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This week our guest is Laura Pendleton-Miller, CEO of Blue Lotus Artists' Collective (BLAC). BLAC is a new, non-profit gallery in Tucson, Arizona e...
- Added: Jun 24, 2023
- Length: 29:00
This week we're in conversation with Dr. Tani Sanchez, Professor of Practice in the Africana Studies department at the University of Arizona. Dr. S...
- Added: Jun 08, 2023
- Length: 29:00
This week we rebroadcast our recent interview with Beverely Elliott.
This week our guest is Beverely Elliott, Executive Director of the African Am...
- Added: May 28, 2023
- Length: 29:00
This week our guest is Beverely Elliott, Executive Director of the African American Museum of Southern Arizona in Tucson. Mrs. Elliott shares the j...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Antonio Brown of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers get released stemming from the head coach kicking him off the team mid-game. We also talk NBA as Kyrie Ir...
- Added: Jan 11, 2022
- Length: 57:54
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon celebrates Jug Bands with the legendary Jim Kweskin, Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton and...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, Yellowstone Public Radio, KTRL, KEDT, KKRN and more
- Added: Jul 20, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 49
Tunes and tales of African American musical greats including Otis Spann, Little Walter, Big Mama Thornton, Peter Tosh, Billy Preston, Les McCann & ...
- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 2
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Little Walter, “Honeyboy” Edwards, Muddy Waters, and J....
- Added: Jul 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Ruth Brown, one of the biggest R&B singers of the 1950s, who first hit the top of the Billboard charts, this week in 1950.
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile The Howlin’ Wolf, who made his debut on the Billboard R&B charts in 1951.
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who first recorded with an electric guitar, this week in 1941.
- Added: Apr 15, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Professor Longhair, who first recorded a beloved Mardi Gras classic, this week in 1949.
- Added: Apr 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Henry Thomas, whose two dozen recordings for Vocalion, made in the late 1920s, hark back to a time before the blues.
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile harmonica ace Junior Wells — who was in the studio laying down some classic tracks for Delmark Records, this week in 1965.
- Added: Apr 08, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Little Richard and Specialty Records owner Art Rupe, who, at first anyway, wasn’t too impressed by Little Richard.
- Added: Apr 06, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile blues piano mystery man, Black Bob — who was in the studio this week with Memphis Minnie, in 1935.
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Wynonie Harris, who hit the top of the Billboard Rhythm & Blues charts with "Good Rockin' Tonight," this week in 1948.
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Woodrow Adams, who made his recording debut in Memphis, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Wilbert Harrison, who landed at the top of the R&B charts in 1959 — but created a headache for producer Bobby Robinson.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile harmonica wizard Little Walter, who cut "the national anthem of blues harmonica," this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we take a look at one historic day of recording — May 5th, 1937 — that changed the course of blues history.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Lightnin' Hopkins, who, in 1954, laid down some hard rocking sides for Herald Records.
- Added: Mar 07, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Etta James, who landed at the top of the Billboard R&B charts this week in 1955, with "The Wallflower."
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Elmore James, who was in a recording studio in Chicago, this week in 1953.
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 03:29
How do you do, we have over 40 years associated with jazz radio here in the desert southwest. In hour one of this week's national broadcast, guest ...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WYAP, and WOUB
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 01:59:56
- Purchases: 5
