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Blues Unlimited #146 - Play That Guitar 'Til It Smokes: A Tribute to Willie Johnson, Part 2
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: One of the toughest slices of blues to come out of Sun Records. Inset: Willie Johnson, during his Chicago days with the Howlin' Wolf., Credit: Corrinia Harris Wallace/Living Blues Collection.
Join us for Part 2 of our extended tribute to blues guitarist Willie Johnson. Once called the linchpin of Howlin' Wolf's band, Willie and the Wolf ...

Bought by KHNS and KHNS


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 2
The IWW Legacy
From: Dick Meister
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Before the coming of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, there was the IWW - the Industrial Workers of the World - to lead a major and fiercely fought...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:10
Blues Unlimited #145 - Play That Guitar 'Til It Smokes: A Tribute to Willie Johnson, Part 1
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: Guitarist Willie Johnson, in his later days., Credit: John Anthony Brisbin/Living Blues Magazine.
Perhaps one of the most underrated blues guitarists of all time, Willie Johnson is best known for his incendiary, firebrand work with Howlin' Wolf....

Bought by KHNS, KTRL, and KHNS


  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Health Care & The Black Panther Party
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The Black Panther Party and its health care work in black communities is the topic of Radio Curious this week, in an interview with Professor Alond...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Blues Unlimited #144 - Working Man's Blues
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: Work gang at Cummins Prison Farm, Arkansas, 1972. Photo by Bruce Jackson.
Join us as we examine the working life in story and song. From hard times trying to find work in the Great Depression, to prison work songs, the pe...

Bought by KMXT, KMSU, KHNS, and KHNS


  • Added: Feb 10, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Sisters of Mercy
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In a little known chapter of American history, hundreds of thousands of Irish Catholic children were taken from their families in New York City and...

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, KVSC, KRZA, KZYX and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 13
The Plot to Assassinate The President-Elect
From: Roy Trumbull
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This account of a plot to assassinate President-Elect Lincoln in Baltimore comes from Carl Sandburg's "Lincoln-The War Years"

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 39:25
The Nightly News and the Civil Rights Movement
From: With Good Reason
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The Civil Rights Movement was the United States’ first major domestic news story to be televised. The author of a new book exploring television’s r...

Bought by WMTNradio, Troy Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 3
Equal Time: The Networks and the Civil Rights Movement
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How the evening news shaped attitudes about race relations during the Civil Rights Movement.

Bought by KALW, WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, WJAB and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Blues Unlimited #143 - New Orleans Piano
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: Everyone's favorite, New Orleans keyboard legend Fats Domino.
Join us for two great hours of piano blues from New Orleans. From classic R&B party favorites to keyboard legends like Professor Longhair, Fats Dom...

Bought by KHNS, KTRL, and KHNS


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Sit Down, Punk!
From: Dick Meister
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Labor leader Art Carter was an important but now largely forgotten hero of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:56
The Fight of the Century: Ali - Frazier I
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Two undefeated heavyweight boxing champions capture the imagination of a polarized America on March 8, 1971.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
Blues Unlimited #142 - A Tribute to Harry Smith's "Anthology of American Folk Music"
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: One of the most beloved — and influential — compilations of all time, “The Anthology of American Folk Music,” compiled by Harry Smith (inset).
In this episode of Blues Unlimited, we've culled through all the great Blues and Gospel recordings from the legendary LP set issued on the Folkways...

Bought by KHNS, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, and KHNS


  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 3
A Rodgers and Hart Valentine's
From: Fred Flaxman
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The best of Rodgers and Hart's love songs as interpreted by some of the most famous American male and female vocalists.

Bought by WNMU-FM and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 2
Blues Unlimited #141 - Texas Country Blues
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: Image of Lightnin' Hopkins courtesy of the University of Houston Libraries. Photographer unknown.
Join us as we celebrate the independent spirit of Texas with two hours of prime country blues from the Lone Star State. From the masters of the gen...

Bought by KHNS, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, KHNS, and KTRL


  • Added: Dec 23, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Silent and Unseen: Secret Agent in the Warsaw Uprising
From: Dave McGuire
Caption: Stefan Baluk during WWII, Credit: Stefan Baluk
A 97 year-old veteran of the Warsaw Uprising recounts parachuting into occupied Poland and fighting in a last-ditch attempt to re-take his home fro...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:19
  • Purchases: 2
Blues Unlimited #140 - Blues Masters Unplugged
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: Pictured: Now considered a classic, “Muddy Waters Folk Singer,” issued 1964, attempted to capitalize on the exploding folk music market of the 1960s.
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we've taken some of our favorite artists – some of them synonymous with the very concept of "Postwar Electric B...

Bought by KHNS, WPSU, and WSLR


  • Added: Dec 11, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 3
A Conversation with Brenda Wineapple
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 1
Blues Unlimited #139 - Red Hot Rhythm Rockin' Blues
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: Pictured (clockwise, from top left): Ike Turner, B.B. King, Johnny Otis.
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, it's some of our favorite Red Hot Rhythm Rockin' Blues and Sizzlin' R&B. From Memphis Slim, Roosevelt Sykes, an...

Bought by KHNS, KHNS, and KTRL


  • Added: Dec 01, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Blues Unlimited #138 - Chicago Blues Harmonica 1945-1955
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: Little Walter, the King of Chicago Blues Harmonica.
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we aim the spotlight on some of the great harp players that worked and recorded in the Windy City. From John Le...

Bought by KHNS, KHNS, and KTRL


  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Blues Unlimited #137 - Blues for Christmas!
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we're having the Blues for Christmas! Come and celebrate with us as we journey through eight decades worth of H...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WNMU-FM, KSRQ, KHNS, WNCU and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 8
U2: Achtung Baby
From: Joyride Media
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Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr look back on the year they almost broke up but decided put out a little album called "Achtung Bab...

Bought by KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUKY and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Blues Unlimited #136 - The Sun Records Blues Vaults
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: The Sun Records studio building, at 706 Union Avenue. Design by Lyn Jones.
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, a tribute to Sam Phillips of Sun Records. Although Sam cut a lot of great Blues in the early years of his opera...

Bought by KHNS


  • Added: Nov 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Paul Simon: Songwriter
From: Joyride Media
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Archival Paul Simon interviews from various moments of his career are intertwined to show the evolution of his creative process. Hosted by Rita Ho...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Prairie Public, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Blues Unlimited #134 - Mississippi Blues Masters 1931-1944
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: Pictured: Illustrations of the Mississippi Sheiks and Son House by R. Crumb. Bukka White by William Stout.
We pick up where we left off last time, with a look at some of the great Mississippi Blues Masters who worked and recorded during the 1930s and the...

Bought by KHNS, KHNS, and KTRL


  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 3

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