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This time, we profile Chris Strachwitz and Mance Lipscomb, whose paths crossed in Navasota, Texas, this week in August 1960.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Magic Sam, who appeared this week in 1969 at the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festival.
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Skip James, whose re-emergence at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival marked the advent of a new chapter in his career.
- Added: Mar 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we take a look at the American Record Corporation's 1939 field trip to Memphis. For the Bluff City, it marked the end of an era.
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile guitarist Blue Smitty, who cut his only session for Chess Records, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Muddy Waters, who made an historic appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, this week in 1960.
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi blues legend Charley Patton, who made his debut for Paramount Records, this week in 1929.
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This show is part II of our Juneteenth Series focusing African-American music and venues in North Tulsa from the 40's through the 60's. We intervi...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 58:58
Jazz saxophonist Chico Freeman talks about his famous father, Von Freeman, and about his experiences living in Europe. Freeman has now returned to ...
- Added: Aug 04, 2016
- Length: 30:00
Chris Foreman plays Sundays in Church. And every Friday night, he's at Chicago's legendary Green Mill — playing the funky Hammond B3 organ in a nig...
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 04:21
Don Cheadle talks commitment, new connections, and being real.
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 16:32
Most young people don’t know what they want to do with their lives. This is a story about a high school student who was born into a calling – being...
- Added: Dec 24, 2015
- Length: 05:18
This week's program was recorded on the road, in Dayton, Ohio.
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Mosques here are generally identified by sect, you have, say, the Sunni Mosque, the Shia Mosque, the Sufi Mosque. But the Islamic Cultural Center o...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 07:52
Joshua Sirotiak seeks out the history of Second Line Jazz culture in New Orleans. Along the way, he finds a few answers to questions about his own ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 2
Twelve dancers -- men and women all dressed in black rehearsal clothes -- move with fierce and graceful undulations through the space. They dance t...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 09:04
- Purchases: 1
Every year, more than 10 million visitors come to Memphis, and spend more than three billion dollars, much of it on music-related tourism. But few ...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 03:58
It has been more than 50 years since a small recording company moved into the old Capitol Movie theater on East McLemore Avenue, and took the name ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 20, 2013
- Length: 04:37
- Purchases: 1
Steven Spielberg’s recent film Lincoln stirred up a lot of talk about what history sounded like. Spielberg even recorded one of President Lincoln’s...
Bought by KENW and Radio Newark
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 59:00
The Paschall Brothers of Chesapeake sing four-part harmony in a style with a storied tradition.
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Added: Oct 06, 2008
- Length: 07:50
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Oct 06, 2008
- Length: 07:14
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Sep 18, 2008
- Length: 05:34
- Purchases: 1
A pioneer of Texas rhythm and blues tells her story
- Added: Feb 06, 2007
- Length: 09:55
