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This Week in Blues History #39 - December 23-29
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time we profile Floyd Jones, a serious and thoughtful songwriter, who was in the studio for Chess Records in 1951.

  • Added: Apr 28, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #38 - December 16-22
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time we profile guitarist Big Joe Williams and harmonica ace John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, who last recorded together, this week in 1947.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #35 - November 25-December 1
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time we profile Robert Johnson, who made his recording debut the week of Thanksgiving, 1936.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #29 - October 14-20
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time we profile Big Maceo, who recorded his “magnum opus” — the barnstorming instrumental “Chicago Breakdown” — this week in 1945.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #27 - September 30-October 6
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile the Memphis Jug Band, whose 1929 recording, “K.C. Moan,” was one of the 84 selections on the “Anthology of American Folk Music.”

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #20 - August 12-18
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile Sid Hemphill, who was recorded by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress, this week in 1942.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
Riddles from the Border Regions, 1/5/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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IN THE SOUTH -- THE DEEP, DEEP SOUTH...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jan 03, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 12/8/12
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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FROM THE HEAVENS I WILL GUIDE...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 12/24/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THE GREATEST RIDDLE OF ALL TIME ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 11, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 6/25/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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A LANGUAGE SPOKEN...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jun 05, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 3/5/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THOUGH BENEVOLENCE REIGNS...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 1/8/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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A GHOST IN EACH ONE OF US LIVES...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 12/25/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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ONCE A LIGHTHOUSE SHONE ON SAND...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 9/18/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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HANDS AND HIPS ARTICULATE...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 16, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 5/1/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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MY SHINGLE IS A CANDY STICK...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 28, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 4/17/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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WHERE RIGHT AND LEFT ARE TURNED ON END...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Senegalese griot meets a German jazz trumpeter
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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An African griot meets a German jazz trumpeter when Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze talk about their unlikely and serenely beautiful collaboration.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Americana Pulls up its Roots
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: trumpeter Jon Hassell
Americana is a genre that usually refers to rustic music with roots in heartland American sounds from folk, blues and country. But recently, Americ...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
An Interview With Baaba Maal
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Baaba Maal
Senegalese singer Baaba Maal talks about the evolution of the African Griot and his own ethereal new CD, Television, recorded with The Brazilian Gi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Donna De Lory's sacred chants and songs
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Donna De Lory
Donna De Lory turns Hindi chants into spiritual pop songs. A back-up singer for Madonna and a gifted singer-songwriter in her own right, Donna De ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
John Luther Adams: Tuning in the sound of a frozen world
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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It was John Cage who suggested that music was always in the air, and John Luther Adams has been tapping that sound for over 30 years. His evocative...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
Sumner McKane creates an ambient Americana anthem
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Sumner McKane has been releasing albums of evocative soundscapes dipped in Americana as cinematic as a John Ford western and as nuanced as Andrew W...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
Ludovico Einaudi: Ambient chamber music from the classical birthplace
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Ludovico Einaudi talks about his lush, harmonic piano music

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
Peter Kater and Joseph Fire Crow
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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CD Pick: Peter Kater and Joseph Fire Crow's Wind of the East

  • Added: Jul 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
Biomusique's The 10,000 Steps
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Global percussion pairs with a cinematic voice

  • Added: May 28, 2008
  • Length: 03:30