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Show Notes:  Today’s show is the sixth in a series of shows spotlighting small blues labels that popped up in the 60s and 70s. Many of these labels were run by record collectors like Belzona/Yazoo run by Nick Perls, Don Kent who ran Mamlish Records, Bernard Klatzko of Herwin, numerous labels by George Paulus, Leroy […]

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Show Notes: Today’s show is part of a semi-regular, long-running feature I call Forgotten Blues Heroes that spotlights great, but little remembered and little recorded blues artists that don’t really fit into my weekly themed shows. Today we spotlight five singers who cut some terrific sides, some in the pre-war era and some during the […]

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I thought I would shares some wonderful videos of my buddy Axel Küstner. Here is a link to some videos of his photo exhibit at the Black Prairie Blues Museum from West Point, Ms., Sept. 26, 2024. Click the icon on the upper right to view all videos. It was a terrific event and a […]

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Show Notes:  For today’s show we trawl through the catalogs of Aristocrat and Chess and it’s Checker subsidiary, through the mid-50s with a couple of later numbers, featuring some lesser knowns plus some well knowns who recorded little for the labels. An inspiration for the shows were two Chess albums I’ve long treasured: Drop Down […]

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Show Notes:  A mix show today with several themed sets and an emphasis on pre-war blues. We hear several songs today about the Santa Fe Railway featured in numerous songs as well as giving the name to a distinctive Texas piano style. We hear a set revolving a lyric first found in a song from […]

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