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238: The Secret Spot Episode 238: Spotlight On The Drifters, 4/6/2024
From: WERS
Series: The Secret Spot
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Listen to The Secret Spot for the smoothest new tracks and deepest throwbacks in R&B and Soul

  • Added: Apr 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:54
UpFront Soul #2024.13 - April 9-15
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Smokey Robinson
We'll spin songs of love, emotion, and devotion from Smokey Robinson, Joan Armatrading, and Pharaoh Sanders, and hear songs of brotherhood from Cur...

Bought by WOMR, KAAD-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Prairie Public, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 13
Deeper Grooves Episode 1
From: Cliff Beach
Series: Deeper Grooves Radio Show
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Featuring James Brown, Pointers Sisters, Neil Francis, Orgone, Hiatus Kaiyote, Cory Henry, Anderson.Paak, Bruno Mars, The Rebirth Brass Band, Nate ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
TSSAAPR240403 Tributes - Jazz/R&B Pioneers Casey Benjamin and Donald Hepburn
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: Casey Benjamin, Credit: soulshowmike image, 2014
Join Mike Canton for an evergreen tribute to Casey Benjamin of the Robert Glasper Experiment and Donald Hepburn of the 70s group Pleasure. Both ge...

Bought by KCHW and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 2
Blue Dimensions M14: New Hill Country Blues From Cedric Burnside
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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new blues from Mississippi's hill country from Cedric Burnside, and a new live album from folk-blues artist Eric Bibb

Bought by KMUN, KJZX-Austin, Northwest Public Broadcasting, Royalton Community Radio, WRGY and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
853: From Nashville to Nairobi: The History of Country Music in Kenya, 4/4/2024
From: Afropop Worldwide
Series: Afropop Worldwide
Caption: Steve Rogers
In this episode, we trace the history of country music in Kenya dating back to the 1920s and 30s when local populations first heard Jimmie Rodgers ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
The Many Ways We Mother
From: The Stoop
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An exploration of the different ways Black people parent

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KJZZ, KALW, KECG, and KUHF


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Spanish Hour 2414: Cuba’s Classical Legacy
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Ernesto Lecuona postage stamp
Whether making their homes in Spain, the United States, or never venturing from the Pearl of the Antilles, Cuba’s best-known and best-loved compos...

Bought by WRTI, WRGY, KVNO, KRZA, KSJE and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 36
UpFront Soul #2024.12 - April 2-8
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Kool and the Gang
We'll warm up with toasty tracks from Kool & the Gang, James Reese & the Progressions, and The Hesitations, hear sweet love songs from Joan Armatra...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOMR, RADIOLEX, KZUM, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 15
Episode #726 - Percy Mayfield: 1949-60
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
Some songwriters and singers just know how to tap into deepest regions of sadness, passion and truth. Such is the musical prowess of Percy Mayfield...

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


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Federal Courts Leave Racially Gerrymandered South Carolina, North Carolina & Florida Maps in Place for 2024 Election
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Federal Courts Leave Racially Gerrymandered South Carolina, North Carolina & Florida Maps in Place for 2024 Election

Bought by WUTC and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
237: The Secret Spot Episode 237: Spotlight On Nancy Wilson, 3/30/2024
From: WERS
Series: The Secret Spot
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Listen to The Secret Spot to touch every era of R&B, Soul, and Slow Jams

  • Added: Mar 30, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
Revisit Poets Tracy K. Smith and Melissa Range
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tracy K. Smith, Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
This week, the podcast is divided into two parts with one subject—poetry. Part 1 is excerpts from my 2018 interview with poet Melissa Range while p...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Story Of The First African American Face Transplant
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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There have been fewer than 50 full face transplant recipients in the world. And up until 2019, there had been zero done for African-Americans. Toda...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
The Spark Weekly 3.31.24: David Gambacorta, Barbara Laker and Bryan Wade
From: WITF
Series: The Spark Weekly
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Coming up on this week's episode of The Spark Weekly. Two Philadelphia Inquirer reporters that have investigated forever chemicals of PFAs that go...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 46:24
TSSAAPR240327 The Soul Show: Celebrating Estelle Axton, Founder of Stax Records
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: soulshowmike.org
Join host Mike Canton for this WHM-relevant but evergreen celebration of Estelle Axton, who co-founded the label that launched Otis Redding's caree...

Bought by KCHW and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for March 27, 2024
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: The U.S. Finally Has Allowed Passage of U.N. Gaza Ceasefire: What Happens ...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
CP - Rounding out Women's History Month: Garden Wonderland, with Leslie Bennett
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
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To round out Women’s History Month in style, this week we are back in conversation with Leslie Bennett, Oakland, CA based landscape designer creati...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Blue Dimensions M13: A Band Of Two Bassists, Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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new album with a band consisting of just two bassists, Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer

Bought by KMUN, KJZX-Austin, KMUW, Royalton Community Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
UpFront Soul #2024.10 - March 19-25
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Betty Davis
We'll dive deep into the funk as we go Walkin Up the Road with Betty Davis, Bump with the Webb People, and Get Down with Melvin Sparks. We'll also ...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 01:57:04
A Jazz-Age Murder That Toppled Gotham’s Mayor
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with Michael Wolraich about his book, The Bishop And The Butterfly: Murder, Politics, And The End Of The Jazz Age. Then, we re-air part of ...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 01:10:45
Episode #725 - Guitar Slim
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
Eddie Jones grew up in Hollandale, MS, pickin' cotton and dreaming of a better life when ambition and musical talent plucked him from his situation...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, KCSM, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
236: The Secret Spot Episode 236: Spotlight On Roberta Flack, 3/23/2024
From: WERS
Series: The Secret Spot
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The Secret Spot delivers a simple, intimate, curated playlist of R&B and Soul

  • Added: Mar 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:42
Moving Forward By Looking Back (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When Latorial Faison meets somebody, she can almost immediately tell if they attended a Black school during segregation. She says they carry themse...

Bought by WFHB, RadioStPete Florida, Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, WUTC and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Moving Forward By Looking Back (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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When Latorial Faison meets somebody, she can almost immediately tell if they attended a Black school during segregation. She says they carry themse...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KECG, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4

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