PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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This time, we profile harmonica ace Junior Wells — who was in the studio laying down some classic tracks for Delmark Records, this week in 1965.
- Added: Apr 08, 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 Little Richard and Specialty Records owner Art Rupe, who, at first anyway, wasn’t too impressed by Little Richard.
- Added: Apr 06, 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
This time, we profile blues piano mystery man, Black Bob — who was in the studio this week with Memphis Minnie, in 1935.
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Sid Hemphill, who was recorded by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress, this week in 1942.
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 03:29
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
Jazz singer Dianne Reeves believes in making music without boundaries.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 29:44
- Purchases: 2
Actor Dion has narrated hundreds of audio books and is an aural shape-shifter.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 1
There’s a growing awareness of solidarity among women. They refuse to be silenced. What began as a Women’s March in January 2017 has now evolved in...
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Actress Meta Golding takes on the role of a lifetime: Rosa Parks in Behind the Movement
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNJR, and KVNF
- Added: Feb 16, 2018
- Length: 27:18
- Purchases: 3
Director Rob Meyer talks about the making of the independent film, Little Boxes.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Feb 09, 2018
- Length: 28:28
- Purchases: 1
Director Kyle Donnelly sees theater as interpretive history.
- Added: Jan 31, 2018
- Length: 26:59
Traditional jazz began its road to sophistication in the mid 1920s with artists like Louie Armstrong, Albert Nicholas, Richard M. Jones, Johnny Dod...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This program visits Chicago's South Side in the latter 1920s to hear three of the leading proponents of jazz clarinet.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s not often I interview the author of a novel on this program. Sometimes, though, a work of fiction can give us insights and perspectives a non-...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 20, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander talks movingly about her memoir
"The Light of the World" about her husband's sudden death at age 50.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 29:00
It's Sonny Rollins 87th birthday and he sat down with the NEA's Josephine Reed to talk about his life in music.
- Added: Aug 31, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
