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If you're curious about where the Blues Revival of the 1960s got its start, you might want to take a look at "The Country Blues," from 1959, "Blues...
Bought by Radio New Zealand, 90.5 WSNC, WJSU, and KRPS
- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
Join us as we continue our look at the legends of Bluesville, this time from the West Coast. That includes music from piano man Mercy Dee Walton, h...
- Added: Aug 17, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us for an all-instrumental extravaganza, as we put the spotlight on King and Federal Records. While other labels certainly recorded instrument...
- Added: Aug 10, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we follow Alan Lomax through the Hill Country of Mississippi, in September 1959. We’ll hear some exciting fife and drum band music, old ...
Bought by Radio New Zealand, WJSU, 90.5 WSNC, and KRPS
- Added: Aug 03, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
Join us we wrap up our tribute to Chicago Blues guitar legend, Eddie Taylor. We’ll be hearing some standout selections from his solo work — plus so...
- Added: Jul 27, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we continue our tribute to Chicago blues guitar legend, Eddie Taylor. Most famous for the recordings he did for Vee-Jay with John Lee Ho...
- Added: Jul 19, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us — on our 150th episode! — as we pay tribute to one of the real unsung heroes of Chicago Blues, guitarist Eddie Taylor. He worked and record...
- Added: Jul 13, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we take a look at the small but mighty Chief label, out of Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1957 by entrepreneur Mel London, it was only in...
- Added: Jul 06, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
On our annual Gospel Show, "Brother Hawkins" takes the reins as we aim the spotlight on some of our favorite guitar-slinging ladies of Gospel music...
- Added: Jun 28, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us for some terrific Down Home Country Blues from Specialty Records. In addition to Frankie Lee Sims and Clifton Chenier — two of our all-time...
- Added: Jun 22, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us for part two of our new and ongoing series, "The Legends of Bluesville." This time around, we’ll aim the spotlight on Texas and the Gulf Co...
- Added: May 24, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us for the launch of a new and ongoing series, "The Legends of Bluesville." This time around, our focus will be on the Eastern Seaboard, with ...
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we finish up our tribute to the "The Blues," a series of five LPs issued by Chess Records in the mid 1960s. We’ll hear classics from Mud...
- Added: May 11, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we aim the spotlight on a classic series of LPs from Chess Records. Simply called "The Blues," they issued five volumes between 1963 and...
- Added: May 05, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we take another trip down to the land of the Hammond B3. We’ll hear some killer grooves and hot rockers from some of our old favorites l...
- Added: Apr 27, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we journey to the Queen City of the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, to hear some of the rich blues and heavenly gospel that was record...
- Added: Apr 19, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
Join us as we pay tribute to one of the all time greatest harmonica players, Big Walter Horton. Making his first recordings with Sam Phillips in Me...
- Added: Apr 12, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
We’ve been digging through the archives to bring you this special "best of" encore presentation. This time around, it's a whole bunch of hot rocker...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us for a tribute to keyboard legend Big Maceo Merriweather. Although his recorded legacy is not all that large, he left an indelible mark in t...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Mar 22, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
Join us as we aim the spotlight on Bill Quinn’s legendary Gold Star record label. Founded in Houston in the late 1940s, he recorded some of the cre...
- Added: Mar 08, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we aim the spotlight on independent record producer, Bobby Robinson. Not only could he lay claim to a legendary series of labels — such ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
We've taken a whole great gob of our favorite down home country blues harmonica blowers, and lined them up for one incredible episode we're calling...
- Added: Feb 22, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we celebrate the good times, with songs about drinking and having fun. With music on tap from Ike Turner, J.B. Lenoir, John Lee Hooker, ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we take another look at some of our favorite artists — some of them synonymous with the very concept of "Postwar Electric Blues" — and f...
- Added: Feb 09, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us for part two of our look at the blues in Saint Louis from the 1920s and '30s, this time focusing on the piano players. We’ll hear from popu...
- Added: Feb 01, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
