BroadwayWorld

Library Of Congress Acquires House Of Blues Radio Collection

The collection, now housed in the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, consists of all the programs in the series, as well as the unedited interviews and performances that were excerpted for ...
Awful Announcing

Blues radio broadcaster Chris Kerber returns following absence for father’s passing

Chris Kerber has been a staple on the St. Louis Blues broadcasts, serving as the radio play-by-play announcer for the better part of the past three decades. And on Saturday, he reclaimed his ...
Capital Public Radio

‘Like a walking billboard for the blues:' Remembering Sacramento blues musician, host Mick Martin

A longtime figure in the Sacramento music scene has passed away. Blues musician and radio DJ Mick Martin died over the weekend at the age of 76. Local music station K-ZAP, which hosted his blues ...
WREG

‘Rock ‘n’ roll granny,’ radio pioneer, blues artists inducted in Memphis Music Hall of Fame

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The first Black radio station owner in Tennessee, the first woman to start her own record company, and a blues legend were among six people inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of ...
Boise State Public Radio

In 'Birth of the Blues,' Sherman Irby explores the origin of the genre

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to jazz musician Sherman Irby about his new show at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, "Birth of the Blues," exploring the origin of the blues and its continued ...
The Marshall Project

The Bootlegging, Blues Singing Star of 1930s Prison Radio

My favorite song on the Oscar-winning soundtrack to the movie “Sinners” is “Pale, Pale Moon,” where actress Jayme Lawson ...