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Episode #563 - Atlantic Records, Pt. 3 - 1951
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Atlantic Records was the most influential, significant and important independent record label to come out of the late-1940s, during a time when the...

Bought by KCSM, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WHRV, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Professor Longhair's Legacy
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Professor Longhair, Credit: Michael P. Smith © The Historic New Orleans Collection
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, this show is devoted to “Fess” -- Henry Roeland Byrd, aka Professor Longhair - the pianist whose music fills the stree...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #562 - Atlantic Records, Pt. 2 - 1949-50
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Atlantic Records was the most influential, significant and important independent record label to come out of the late-1940s, during a time when the...

Bought by KCSM, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
WoodSongs 985: The Lee Boys and Grady Champion
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Grady Champion on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes “sacred steel” ensemble The Lee Boys plus 21st Century Bluesman Grady Cha...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, Yellowstone Public Radio, KTRL, KKRN, WETS and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
Episode #561 - Atlantic Records, Pt. 1 - 1947-49
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Atlantic Records was the most influential, significant and important independent record label to come out of the late-1940s, during a time when the...

Bought by KCSM, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #560 - The Spiders
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
New Orleans is not known for its R&B vocal groups. In a city where jazz, blues and zydeco thrive, one vocal group rose to the top: The Spiders. In ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #558 - 1951: Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the jukebox is in the spotlight as Matt The Cat takes you back 70 years and highlights the top jukebox hits of the first half of 1951. Y...

Bought by WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WOUB, KTRT RADIO INC, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #557 - Boogie Woogie Rhythm & Blues
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Let's begin 2021 with a solid hour of Boogie Woogie Rhythm & Blues. The blues style of Boogie Woogie piano features a strong left hand, playing rep...

Bought by KCSM, WHRV, WOUB, KTRT RADIO INC, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #556 - Johnny Otis
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
"Juke In The Back" is proud to honor the late, great Johnny Otis. He was a true renaissance man. Otis was a singer, songwriter, drummer, bandleader...

Bought by KCSM, KMUW, WHRV, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #555 - Rhythm & Blues Christmas 2 (Leftovers & Resolutions)
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Matt The Cat has dug up some more R&B Christmas treasures and added a few tunes about New Years for this week’s continuation of the “Juke In The Ba...

Bought by KCSM, WJAB, WHRV, WOUB, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #554 - Rhythm & Blues Christmas 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
2020 has been a tough year all around, so why not grab a glass of 'nog, sit back and relax and dig on some great vintage Rhythm & Blues Christmas t...

Bought by KCSM, WJAB, KSRQ, WHRV, WOUB and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Episode #553 - The Larks, Pt. 2 - 1952-55
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The Larks are one of the most influential and best sounding vocal groups of the early 1950s and yet, they are never remembered quite as well as man...

Bought by WHRV, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WOUB, KMXT, and KTRT RADIO INC


  • Added: Dec 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Episode #552 - The Larks, Pt. 1 - 1950-52
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The Larks are one of the most influential and best sounding vocal groups of the early 1950s and yet, they are never remembered quite as well as man...

Bought by WHRV, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KMXT, and KTRT RADIO INC


  • Added: Nov 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Episode #551 - The Royals
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" looks at the very beginnings of one of early R&B's biggest groups, The Midnighters. Before "Work With Me Annie," they were k...

Bought by WHRV, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KTRT RADIO INC, KMXT and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #550 - Aladdin Records, Pt. 3 - 1953-55
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" presents part 3 in our series on Aladdin Records, one of the most important independent labels of the pre-rock era. Part 3 f...

Bought by WHRV, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KTRT RADIO INC, WYAP and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
UpFront Soul #2020.46-November 16-22, 2020
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: The Roots
We'll celebrate freedom with John Legend & The Roots,Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach, and the Staple Singers, hear a set of Philly soul, and serve up a S...

Bought by KMUN, RADIOLEX, KAAD-LP, KZUM, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 11
Episode #549 - Aladdin Records, Pt. 2 - 1950-53
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, "Juke In The Back" features part 2 of our 3 part series on Aladdin Records. Matt The Cat focuses on Aladdin's releases from 1950-53 and ...

Bought by WYAP, WHRV, WOUB, KMXT, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #548 - Aladdin Records, Pt. 1 - 1945-49
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" presents part 1 of a 3 part series on Aladdin Records. Aladdin was one of the independent LA record labels that launched in ...

Bought by WHRV, KTRT RADIO INC, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
UpFront Soul #2020.44-November 2-8, 2020
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Stevie Wonder
We'll hear the long-awaited new single from Stevie Wonder, plus new music from Amerigo Gazaway, uplifting tunes from The Commodores, Curtis Mayfiel...

Bought by KMUN, RADIOLEX, KAAD-LP, WOMR, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 10
Episode #547 - NEW Halloween Rhythm & Blues Special
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Halloween has always been a frightfully good time of the year for the "Juke In The Back." This year, Matt The Cat, along with Miss Rosie and Bobby ...

Bought by WHRV, WNMU-FM, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KTRT RADIO INC and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
WoodSongs 969: Sugaray Rayford and Liz Brasher
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: The deep soul blues vocals of Sugaray Rayford.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes award winning Texas-born soul blues singer plus Memphis soul-singing gara...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WRGY, KHNS, GCR (Global Community Radio), KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 40
Buffalo NY: Grappling with Gentrification in one of America’s Most Unequal Cities
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Buffalo, New York, was once a booming industrial town fueled by cheap power from Niagara Falls, a center of commerce and trade, the first city in t...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #546 - Unsung Ladies of R&B
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the "Juke In The Back" solutes the Unsung Ladies of R&B! We'll dig deep into a stack of shellac from some women you know, like Varetta D...

Bought by KCSM, WHRV, Raven Radio, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Episode #545 - R.I.P. - Gaynel Hodge & Hal Singer
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, "Juke In The Back" honors two unsung R&B heroes who passed away over the past six months. Vocal group leader and songwriter Gaynel Hodge...

Bought by WHRV, WOUB, KTRT RADIO INC, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Episode #544 - Paul Gayten
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Pianist Paul Gayten is one of the true unsung heroes of R&B and rock n' roll, but he is often overlooked in the history of the genre. Matt The Cat ...

Bought by WHRV, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4