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We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 43:53
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: Nov 23, 2022
- Length: 57:14
- Purchases: 1
Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Sep 24, 2022
- Length: 59:49
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 50:30
- 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
An historical recording with an amazing lineup of musicians from Chicago.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Nov 18, 2021
- Length: 57:39
- Purchases: 1
Tribute to one of Blues music's great contributors, Memphis Minnie.
- Added: Sep 15, 2021
- Length: 58:54
“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 26:16
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
Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker Jason Berry joins Gwen with fascinating stories and characters populating New Orleans’ cultural and mu...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 52:00
Lowell Fulson was a blues icon with a great history and is still an influence today to many blues musicians.
- Added: Mar 17, 2021
- Length: 59:47
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
The first electric Blues artist to use a Fender Stratocaster given to him by Leo Fender himself.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
Recorded at Decca Studios late one night into the early morning hours in 1947, three Chicago musicians reminisced their former times in early 20th ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 01:52:28
Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters ...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 31:58
In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
A classic rocker's take on some songs of Muddy Waters.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 59:58
- Purchases: 1
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
A virtual trip back in time to November 21st, 1964 to Chicago's Regal Theater to hear B.B. King
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 59:49
A career spanning 50 years, Robert Cray is a major mainstay in the world of Blues music.
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 59:58
Excello Records was Nashville's first Blues label
- Added: May 21, 2020
- Length: 59:38
The music of Elmore James is explored in this episode.
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 59:25
