM, WJAB, 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, KPVL and more


  • Added: May 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #107 - Specialty Records Story Pt. 3
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This is the third and final part of "Juke In The Back"'s tribute to Specialty Records. This week, host Matt The Cat looks at Specialty's hit-making...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KPVL, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: May 20, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #106 - Specialty Records Story Pt. 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the "Juke In The Back" is jumpin' with records all hailing from the Specialty Label out of LA on part 2 of The Specialty Records Story. ...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KPVL, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #105 - Specialty Records Story Pt. 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the "Juke In The Back" is full of old records from one of the greatest record labels of all-time, Specialty Records. Art Rupe started th...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KPVL, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 4
Episode #104 - The Spiders
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
New Orleans is not known for its R&B vocal groups. In a city where jazz, blues and zydeco thrive, one vocal group rose to the top: The Spiders. I...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #103 - Little Willie John
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the "Juke In The Back" features one of the great big talents of early R&B, Little Willie John. From interviews with people who knew Wil...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Apr 22, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #102 - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the "Juke In The Back" honors one of the greatest blues shouters of all-time, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson. Matt The Cat covers Vinson's ear...

Bought by KMUW, 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, KPVL, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Apr 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 5
Episode #101 - Lavern Baker & R&B Baseball Songs
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, "The Juke In The Back" looks at how one of R&B's greatest voices, Lavern Baker, got her start. Matt The Cat collects ALL of Baker's earl...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Apr 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #100 - Big Jay McNeely
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Matt The Cat is joined by the greatest of all the West Coast Sax Honkers, Big Jay McNeely. You'll hear Big Jay tell his story in his own words as ...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Apr 01, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 2
Afro-Rican Jazz
From: Tony Vasquez
Series: Latin Perspective - Rhythms and musical styles of Latin Jazz
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As part of our series on Rhythms and Styles of Latin Jazz. This edition focuses on Afro-Rican Jazz

Bought by WSLR


  • Added: Mar 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:19
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #099 - Lucky Millinder
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" is loaded this week with records by one of R&B's greatest and most underrated bandleaders, Lucky Millinder. He worked with v...

Bought by KMUW, 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Mar 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 4
Episode #098 - Chuck Berry: His First Year
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, Matt The Cat looks at Chuck Berry's very first year of recording, featuring everything he recorded between May, 1955 and April, 1956. Y...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 18, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 4
A Conversation with Irish Fiddler, Liz Carroll
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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NEA Heritage Fellow and world-renowned fiddler, Liz Carroll talks about and demonstrates the multiplicity of Irish music. [38:15]

Bought by Prairie Public and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 38:14
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #097 - The Swallows
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Eddie Rich, the original lead tenor of The Swallows, one of the greatest and most underrated R&B vocal groups of the 1950s joins Matt The Cat for a...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KPVL, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Mar 11, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #096 - Chuck Willis: Part 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
"Juke" completes its 2 part special on the great Chuck Willis. This week, in part 2, we focus on Chuck's amazing crossover success in the late 1950...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, KPVL, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Mar 04, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Episode #095 - Chuck Willis: Part 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the "Juke" features part 1 of a 2 part special on the great and much underrated Chuck Willis. Most cats n' chicks know Chuck's 1957 smas...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Feb 26, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #094 - 1952: Jukebox Rhythm Review Pt. 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the jukebox is in the spotlight as the "Juke In The Back" features part 2 of a part series on the biggest R&B jukebox hits of 1952!

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Capes and Corsets
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Chicks who dig comics, fighting the epic battle against sexism

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRVO Public Media, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 4
Episode #093 - 1952: Jukebox Rhythm Review Pt. 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the jukebox is in the spotlight as we feature part one of a two part series on the top R&B jukebox hits of 1952.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Feb 12, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Auto-Tune
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Auto-Tune has become an overwhelmingly familiar effect across nearly every genre.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #092 - T-Bone Walker
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Drop a nickel in the ol' Rockola Juke to hear one of the best selling and most influential bluesmen and guitarists of all-time, T-Bone Walker. This...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode #091 - Etta James
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Etta James was one of the grittiest and most influential R&B singer of all-time. We lost her on January 20th at the age of 73. This week, Matt Th...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Jan 29, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #090 - Johnny Otis
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Johnny Otis was one of the most important figures in rhythm & blues and contributed greatly to the birth of rock n' roll. He passed away on Tuesda...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KPVL, KKRN, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4

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