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Join us as we aim the spotlight on the Bentonia, Mississippi blues tradition, and the handful of practitioners — such as Skip James, Jack Owens, an...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
Join us as we explore the rich and fascinating history of animal symbolism in the blues. Ever since the very first recordings, from the 1920s, blue...
- Added: Aug 25, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
A program about saxophonist Sonny Rollins' early-1960s return to the jazz scene after a self-imposed sabbatical.
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 59:00
Join us for an extra special treat! We asked Bob Koester, founder of the legendary Delmark Records, for a list of his favorite performances. All we...
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
Join us for another installment of our "Great Songwriters" series, as we aim the spotlight on Jimmy Reed. Enjoying more R&B hits than any of his co...
- Added: Jul 24, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
A program about Louis Armstrong’s mid-career years, in which he led the small-group All-Stars, scored chart hits with pop ballads, and became a Col...
- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 59:00
Join us for two hours of our favorite gut bucket blues! We’ll hear low down classics from Lightnin’ Hopkins, Joe Hill Louis, L.C. Green, Elmore Jam...
- Added: Jul 04, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
This show is part II of our Juneteenth Series focusing African-American music and venues in North Tulsa from the 40's through the 60's. We intervi...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 58:58
The Juke In The Back jumps into summer by spotlighting THE summertime holiday, the 4th of July. We're diggin' the 4th in song, ranging from songs a...
- Added: Jun 25, 2017
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 11
Join us as we dig into a collection of blues songs all dealing with the topic of war. Featuring commentary, insight, and criticism on Vietnam, Kore...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
The popular notion that Jamaica developed its early ska and reggae musics by listening to high powered New Orleans radio stations doesn't give cred...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 43:39
Join us for part two of our look at the blues traditions in Brownsville, Tennessee. This time, we’ll focus primarily on the Decca label, and hear s...
- Added: May 14, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
Join us as we get into our time machine, and go back to the 1920s and ’30s, to examine the blues traditions in Brownsville, Tennessee. At the epice...
- Added: Apr 29, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
Spies of Mississippi is a journey into the world of informants, infiltrators, and agent provocateurs in the heart of Dixie. Directed and produced b...
Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and XRAY.fm
- Added: Apr 17, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Join us for another installment of “hits that missed,” as we count our way down through some of the biggest recordings of the 1940s. We’ll hear mus...
- Added: Apr 01, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, join us as we pay tribute to a remarkable collection of records that all have one thing in common — they were a...
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
On this special edition of Blues Unlimited, join us as two legendary musicians, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Son House, tell us about their lives in story...
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
Interview with Barbara Reynolds,founding editor of USA Today on her 2017 book My Life, My Love, My Legacy biography of Coretta King, condensed from...
- Added: Feb 09, 2017
- Length: 28:16
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we put the Checker label in the spotlight. Started by Phil and Leonard Chess as a subsidiary imprint in 1952, Checker issued some specta...
- Added: Feb 04, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
Join us as we take a look back at some of our favorite moments from 2016. In a year filled with highlights, great blues, and a bunch of good music,...
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
Join us as we dig into some of the great recordings made by Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label during the 1960s. This time we’ll be focusing on some ...
- Added: Jan 02, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
This one hour musical program commemorates the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The play-list consists of some of the world's greatest Jazz mus...
Bought by Radio Catskill, WNMU-FM, WORT, KTEP, KRCU Public Radio and more
- Added: Dec 28, 2016
- Length: 01:05:59
- Purchases: 18
Join us as we explore some of the rarest of the rare — John Tefteller's legendary collection of Paramount 78s. One of the most important blues labe...
- Added: Nov 28, 2016
- Length: 01:58:59
Blues Unlimited #304 - Goin' Down To Eli's: Robert Nighthawk & Friends, Live on Maxwell Street, 1964
From: Steve c/o Ernest FranzSeries: Blues Unlimited
If you like your blues raw and gritty, then join us as we head down to Maxwell Street. That’s where filmmaker Mike Shea went with his cameras in 19...
- Added: Oct 04, 2016
- Length: 01:58:59
Join us as we dig through the remains of the Parkway label, a Chicago independent who was only in business for a short time during the first few mo...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 01:58:59
