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The Blues Professor, Part 1: Piedmont Blues, the Allman Brothers, and Atlanta's Living Scene

Piedmont blues, the Allman Brothers, Lonnie Holley, and the long road the blues took out of West Africa: Thomas Stubbs sits down with Rich Pettit, the man Atlanta knows as the Blues Professor — part one of two. For forty years, Rich has hosted Good Morning Blues on WRFG 89.3, Atlanta's community ra…

The Blues Professor, Part 2: Muddy Waters, the Mardi Gras Indians, and Where to Start with the Blues

Muddy Waters, the Mardi Gras Indians, Blind Willie McTell, and the one record to start with: the second half of Thomas Stubbs's conversation with Rich Pettit, the man Atlanta knows as the Blues Professor. In Part 1 we traced the blues out of West Africa and up the East Coast. This half starts back …

Testing Warren Haynes’ Music Knowledge

In today’s episode of Track Star* Warren Haynes, best known for his work as a member of the Allman Brothers Band, joins us to listen to some iconic, genre-defining Blues and Rock songs, and to discuss the influence they had on the development of Rock. Haynes takes the time today to give us an im…

Lord, Send Me An Angel ft. Courtney Presto

"Nobody sang the blues like Blind Willie McTell." Jack White said it best, and in late 2000, the White Stripes released an amalgamation of two of McTell's songs, "Lord, Send Me an Angel" and "Ticket Agent Blues." Ryan and Courtney discuss the song, Blind Willie McTell's influence on Jack and Meg's…

Episode 1 - Slide Guitar: The Crying Voice

There's a sound in the blues that doesn't play notes so much as it cries them. That's slide guitar — the instrument that sounds most like a human voice weeping and singing at once. We start the series here. Why slide sounds like a voice: gliding between pitches, no frets, the notes between the n…

From Louis Armstrong to the White Stripes, 'St James Infirmary' Connects Folk Traditions to Jazz and Rock: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.1

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Season 3 of Let It Roll: From the Beginning… opens with host Nate Wilcox talking to Robert W. Harwood about “I Went Down to St. James Infirmary” - a book about one song and about how confidently the history …

BLOWIN 13 SEPT 2026

Another fabulous sonic journey - Blowin, with Rob Walsh PLAYLIST Willie Williams – See Mi Yah (Hallucinator Remix) – Rhythm & Sound: See Mi Yah Remixes CD – Basic Channel / Indigo – 2006 Gregory Isaacs – Tune In & Version - African Museum 7” Blind Willie McTell – Statesboro Blues – The Definitive…

IDSL from 08/06/2009 - High-quality version (Comment line 218-234-CALL)

You can download the show directly from Archive.org, too.On "The IDSL" today, with my sometime Co-host, YourGirlKali of "Flaws and All" on BTR:"Blurry Facts and Waking Eyes (Windows)" from room101"Bobby" from American Gypsy"Body of the Blood Machine" from Big Jesus and the Homeless Bastards"Bombs A…

Old Records, Blue Hot Dogs, Ukulele Ladies!

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Travel back to the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s as vaudeville blues and ragtime hokum musician Jack Norton spins his favorite 78 rpm records from his collection. From early hot jazz to jug band blues…

The Underground River, Part 1: Blind Willie McTell, the Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin

Atlanta, November 5, 1940. In a room at the Robert Fulton Hotel, John Lomax of the Library of Congress asks a blind street singer named Willie McTell whether he knows any complaining songs about hard times for colored people in the South. McTell, who wrote "Statesboro Blues," tells him he doesn't k…