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A generational discussion about movies, recorded in June 2002
- Added: Mar 29, 2021
- Length: 14:26
Recorded 10/1/01 Gen. Clark guest on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
- Added: Mar 28, 2021
- Length: 23:59
Lowell Fulson was a blues icon with a great history and is still an influence today to many blues musicians.
- Added: Mar 17, 2021
- Length: 59:47
This month, when the maple sap is flowing, we have three different stories about the importance of trees and our interaction with them. We’ll meet ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2021
- Length: 19:53
Sixteen more country and hillbilly songs from the dustiest corners of the United States. Featuring forgotten voices, songs, and labels found on 45...
- Added: Mar 03, 2021
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
The first electric Blues artist to use a Fender Stratocaster given to him by Leo Fender himself.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
Quite a number of jazz musicians who were too young to take part in traditional jazz of the 1920s, joined the Revivalist era of the 1940s. To them ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 18, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Imagine leaving home and traveling by yourself to a new land where you don’t know the customs or the politics, on a trip that will take weeks to co...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
The number of Black-owned farms has drastically declined since the 1920s, and now make up less than two percent of total U.S. farmland. In this epi...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 21:23
- Purchases: 1
Hollywood Fats (Michael Mann) was a young guitar player who loved the sounds and style of musics from a time long past.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 1
Recorded at Decca Studios late one night into the early morning hours in 1947, three Chicago musicians reminisced their former times in early 20th ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 01:52:28
An album of related topics which address the issues of the year 2020.
- Added: Jan 28, 2021
- Length: 59:58
An eclectic collection of songs with a familiar theme in their lyrical content. The debut album from 'Moanin' Jack Webb', '2020 Pandemic of Fear'
- Added: Jan 28, 2021
- Length: 59:58
Jeff Healey was well known for his Blues/Rock, but his true love and passion was for American Jazz.
- Added: Jan 26, 2021
- Length: 59:56
A recording reunion for two musicians in the Blues world.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 01:00:01
Some historical recordings from another era.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 58:58
A revisit to a great album by Buddy Guy recorded in 2001.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 59:54
Remembering one who introduced Blues to a new generation.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 01:00:02
A new compilation record of a great modern day slide player.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 59:51
Blues music has been his world most of his life.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 57:23
A Bluesman who plays gospel as well as blues.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 59:58
The series opens by traveling to the 1920s to hear how Black Americans fought for space on radio airwaves. Then, we hear about programs in the 1940...
Bought by Room Tone Selects, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, KRSC, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 51:59
- Purchases: 79
One of the original 13 Freedom Riders, what Charles Person faced during the Civil Rights Movement was far worse than his time as a Marine in Vietnam.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:26:58
Only 11 years old on Bloody Sunday, JoAnne faced the charging horses and the swinging batons of the state troopers.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:06:54
Her mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. The pretty white southern woman who defied Jim Crow and fought for civil ri...
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:23:34
