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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
WoodSongs 1024: Cary Morin & Lilli Lewis
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Lilli Lewis on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes roots-infused Native Americana artist Cary Morin plus powerful award-winn...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WRGY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KSRQ, WVTF and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 50
Episode #671 - Huey "Piano" Smith - 1934-2023
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
Unfortunately, Huey Smith is another "hard luck" story of R&B and early Rock n' Roll. He was a talented boogie woogie pianist and as a session play...

Bought by KMUW, KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
UpFront Soul #2023.07-February 14-20, 2023
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: The Soul Rebels
It's Carnival time! We'll take you to the Crescent City with hot brass from the Soul Rebels, Rebirth Brass Band, the Sixth Ward All-Stars, and Los ...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMXT, Prairie Public, WOMR and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 16
Episode #665 - Smiley Lewis
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
This week, the "Juke In The Back" looks at the great Smiley Lewis, another influential force out of New Orleans that time has chosen to forget. He ...

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


  • Added: Jan 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
221210 The First Rock and Roll Song - Early Canadian Instrumentals
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Gaylarks - a band Frank Zappa saw and swooned over while he was in high school.
The geographic assumption underlying the first rock and roll record was an origination in the Southern U.S. This assumption was superior to, and ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, Prairie Public, KPRG and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 04:22:10
  • Purchases: 6
JAZZ FEST: A NEW ORLEANS STORY -- Frank Marshall Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Frank Marshall talks spontaneity, living his two loves, and a shoebox full of treasures.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 11:36
Episode #617 - Roy Byrd aka Professor Longhair
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
What better way to celebrate Mardi Gras than with the “Grandaddy of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues”? That, cats & kittens, is Henry Roeland Byrd, aka R...

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


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #616 - New Orleans R&B, Pt. 3 - 1955-57
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
Get ready for Carnival with part 3 of "Juke In The Back"'s 3 part series on the great, influential and infectious music that came out of New Orlean...

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


  • Added: Feb 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
UpFront Soul #2022.08-February 21-28, 2022 - Carnival Spectacular
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Al "Carnival Time" Johnson
It's Carnival time! We'll take you to the Crescent City with hot brass from the Soul Rebels, Rebirth Brass Band, the Sixth Ward All-Stars, and Los ...

Bought by KMUN, WOMR, RADIOLEX, KCHW, KHNS and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 13
Episode #615 - New Orleans R&B, Pt. 2 - 1953-55
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
Get ready for Carnival with part 2 of "Juke In The Back"'s 3 part series on the great, influential and infectious music that came out of New Orlean...

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


  • Added: Feb 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Epidode #614 - New Orleans R&B, Pt. 1 - 1940-53
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
Get ready for Carnival as the "Juke In The Back" begins a 3 part series on the great, influential and infectious music that came out of New Orleans...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WOUB, KTRT RADIO INC and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #577 - R.I.P. Lloyd Price
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
On May 3, 2021, we lost another legend of Rhythm & Blues and father of Rock n' Roll as Lloyd Price passed away at the age of 88. Matt The Cat prese...

Bought by KMUW, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WYAP and more


  • Added: May 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Professor Longhair's Legacy
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Professor Longhair, Credit: Michael P. Smith © The Historic New Orleans Collection
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, this show is devoted to “Fess” -- Henry Roeland Byrd, aka Professor Longhair - the pianist whose music fills the stree...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #560 - The Spiders
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
New Orleans is not known for its R&B vocal groups. In a city where jazz, blues and zydeco thrive, one vocal group rose to the top: The Spiders. In ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
The Liverpool to Hamburg Scene Before The Beatles
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Howie Casey Derry Wilkie and Band
There was the usual Liverpool music scene in Liverpool but there was a spectacular Liverpool musical scene that flourished in ... Hamburg, Germany....

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 27, 2020
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #540 - Bobby Mitchell & The Toppers
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
"Juke In The Back" digs deep into New Orleans R&B this week for the highly underrated 1950s vocal group, Bobby Mitchell & The Toppers. Best known f...

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC, WHRV, WOUB, KMXT, and Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting


  • Added: Sep 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Musical Manifesto vs. Contested Monument
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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We hear from artist william cordova about the 2014 documentary "silent parade," featuring the New Orleans band, The Soul Rebels, who faced off Robe...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 19:45
WoodSongs 801: Preservation Hall Jazz Band
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Preservation Hall Jazz Band make their debut on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes the torchbearers of Traditional New Orleans Jazz The Preservati...

Bought by KENW, Yellowstone Public Radio, KHNS, KKRN, WETS and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 23
Episode #465 - Roy Byrd aka Professor Longhair
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
New Orleans has probably given birth to more musical geniuses than any other city in the world. So when you cite one particular artist from The Cre...

Bought by WHRV, KTRT RADIO INC, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WOUB, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 31, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
70 Million: How New Orleans could set a new course for bail reform
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Adrian Caliste, lead plaintiff in Caliste v. Cantrell in New Orleans., Credit: Sonia Paul
New Orleans could become the battleground for bail reform. Reporter Sonia Paul digs into how an ongoing lawsuit, pretrial consequences of bail, and...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #457 - Dave Bartholomew: Happy 100!
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
The "Juke In The Back" proudly celebrates the 100th birthday of Dave Bartholomew, one of the fathers of not only Rhythm & Blues, but also Rock n' R...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KTRT RADIO INC, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Erica Falls
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Erica Falls
She may have started 20 feet from stardom, but she’s gained a lot of ground in the meantime.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
A Song a Minute - Breaking The Radio Sound Barrier
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Piece image
We successfully broke the radio sound barrier by playing more than one song a minute for over one hour. (For no other reason that it's an after mi...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 01:01:15
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #391 - Fats Domino, Pt. 1 - 1950-53
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
The “Juke In The Back” is proud to feature Fats Domino, who passed away on October 24th at the age of 89. He was one of the most influential and po...

Bought by KCSM, KTRT RADIO INC, Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9