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EP206 Jessie Mae Hemphill
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 1
EP205 A.C. Reed
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Aaron Corthen was more commonly known in the Blues music world as A.C. Reed and was heard on countless recordings as a contributing saxophone player.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:21
  • Purchases: 1
220529 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rhythm Rockers
This weeks searches are in vocal group harmony bands, boleros, and girl groups. Not Motown or Phil Spector girl groups because we present "Music y...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 04:14:43
  • Purchases: 6
Ep. 148: Make Me A Pallet
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
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Eighteen more country tracks from off the beaten path.

Bought by KIYU-FM and KSTK


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Liverpool to Hamburg Scene Before The Beatles
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Howie Casey Derry Wilkie and Band
There was the usual Liverpool music scene in Liverpool but there was a spectacular Liverpool musical scene that flourished in ... Hamburg, Germany....

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 27, 2020
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 2
How Sweet It Is - The Music of Marvin Gaye
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Music Lecture
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A musical history of the "Prince of Motown Marvin" Gaye is the subject of this program.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 56:04
  • Purchases: 1
August Birthdays (Vol.2)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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A second tour-de-force of songs recorded by bluegrass, jazz and related musicians who were born in the month of August.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:40
EP121 Diane Blue
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Diane Blue has been a voice in the Blues music scene for years as a vocalist and harmonica player. This show highlights her solo career as well as ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:39
EP120 Early Recordings of Alligator Records
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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In 1971 one of the most successful "Blues" recording labels was founded. This show explores the early history of Alligator Records.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:04
Origin Series Vol. 13 ~ By Arrangement
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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The finest musicians in the genres of jazz, bluegrass and that slippery sonic space between are those that make pre-existing material sound like th...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:40
Origins of JazzGrass Vol. 2 ~ Fiddlin' Violins
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
Caption: On the air at WGDR-Plainfield/WGDH-Hardwick, doing The Origin Series, Credit: Brian Aust
Part 2 in the Origin Series explores some of the most legendary musicians ever to saw on the strings in the genres of bluegrass, jazz and the slipp...

Bought by Bandon Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:55:39
  • Purchases: 1
The Belles of the Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Alberta Hunter
The four blues vocalists in this hour are not well known. That certainly doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of praise and recognition: Alberta Hunter...

Bought by KMUW, KBBI Alaska, WMMT, WJSU, and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 5
Moten to Basie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Benny Moten
Benny Moten led the Kansas City Orchestra in the 1920s, arguably the most influential big bands of the era. His arrangements helped to create what...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
Miff & Red
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Miff Mole & Red Nichols
Trombonist Miff Mole and trumpeter Red Nichols, two highly talented jazz musicians, met in New York in the early 1920s. Together they prefected wh...

Bought by WNCU and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
California Here We Come
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders record label
California’s influence on early jazz is not a trifling matter. Several musicians emerged from the Golden State to lustrous careers.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Red & the Bean
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
The duet of Henry "Red" Allen and Coleman "The Bean" Hawkins, 1933.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2012
  • Length: 58:52