Though with the 1896 case of Plessy verses Ferguson, American local and state governments forcing racial segregation was upheld as legal, individuals also chose to...
Jazz music collector Dave Greer tells all about his quests and chance encounters with all kinds of musicians ranging from King Oliver to Jabbo Smith...
Randy Stehle has returned back by the woodpile with a milk crate full of 78s to share some of his favorite finds of late! Jellyroll...
Musicologist Dave Robinson has us over and down in his basement of treasures to talk jazz recordings, history, bottlecaps, woodpeckers and piano rolls!
78 RPM quests, Bix Beiderbecke’s mystery trail, Joe Bussard’s basement Mecca, digitizing history and making-me-blush blues songs. It’s all brought here by this week’s guest...
Jack Teagarden, Louis Jordan, Ukulele Ike and Percy Mayfield are all names that aren’t heard much on the lips of folks these days. But musicologist...
The final in the series of interviews conducted at the 2016 International Association of Jazz Record Collectors, music enthusiastic Phil Oldham talks about the state...
On this week’s episode of In the Corner Back by the Woodpile, African-American Hattie Bruce comes from the past tells about her own simple but...
Fresh from the 2016 International Association of Jazz Record Collectors convention, we present the first of a series of interviews with some of the organization’s...
Almost all the music you hear today is a descendant of jazz music. But sadly it’s time in our mainstream American culture has come and...
If you’re a fan of old timey and traditional American rural music and you happened to catch an earful of the modern ‘Power Country’ or...
These are Spooky tunes from performers that are pretty much all ghosts now, save a few. Lots of scouring places that don’t advertise having old...