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Singer Songwriter Annie Mack Finds Her Truth in The Blues
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Singer Songwriter Annie Mack, Credit: Shelly Mosman
African American singer songwriter Annie Mack does it all, from powerhouse blues to New Americana and beyond, highlighting her unique vocal presenc...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 27, 2020
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
Blues America 155 - Linsey Alexander
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Linsey “Hoochie Man” Alexander has been a fixture on Chicago’s Northside blues scene for decades. He celebrates his latest Delmark Records studio r...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WCPN, Public Radio East, WEAA, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 11
Blues America 152 - Dom Flemons
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Dom Flemons is a multi-instrumentalist and native of Arizona who emerged onto the roots scene as the co-founder of the Grammy-Award winning folk ba...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, WEAA and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:21
  • Purchases: 9
Blues America 128 - Howl N Madd Perry
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Living legend Bill “Howl-n-Madd” Perry is a living delta blues figure whose incredible story finds him rubbing shoulders behind Little Richard, J.J...

Bought by WEAA, WART FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Blues America 86 - Jerry Lawson
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Jerry Lawson is a singing legend who fronted the world famous Persuasions for 40 plus years. As their lead singer he produced and arranged 22 album...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), Spokane Public Radio, KRPS, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2017
  • Length: 58:03
  • Purchases: 6
Blues America 83 - Bobby Rush
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Speaking backstage with the “King of the Chitlin’ Circuit”, the Living Legend, Bobby Rush. One of the last of his era, Rush estimates that he has c...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, KDLG, WEAA, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 11
Blues America 60 - Jerry Lawson Series
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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The Jerry Lawson Legacy Project is an exclusive series for Blues America that explores the history of singing legend Jerry Lawson and the famed Per...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Veteran Twin Cities Blues Artist Leads 7-Piece Group into Crooner's in Fridley
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Wee Willie Walker, Credit: Doug Knutson
Wee Willie Walker arrived in St Paul around 1960. Willie has had and has a long career in music, including singing Doo-wop, gospel music and down-h...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Grandmaster Flash on the History of DJ Scratching
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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According to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, "Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five fomented the musical revolution known as hip-hop. Theirs was a p...

Bought by WFHB and WETD


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 2
08: Goldmines & Gum Boots (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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Everything Sounds explores the the origins and sounds of South African gumboot dancing.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Afrika Bambaataa: Renegade of Funk
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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Musician and legendary innovator, Afrika Bambaataa, discusses the origin and legacy of hip-hop. [13:35]

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
08: Gold Mines & Gum Boots
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Everything Sounds explores the the origins and sounds of South African gumboot dancing.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 12:53
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering a legendary Bay Area jazz club
From: KALW
Caption: “Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club” by Kathy Sloane is published by Indiana University Press.
It was a special time for jazz in the Bay Area. For most of the ‘70s and the early ‘80s, a small club called Keystone Korner presented a dazzling a...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gems #1009, Blues, Bluegrass and Old TIme Music
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The piece investigates the mutual influence of African American and European American on each others' music styles.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2010
  • Length: 08:10
"We Mobin'": Mics, Plus Beats, Minus Walls
From: Aaron Henkin
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If music is made on the street, why record it in a booth?

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 16, 2007
  • Length: 13:40
  • Purchases: 1
Mardi Gras Indian Music
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Musical Tradition of New Orleans' Black Indians

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, WTJU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WBHM and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2007
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 10
Style Warz: an underground M.C. battle from the inside out
From: Aaron Henkin
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A look at Baltimore's preeminent M.C. competition, Style Warz, from the perspective of the rappers who square off in front of a live audience to do...

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 49:27
  • Purchases: 1
Monty Alexander ENCORE: On Bob Marley's 'Redemption Song'
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
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In words and in music, the jazz pianist shows how Bob Marley's late song of slavery and freedom is "almost like a hymn."

Bought by PRX Remix, KMHD, KLCC, KNAU, and WHQR


  • Added: Oct 01, 2004
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 5
Ann Meets Mr. Ellington
From: Kerry Seed
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ann Searcy is a 76-year-old jazz singer. She grew up as one of the only people of color in Old Orchard Beach, Maine where music legend, Duke Elling...

Bought by Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), SALTcast Podcast, Iowa Public Radio, WJAB, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 7