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On this episode, Joshua introduces us to composer and educator, George Walker. Known for his wide musical vocabulary, Walker is a pulitzer winning ...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode, Angela introduces us to the composer and multi-intrumentalist Evelyn Simpson Curenton, and we hear an excerpt of her work, "O'Glory."

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
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On this episode, Angela introduces Moses Hogan, a 20th century American composer noted for his arrangements of spirituals.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode, Joshua introduces Robert Nathaniel Dett and his piece "Honey" from his "In the Bottoms" Suite. The piece evokes scenes and moods o...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode, Joshua introduces William Grant Still, the "dean of black music." We hear an excerpt of Still's work "Ringplay," on piano.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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 ...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
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...

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
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...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
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...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
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...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
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...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
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An interview with Eilidh McGinness, author of "JOSEPHINE: Singer, Dancer, Soldier, SPY"

  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 20:21
Caption: Alphabet Rockers
We get inspired with the Alphabet Rockers, two time Grammy nominees, and the premier children's hip hop band.

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 12
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...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
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...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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In this episode, three winning stories of the 2020 Third Coast/RHDF Competition each paint a unique portrait of survival and hope in the time of co...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
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...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
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...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 11
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 ...

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  • Added: Nov 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
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 ...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
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...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 10
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 ...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
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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...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2