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In addition to the widest variety of new Blues music, there's a new edition of The Vinyl Report, and an international spotlight on Blues from Austr...
- Added: Apr 15, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
This Poetry Month: We celebrate the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, wo...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 7
Full-Time Blues Radio features a new playlist, made up from tons of new releases, and featuring a new segment.
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
The world legend is thrown around a lot, but saxophonist, flutist and composer Charles Lloyd is the real deal. He's much of a musical innovator tod...
Bought by KPIP-LP, Harford Community Radio, WABE, and WNJR
- Added: Apr 02, 2015
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 4
Lady E lost just about everything that gave her life meaning and then she found something else inside her. Her voice.And now Lady E sings the blues...
- Added: Apr 02, 2015
- Length: 27:23
This week, Johnny Full-Time is joined by Dr. Gary Burnett, author of the new book 'The Gospel According To The Blues.'
- Added: Mar 31, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
We walk in the light of the Lord on this week's program, with an annual listen to the Spiritual Side of the Blues.
- Added: Mar 25, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 3
Hacksaw handles Horace who hounds Holloway and Harris, later even Hess. Have to hand it to hoards who happen to hit it hard. Violinist Stephane Gra...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 01:59:51
- Purchases: 4
John has worked the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road for years now. He’s become a permanent fixture there and a daily reminder to motorists...
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 26:04
Tameka Norris talks about her first feature-length film—she plays a version of herself in Meka Jean: How She Got Good. The film debuted during Pros...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 12:07
As the snow melts, the Blues heats up on Full-Time Blues Radio.
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
The original blues recordings from the 1920s featuring artists from the Delta to the Father of Texas Blues.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
This week's edition of Full-Time Blues Radio features a truly incredible selection of new and independent Blues music.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
The first African-American to become the president of a school board, William Howard Day worked with famous abolitionists Frederick Douglas and Har...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 03:55
An hour-long program of classic jazz: An exploration of the path of Melba Liston as she became an arranger/composer and an instrumentalist in the j...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KMUW and more
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 8
Novelist Tayari Jones is one writer who loves writng.
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Producer Cheri Trusler's grandparents had a lot of cows to sell right around the time cattle prices in Montana were at their highest. That windfall...
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 04:45
Raymond Arsenault's book The Sound of Freedom examines the 30 minute concert that helped move a nation forward.
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
This week, we'll hear Blues artists covering classic Country music songs from Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and more.
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
African-American author LaShonda Katrice Barnett, interviewed recently on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday (2/8/15), reads here from her heralded new n...
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new documentary
August Wilson: The Ground on which I Stand
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 4
This week's unintentional theme features artists that have additional influences standing shoulder to shoulder with the Blues.
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
It's the rough and tumble 1920s Chicago’s speakeasies. You had to have a password to gain entrance through a side door.
Bought by WDCB, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Sharply different reactions to the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial reveal the racial divide that persists in America. We speak with the autho...
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 9
