Month: December 2020

Leslie Keros presents Part 2 of her salute to the 30th Annual Chicago Blues Festival held in Grant Park & Millenium Park June 6–9, 2013, focusing on the migration from Mississippi to Chicago by so many great blues artists and featuring selections by Eddie Taylor Jr & Barrelhouse Chuck, Howlin’ Wolf, Eddie Shaw, Larry McCray, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Otis Clay, Willie Buck, Big Time Sarah, Fruteland Jackson, Shirley Johnson, Jimmy Johnson, Eddy Clearwater, James Cotton, and Muddy Waters.

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Episode 69 of BluesTime International with Roger White of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine has music by Magic Dick & J. Geils, the acktrack Blues Band, Whitney Shea, Jim Gustin & Truth Jones, Harpdog Brown, Billy Boy Arnold, and Howling Wolf.

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Cary Wolfson is spinning at the Red Rooster Lounge with great blues sides by Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite, Kirk Fletcher, Michael Burks, John Hammond, Johnny Iguana, Albert King, Andy Watts, Walter Trout, Buddy Guy & Jr. Wells, and Slim Harpo.

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Steve The Fly is flying once again with this program of selections from Diana Ross & The Supremes, James Brown, Earl King, George Benson, Professor Longhair, Otis Reading, Sam & Dave, the Love Committee, the Isley Brothers, Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy Miles & Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Rage Against The Machine, and Aretha Franklin.

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Bruce Pingree concludes his three-part 2012 salute to Lightning Hopkins on the bluesman’s 100^th birthday this week by playing another hour of his classic recordings for a wide variety of record labels over the years.

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Episode 890 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam headquarters in the Cass Corridor of Detroit, our last program of 2020,  and tonight I’m presenting a program of musical highlights and rarities taken from the 1950s section of the 5000-tune cache of dope songs contributed to us by Paul Paul earlier this year, with contributions by Cleo Brown, Martha Tilton, Jo Jo Adams with Maxwell Davis, Cab Calloway, Big Bill Broonzy & Jean Brady, Raoul Kraushaar, Champion Jack Dupree, Lalo Guerrero, Tito Puente, Stefi Ákos, Septeto Matamoros, Mr. Sunshine, Carmencita Pernet, The Five Keys, Louis Armstrong, The Goons, Little Willie Littlefield, La Melle Prince & The Maxwell Davis Band, Helen Humes, Vince Anthony, and Julia Lee.

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David Kunian is playing music this week in observation of Election Day with selections from Egg Yolk Jubilee, Public Enemy, Husker Du, The Anti-Ballas Afro-Beat Orchestra, The Shake-’Em-Up Jazz Band, Hooray For The Riff Raff, Trixie Whitley, Cecile McLauren Salvant,  Sly & The Family Stone, The Meters, and The Last Poets.

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Leslie Keros is playing music this week by Dave Specter, Oscar Wilson, Gene Harris, Carl Saunders, Akiko Tsuruga, Brother Jack McDuff, Grachan Moncur III, and Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane.

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