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Perfect for Women's History Month programming. "Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects," a new special from The Kitchen Sisters, h...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM, WILL, KALW, WRGY, WKSU and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 54
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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
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Muddy Waters went back to his bare roots on this 1964 album "Folk Singer".

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 57:14
  • Purchases: 1
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Kat Riggins 2022 release "Progeny is a collection of diverse tracks with blues roots as a foundation.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Kenny Neal's 2022 Album "Straight From The Heart"

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:16
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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An historical recording with an amazing lineup of musicians from Chicago.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 57:39
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
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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
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Meet Joann Jones. She's 79 years old, and she loves to dance. So, she helped start a line dancing class for senior citizens at the Hadley Park Comm...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 15:57
  • Purchases: 1
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An experience nof hearing a blue musician in a real blues club in Chicago.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:42
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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
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A Chicago bus driver has some music to share that will blow you away!

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:22
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Mr. Jack shares his personal favorite BB King albums.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 54:46
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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The innovator of the postwar (WWII) Chicago Blue sound!

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:58
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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
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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
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From Blues beginnings to Rock, to Reggae, the Kinsey brothers have been in the music business since their youth inspired by their father Big Daddy ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:57
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An active musician in the world of Blues since he was a youth under his father's wings, Bernard Allison is still going strong after some 37 years o...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:52