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This time on The Children's Hour we learn from author and historian Byron Motley about the Negro Baseball Leagues, the only way Black baseball play...
- Added: Feb 18, 2024
- Length: 58:00
One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, Baltimore Public Media, WFDD and more
- Added: Jan 17, 2024
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 25
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
Otis Hicks was a somewhat unsung Louisiana blues man who was an inspiration to another Louisianan who would one day become world famous!
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WLPR
- Added: Apr 11, 2023
- Length: 01:00:08
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Feb 14, 2023
- Length: 59:44
- Purchases: 1
Black Americans have been major stars of the musical theater since 1906. Who was the first black Broadway star? What was the first all-black musica...
- Added: Feb 05, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
He was ranked as #43 in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time. That is a great legacy to leave behind.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 59:49
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 23, 2022
- Length: 57:14
- 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
In the year 2000 Telarc Blues label released a 3-album salute to three Chicago Blues Masters.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Apr 30, 2022
- Length: 57:29
- 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
An historical recording with an amazing lineup of musicians from Chicago.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Nov 18, 2021
- Length: 57:39
- Purchases: 1
At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
Hip Linkchain/Lankchan was a first rate Chicago Blues musician whom is due recognition for his part in the American Blue scene.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Aug 02, 2021
- Length: 56:58
- Purchases: 1
“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 33:08
Newest release from a Blues veteran, Nora Jean Wallace, who has been missing in action for the past 16 years.
- Added: Mar 03, 2021
- Length: 59:59
Blues music has been his world most of his life.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 57:23
A Bluesman who plays gospel as well as blues.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 59:58
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
An experience nof hearing a blue musician in a real blues club in Chicago.
- Added: Jul 17, 2020
- Length: 59:42
"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
The innovator of the postwar (WWII) Chicago Blue sound!
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:58
Only the "true" Blues aficionados have probably heard of this slide guitar player from the 1930s. May I introduce to you, Casey Bill Weldon.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 01:00:29
