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This Week in Blues History #12 - June 17-23
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time we profile Wynonie Harris, who hit the top of the Billboard Rhythm & Blues charts with "Good Rockin' Tonight," this week in 1948.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
Episode #372 - The Story Of Deacon Jones & Fanny Brown
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, we take a look at two of the most famous "characters" from 1940s and '50s R&B: Deacon Jones and Fanny Brown. Sometimes these two were re...

Bought by WHRV, KTRT RADIO INC, WOMR, 90.5 WSNC, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #300 - New Orleans Rhythm & Blues, Pt. 3
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
Just in time for Mardi Gras, it's part 3 of "Juke In The Back"'s 3 part series on the great, influential and infectious music that came out of New ...

Bought by WHRV, KCMJ Community Radio, WRNC-LP, 90.5 WSNC, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Blues Unlimited #257 - The Blues Came Down at Midnight
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: From 1927, "The Midnight Special" by Crying Sam Collins; the first known version of this enduring favorite to be recorded by a blues artist.
Join us as we explore blues songs that all have to deal with the subject of midnight. Sometimes, you get midnight showers of rain, other times, it'...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, 90.5 WSNC, WJSU, and KRPS


  • Added: Aug 31, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Episode #206 - Roy Brown
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
"Juke In The Back" features one of early R&B's greatest blues shouters, Roy Brown. From his early hits for the DeLuxe Label in the late 1940s to hi...

Bought by KPVL, WOUB, 90.5 WSNC, WLPR , and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 13, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Blues Unlimited #216 - Smash Hits of the Early 1950s
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: One of the top #1 hits from one of the top labels of the early 1950s.
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
Episode #180 - The Griffin Brothers
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, "Juke In The Back" features The Griffin Brothers, one of the unsung Rhythm & Blues groups from the early 1950s. The Griffin Brothers we...

Bought by WOUB, KPVL, and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Blues Unlimited #180 - Smash Hits of the Late 1940s
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: At 32 weeks on the charts, “The Hucklebuck,” by Paul Williams, was one of the biggest hits of the decade.
Join us as we count our way down through the biggest #1 R&B hits of the late 1940s. It was a period dominated by Blues shouters, wailing saxes, and...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and WNCU


  • Added: Dec 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #114 - Roy Brown
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
"Juke In The Back" features one of early R&B's greatest blues shouters, Roy Brown. From his early hits for the DeLuxe Label in the late 1940s to h...

Bought by WRNC-LP, KPVL, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Jul 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3