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Eric Bibb's musical career spans 50 years. His 2023 Album "Ridin' " is a collection of great words for our world today.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: May 23, 2023
- Length: 59:58
- Purchases: 1
A performing artist for over 6 decades, Joe Louis Walker is one who is due some recognition.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Jul 01, 2022
- Length: 59:26
- Purchases: 1
Both of these veteran artists were born in 1939 and are still performing in 2022.
- Added: Apr 15, 2022
- Length: 01:00:02
Hour 2 of a music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 194...
Bought by KRVS, WDDE, WVIA, WPVM 103.7, WILL and more
- Added: Feb 01, 2022
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 21
Hour 2 of a music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 194...
Bought by KFSK, KNCT FM, Capital Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, KSJE and more
- Added: Feb 01, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
A Bluesman who plays gospel as well as blues.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 59:58
One of the original 13 Freedom Riders, what Charles Person faced during the Civil Rights Movement was far worse than his time as a Marine in Vietnam.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:26:58
Only 11 years old on Bloody Sunday, JoAnne faced the charging horses and the swinging batons of the state troopers.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:06:54
Her mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. The pretty white southern woman who defied Jim Crow and fought for civil ri...
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:23:34
The little girl who went to school with federal marshals as escorts has something to say about what she went through and what we are going through ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:02:02
The United States government has a history of paying reparations to those who have been wronged but with one very striking exception: slavery. Shou...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 46:41
The JSP Records label recently released a new album of unreleased material of Chicago's Bluesman Fenton Robinson which was recorded in England and ...
- Added: Nov 02, 2020
- Length: 59:56
This week on World Ocean Radio we share the final episode of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this broadcast we look at the ...
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 05:18
An experience nof hearing a blue musician in a real blues club in Chicago.
- Added: Jul 17, 2020
- Length: 59:42
The music of Elmore James is explored in this episode.
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 59:25
An unsung guitar hero of the blues who made a BIG mark very few know about.
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 59:01
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
"I Hear Some Blues Downstairs" Mr Jack takes you on a musical Journey with Blues musician Fenton Robinson
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 01:00:02
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
A recent east coast storm unearthed the remains of America's last slave ship in Alabama: the Clotilda. These remains, and the artifacts from anothe...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 06, 2018
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 1
Here's an account of healthcare in the rural Alabama. This account was written in 1894. Listen.
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 06:39
Unspun takes a look at Black History and current Civil Rights and equality issues in America with Pamela Spoto, local educator, activist and host o...
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 59:56
The first of the post-college series, this episode brings you Max's roots reggae picks along with exclusive, unreleased material from Stick Figure ...
- Added: May 28, 2015
- Length: 58:53
Sonny Knight considers himself blessed. If that's true, he is being rewarded for his positive attitude, and incredible amount of patience. It began...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 09:29
- Purchases: 1
