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Episode #158 - Johnny Bragg (The Prisonaires & The Marigolds)
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
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 WOUB, WRNC-LP, KPVL, and KSRQ


  • Added: May 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Full-Time Blues Radio ep 1317
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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Full-Time Blues Radio returns to the best in New & Independent Blues Music, this week, with a huge selection of brand new arrivals! In addition the...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: May 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Dimensions B19: Inspiring "Vocal Sides" from Carline Ray and her daughter Catherine Russell
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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Mother & daughter Carline Ray and Catherine Russell make music together on a new album "Vocal Sides"

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KKRN, WMHT, WOUB, WSLR and more


  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Episode #157 - The Treniers
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
There were so many influential Rhythm & Blues artists who had a great impact on the development of Rock n' Roll, but were never able to profit from...

Bought by WOUB, WRNC-LP, KPVL, and KSRQ


  • Added: May 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Blues Unlimited #196 - Down Home Post-War Favorites
From: Steve Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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No particular theme on this one, just a grab bag full of post-war rockers and down home favorites from Lightnin' Hopkins, Dr. Ross, K.C. Douglas, J...

  • Added: May 04, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:59
Full-Time Blues Radio ep 1316 - Willie's Blues
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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We celebrate the 80th birthday of Willie Nelson by exploring his Blues roots, with music by Willie himself, his Blues brethren, and Blues covers of...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Dimensions B18: Cécile McLorin Salvant, a new "standard bearer."
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant evokes the great singers of the past in her own original way

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KKRN, WOUB, WSLR, WMHT and more


  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Blues Unlimited #195 - Soulful Stax Covers
From: Steve Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: The hit-making house band at Stax, Booker T. & the MGs (Left to Right: Booker T. Jones, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve Cropper, and Al Jackson, Jr.)
Join us as we enjoy some great cover versions of blues, pop, rock, folk, and R&B classics that were recorded down at the legendary Stax label in Me...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:59
Episode #156 - The Royals (Early Midnighters)
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
The "Juke In The Back" looks at the very beginnings of one of early R&B's biggest groups, The Midnighters. Before "Work With Me Annie," they were k...

Bought by WOUB, KPVL, and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Full-Time Blues Radio ep. 1315
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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This week's show is stacked from front to back with the best Blues music on Earth! We also pay tribute to the memory of Jimmy Dawkins.

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Dimensions B17: Two-fers From Super Singers
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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New releases by great singers including Molly Holm, Richard Lanham, and June Tabor

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KKRN, WMHT, WSLR, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Jazz-O-Rama #30: "The 78s of Fats Waller"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
Caption: Remastered Fats Waller 78s on Jazz-O-Rama, Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
The sounds of classic remastered 78 RPM records fill the air when the music of Fats Waller is presented on the 30th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Ram...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:27
Jazz-O-Rama #29: "The Hard Bop & Vocalese of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross & Art Blakey"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
Caption: Remastered LP Cuts of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross & Art Blakey, Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
The sounds of classic remastered early LP cuts fill the air when the music of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross & Art Blakey is presented on the 29th edit...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
Jazz-O-Rama #28: "The Early Bebop of Bird, Diz, Tad, Miles & Dexter"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
Caption: Remastered Bebop 78s on Jazz-O-Rama, Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
Early Bebop fills the air when the remastered 78 RPM records of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis,Tadd Dameron and Dexter Gordon are hea...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:51
A Tale Of Two Cities: Memphis By Bus And Memphis By Car
From: Eleanor Boudreau
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Public transportation is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than driving a car, but in cities where it is widely used—like New York, Boston ...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:52
Episode #155 - Lil Greenwood
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
The "Juke In The Back" pays tribute to the great R&B vocalist, Lil Greenwood. You'll hear her greatest early recordings from 1950-1954, before she ...

Bought by KPVL, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 21, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
I'll Take You There: Using Music To Revitalize Soulsville
From: Eleanor Boudreau
Caption: The home of bluesman Memphis Slim, a historic site next to the Stax Museum. A partnership with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra plans to turn this house into a place where musicians can practice and record.
It has been more than 50 years since a small recording company moved into the old Capitol Movie theater on East McLemore Avenue, and took the name ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1
Blues Unlimited #194 - Paul Oliver's "The Story of the Blues"
From: Steve Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: The cover for "The Story of the Blues," as issued in the U.S. by Columbia Records.
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: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:59
A Small Town Struggles Amid Crime, Decay
From: Eleanor Boudreau
Series: Roots Thinning In Rural America
Caption: Main Street, Henning, TN.
Yesterday we brought you a story about a small town 50 miles North of Memphis. A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
Roots Thinning In Rural America
From: Eleanor Boudreau
Series: Roots Thinning In Rural America
Caption: Beverly Johnson is the Program Director at the Alex Haley House and Museum. She is also a relative of Haley.
A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas. Today 16 percent do. As more and more people flock to cities what used to be ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
Robert Penn Warren Archive Humanizes Leaders Of The Civil Rights Movement
From: Eleanor Boudreau
Caption: Pulitzer Prize winning poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren., Credit: Vanderbilt University
In 1964, Southern man-of-letters Robert Penn Warren traveled the country with an old reel-to-reel tape recorder and spoke with dozens of men and wo...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:50
Blue Dimensions B16: Blues of the late Jimmy Dawkins; new music from Christian McBride & Inside Straight
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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Music of the late Chicago bluesman Jimmy Dawkins, and new music from Christian McBride and Eldar Djangirov

Bought by KKRN, WMHT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WOUB, WSLR and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Great Jazz Cities: Philadelphia
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Philadelphia trumpeter Clifford Brown
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we're continuing our ongoing tour of America's "Great Jazz Cities" with the stories and sounds of jazz in Philad...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WRGY, WNCU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Episode #154 - Jukebox Listener Request #1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
This week's "Juke In The Back" is completely turned over to YOU, the hep cats and crazy kittens who dig on these vintage Rhythm & Blues sounds each...

Bought by WOUB, KSRQ, WRNC-LP, and KPVL


  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Blues Unlimited #193 - Naptown Boogie: Blues from Indianapolis
From: Steve Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we’re hopping in our time machine, setting the dial for the Blues Revival of the 1960s and our destination to t...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:59

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