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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...
- Added: Apr 20, 2023
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we dig into a healthy serving of Down Home Blues from Chance Records — a label owned and operated by Windy City businessman Art Sheridan...
Bought by KRCB 104.9
- Added: Apr 14, 2019
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...
- Added: Nov 30, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
John Lee Hooker was one of the most influential and important musicians of the 20th Century. He single-handedly invented his own electric guitar bo...
Bought by KMUW, Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KTRT RADIO INC, WOUB and more
- Added: Apr 08, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
This time, we profile Tony Hollins, who recorded a blues standard, "Crawlin' King Snake," this week in 1941.
- Added: Mar 19, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Join us for two hours of our favorite gut bucket blues! We’ll hear low down classics from Lightnin’ Hopkins, Joe Hill Louis, L.C. Green, Elmore Jam...
- Added: Jul 04, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
Join us for a special tribute to slide guitar master Earl Hooker. During the spring and summer of 1969, he recorded extensively for Bluesway, behin...
- Added: Aug 19, 2015
- Length: 01:58:59
Join us we continue with our ongoing series, Desert Island Classics. This time, we put two giants of the harmonica, Little Walter and Sonny Boy Wil...
- Added: Aug 13, 2015
- Length: 01:58:59
Join us as we take a look at narrative traditions in the blues. Starting with Speckled Red in 1929, we’ll hear classics along the way from Bo Diddl...
Bought by Prairie Public, WJAB, Radio New Zealand, and WJSU
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
On this episode, no particular theme, just two hours of our favorite Down Home Rhythm Rockin' Blues. We’ll hear from Woodrow Adams, Lightnin’ Slim,...
- Added: Oct 12, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
Join us for an all-instrumental extravaganza, as we put the spotlight on King and Federal Records. While other labels certainly recorded instrument...
- Added: Aug 10, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us we wrap up our tribute to Chicago Blues guitar legend, Eddie Taylor. We’ll be hearing some standout selections from his solo work — plus so...
- Added: Jul 27, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we continue our tribute to Chicago blues guitar legend, Eddie Taylor. Most famous for the recordings he did for Vee-Jay with John Lee Ho...
- Added: Jul 19, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us — on our 150th episode! — as we pay tribute to one of the real unsung heroes of Chicago Blues, guitarist Eddie Taylor. He worked and record...
- Added: Jul 13, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we finish up our tribute to the "The Blues," a series of five LPs issued by Chess Records in the mid 1960s. We’ll hear classics from Mud...
- Added: May 11, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we aim the spotlight on a classic series of LPs from Chess Records. Simply called "The Blues," they issued five volumes between 1963 and...
- Added: May 05, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we explore some of the very best live blues performances of all time — B.B. King at the Regal, Muddy Waters at Newport, Robert Nighthawk...
- Added: Mar 15, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we celebrate the good times, with songs about drinking and having fun. With music on tap from Ike Turner, J.B. Lenoir, John Lee Hooker, ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we take another look at some of our favorite artists — some of them synonymous with the very concept of "Postwar Electric Blues" — and f...
- Added: Feb 09, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we count down the number one smash hits of the early 1950s! Using our top secret formula, we've made a list of the biggest R&B records t...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Oct 21, 2013
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
We're having the Blues for Halloween! Join us for two spooky hours of fun, with tales about black cat bones, haunted houses, voodoo spells, and lon...
- Added: Oct 14, 2013
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we feature some exciting Down Home Blues from Philadelphia's Gotham label, with music from Baby Boy Warren, Wright Holmes, Dan Pickett, ...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC
- Added: Sep 01, 2013
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
We pick up where we left off last time, with more great Blues from Detroit. Classics from John Lee Hooker, Baby Boy Warren, Bobo Jenkins, Eddie Kir...
- Added: Oct 14, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Detroit was home to a thriving Blues scene in the years immediately following World War II. On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we showcase some of...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC
- Added: Oct 07, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
Join us for a grab bag of uptempo, hot and fast Blues and R&B. Rock on down to classics from Elmore James, Jimmy Reed, Eddie Taylor, Lightnin' Hopk...
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
