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Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:22
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we go back to the 1930s and dig out some of the rarest blues of all time. From Leroy Carr and Robert Johnson to Big Bill Broonzy and Bli...
- Added: Jun 15, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us for part two of our new and ongoing series, "The Legends of Bluesville." This time around, we’ll aim the spotlight on Texas and the Gulf Co...
- Added: May 24, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us for the launch of a new and ongoing series, "The Legends of Bluesville." This time around, our focus will be on the Eastern Seaboard, with ...
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we finish up our tribute to the "The Blues," a series of five LPs issued by Chess Records in the mid 1960s. We’ll hear classics from Mud...
- Added: May 11, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we aim the spotlight on a classic series of LPs from Chess Records. Simply called "The Blues," they issued five volumes between 1963 and...
- Added: May 05, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we take another trip down to the land of the Hammond B3. We’ll hear some killer grooves and hot rockers from some of our old favorites l...
- Added: Apr 27, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we journey to the Queen City of the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, to hear some of the rich blues and heavenly gospel that was record...
- Added: Apr 19, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
Join us as we pay tribute to one of the all time greatest harmonica players, Big Walter Horton. Making his first recordings with Sam Phillips in Me...
- Added: Apr 12, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
We’ve been digging through the archives to bring you this special "best of" encore presentation. This time around, it's a whole bunch of hot rocker...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we aim the spotlight on the legendary field recordings of David Evans. An intrepid researcher, most of what he captured in the mid 60s a...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WJSU, KRPS, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)
- Added: Mar 30, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
Join us for a tribute to keyboard legend Big Maceo Merriweather. Although his recorded legacy is not all that large, he left an indelible mark in t...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Mar 22, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
Join us as we explore some of the very best live blues performances of all time — B.B. King at the Regal, Muddy Waters at Newport, Robert Nighthawk...
- Added: Mar 15, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
This is the newest version of a captivating account of how slavery fueled the unique American form of Capitalism.
- Added: Mar 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Join us as we aim the spotlight on Bill Quinn’s legendary Gold Star record label. Founded in Houston in the late 1940s, he recorded some of the cre...
- Added: Mar 08, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
In this edition of the Cutting Edge, we take a look at the musical phenomena remembered as the Motown sound. Born and bred in the shadows of the Mo...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:00:02
- Purchases: 1
The tribulations of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, are depicted in the popular film 12 Years a Slave. A soon to be publis...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 1
The tribulations of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, are depicted in the popular film 12 Years a Slave. A soon to be publis...
Bought by WJCT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WLIW
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Fifteen, 3-minute vignettes celebrating the contributions of African Americans in classical music.
Bought by Texas Public Radio, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM, Texas Public Radio, Vermont Public, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and more
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 45:00
- Purchases: 10
Join us as we aim the spotlight on independent record producer, Bobby Robinson. Not only could he lay claim to a legendary series of labels — such ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
We've taken a whole great gob of our favorite down home country blues harmonica blowers, and lined them up for one incredible episode we're calling...
- Added: Feb 22, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Gentrification is just the newest name for the changes happening in New Orleans' neighborhoods downriver from the French Quarter. Along Saint Claud...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Join us as we celebrate the good times, with songs about drinking and having fun. With music on tap from Ike Turner, J.B. Lenoir, John Lee Hooker, ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
The winner of the 2012 Joyce Wein Artist Prize discusses the relationship in her work between visual art and sonic art. [26:26]
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 26:26
- Purchases: 1
Three generations of Paschalls, now NEA Heritage Fellows, have brought beautiful harmonies to their community. [35:21]
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 35:22
- Purchases: 2
