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Ray Charles - Child
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Musician Ray Charles explains what kind of music was around him growing up. (1995)

Bought by WNCU, WUAL, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Ray Charles - Nat Cole
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Musician Ray Charles remembers his early career as a Nat “King” Cole sound-alike. (1995)

Bought by WNCU, WUAL, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 3
An Unlikely Partnership
From: KVMR
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A California State Prisoner/Poet and a Swedish Classical Composer create "Frihet for de fanga" (Freedom for the prisoners)

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 1
Blues File: Campbell Brothers "Can You Feel It?"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of "Can You Feel It?" album by Campbell Brothers

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: Jun 30, 2005
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: review Dorothy Moore "I'm Doing Alright"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of new album "I'm Doing Alright" from Dorothy Moore

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: Jun 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: Chicago Blues Harmonica Project
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of "Diamonds In The Rough" by Chicago Blues Harmonica Project

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: Jun 16, 2005
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: Buckwheat Zydeco "Jackpot!" review
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of new album "Jackpot!" from Buckwheat Zydeco

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB and more


  • Added: May 26, 2005
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 6
Blues File: Koko Taylor
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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Koko Taylor< "Queen Of The Blues," bounces back from poor health

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB and more


  • Added: May 21, 2005
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 6
Rahsaan Patterson Interview
From: Youth Outlook
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my interview with soul singer rahsaan Patterson

  • Added: May 19, 2005
  • Length: 14:34
Blues File: review Nathaniel Mayer "I Want To Be Held"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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Detroit soul/blues singer Nathaniel "Nay Dog" Mayer is back after many years with an album well worth listening to.

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: review Kenny Blues Boss Wayne album "Let It Loose"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of new album from blues pianist Kenny Blues Boss Wayne

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: review Duwayne Burnside "Under Pressure"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of new album from Duwayne Burnside, son of Mississippi bluesman R. L. Burnside

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: review Albert Collins "The Iceman At Mount Fuji"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of Albert Collins "The Iceman At Mount Fuji"

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:10
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: review Robert Cray album "Twenty"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of new Robert Cray album "Twenty"

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB and more


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 6
Blues File: preview 2005 Pocono Blues Festival
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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Preview: 2005 Pocono Blues Festival

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: Apr 02, 2005
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: Macavine Hayes
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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Review of Macavine Hayes's album "Drinkhouse" and a look at the rural blues of the southeastern states through this artist & album.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KKRN, KKRN, WEFT, WQJC and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 7
Blues File: Hubert Sumlin
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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In this Blues File reviewer Jonny Meister offers up his thoughts on Hubert Sumlin's new album "About Them Shoes."

Bought by WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, KDLG, and WVAS


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 5
The Ebony Hillbillies
From: Amber Edwards
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The Ebony Hillbillies prove you don?t have to be white and Southern to play authentic, down home country music...they are hip, urban, and black. A...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Public Interactive, WKMS, KCUR and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2005
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 8
Jews & Blues: Inside Out
From: Inside Out Documentaries
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The story of how Jewish and African-American music came to be mingled is the story of how the soundtrack of the American Century came to be written

Bought by WCPN, 90.5 WSNC, KSFR, WNIJ, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2005
  • Length: 01:02:30
  • Purchases: 13
What's the Word? The Blues as Literature
From: Modern Language Association
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Blues lyrics give us unique insight into the African American experience.

Bought by KMUN, WLIW, KMUN, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 22
In the Spirit
From: WPSU
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A one-hour retrospective of 20th Century African-American Religious Music and Interviews

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WSGE, 90.5 WSNC, KLCC, KTNA and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2005
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Chuck Berry and Rock & Roll
From: Lester Graham
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The history of Chuck Berry and rock & roll.

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, 90.5 WSNC, WHQR, and Public Radio East


  • Added: Jan 05, 2005
  • Length: 07:16
  • Purchases: 4
Singer Songwriter Kierstin Gray
From: ArtMusic Coffeehouse International Webcasts
Series: ArtMusic Coffeehouse
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Interview/Performance by Singer/Songwriter Kierstin Gray

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT


  • Added: Dec 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:59:16
  • Purchases: 1
Monty Alexander ENCORE: On Bob Marley's 'Redemption Song'
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
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In words and in music, the jazz pianist shows how Bob Marley's late song of slavery and freedom is "almost like a hymn."

Bought by PRX Remix, KMHD, KLCC, KNAU, and WHQR


  • Added: Oct 01, 2004
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 5
Ann Meets Mr. Ellington
From: Kerry Seed
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Ann Searcy is a 76-year-old jazz singer. She grew up as one of the only people of color in Old Orchard Beach, Maine where music legend, Duke Elling...

Bought by Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), SALTcast Podcast, Iowa Public Radio, WJAB, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 7

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