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WoodSongs 699: Bobby Rush and Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Bobby Rush on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes blues legend Bobby Rush plus GRAMMY winning fiddler Michael Cleveland and...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, Delmarva Public Media, Yellowstone Public Radio, KDLG, KTRL and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 33
Anticipatory Enthusiasm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Don Redman, leader
You’d be hard press to find more enthusiastic musicians who anticipated and relished every beat. McKinney’s Cotton Pickers were a young group who a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women of Stage
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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In the earliest years of jazz, the process of recording wasn’t close to being perfected. Microphones didn’t exist. Vocalists had to belt out their ...

Bought by KVCR and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
ROCK 'N' ROLL BLACK HISTORY MONTH
From: paul mcguire
Series: The Funhouse
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Tunes and tales of African American musical greats including Otis Spann, Little Walter, Big Mama Thornton, Peter Tosh, Billy Preston, Les McCann & ...

Bought by WORT and WSLR


  • Added: Feb 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 2
WoodSongs 985: The Lee Boys and Grady Champion
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Grady Champion on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes “sacred steel” ensemble The Lee Boys plus 21st Century Bluesman Grady Cha...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, Yellowstone Public Radio, KTRL, KKRN, WETS and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
Sidney's Return
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: young Sidney Bechet
Soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet is among the giants of early jazz. An equal of Louis Armstrong. Yet, he is not that well remembered. Part of the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Hurst Family Experience’s Uplifting Message
From: KBEM
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
The Hurst Family Experience is a family singing group that sings in many types of venues. David Hurst talked with Phil Nusbaum about how the group’...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
The Son of Algiers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Henry "Red" Allen
Although the isn’t as well known today, Red Allen was favorably compared with Louis Armstrong in the 1920s and ‘30s. He managed to perform with som...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
New Years Night in Harlem
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Cotton Club
By the mid 1920s, Harlem had completed its renaissance in art and literature. Now it was time for the music to complete the circle. At its height, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Big Band Parade
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Prima
In the transition from traditional jazz in the late 1920s and the emergence of the Swing Era of the 1930s … the big bands managed to hold on to the...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hilton at the Ritz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jack Hilton
Jack Hilton was one of the biggest names in music across Europe in the 1920s and ‘30s. Inspired by symphonic jazz popularized by Paul Whiteman in A...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Georgia Bo’s and Southern Belle’s
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Alberta Hunter
This program is a cross section of Southern jazz artists who brought their music to the big stage in the 1920s. Alberta Hunter, Sippi Wallace, the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bix Revisited
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Biderbecke & Trumbauer, Credit: Scott Chantler illistration 1931
This program is devoted to the music of corniest Bix Beiderbeck in 1927, when he and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer teamed up. This is the year the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz Violinists
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Eddie South
Jazz fiddlers weren’t considered a core component of early jazz, yet they were a key to popularizing a new music. Eddie South, Stuff Smith, Stephan...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Dance Craze
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Josephine Baker
Charleston, Jitterbug, black bottom, shimmy, one-step foxtrot, waltz, tango, Breakaway and Charleston. And don’t forget the Grizzly Bear, Turkey Tr...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
A Piano Anthology
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Mary Lou Williams
Eighty-eight keys spanning 7-plus octaves, endless variations and creative styles. This program takes you from ragtime to stride and opens the door...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 593: Wanda Jackson and Billy Bragg
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Wanda Jackson on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes the First Lady of Rockabilly Wanda Jackson plus revered folksinger and s...

Bought by KTRL, Delmarva Public Media, KDLG, KTRL, Radio Bristol and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 31
Crown the King
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Buddy Bolden
In the more than 150 years of Mardi Gras there was a king. Each crew or tribe had their king, and the overall parade was represented by a King and ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Benny's Buddies
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Woody Walder
This program highlights the musicians who performed with Benny Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra. The swinging, bluesy sound that became known as “Kans...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Pinnacle of Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: McKinney's Cotton Pickers
A creative explosion occurred in the world of jazz in the years between WWI and the Great Depression. The electrical process allowed the musicians ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jazzy Women
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: blanche Calloway
This program provides a glimpse into the careers of four of the most influential female vocalists in early jazz. Ethel Waters, Eva Taylor, Blanche ...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Varieties Part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lil Hardin
This program features the pianists who were instrumental in melding popular music and jazz in the 1920s. Without their influence, American’s origin...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Varities - Part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Earl Hines
This program features those pianists whose work influenced the future of jazz. In the late 1920s, it was Earl Hines. His experimentations revoluti...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
From Tenor to Baritone
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Seger Ellis
Three major happenings occurred in early jazz vocal. First the art of Crooning became popular, male vocalists singing romantic songs. The second - ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Call Me Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lonnie Johnson
The blues, as it’s called, evolved decades before jazz. Consequently, the blues and jazz coexisted and melded over the years. The original eight an...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1