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Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Hour 2 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Mavis Staples, Credit: Michael Ochs Archives
Hour 2 of a music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 194...

Bought by KRVS, WDDE, WVIA, WPVM 103.7, WILL and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 21
Episode 158: "If it ever happens, run."
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 33:08
Blues Routes Weekly - Son House
From: Thom Butler
Series: Blues Routes Weekly
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Your weekly trip to the Delta. This week we vist the life and work of Son House.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2019
  • Length: 57:00
This Week in Blues History #19 - August 5-11
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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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 Week in Blues History #18 - July 29-August 4
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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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 Week in Blues History #17 - July 22-28
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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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 Week in Blues History #16 - July 15-21
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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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 Week in Blues History #15 - July 8-14
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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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 Week in Blues History #14 - July 1-7
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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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 Week in Blues History #11 - June 10-16
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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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
My Life, My Love, My Legacy - Coretta Scott King
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Interview with Barbara Reynolds,founding editor of USA Today on her 2017 book My Life, My Love, My Legacy biography of Coretta King, condensed from...

Bought by WMMT and WVAS


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 2
African American Voices
From: Daniel Gilliam
Caption: Leontyne Price, Credit: Carl Van Vechten
Fifteen, 3-minute vignettes celebrating the contributions of African Americans in classical music.

Bought by Texas Public Radio, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM, Texas Public Radio, Vermont Public, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 45:00
  • Purchases: 10
Full-Time Blues Radio 1309 - Blues Hall of Fame
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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On this special episode we will hear music from all of the artists, albums and singles in the 2013 class of the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame!

Bought by Radio New Zealand, WSLR, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Blues City 4: Missouri
From: Gary Pitts
Series: Blues City
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Going to Missouri: in St. Louis with Jelly Roll Anderson and Albert King; and then KC for the likes of Sonny Kenner and Big Joe Turner.

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KRZA, KHNS, WJSU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Blues City 5: Arkansas
From: Gary Pitts
Series: Blues City
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Heading to Arkansas, home legendary blues artists like Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Boy Williamson, and the King Biscuit Time radio blues show. Inclu...

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KRZA, KHNS, WJSU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Blues City 6: Texas
From: Gary Pitts
Series: Blues City
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Time for Texas with Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker, the Vaughan brothers, and ZZ Top.

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KMUW, KRZA, WJSU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Blues City 7: California
From: Gary Pitts
Series: Blues City
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Surf's up for the Blues as we tool out to southern California for T-Bone Walker, Juke Boy Bonner, and Jesse Fuller, as well as a few surprises.

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KRZA, WJSU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Blues City 8: New York
From: Gary Pitts
Series: Blues City
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Now for the Big Apple for WC Handy and Duke Ellington to start. Then, this where the urban, jazz scene took on a raw southern sound.

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KRZA, KRZA, WJSU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Blues City 10: Delta
From: Gary Pitts
Series: Blues City
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Return to the Delta for Robert Johnson, Son House, Charlie Patton and Lead Belly.

Bought by KRZA, KPVL, WJSU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Wailin' Soul: Bob Marley and the African-American Connection"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Caption: Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder, Credit: Kim Gottlieb-Walker
The Midnight Ravers look at the evolution of reggae music and the influence of African-American culture on it in general and on Bob Marley, specifi...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KVMR, WNCU, WGDR, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Atlanta Fire of 1917
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Remembering the Atlanta Fire of 1917

  • Added: Jul 16, 2006
  • Length: 06:15