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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 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
One of the world's most successful music producers got his start as a jazz trumpeter, arranger, and bandleader. We'll hear recordings he made in th...
- Added: Mar 11, 2018
- Length: 59:01
As the black-pride movement gained momentum in the late 1960s and early 1970s, an increasing number of jazz artists began to incorporate the messag...
- Added: Feb 16, 2018
- Length: 58:57
A program about saxophonist Sonny Rollins' early-1960s return to the jazz scene after a self-imposed sabbatical.
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 59:00
A program about Louis Armstrong’s mid-career years, in which he led the small-group All-Stars, scored chart hits with pop ballads, and became a Col...
- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 59:00
An hour-long program featuring performances of songs with lyrics by author Langston Hughes, including recordings by Nina Simone, June Christy, Jame...
Bought by WNMU-FM, KVNF, WCPN, WMOT, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 11
A look at one of hardbop's greatest front lines: Trumpeter Lee Morgan and saxophonist Wayne Shorter were two of the leading lights of the 1960s har...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 58:59
A salute to hardbop pianist Freddie Redd, featuring recordings he made with artists such as Jackie McLean and Tina Brooks.
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 59:05
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcome vocal powerhouse from Austin, Texas Ruthie Foster plus East Nashville base...
Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KDLG, KJJF, WETS, WOUB and more
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 11
Jazz scholar and Lester Young box-set annotator Loren Schoenberg joins us as we look at the music the saxophonist made in the years following a dif...
- Added: Apr 20, 2017
- Length: 59:00
A blowout farewell edition of our weekly program after eight plus years of broadcasting!
Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
A variety of styles from within the Blues spectrum, all off new and recent album releases.
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jun 30, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Great new release Blues albums covering a wide variety of the genre's different styles.
Bought by WJSU
- Added: Jun 21, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Back from vacation, Johnny Full-Time has a huge stack of new CDs that recently arrived.
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
New release Blues music from a mixture of established names and young superstars on the rise.
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
New release Blues albums have their songs filling this week's playlist, representing a broad variety of Blues styles.
Bought by WSGE
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Big time new release Blues music, and a couple crossovers by Country artists, populate this week's playlist.
- Added: May 10, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
This week features a ton of top tier new releases, and an unintentional slant toward harmonica Blues throughout most of the program.
- Added: May 04, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
We were flooded with new releases, and most of them populate this incredible playlist.
- Added: Apr 20, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
