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Episode #704 - Rosco Gordon
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" spotlights the "Prince of Primitive Cool," Rosco Gordon. His mostly self-penned tunes, feature his unique blend o...

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC, Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WOUB, WHRV and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
OHR175: OHR Presents: Alvin Youngblood Hart, 9/11/2023
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio
Caption: Alvin Youngblood Hart
Renowned Mississippi blues guitarist and singer Alvin Youngblood Hart recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Al...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Episode #656 - B.B. King
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 its respects to a true musical icon, B.B. King. Matt The Cat focuses on B.B.'s first records for Nashville's Bullet Rec...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, KJZX-Austin, WHRV and more


  • Added: Nov 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Lesson 6: Hold On
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 5: How Memphis Beat the Odds to Stop a Pipeline
Caption: Scottie Fitzgerald at the National Civil Rights Museum
Though the pipeline’s construction seems inevitable, MCAP’s relentless activism has begun attracting the attention of national figures, who help en...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:47
Lesson 5: Embrace Your Allies
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 5: How Memphis Beat the Odds to Stop a Pipeline
Caption: Attorney Scott Crosby of Burch, Porter & Johnson
One landowner refuses to sell to the pipeline company, and soon receives pro bono legal help. Meanwhile, MCAP learns that allies aren't always who ...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 31:38
Lesson 3: Dig In
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 5: How Memphis Beat the Odds to Stop a Pipeline
Caption: Producers interview Sarah Houston, Executive Director of Protect Our Aquifer (on left)
Pipeline activists dig in and discover that the Byhalia crude oil pipeline also threatens a precious 'diamond in the rough' - the Memphis Sands aq...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 30:26
Lesson 2: Raise a Ruckus
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 5: How Memphis Beat the Odds to Stop a Pipeline
Caption: White's Chapel church in Boxtown
"We took, basically, a point of least resistance." It was a throwaway line by an out-of-town pipeline representative trying to explain the company'...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 35:55
Lesson 4: Call 'Em Out
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 5: How Memphis Beat the Odds to Stop a Pipeline
Caption: MLK50 reporter Carrington Tatum
Reporter Carrington Tatum arrives in Memphis and begins reporting on the Byhalia pipeline. Meanwhile, MCAP realizes that calling out politicians wo...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
Lesson 1: Nobody Asks
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 5: How Memphis Beat the Odds to Stop a Pipeline
Caption: Boxtown residents view archival photos
Residents of Boxtown in southwest Memphis are upset to learn that a high-pressure crude oil pipeline is set to plow through their community.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 34:29
Episode 631 - Howlin' Wolf: The Early Years
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" focuses on the great Howlin' Wolf's earliest recordings. Before he became a huge star on Chess Records in Chicago...

Bought by KCSM, KSRQ, Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Rock 'n' Roll On Broadway - REWORKED
From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound
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Rock 'n' Roll has been part of Broadway musicals since Hair burst on the scene.

Bought by WMNR, GCR (Global Community Radio), KPIK-LP, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 4
OHR122: OHR Presents: Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco, 5/11/2020
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio
Caption: Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco
San Francisco based early 20th Century American music preservationist duo Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
OHR121: OHR Presents: The Jake Leg Stompers, 4/27/2020
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio
Caption: Jake Leg Stompers
Bucksnort, Tennessee based old school Memphis style jug band the Jake Leg Stompers recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
OHR Presents: Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio (Specials)
Caption: Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco
San Francisco based early 20th Century American music preservationist duo Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center...

Bought by Prairie Public, Ohm Radio , and Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
OHR Presents: The Jake Leg Stompers
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio (Specials)
Caption: Jake Leg Stompers
Bucksnort, Tennessee based old school Memphis style jug band the Jake Leg Stompers recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain Vi...

Bought by Ohm Radio


  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #455 - Story of Johnny Bragg (The Prisonaires & The Marigolds)
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
Matt The Cat presents the seldom-told story of Johnny Bragg, a prisoner serving six 99 year sentences at the Tenn State Penn when his group The Pri...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KTRT RADIO INC, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for February 14, 2018
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Trump/GOP Budget: More for the Military Means Less for Other Vital Program...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRIR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
WoodSongs 886: Southern Avenue and Mudbone
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Tierinii Jackson from Southern Avenue on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Memphis soul, blues and rock band Southern Avenue plus Ozark songwriter M...

Bought by KRZA, KDLG, KJJF, WETS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 11
Halal Memphis
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Chicken shawarma at Ali Baba Mediterranean Grill, Credit: Rose Reid
Chicken shawarma might not be the first food that comes to mind when you think of Memphis. This episode of Gravy takes us inside Ali Baba Mediterra...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
OHR062: OHR Presents: The Side Street Steppers, 6/5/2017
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio
Caption: Ozark Highlands Radio
The witty & convivial Americana ragtime, blues & early jazz quartet, “Side Street Steppers” perform live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mou...

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
WoodSongs 877: Holly Norman and Ghost Town Blues Band
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Matt Isbell and Suavo Jones from the Ghost Town Blues Band.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes pure country Tennessee vocalist Holly Norman performing Elvis songs blueg...

Bought by KDLG, WETS, WLPR , WOUB, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 8
Blues Unlimited #308 - Hot Wax & Down Home Classics from Checker Records (1952-1953)
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: Recorded in May 1952, “Juke” became a huge number one hit for Little Walter, when it climbed to the top of the R&B charts later that year.
Join us as we put the Checker label in the spotlight. Started by Phil and Leonard Chess as a subsidiary imprint in 1952, Checker issued some specta...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:59
Thursday, August 25, 2016 Headlines | Marijuana Today Daily News
From: Shea Gunther
Series: Marijuana Today Daily
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All the legal marijuana news and headlines for Thursday, August 25, 2016.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 10:37
The Three Kings (Of the Electric Blues Guitar)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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Electric Blues from B.B. King, Albert King and Freddie King. They are the three kings of the Blues. This program contains highlights of their music.

Bought by WVAS and WJAB


  • Added: May 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:53
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 1619
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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Big time new release Blues music, and a couple crossovers by Country artists, populate this week's playlist.

Bought by WJSU and WSGE


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2