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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
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
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
Eighteen more country tracks from off the beaten path.
- Added: Sep 01, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
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 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
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
Trombonist Miff Mole and trumpeter Red Nichols, two highly talented jazz musicians, met in New York in the early 1920s. Together they prefected wh...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 2
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