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UpFront Soul #2017.07 - February 13-19, 2017
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Nina Simone
As we celebrate Black History Month, we feature funk, soul, and jazz designed to inspire and empower from Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, and Gil Scott...

Bought by WOMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, WOUB, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 8
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST -- Julie Dash Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Juie Dash, Mill Valley, CA 10/14/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Julie Dash talks cultural authenticity, validation, and the unexpected gifts of Hurricane Hugo.

  • Added: Dec 04, 2016
  • Length: 14:38
Episode #334 - LaVern Baker, Pt. 2 - 1954-56
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the "Juke In The Back" looks at how one of R&B's greatest voices, LaVern Baker, got her start. It's part two of a two part feature on th...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WHRV, Royalton Community Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 25, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Episode #333 - LaVern Baker, Pt. 1 - 1949-1954
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, th "Juke In The Back" looks at how one of R&B's greatest voices, LaVern Baker, got her start. It's part one of a two part feature on the...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WHRV, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Episode #331 - Lil Greenwood
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" pays tribute to the great R&B vocalist, Lil Greenwood. You'll hear her greatest early recordings from 1950-1954, before she ...

Bought by WHRV, Royalton Community Radio, WRNC-LP, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Episode #324 - Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Willie Mae Thornton was a trailblazer, who in making her own rules paved the way for other groundbreaking female artists like Janis Joplin and Mado...

Bought by KMUW, 90.5 WSNC, Royalton Community Radio, WRNC-LP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
T-REX -- Sue Jaye Johnson Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Sue Jaye Johnson, San Francisco, CA 5/4/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Sue Jay Johnson talks charisma, working fast, and fighting cultural stereotypes.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 14:15
Episode #313 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 5 - 1954-59
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, WHRV, KSRQ and more


  • Added: May 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #312 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 4 - 1951-53
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KCMJ Community Radio, Royalton Community Radio, WOUB, WHRV and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #311 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 3 - 1950-51
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WHRV, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Episode #310 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 2 - 1947-49
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WHRV, WRNC-LP, KSRQ, and WOUB


  • Added: Apr 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Episode #309 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 1 - 1943-46
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, WHRV, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
TRAPPED -- Dawn Porter Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Dawn Porter, San Francisco, CA, 3/9/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Dawn Porter talks checking her bias, the separation of church and state, and the gods of documentary filmmaking.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 21:38
  • Purchases: 1
UpFront Soul #2016.12 - Women's History Month - March 21-27, 2016
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Bobbi Humphrey
We celebrate Women's History Month with the iconic voices of Aretha Franklin and Eartha Kitt, pioneering instrumentalists like Bobbi Humphrey, and ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, KSRQ, KMXT, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 5
UpFront Soul #2016.11 - Women's History Month - March 14-20, 2016
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Ella Baker
We bring you the sounds of soulful sisterhood as we celebrate Women's History Month. We'll get out on the dance floor with Chaka Khan and Gloria Ga...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, WJAB, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 8
Inside the World of Deja Rene Carr
From: Paolo Rosen
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Deje Rene Carr has basically reached the status of local music legend in Pioneer Valley. The catch, she's still in high school.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 05:57
Episode #301 - Faye Adams
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week's "Juke In The Back" highlights the short, but important career of Faye Adams. DJ Alan Freed called her "The little gal with the big voic...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WHRV, 90.5 WSNC, WOUB, WRNC-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Jazz Her Way: Nancy Wilson In The 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Wilson's records blended big-band and small-group elements with pop orchestration and doses of soul that could be both big-city hip and suburban cool.

Bought by KAAD-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMUW, WCPN, WRGY and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
Miss Eva
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
Piece image
This episode of ARRVLS chronicles one woman's journey to find solace and happiness in the wake of tragedy. A story about faith and the legacy of su...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2015
  • Length: 30:04
Episode #282 - Little Miss Cornshucks
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Little Miss Cornshucks was an influential figure in post WWII Rhythm & Blues. Lavern Baker copied Cornshucks' country girl stage act down to the na...

Bought by WHRV, WRNC-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 27, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Becoming a doula for those who may need one most
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Client of doula Traver Riggins, 7 months pregnant., Credit: Leila Day
A doula is a woman who helps another woman through the process of childbirth. Traver Riggins says when she learned about how a doula could help, sh...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #275 - The Lutchers: Nellie & Joe
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" is proud to focus an entire show on the separate careers of bother and sister, Nellie and Joe Lutcher. Both scored numerous...

Bought by WHRV, WLPR , WRNC-LP, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Episode #274 - Ruth Brown - More Rhythm - 1955-60
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Ruth Brown was Atlantic Records first big star. She was so successful, racking up 24 R&B hits for the fledging label, that Atlantic was often calle...

Bought by KCSM, 90.5 WSNC, KPIP-LP, WHRV, WRNC-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #273 - Ruth Brown, Pt. 3 - 1953-55
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Ruth Brown was Atlantic Records first big star. She was so successful, racking up 24 R&B hits for the fledging label, that Atlantic was often calle...

Bought by KCSM, WLPR , WHRV, WRNC-LP, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Episode #272 - Ruth Brown, Pt. 2 - 1951-53
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Ruth Brown was Atlantic Records first big star. She was so successful, racking up 24 R&B hits for the fledging label, that Atlantic was often calle...

Bought by KCSM, 90.5 WSNC, WLPR , WHRV, WRNC-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7