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No particular theme on this episode, just two hours of our favorite Rhythm Rockin' Blues. We'll hear classics from Jimmy Reed, Howlin' Wolf, Profes...
Bought by KHNS, KTRL, WUCF, North State Public Radio, and WYSO
- Added: Apr 06, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 5
Music from Mississippi bluesman Big Jack Johnson, who died March 14, 2011
- Added: Mar 30, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
Join us as we take a look at some of the fine piano players who worked and recorded in Chicago over the years — from Curtis Jones, Roosevelt Sykes ...
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Featuring blues pianist Pinetop Perkins, who died March 21, 2011 after an illustrious career, at age 97.
- Added: Mar 23, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
New Latin jazz from from Mark Weinstein and Bobby Matos, and blues from Linsey Alexander and Donald Ray Johnson
- Added: Mar 16, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
Music from the late bluesman Eddie Kirkland, and from two Okies from Muscogee
- Added: Mar 09, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
We continue our tribute to the American Folk Blues Festival Tours -- a legendary series of concerts organized by two German men, Horst Lippmann and...
- Added: Mar 06, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
We pay tribute to a legendary series of concerts organized by two German men, Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau, beginning in 1962. Known as the America...
- Added: Mar 06, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Mar 02, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
New, long overdue album from blues singer Graná Louise. Music from the late George Shearing.
- Added: Feb 23, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
When you think of Blues Harmonica, you probably think of giants like Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter Jacobs, or Shakey Horton -- but did you ev...
Bought by KHNS, KMXT, Spokane Public Radio, and WUCF
- Added: Feb 22, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
Two Wilsons, Cassandra and Sarah... Vijay Iyer solo piano, and Louisiana Swamp Stomp!
Bought by KPVL, WRGY, WOUB, KEOS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more
- Added: Feb 16, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Some possible additions to the "American Songbook" songs from the rock era interpreted by jazz artists, and a new album from kora player Mamadou Di...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
Trains have figured largely in Blues lyrics over the decades, symbolizing freedom, mobility, a free ride to a better place, or the poignant end of ...
- Added: Jan 31, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
The pioneering Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a leader in the fight for racial equality, should be high on the list of those we honor during ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2011
- Length: 04:02
new Roy Gaines album "Tuxedo Blues" - -bassist Peter Paulsen, singer Suzanne Pittson - - Ma Shui-long's Bamboo Flute Concerto
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
Music for MLK Day holiday, Dr. Billy Taylor, Paul Robeson, Eric Bibb, Shemekia Copeland
Bought by KETR-FM, WUKY, WGZS, WUKY, KWEMradio.com/KWEM LP and more
- Added: Jan 12, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 17
Join us as we pay tribute to those artists -- a veritable parade of the "famous unknowns" -- with a unique distinction in common: one 78 or 45 rpm ...
Bought by WJSU, KTRL, KHNS, Spokane Public Radio, and WUCF
- Added: Jan 09, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 5
Featuring recent Apple label reissues from Doris Troy, Billy Preston, Modern Jazz Quartet
Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KEOS, KTRL, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio and more
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
From classic ensembles like Cannon's Jug Stompers and the Memphis Jug Band to great slide guitar masters like Furry Lewis and Bukka White to the ri...
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 5
Join us as we take a look at the "Blues Revival" period of the 1960s -- a magical time of rebirth, rediscovery, and forgotten Blues legends of the ...
- Added: Dec 27, 2010
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 6
Holiday music featuring B. B. King and Imani Winds.
Bought by KNAU, WCNY, KRPS, KWEMradio.com/KWEM LP, WLPR and more
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 15
Peter Gishuru, CEO of the African Chamber of Commerce in Seattle, WA, speaks about his organization's role in promoting trade with Africa and his o...
- Added: Oct 02, 2010
- Length: 15:03
