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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
This time, we profile a handful of rare recordings from Big Joe Williams that became one of the few remaining legacies of post-war St. Louis blues.
- Added: Mar 04, 2019
- Length: 03:29
Join us as we continue our exploration of the blues recordings made by Sam Phillips. This time around, we’ll dig into the 78 masters he cut for the...
- Added: Jan 25, 2018
- Length: 01:58:59
Join us as we begin a new series, exploring the blues recordings made by Sam Phillips at his legendary Memphis studio. In part one, we’ll take a lo...
- Added: Dec 27, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
Join us as we start a new, ongoing mini-series dedicated to the life and musical career of one of the most beloved figures in blues history — slide...
- Added: Nov 14, 2017
- Length: 01:58:59
On this episode, we pay homage to Paul Oliver’s legendary double LP set, "The Story of the Blues." Published as a companion piece to his critically...
- Added: Jul 21, 2016
- Length: 01:58:59
Join us as we continue with another installment of Desert Island Classics, this time around, putting a legendary slice of vinyl, "Drop Down Mama," ...
Bought by WJSU
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
Join us for another installment of "Desert Island Classics." This time, we turn the spotlight on three LPs that came out on the Imperial label in 1...
Bought by WJSU
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
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
We take a look at some killer down home blues from the great state of Texas — all of it from small, independent record labels in operation during t...
- Added: Sep 07, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we pay tribute to one of the all time greatest harmonica players, Big Walter Horton. Making his first recordings with Sam Phillips in Me...
- Added: Apr 12, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we aim the spotlight on Bill Quinn’s legendary Gold Star record label. Founded in Houston in the late 1940s, he recorded some of the cre...
- Added: Mar 08, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we pay tribute to one of the pioneers of postwar Chicago blues harmonica, Snooky Pryor. Making his recording debut in 1948, he cut some ...
- Added: Jan 18, 2014
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us for part two of our tribute to the Blues Classics label. Founded by Chris Strachwitz as the 'unofficial' reissue arm of Arhoolie Records, w...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Nov 30, 2013
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
Join us as we aim the spotlight on a legendary series of albums from the Blues Classics label. Founded by Chris Strachwitz as a companion to Arhool...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Nov 23, 2013
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we're enjoying some of our favorite, rare, and overlooked harmonica jams from the Windy City, courtesy of Littl...
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 01:58:59
We aim the spotlight on one of the most famous independent record labels of all time — Chess Records. Officially founded in 1950, we take a concent...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KHNS, and KTRL
- Added: Apr 07, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
Join us as we examine the working life in story and song. From hard times trying to find work in the Great Depression, to prison work songs, the pe...
- Added: Feb 10, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
Join us as we celebrate the independent spirit of Texas with two hours of prime country blues from the Lone Star State. From the masters of the gen...
Bought by KHNS, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, KHNS, and KTRL
- Added: Dec 23, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we aim the spotlight on some of the great harp players that worked and recorded in the Windy City. From John Le...
- Added: Nov 27, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
The Imperial Record label, founded in 1948 in Los Angeles, is well known as the home of Fats Domino and other great New Orleans artists, as well as...
Bought by KHNS
- Added: Sep 13, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we aim the spotlight on Shreveport, Louisiana. Home to a thriving music scene, the "Louisiana Hayride" (a rival...
- Added: Aug 06, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 4
Who doesn't love a good story? In this episode of Blues Unlimited, it's all about Blues singers and songs that weave tall tales, spin entertaining ...
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
With its own unique sound and feel, we aim the spotlight on Down Home Blues from the East Coast, from the mid 1940s to the early 1960s, on this epi...
- Added: Jun 30, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 5
Join us as we take a look at some of the fine piano players who worked and recorded in Chicago over the years — from Curtis Jones, Roosevelt Sykes ...
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
