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Arhoolie Records Celebrates A Half-Century Of Music

Bought by KKRN, KSRQ, WSLR, WMHT, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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This week's episode of FTB Radio features Vintage Soul and R&B - New, original music recorded with a classic sound!

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Son House at the July 1965 Newport Folk Festival, Credit: John Rudoff, M.D.
Join us for a tribute to the life and extraordinary music of Son House. His recordings from 1930 and the early 1940s not only helped define the ver...

Bought by WNCU and WSLR


  • Added: Nov 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 2
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All of the songs this week are 2012 releases, with new music from Robert Cray and Tommy Castro. There's also news about Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy!

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Nov 21, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Blues piano legend Leroy Carr, ready for the holidays
Join us as we dust off some of our favorite Holiday-themed Blues and R&B Christmas classics. From Lightnin' Hopkins, Freddie King, and Sonny Boy Wi...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:59
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This week's show is all-new with the world premiere of new tunes by Shemekia Copeland and The Rolling Stones!

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Music with a "Coryell connection."

Bought by KKRN, KSRQ, WSLR, WMHT, KSUT and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:24
Caption: The cover for "Blues Southside Chicago," issued only as an LP in the U.K.
Join us as we profile some mid-1960s Chicago Blues classics. We'll be hearing selections from "Chicago/The Blues/Today!," rare LP-only tracks off o...

Bought by WNCU and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Nov 10, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 2
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This is the place to hear tomorrow's Blues legends today, the home for new and independent Blues music - Full-Time Blues Radio. An all-new hour of ...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
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New album "Move" from Hiromi - - not issued in the United States.

Bought by KEOS, KKRN, WSLR, WMHT, WXPN and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
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Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:24
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Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:30
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Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
Caption: South Side Chicago. Photo by Erik Lindahl
Join us as we profile some mid-1960s Chicago Blues classics. We'll be hearing selections from "Chicago/The Blues/Today!," rare LP-only tracks off o...

Bought by WNCU, 90.5 WSNC, and WSLR


  • Added: Nov 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:59:01
  • Purchases: 3
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It's a "vibe vibe" on this show: a vibraphone on every song.

Bought by KKRN, KSRQ, KEOS, WSLR, WXPN and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Snow on the El tracks. Photo by Ann Charters.
Join us as we profile some mid-1960s Chicago Blues classics. We'll be hearing selections from "Chicago/The Blues/Today!," rare LP-only tracks off o...

Bought by WNCU, 90.5 WSNC, and WSLR


  • Added: Oct 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:59:01
  • Purchases: 3
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We continue our conversation with Pulitzer winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migratio...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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Celebrating Big Bill Broonzy - and a box set from Mr. King

Bought by KKRN, KSRQ, WSLR, WMHT, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Carolyn Jackson in dialysis, Credit: Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio
November is American Diabetes Month and this award-winning program tells first-person stories from the Type 2 diabetes epidemic. Health Care Report...

Bought by KRCB-FM, KREV-LP, and KWIS 88.3 FM


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Andy Kirk & his Clouds of Joy
Bandleader Andy Kirk gave up his post office carrier in 1925 to try his hand in music. He showed talent on the saxophone and tuba, but it evolved t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Remember when you were growing up and your mom told you not to play with your food? Well, we're tossing that advice out the window, as we play with...

Bought by KHNS, WUIS, WSLR, 90.5 WSNC, and KEOS


  • Added: Oct 20, 2012
  • Length: 01:59:01
  • Purchases: 5
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It took 40 years to build ACORN, but just a few months to bring it down. Local organizers are trying to rebuild, but how is ACORN’s absence affect...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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At 80, guitarist Ernest Ranglin has a strong new album with a young band called Avila

Bought by KHSU, WSLR, KKRN, KUOW, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11