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A career spanning 50 years, Robert Cray is a major mainstay in the world of Blues music.
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 59:58
How do you speak the truth with grace? Radical musician, theologian, and activist Rev. Sekou speaks about how he learned to fight white supremacy a...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 41:10
- Purchases: 1
Excello Records was Nashville's first Blues label
- Added: May 21, 2020
- Length: 59:38
On this week's ENCORE broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes five-time Grammy Award-winning gospel group The Blind Boys of A...
Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WETS, KHNS, Rhythm & News Service, RadioFreePalmer and more
- Added: May 21, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 22
The music of Elmore James is explored in this episode.
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 59:25
A Young bluesman who's passion is keeping the flame of the Blues lit along with the acknowledgment of, and giving credit to, it's ancestral roots.
- Added: May 14, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
One of the many types of Blues music is a regional style named "Bentonia Blues" as it was founded and based out of Bentonia, Mississippi.
- Added: May 12, 2020
- Length: 59:36
A great album from 1999. The album is "Double Shot" by Snooky Pryor and Mel Brown.
- Added: May 10, 2020
- Length: 59:06
The final episode of this series. Spoon and Matthew perform an excerpt from a play by Spoon. Spoon and his brother Abe talk about their dad, Matthe...
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
The Year 2020 marks the 50th Anniversary of one of the best magazines on African-American Blues Tradition. This episode honors and congratulates th...
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 59:56
The First band to be recorded for the Alligator Records label.
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 57:40
Knowledge, creativity, charisma, and endless energy are just a few qualities that make a good musical leader. If the leader can also arrange and co...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 23, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
An unsung guitar hero of the blues who made a BIG mark very few know about.
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 59:01
A trip back in history to one of the best Chicago Blues bands in early postwar (WWII) times in the Windy City.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 53:50
Johnny Tucker was a sideman for many bands over the years beofre goinf solo. Now he has another album of his own to share with us today.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:08
A Chicago bus driver has some music to share that will blow you away!
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:22
Mr. Jack shares his personal favorite BB King albums.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 54:46
"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
On September 29 of 2018 the Blues world lost one of it’s Iconic artists of the West-side Chicago Blues sound Otis Rush. Although he had not perform...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:32
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has made it to the “big Leagues” of the music industry with his talents. He just released his first major label album o...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 57:51
This show highlights the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. I had the opportunity to interview the Active Executive Director, Shelley R...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:40
Jontavious Willis is a young musician in his 20s who is a multi-instrumentalist on a mission to keep the blues alive by following in his mentors (T...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:22
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
A great guitarist of the early electric blues sounds coming out of Chicago, Jody Williams tired of the corruption in the early music business being...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:01
