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Episode #655 - Pookie Hudson (The Spaniels)
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
Pookie Hudson spent his entire life close to the music he loved. In high school, he began to develop his own style using his falsetto with just a t...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KTRT RADIO INC, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
EE 22-47: A love for cooking isn’t the only reason to start a food business, 11/18/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Hear the story of a public health professor with a passion for popcorn

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
Episode #654 - Cab Calloway
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
If you're "hep to the jive" and can "dig the scene," then you're in for a treat on this week's "Juke In The Back." Matt The Cat presents Cab Callow...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, KJZX-Austin, WHRV and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode #653 - Cobra Records
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
Cobra Records left quite a bite, even thought this little West Side Chicago label was only in existence for three short years. They hit gold right ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WUTC and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Episode #652 -Big Maybelle
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" highlights the often ignored early career of Big Maybelle, one of the great female blues shouters. Matt The Cat highlights h...

Bought by KMUW, KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode #651 - Halloween Rhythm & Blues
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 ol' Rockola Jukebox is haunted by a strange spirit of rhythm & ghouls. Dig on some of your old favorites by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, L...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, WHRV, KJZX-Austin, WUTC and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #650 - Pee Wee Crayton
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" honors one of the greatest, yet more underrated originators of electric blues guitar: Pee Wee Crayton. Matt The Cat presents...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, WUTC, KJZX-Austin, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #649 - Little Miss Cornshucks
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
Little Miss Cornshucks was an influential figure in post WWII Rhythm & Blues. Lavern Baker copied Cornshucks' country girl stage act down to the na...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, KSRQ, WHRV, WVTF and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Hanging Out with Royalty
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: WRK
The group went by quite a number of different names, but the one they were best know for was The Washboard Rhythm Kings. They were, by far, the mos...

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #648 - The Ravens
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" features The Ravens, an R&B vocal group that set the stage for all the groups that would follow. With Jimmy Ricks' bass lead...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KTRT RADIO INC, KSRQ, KJZX-Austin, WHRV and more


  • Added: Oct 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Revisiting Afro-Dominican Filmmaker Loira Limbal
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Loira Limbal, Credit: Erin Patrice O’Brien
Filmmaker Loira Limbal talks about her 2020 documentary Through the Night which examines a home-based 24-hour day-care center and the personal cost...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KZUM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 4
Episode #647 - Excello Records
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 as Matt The Cat dedicates the entire hour to the great little Nashville R&B label, Excello Records. From The ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, KTRT RADIO INC, WHRV, WUTC and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #646 - The Vocalese Musical Phenomenon
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
Vocalese is a musical sub-genre of Jazz and R&B that burst on the scene in 1952 and was practically gone by 1954. Before it departed, King Pleasure...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, KSRQ, WUTC and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Episode #645 - Motown Artists BEFORE Motown
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 entire "Juke In The Back" this week features Motown's biggest acts, BEFORE there even was a Motown Records and before those acts were household...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WUTC and more


  • Added: Sep 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Episode #644 - Richard Barrett (The Valentines)
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 silent architects of Rock n' Roll, Richard Barrett. On the surface, he's known today to fans of...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WUTC and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode #643 - Wynonie Harris, Pt. 2 - 1948-54
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
It's part 2 of our 2 part series on Wynonie "Mr. Blues" Harris, one of the greatest blues shouters of all time. Matt The Cat focuses on Harris' hit...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WOUB and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
AG 22-39: The King Cole Trio Starts To Swing, 9/19/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
Caption: Album cover for the new Resonance Records box set "Hittin' The Ramp"
This week, Mark Chilla talks with jazz historian Will Friedwald about the early years of Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, as they explore some...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Episode #642 - Wynonie Harris, Pt. 1 - 1944-48
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 overflowin' with records by one of R&B's greatest blues shouters and entertainers: Wynonie "Mr. Blues" Harris. Part 1 of ...

Bought by WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WUTC, KMXT, WOUB and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Louis & Louis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong & Luis Russell
Two of the finest New Orleans musicians … Armstrong and Russell … brought the birthplace of jazz into the “Big Apple” in the 1920s, and heavily inf...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 1049: DaShawn Hickman & Adam Weinberg
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: DaShawn and Wendy Hickman make their debut on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes North Carolina Sacred Steel player DaShawn Hickman plus singer and finger...

Bought by KUAR, KDLG, KTRL, KENW, KDLG and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 42
Episode #641 - Elvis' Rhythm & Blues Influences
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
Elvis Presley's early music was a blend of Hillbilly, Country, Gospel and R&B. This week's "Juke In The Back" explored the enormous debt Elvis owed...

Bought by WHRV, WUTC, WOUB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KTRT RADIO INC and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #640 - Jimmy Preston
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
Jimmy Preston made a major contribution to early Rock n' Roll by ushering in the era of the screamin' sax. He is mostly remembered today for his or...

Bought by KCSM, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WUTC, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Bessie’s Jazzy Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bessie Smith
Although she wasn’t the first blues artist to record, she was most certainly an influential trailblazer. Frequently, her recordings were enhanced w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Ebony Classics - Welcoming Spring
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
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"Welcoming Spring" is a classical music program featuring vocal classical music, piano classical music, and symphony orchestra music by musicians, ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:45
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #639 - Early Billy Stewart & R&B Jail 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
Many 1960s soul legends had their start in 1950s R&B and this week, the "Juke In The Back" takes a listen to Billy Stewart's early records. We'll a...

Bought by WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WUTC, WYAP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7

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