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We celebrate the winners at the 2013 Blues Music Awards by playing their music and giving you the full rundown of winners in ever category! Everyon...

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  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Every year, more than 10 million visitors come to Memphis, and spend more than three billion dollars, much of it on music-related tourism. But few ...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:58
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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...

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  • Added: May 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kid Ory
By 1911, tailgate trombonist Kid Ory was leading one of the best-known bands in New Orleans. Eight years later he formed a successful band in Los A...

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  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
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A secret meeting threatens to derail Jackie Robinson's ascent to the majors.

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  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 8
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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...

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  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Considered the first great tenor saxophonist in jazz, Coleman Hawkins was a child he was a gifted musician. In 1922, Mamie Smith spotted him in and...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Herman (L) and Sidney Blake
Herman Blake and his brother Sidney remember their childhood during the 1940s

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:20
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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.

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Simeon Wright
This month's Tin Roof Project features Simeon Wright, author of Simeon Speaks, the first eyewitness account of the kidnapping and murder of his cou...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 42:00
Caption: Richie Havens
Folk singing legend Richie Havens died Monday, April 22nd, 2013 at the age of 72 of a sudden heart attack. In this excerpt from the documentary Ba...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
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BackStory producer Chioke I’Anson tells the story of Eugene Bullard, the first African-American fighter pilot in World War I – only he flew for Fra...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 06:22
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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 ...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:37
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Caption: LOGO, Credit: Bobby Pickles
Bobby speaks with, writer and animator, Leesa Dean about her three fully developed animated series – Chilltown, The Danger Squad and Lele’s Ratchet...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2013
  • Length: 55:22
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This week, Full-Time Blues Radio features another amazing hour of music, news and information, as well as the debut of a highly anticipated release...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Adam Leon, San Francisco, CA 4/20/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Adam Leon talks anxiety attacks, passing the smell test, and taking what New York threw at him.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 14:44
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The Home for New & Independent Blues Music opens its doors again, bringing you an hour of the best music and news from the world of the Blues. This...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Towns in the southern colonies had many residents who were slaves or free blacks., Credit: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Steven Spielberg’s recent film Lincoln stirred up a lot of talk about what history sounded like. Spielberg even recorded one of President Lincoln’s...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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Reginald Mason remembers growing up in Harlem with his mother during the 1970s.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:57
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In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Johnny Full-Time returns to the business of putting together an hour of the best New & Independent Blues Music. There's also a tribute to Magic Sli...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Professor Robin Bernstein
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Johnny Full-Time sits down for conversation with Kelly Richey about her new CD, her new band, and much more. There's also music from the new album,...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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“Rhythms of the Land!” is a documentary-in-progress which tells the important stories of African American farmers. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
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On this special episode we will hear music from all of the artists, albums and singles in the 2013 class of the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame!

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1