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Blues From the Road with Larry Garner 11-05-22

  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:24
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Blues From the Road with Larry Garner from 10-29-22

  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:30
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Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of former slaves and a founder of Bethune-Cookman University. She was often the only woman of color with a sea...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Louis Armstrong
Host Gwen Thompkins makes an exclusive visit to the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, NY, guided through Armstrong’s rare recordings and life...

Bought by KCNP


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Born in 1832, Mary Fields was the first African-American female Star Route mail carrier in the United States. Wearing two guns that she sometimes b...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Butterbeans & Susie
Jody and Susie Edwards were apparently married on stage at the Standard Theatre, Philadelphia. They went on perform for several decades billing th...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Missourians
They were known as the big band of the 1920s who sounded a little “country.” Not because they were from Nashville, nor did they have a twang in th...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Billy Taylor and Frank Wess talk about great musicians who never left town

  • Added: Aug 19, 2007
  • Length: 07:36

  • Added: Jun 27, 2007
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 9