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Music performed by Alexander Kobrin.
- Added: Mar 14, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
Long time pop and rock music critic Jim Fusilli (Wall Street Journal) introduces listeners to three 21st Century music artists that music fans migh...
Bought by WRGY, North State Public Radio, KSJE, and KUHF
- Added: Oct 16, 2021
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 4
What world-class ensemble, still performing today, was once led by John Philip Sousa? This week on Wind & Rhythm, we celebrate the birthday of the...
Bought by KTXK, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, WUAL, and KMFA
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 59:29
- Purchases: 5
This time, we profile the March 1932 recording sessions held by Vocalion in New York City, as the nation was in the grips of the Great Depression.
- Added: Aug 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Rocket 88,” by Jackie Brenston — widely considered to be one of the archetypal records of rock ‘n’ roll.
- Added: Aug 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Baby Scratch My Back” by Slim Harpo — the only number one hit on the Excello label during its 23 year run.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Key to the Highway” — one of the enduring classics of the blues, first recorded by pianist Charlie Segar in 1940.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
This time, we profile Stick McGhee’s 1949 anthem to good times and cheap booze — a big hit that saved a fledgling Atlantic Records from bankruptcy.
- Added: Aug 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile B.B. King, who hit the number one spot on the Billboard R&B charts with “Three O’Clock Blues,” this week in 1952.
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Guitar Slim, who — much to everyone’s surprise — hit the top of the R&B charts with “The Things That I Used To Do,” in 1954.
- Added: Jul 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with “Homesick” James Williamson and Johnny Shines.
- Added: Jul 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Elmore James, Arthur Spires, and Johnny Williams.
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile “Open the Door, Richard” — a 1947 novelty record that quickly embedded itself into the American consciousness.
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 03:29
The cardboard box on my porch was the first hint that I was in for some great new music. It really is like Christmas to open the package to see wha...
Bought by KTXK, WUAL, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KMFA
- Added: May 14, 2018
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 4
This time we profile Son House and B.B. King, who both made historic live appearances in Chicago the Saturday night before Thanksgiving, 1964.
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile James “Beale Street” Clark — barely a footnote in blues history — who recorded an enduring classic, this week in 1945.
- Added: Apr 12, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Windy City keyboard legend Little Johnny Jones, who was in the studio with Muddy Waters and Leroy Foster in 1949.
- Added: Apr 07, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, who recorded an iconic slice of down home blues, "That's All Right," this week in 1946.
- Added: Apr 04, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi guitarist Tommy Johnson, who cut one of the prophetic masterpieces of the blues, this week in 1928.
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Today's hits are inevitably stolen gems from the past.
Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, KSRQ, WYAP, and KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
The Bad Companions are a Minneapolis band formed relatively recently in 2011. The players in The Bad Companions are a who's who of players that hav...
- Added: Aug 27, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
This edition of Centerstage Minnesota features another installment of "Sam and Friends." Gypsy jazz guitarist Sam Miltich talks, and performs with,...
- Added: Aug 04, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Brian Laidlaw is a singer / songwriter out of the Twin Cities. For the past year he's been working on a project inspired by Bob Dylan, and made pos...
- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Reina del Cid grew up in Fargo. She attended the University of Minnesota on a scholarship awarded to her by The Jackie Robinson Foundation. Despite...
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
This week's feature is a conversation Charlie Pulkrabek recently had with two members of the mainstay Twin Cities punk/hard rock band Arcwelder, Sc...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
