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A second set with Kenny Garrett
From: Texas Public Radio
Series: Live at Jazz, TX
Caption: Kenny Garrett, Credit: Nathan Cone
In this second set of music from the Kenny Garrett Quintet's stint at Jazz TX, the band performs five of Garrett's original tunes, plus the old sta...

Bought by KJZX-Austin


  • Added: Jul 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Building Community and Halting the Gas Export Boom on the Gulf Coast - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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The Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas face a petrochemical and fracked gas export boom. Super-heat-charged hurricanes strike almost every year. As ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Episode #638 - Little Esther Phillips: 1950-56
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" honors Little Esther, the 14 year old phenom that scored 3 #1 hits in 1950, singing with Johnny Otis' musical ensemble. She ...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WUTC and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Vue Orleans: A Love Letter to New Orleans
From: World Footprints LLC
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See New Orleans like you've never seen her before atop a 34th floor observation deck and experience the richness of New Orleans history as cutting-...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:38
Intersection of Black and Indigenous Resistance & Justice in the U.S. with Kyle T. Mays - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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In his book “An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States,” Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the United States are rooted in Anti-Bla...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Episode #637 - John Lee Hooker: 1949-51
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
John Lee Hooker was one of the most influential and important musicians of the 20th Century. He single-handedly invented his own electric guitar bo...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KTRT RADIO INC, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #636 - The Cadillacs
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 Cadillacs were one of the most versatile R&B vocal groups of the 1950s, handling uptempo gems like "Speedo" and classic doo wop ballads like "G...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, WHRV, WUTC, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #635 - Larry Darnell
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
Next to the Johnny Otis Orchestra, no R&B act was bigger in 1950 than Larry Darnell. The Columbus, OH native scored the first #1 rhythm record of 1...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, WUTC, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Ebony Classics - Fascinating Rhythm
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
Caption: Lieutenant James Reese Europe, Credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Lieutenant James Reese Europe" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1917.
Ebony Classics - A Classic Exposure features the music of people of color in the Classical music industry.

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 56:59
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #634 - 4th of July: R&B Food Songs
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
What’s more American than celebrating America’s birthday with some good ol’ red, white and Rhythm & Blues about THE Fourth of July staple: food? Di...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KCSM and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
StoryCorps Griot: Lana Cooper-Jones and Marla Cooper
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Lana Cooper-Jones and Marla Cooper at their StoryCorps interview in San Diego, CA on May 11, 2022., Credit: StoryCorps.
Lana Cooper-Jones and Marla Cooper sit down at StoryCorps to remember their dad and his commitment to celebrating Juneteenth.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #633 - Leiber & Stoller's Spark Records
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" is jumpin' with a whole program dedicated to the short-lived 1950s record label started by songwriters Jerry Leiber & Mike S...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Episode #632 - Jimmy Coe
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" is proud to feature Jimmy Coe, a great 1950s saxophonist, bandleader and session man that is often ignored today. His 3 sing...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KNCT FM, WHRV, WUTC and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode 631 - Howlin' Wolf: The Early Years
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" focuses on the great Howlin' Wolf's earliest recordings. Before he became a huge star on Chess Records in Chicago...

Bought by KCSM, KSRQ, Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #630 - Mambo / Vita Records
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 is jumpin' this week with records from the Vita Label and its direct predecessor, Mambo Records. Mambo hit the ground running ...

Bought by KCSM, KNCT FM, KTRT RADIO INC, Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Episode #629 - Billy "The Kid" Emerson
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" with Matt The Cat features Billy "The Kid" Emerson, a talented R&B singer and songwriter who never had a hit record, but his...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KNCT FM, WHRV, KSRQ, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Episode #628 - Art Rupe & Specialty Records, Pt. 3 - 1953-56
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" pays our respects to one of the great record men of the 1940s and 50s; Art Rupe. Rupe passed away on April 15, 20...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KNCT FM, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Episode #627 - Art Rupe & Specialty 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, the "Juke In The Back" pays our respects to one of the great record men of the 1940s and 50s; Art Rupe. Rupe passed away on April 15, 20...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KNCT FM, WHRV, KSRQ and more


  • Added: May 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
UpFront Soul #2022.19 - May 10-16
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Esther Phillips
We'll get the Black Eyed Blues with Esther Phillips and hear some crazy South African proto-rap from Benjamin Ball, plus Francophone soul from Litt...

Bought by WOMR, KCHW, KSTK, WOUB, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 12
Episode #626 - Art Rupe and Specialty Records, Pt. 1 - 1945-50
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
This week, the "Juke In The Back" pays our respects to one of the great record men of the 1940s and 50s; Art Rupe. Rupe passed away on April 15, 20...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, WHRV, KNCT FM and more


  • Added: May 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
StoryCorps Griot: Rob Maiden and Daniel Jacob
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Daniel Jacob and Rob Maiden at their StoryCorps interview in Dallas, TX in 2014., Credit: Liyna Anwar for StoryCorps.
Rob Maiden tells his friend and fellow Mavs ManiAACs performer, Daniel Jacob, about what led him to join their hip--hop dance group of self--procla...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #624 - The Flamingos, Pt. 2 - 1954-56
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" jumps and grooves this week as Matt The Cat presents part 2 of a three part feature on The Flamingos, one of the most influe...

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


  • Added: Apr 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #623 - The Flamingos, Pt. 1 - 1953-54
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" jumps and grooves this week as Matt The Cat begins a 3 part feature on The Flamingos, one of the most influential and best r...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KNCT FM, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WOUB, KTRT RADIO INC and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #622 - Marvin Phillips
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
Marvin Phillips is one of LA's unsung heroes of 1950s rhythm & blues. He, along with Jesse Belvin, popularized R&B duos with their 1952 smash, "Dre...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KNCT FM, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Episode #621 - Jack McVea
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
Jack McVea is an integral part of the Los Angeles Rhythm & Blues scene of the 1940s. He's best remembered today as the originator of the recorded v...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KNCT FM, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7

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